| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across a broad spectrum of cross-lingual Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Word-level Cross-lingual Structure to prove that the word-level embedding on the hidden layers isomorphic between languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly improves on two representative LLM foundations, LLaMA2 and BLOOM. |
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