Shared Path: Unraveling Memorization in Multilingual LLMs through Language Similarities (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Using multilingual models, we find that treating languages in isolation obscures the true patterns of memorization. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-based correlation metric that incorporates language similarity to analyze cross-lingual memorization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model incorporates language similarity to analyze cross-lingual memorization in 95 languages. |
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