Challenge: Multilingual Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit strong generalization across languages, yet they remain prone to hallucinations due to training data imbalances.
Approach: They propose a cross-lingual Chain-of-Thought framework that enhances cross-linguistic alignment . the framework guides the model to reason in a high-resource language before generating answers in low-resourced language.
Outcome: The proposed framework reduces hallucination rates by up to 62% and significantly improves factual knowledge transfer across language pairs.

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