Papers with monolingual decoding
The Impact of Language Mixing on Bilingual LLM Reasoning (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show multilingual speakers intentionally switch languages during reasoning . enforcing monolingual decoding reduces accuracy by 5.6 percentage points . |
| Approach: | They find that multilingual speakers intentionally switch languages during reasoning . enforcing monolingual decoding reduces accuracy by 5.6 percentage points . authors suggest that language mixing is not merely a byproduct of multilingual training . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be used to predict whether a language switch would benefit or harm reasoning. |