Crosslingual Capabilities and Knowledge Barriers in Multilingual Large
Language Models
Crosslingual Capabilities and Knowledge Barriers in Multilingual Large
Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) are typically multilingual due to pretraining on diverse multilingual corpora. But can these models relate corresponding concepts across languages, effectively being crosslingual? This study evaluates six state-of-the-art LLMs on inherently crosslingual tasks. We observe that while these models show promising surface-level crosslingual abilities on machine translation …