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When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models

As of 20 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 31 of 31 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2508.12803.

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Observation 535ff4e8-8870-4965-8fa8-98150ed0c9f7 · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Unresolved cited work

Reference 1

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Observation e4554a06-3596-48ed-8737-d4cf6e9d91a5 · outbound

This paper cites Aya 23: Open Weight Releases to Further Multilingual Progress.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Aya 23: Open Weight Releases to Further Multilingual Progress

Reference 2

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Observation 41d8dcbe-8dca-4d14-8a7c-32b402608436 · outbound

This paper cites The MADAR A rabic dialect corpus and lexicon.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models The MADAR A rabic dialect corpus and lexicon

Reference 3

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This paper cites Language models are few-shot learners.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Language models are few-shot learners

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Observation a2144bc4-c463-48c8-a0fb-73705845a9b2 · outbound

This paper cites The geometry of multilingual language model representations.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models The geometry of multilingual language model representations

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This paper cites PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

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Observation c9b144b2-3a95-4e2f-80d7-59926de2b2ab · outbound

This paper cites Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale

Reference 7

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Observation bf161eb8-58a2-4005-b1de-003679e2ef53 · outbound

This paper cites Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier

Reference 8

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Observation d65328bd-02aa-4b54-a32c-7e969f9a890a · outbound

This paper cites XTREME: A Massively Multilingual Multi-task Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-lingual Generalization.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models XTREME: A Massively Multilingual Multi-task Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-lingual Generalization

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This paper cites TARJAMAT : Evaluation of bard and C hat GPT on machine translation of ten A rabic varieties.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models TARJAMAT : Evaluation of bard and C hat GPT on machine translation of ten A rabic varieties

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Observation 5cebb704-45d3-4c1a-acf0-48fb654a799a · outbound

This paper cites Quantifying the dialect gap and its correlates across languages.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Quantifying the dialect gap and its correlates across languages

Reference 11

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Observation 12e4cc46-b7f8-498f-8bae-49fec8041345 · outbound

This paper cites On the multilingual ability of decoder-based pre-trained language models: Finding and controlling language-specific neurons.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models On the multilingual ability of decoder-based pre-trained language models: Finding and controlling language-specific neurons

Reference 12

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Observation aaa301ce-61bb-4698-a6fd-a6f259d1afb1 · outbound

This paper cites Subspace chronicles: How linguistic information emerges, shifts and interacts during language model training.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Subspace chronicles: How linguistic information emerges, shifts and interacts during language model training

Reference 13

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Observation 38ff5a52-8d73-4f3c-835d-5b645590d1de · outbound

This paper cites Dolphin: A challenging and diverse benchmark for A rabic NLG.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Dolphin: A challenging and diverse benchmark for A rabic NLG

Reference 14

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Observation 55e288e1-f9a8-4ada-823d-41f401c571fe · outbound

This paper cites The less the merrier? investigating language representation in multilingual models.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models The less the merrier? investigating language representation in multilingual models

Reference 15

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Observation d7f91863-d67d-4c6d-943a-725bdb72fa4e · outbound

This paper cites chr F : character n-gram F -score for automatic MT evaluation.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models chr F : character n-gram F -score for automatic MT evaluation

Reference 16

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This paper cites A ra B ench: Benchmarking dialectal A rabic- E nglish machine translation.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models A ra B ench: Benchmarking dialectal A rabic- E nglish machine translation

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This paper cites BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

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This paper cites Jais and jais-chat: Arabic-centric foundation and instruction-tuned open generative large language models, 2023.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Jais and jais-chat: Arabic-centric foundation and instruction-tuned open generative large language models, 2023

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When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Qwen3 Technical Report

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When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Information-theoretic probing with minimum description length

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This paper cites Sharing matters: Analysing neurons across languages and tasks in llms, 2024.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Sharing matters: Analysing neurons across languages and tasks in llms, 2024

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This paper cites Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation.

When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation

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When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models m T 5: A massively multilingual pre-trained text-to-text transformer

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When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models Multi- VALUE : A framework for cross-dialectal E nglish NLP

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When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models write newline

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When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models @esa (Ref

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When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models ܆x!n0ELT]o wC э-T6S'75W ?pwKnz PML7W >oߟ ܎ -֥zZZQ=p,3Pg8O`k˄+nqq//I y H3 +ƢP Ts*

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Pith citing papers

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Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? Sparse Neurons and Distributed Directions in Arabic LLMs cites this paper.

Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? Sparse Neurons and Distributed Directions in Arabic LLMs When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models

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