How do languages influence each other? Studying cross-lingual data sharing during LM fine-tuning · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.13286/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTHow do languages influence each other? Studying cross-lingual data sharing during LM fine-tuning — mentioned by famouswaffleshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40202951urn:hackerpapers:mention:2305.13286:40202951Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:32:17 GMT<p>&gt;I wasn&#x27;t talking about &quot;state of the art LLMs,&quot; I am aware that commercial offerings are much better trained in Spanish. This was a thought experiment based on comments from people testing GPT-3.5 with Swahili. A thought experiment from other people comments on another language. So...No. Fabricating failure modes from their personally constructed ideas about how LLMs work seems to be a frustratingly common occurrence in these kinds of discussions. &gt;Frustratingly, just few months ago I read a paper describing how LLMs excessively rely on English-language representations of ideas, but now I…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.13286/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL