Language Versatilists vs. Specialists: An Empirical Revisiting on Multilingual Transfer Ability · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2306.06688/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTLanguage Versatilists vs. Specialists: An Empirical Revisiting on Multilingual Transfer Ability — mentioned by sanxiynhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175383urn:hackerpapers:mention:2306.06688:39175383Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:12:19 GMT<p>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06688 studied this. (Check out figure 3.) In short, yes, multilingual transfer does happen. But importantly, not at 7B. Being English-centric is possibly okay for LLaMA 70B, but it really is not okay for LLaMA 7B.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2306.06688/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL