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A. Stolcke

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Preprint Aug 2026

LLMs Get Smarter from Targeted Synthetic Multilingual Data

HOTFIXR: Hardness Optimized Training data For Improving X-Lingual Reasoning is a data generation framework that uses models to probe and learn a student model's multilingual weaknesses, and generates data to mitigate them that can improve multilingual performance.

Ishika Agarwal, Arkajyoti Charaborty, Tanner Sorensen et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Jul 2026

When Synthetic Speech Is All You Have: Better Call GRPO

This work shows that Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) extracts far more from the same synthetic speech than SFT, and traces the gain to behavior rather than representation: GRPO reduces insertion errors by improving stopping calibration and speech-to-text alignment by better anchoring attention to audio, leaving early-layer representations intact.

Shashi Kumar, Yanis Labrak, Hasindri Watawana et al. · 0 citations