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Aug 2026
Cross-Lingual Alignment Without Joint Training: Do Monolingual Language Models Converge on Universal Representations?
It is confirmed that cross-lingual alignment can emerge from the structure of language and the information it carries rather than from joint training, and this points to practical future directions including model stitching, merging, and modular multilingual systems built from monolingual components.
Ej Zhou, Suchir Salhan, Catherine Arnett et al.
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