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New method improves multilingual text embeddings from frozen LLMs

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Researchers have introduced Paired-Residual Subspace Removal (PRSR), a novel method to improve multilingual text embeddings from frozen large language models. Unlike previous approaches focused on English, PRSR addresses the misalignment of semantically equivalent sentences across languages by disentangling language-specific variations from semantic content. The technique involves constructing paired residuals from parallel sentences to identify language-specific deviations and then suppressing these components in the model's representations. Extensive evaluations across 18 languages on benchmarks like MTEB and MMTEB, as well as cross-lingual bitext mining, show that PRSR consistently enhances the performance of existing training-free embedding methods. AI

IMPACT Enhances multilingual capabilities of frozen LLMs, potentially improving cross-lingual search and understanding.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Ailiang Lin, Zhuoyun Li, Yusong Wang, Keyu Mao, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura ·

    Steering beyond Language: Improving Multilingual Training-Free Text Embeddings via Paired-Residual Subspace Removal

    arXiv:2610.23807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While deriving text embeddings directly from frozen LLMs has emerged as a promising direction, existing methods focus almost exclusively on English, leaving multilingual settings largely unexplored. In this work, we present the firs…

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