Toward LLMs Beyond English-Centric Development
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Title:Toward LLMs Beyond English-Centric Development
Abstract:Through an analysis of sequences generated by open-weight large language models (LLMs), we demonstrate that LLMs are heavily biased toward English. While continual pre-training is commonly used to adapt LLMs to a target language, we show that it does not offer a cost advantage over training from scratch, even for improving cultural understanding in the target language. These findings suggest that dedicated per-language investment may become increasingly important for future LLM development, rather than relying primarily on the expansion of English-centric resources.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.15613 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2605.15613v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.15613
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