arXiv:2503.11280cs.CL2025-03被引 1

发现大模型跨语言表征不一致,提出新方法量化并提升其对齐能力。

High-Dimensional Interlingual Representations of Large Language Models

  • 构建跨语言表征框架,分离共享语义空间与碎片化成分。
  • 引入ILO指标,发现单语言微调会破坏早期层对齐性。
  • 冻结早期层可保持跨语言泛化能力,适合多语言任务研究者。

在31种资源水平、语言类型和地理分布各异的语言上,我们发现多语言大模型的跨语言表征对齐表现不一致。为解决此问题,提出一种跨语言表征框架,识别共享语义子空间及由表征限制导致的碎片化成分。引入跨语言局部重叠(ILO)分数,通过比较高维表示的局部邻域结构来量化跨语言对齐程度。利用ILO研究单语言微调对多语言模型的影响:仅在单一语言上训练会破坏早期层的对齐性,而冻结这些层能维持跨语言表征对齐,从而提升跨语言泛化性能。结果验证了该框架与度量的有效性,并强调跨语言对齐对可扩展多语言学习的重要性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models (LLMs) trained on massive multilingual datasets hint at the formation of interlingual constructs--a shared subspace in the representation space. However, evidence regarding this phenomenon is mixed, leaving it unclear whether these models truly develop unified interlingual representations, or present a partially aligned constructs. We explore 31 diverse languages varying on their resource-levels, typologies, and geographical regions; and find that multilingual LLMs exhibit inconsistent cross-lingual alignments. To address this, we propose an interlingual representation framework identifying both the shared interlingual semantic subspace and fragmented components, existed due to representational limitations. We introduce Interlingual Local Overlap (ILO) score to quantify interlingual alignment by comparing the local neighborhood structures of high-dimensional representations. We utilize ILO to investigate the impact of single-language fine-tuning on the interlingual representations in multilingual LLMs. Our results indicate that training exclusively on a single language disrupts the alignment in early layers, while freezing these layers preserves the alignment of interlingual representations, leading to improved cross-lingual generalization. These results validate our framework and metric for evaluating interlingual representation, and further underscore that interlingual alignment is crucial for scalable multilingual learning.

多语言表征对齐大模型ILO

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