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Jul 2026
Speak Beyond English: Multilingual Prompts Improve Query Classification in Small Language Models
This paper tests whether prompting the same (frozen) SLM in three typologically diverse languages and aggregating the outputs can improve classification without retraining or translation, and suggests that cross-lingual diversity rather than surface-level input variation drives the gain.
Pratyay Banerjee, Panthadeep Bhattacharjee, Angshuman Jana
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