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Lucas Bandarkar

UCLA

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Cross-Lingual Alignment for Decoder-Only Models using MoE Routers

Cross-lingual contrastive learning has been a core component of multilingual encoder training, but the ability to explicitly align representations is not possible in decoder-only LLMs because of varying multilingual tokenization. However, a growing amount of research suggests that even in LLMs, higher cross-lingual rep...

Lucas Bandarkar, C. Peng, A. H. Ahmed et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Multilinguality in Hybrid Attention LLMs

This work presents a first study of how hybrid attention impacts the multilinguality of LLMs, showing that cross-lingual representations in hybrid models develop in patterns tied to the ordering of recurrent and full-attention layers.

Lucas Bandarkar, Jun-Ling Hu, Chen-Yuan Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ESTS at WMT26: Routing-Informed Expert Pruning for Model Compression

Six submissions under the team name ESTS to the unconstrained WMT26 Model Compression Shared Task for English--Simplified Chinese and English--Egyptian Arabic are described, describing how they use task-specific routing mass to rank experts and cross-lingual routing divergence to allocate retained capacity across layer...

Liu O. Martin, Lucas Bandarkar, Nanyun Peng · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

OmnilingualGAIA2: Evaluating the Multilingual Gap in Frontier AI Agents

OmnilingualGAIA2 is introduced, a machine-translated expansion of the GAIA2 agentic benchmark, covering ten target languages spanning five writing systems, paired with a localised and human-calibrated multilingual verifier, and it is argued that multilingual agentic evaluation must become a standard part of the reporti...

Andrea Caciolai, P. L. Cabot, Chierh Cheng et al. · 2 citations

Extracting Small Translation Specialists from LLMs by Aggressively Pruning Experts

This paper presents a method for aggressively pruning experts from modern mixture-of-experts LLMs while incurring negligible degradation in translation quality, and shows that translation requires only a fraction of the LLM, enabling substantial compression of the MoE blocks that contain over 90% of parameters.

Liu O. Martin, Lucas Bandarkar, Nanyun Peng · 2 citations · ⚡1

Large Reasoning Models Struggle to Transfer Parametric Knowledge Across Scripts

There is potential to improve cross-lingual parametric knowledge transfer during post-training by providing the LLMs with the key entities of the questions in their source language and finding that this disproportionately improves cross-script questions.

Lucas Bandarkar, Alan Ansell, Trevor Cohn · 3 citations

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