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Grammar Before Language: What Multilingual LLMs Decide First

TL;DR for operators A translation can be wrong in at least three different ways: the model can arrange words incorrectly, produce the wrong language, or choose the wrong lexical content. The paper examined here finds evidence that these are not merely different visible error types. In the tested multilingual LLMs, they often correspond to separable internal stages. ...

September 30, 2026 · 7 min · Zelina
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Reasoning Labels Don’t Travel: What UrduBench Changes About Model Selection

TL;DR for operators UrduBench1 tests 23 open and open-weight models on 2,390 held-out Urdu questions spanning arithmetic reasoning, formal mathematics, commonsense, and knowledge tasks. The ranking gives little support to selecting an Urdu model from parameter count or a “reasoning” label alone: Gemma-3-12B-it leads the reported aggregate at 59.4%, while the larger reasoning-oriented DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B scores 44.9%. ...

September 18, 2026 · 7 min · Zelina
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A Multilingual Research Assistant Is Still an Infrastructure Project

TL;DR for operators A specialised research platform does not need to discard its documents, metadata, search history, licensing rules, or expert workflows to add an AI assistant. ReSearch_SSH1 instead proposes a modular layer over the existing ISIDORE infrastructure. The design combines multilingual domain adaptation with retrieval that connects documents through authors, institutions, themes, citations, and other relationships rather than returning isolated text matches. Most retrieval, reranking, generation, and public knowledge components could be reused elsewhere. ...

August 4, 2026 · 9 min · Zelina
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Lost in Translation: When Multilingual LLMs Miss the Medical Plot

Accuracy is a seductive number. It is tidy, executive-friendly, and easy to put in a slide deck. A model gets 82% accuracy, someone says “good enough,” and suddenly a clinical workflow is being “transformed.” Healthcare, as usual, has a way of punishing this kind of optimism. Not loudly at first. Quietly. Through false negatives, silent majority-class prediction, and a dashboard that looks reassuring until someone asks the rude question: what exactly did the model miss? ...

December 6, 2025 · 16 min · Zelina