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Large Language Models are Parallel Multilingual Learners

文献类型:期刊论文

作者Mu, Yongyu4; Feng, Peinan4; Cao, Zhiquan4; Wu, Yuzhang4; Li, Bei4; Wang, Chenglong4; Xiao, Tong4; Song, Kai2; Liu, Tongran1; Zhang, Chunliang3,4
刊名arXiv
出版日期2024
通讯作者邮箱xiao, tong
DOI10.48550/arXiv.2403.09073
英文摘要

In this study, we reveal an in-context learning (ICL) capability of multilingual large language models (LLMs): by translating the input to several languages, we provide Parallel Input in Multiple Languages (PIM) to LLMs, which significantly enhances their comprehension abilities. To test this capability, we design extensive experiments encompassing 8 typical datasets, 7 languages and 8 state-of-the-art multilingual LLMs. Experimental results show that (1) incorporating more languages help PIM surpass the conventional ICL further; (2) even combining with the translations that are inferior to baseline performance can also help. Moreover, by examining the activated neurons in LLMs, we discover a counterintuitive but interesting phenomenon. Contrary to the common thought that PIM would activate more neurons than monolingual input to leverage knowledge learned from diverse languages, PIM actually inhibits neurons and promotes more precise neuron activation especially when more languages are added. This phenomenon aligns with the neuroscience insight about synaptic pruning, which removes less used neural connections, strengthens remainders, and then enhances brain intelligence.

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语种英语
源URL[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/47300]  
专题心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位1.CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, CAS, Beijing, China
2.ByteDance Inc, China
3.NiuTrans Research, Shenyang, China
4.NLP Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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Mu, Yongyu,Feng, Peinan,Cao, Zhiquan,et al. Large Language Models are Parallel Multilingual Learners[J]. arXiv,2024.
APA Mu, Yongyu.,Feng, Peinan.,Cao, Zhiquan.,Wu, Yuzhang.,Li, Bei.,...&Zhu, Jingbo.(2024).Large Language Models are Parallel Multilingual Learners.arXiv.
MLA Mu, Yongyu,et al."Large Language Models are Parallel Multilingual Learners".arXiv (2024).

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