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Cross-Lingual Consensus: Aligning Multilingual Cultural Knowledge via Multilingual Self-Consistency

Andrew Ivan Soegeng, Patrick Sutanto, Tan Sang Nguyen

Published

May 21, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

40/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

45% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

May 21, 2026

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Critique Edit Multilingual

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
40/100
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Abstract

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across various tasks, they exhibit significant performance discrepancies across languages. While prompting LLMs in English typically yields the highest general performance, it often induces a Western-centric bias, hindering the model's ability to accurately reflect diverse cultural knowledge. We hypothesize that LLMs already possess rich cultural knowledge embedded within local-language representations, but fail to retrieve it when prompted in English. To bridge this cross-lingual knowledge gap, we propose a novel self-supervised framework. Our method leverages multilingual self-consistency to identify the most reliable cultural responses across languages, combined with a self-critique mechanism to transfer this knowledge to the weaker language. Evaluations on the BLEnD benchmark demonstrate that our approach significantly improves cultural alignment-boosting performance on English queries by an average of 5.03%-relying entirely on self-generated data. Ultimately, our work demonstrates that latent cultural knowledge can be successfully surfaced and propagated across languages, enabling more culturally equitable and consistent LLMs.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

partial

Critique Edit

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across various tasks, they exhibit significant performance discrepancies across languages."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across various tasks, they exhibit significant performance discrepancies across languages."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across various tasks, they exhibit significant performance discrepancies across languages."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across various tasks, they exhibit significant performance discrepancies across languages."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across various tasks, they exhibit significant performance discrepancies across languages."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Critique Edit
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
Multilingual
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across various tasks, they exhibit significant performance discrepancies across languages.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across various tasks, they exhibit significant performance discrepancies across languages.
  • While prompting LLMs in English typically yields the highest general performance, it often induces a Western-centric bias, hindering the model's ability to accurately reflect diverse cultural knowledge.
  • We hypothesize that LLMs already possess rich cultural knowledge embedded within local-language representations, but fail to retrieve it when prompted in English.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • To bridge this cross-lingual knowledge gap, we propose a novel self-supervised framework.
  • Evaluations on the BLEnD benchmark demonstrate that our approach significantly improves cultural alignment-boosting performance on English queries by an average of 5.03%-relying entirely on self-generated data.

Why it matters for eval

  • Evaluations on the BLEnD benchmark demonstrate that our approach significantly improves cultural alignment-boosting performance on English queries by an average of 5.03%-relying entirely on self-generated data.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Critique Edit

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.