Predicting Multilingual Classification and Translation Performance of LLMs with Cross-Lingual Alignment -- Is English Enough?

arXiv:2608.03446 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

Adnan Al Ali, Kathy Hämmerl, Jindřich Libovický, Alexander Fraser

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-25

Comments: Submitted to EMNLP 2026

Code: https://github.com/KathyHaem/cla-metrics

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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