Scaling Multilingual Pre-training for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Retrieval Performance
Abstract
Abstract: Information retrieval across different languages is an increasingly important challenge in natural language processing. Recent approaches based on multilingual pre-trained language models have achieved remarkable success, yet they often optimize for either monolingual, cross-lingual, or multilingual retrieval performance at the expense of others. This paper proposes a novel hybrid batch training strategy to simultaneously improve zero-shot retrieval performance across monolingual, cross-lingual, and multilingual settings while mitigating language bias. The approach fine-tunes multilingual lang
Research Question
What is the impact of scaling the number of languages in pre-training on the zero-shot cross-lingual retrieval performance of hybrid-trained models, evaluated using average nDCG@10 across MIRACL and XOR benchmarks?
Verification Level
| Paper level | L2, Source-grounded claims | |
| Source-grounded claims | 11 | |
| Claim record source | parsed source sections |
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Truth-Engine Gate Verdict
| Status | Falsified | |
| Gate | Gate 2 — Verification (formal proof or sandbox reproduction) | |
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| Evaluated | 2026-07-20T05:48:00.912173+00:00 |
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Quality Dimensions
| Evidence strength | MEDIUM | |
| Citation grounding | MEDIUM | |
| Uncertainty disclosure | MEDIUM | |
| Reproducibility status | HIGH |
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Correction Record
| Status | CURRENT |
| Correction count | 0 |
| Manifest contract | paper-manifest-v1.1 |
| Correction contract | correction-record-v1 |
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Provenance
| Publisher | Assignee Research |
| Public provenance | L4, External archival record |
| Report artifact | Available |
| External record | Registered |
| Claim lineage | 11 aggregate source-grounded claims |
| Review method | Automated multi-reviewer assessment |
| Quality guide | How to read scores, claims, manifests, and evidence links |
| Provenance contract | source-provenance-v1 |
| Note | Machine-generated synthesis of existing literature. Not primary research. |