Papersby GlyphWhen Life Gives You Samples: The Benefits of Scaling up Inference Compute for Multilingual LLMs research paper by Cohere, 2025
Cohere · Inference and efficiency · Jun 25, 2025 · 9 citations · 11 upvotes
What it shows
The study examines and proposes new sampling and selection strategies to enhance inference-time compute for multilingual and multi-task large language models, demonstrating significant improvements in win-rates across various languages and tasks.
By Ammar Khairi, Daniel D'souza, Ye Shen and 2 more · arXiv 2506.20544 · PDF
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- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Citations
- 9, 0 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 11 · Hugging Face
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