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ReviewPatterns (New York, N.Y.)2025

A survey of multilingual large language models.

Libo Qin, Qiguang Chen, Yuhang Zhou, Zhi Chen, Yinghui Li, Lizi Liao, Min Li, Wanxiang Che, Philip S Yu

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Review in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Libo QinSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.
Qiguang ChenResearch Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
Yuhang ZhouResearch Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
Zhi ChenByteDance, Inc., Shanghai 200082, China.
Yinghui LiTsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Lizi LiaoSchool of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore 188065, Singapore.
Min LiSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.
Wanxiang CheResearch Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
Philip S YuDepartment of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multilingual large language models (MLLMs) leverage advanced large language models to process and respond to queries across multiple languages, achieving significant success in polyglot tasks. Despite these breakthroughs, a comprehensive survey summarizing existing approaches and recent developments remains absent. To this end, this paper presents a unified and thorough review of the field, highlighting recent progress and emerging trends in MLLM research. The contributions of this paper are as follows. (1) Extensive survey: to our knowledge, this is the pioneering thorough review of multilingual alignment in MLLMs. (2) Unified taxonomy: we provide a unified framework to summarize the current progress in MLLMs. (3) Emerging frontiers: key emerging frontiers are identified, alongside a discussion of associated challenges. (4) Abundant resources: we collect abundant open-source resources, including relevant papers, data corpora, and leaderboards. We hope our work can provide the community quick access and spur breakthrough research in MLLMs.

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cross-lingual transferlarge language modelmultilingual alignmentmultilingual large language modelparameter-frozen alignmentparameter-tuning alignment

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PMID39896256
PMCPMC11783891

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