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arXiv cs.CLPaper

Language Is a Security Surface for Agent Guards

This is the first empirical proof that agent guard evaluations are language-specific in ways that matter. If your deployment touches non-English users, your guard's verdicts are not portable. Run the same audit on your guard stack now, especially if you inherit a guard from another vendor or a benchmark. The implication for vendors: safety evaluation needs to be multilingual from day one or your guard is selling false confidence.

arXiv cs.CLPaper

Lost in Translation: Why Lower Bias Scores Don't Mean Fairer Models

This punctures a common misreading of multilingual model evaluations: non-English scores are systematically lower due to translation and StereoSet items, not fairer reasoning. If you're building multilingual systems and comparing fairness metrics across languages, you're probably misinterpreting lower scores as improvement. Fix your benchmarking assumptions before shipping claims about multilingual fairness. This is important for accuracy in public statements about your models.

arXiv cs.CLPaper

Multilingual GSM-Symbolic: What determines capability transfer across languages?

If you're building models or systems for low-resource languages, this is useful: the paper quantifies that language resource level matters nearly as much as model size for capability transfer. You don't need to test every language pair; focus on closing the resource gap first. The dataset itself is a solid resource for anyone evaluating multilingual reasoning.

arXiv cs.CLPaper

Index-Translate: A Multilingual Translation Model Family -- Text, Speech, Controlled Dubbing, and Long-Document Translation

This is a real product release with measurable claims: models of comparable size beating previous translation baselines, and performance matching 100B+ models. The breadth is substantial—speech, dubbing, long documents. If you need production translation for multiple modalities and languages at sub-frontier scale, this deserves benchmark testing against your current stack. The controlled dubbing variant is novel.