cs.CL 2608.20047

Auditing Cross-Lingual Fairness in Language Model Watermarking

Proposes a cross-lingual fairness evaluation framework for watermarking schemes, revealing structural disparities across 11 languages with specific metrics and experiments.

Alexander Nemecek, Osama Zafar, Debargha Ganguly et al.

2026-08-20 51
cs.CL 2608.19726

Projector Is All You Train

Training only the projector achieves strong multimodal performance in 3D MLLMs, avoiding language model drift.

Nyx Iskandar, Saathvik Selvan, Slater Victoroff

2026-08-20 36
cs.CL 2608.15448

Language models suffer from a curse of ambiguity

This paper uncovers the 'curse of ambiguity' in large language models, analyzing its roots in model capacity, embedding size, and learning difficulty, highlighting practical limitations.

Nicolas Zucchet, Hyun Dong Lee, Scott Linderman

2026-08-16 83
cs.CL 2608.12913

Decoupled Contrastive Decoding via Expert-Aligned Drafting

Decoupled Contrastive Decoding (DCD) accelerates generation by using an expert-aligned lightweight proposer and only applying amateurs in verification, achieving 1.65-1.95× speedup.

Zhixuan Liu, Zhichen Dong, Yuanfu Wang et al.

2026-08-13 38