A survey of multilingual large language models.
review · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 39896256.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.patter.2024.101118 and PMC identifier 11783891.
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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.