Neural FOXP2 -- Language Specific Neuron Steering for Targeted Language Improvement in LLMs

arXiv:2602.00945v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLMs are multilingual by training, yet their lingua franca is often English, reflecting English language dominance in pretraining. Other languages remain in parametric memory but are systematically suppressed. We argue that language defaultness is governed by a sparse, low-rank control...

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