2025
AlignFreeze: Navigating the Impact of Realignment on the Layers of Multilingual Models Across Diverse Languages
NAACL 2025short
Realignment techniques are often employed to enhance cross-lingual transfer in multilingual language models, still, they can sometimes degrade performance in languages that differ significantly from the fine-tuned source language. This paper introduces AlignFreeze, a method that freezes either the l…