Harnessing Linguistic Dissimilarity for Language Generalization on Unseen Low-Resource Varieties

ArXi:2605.04500v1 Announce Type: cross Low-resource language varieties used by specific groups remain neglected in the development of Multilingual Language Models. A great deal of cross-lingual research focuses on inter-lingual language transfer which strives to align allied varieties and minimize differences between them. However, for low-resource varieties, linguistic dissimilarity is also an important cue allowing generalization to unseen varieties.