Entropy2Vec: Crosslingual Language Modeling Entropy as End-to-End Learnable Language Representations

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Auteurs principaux: Irawan, Patrick Amadeus, Diandaru, Ryandito, Syuhada, Belati Jagad Bintang, Suchrady, Randy Zakya, Aji, Alham Fikri, Winata, Genta Indra, Koto, Fajri, Cahyawijaya, Samuel
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author Irawan, Patrick Amadeus
Diandaru, Ryandito
Syuhada, Belati Jagad Bintang
Suchrady, Randy Zakya
Aji, Alham Fikri
Winata, Genta Indra
Koto, Fajri
Cahyawijaya, Samuel
author_facet Irawan, Patrick Amadeus
Diandaru, Ryandito
Syuhada, Belati Jagad Bintang
Suchrady, Randy Zakya
Aji, Alham Fikri
Winata, Genta Indra
Koto, Fajri
Cahyawijaya, Samuel
contents We introduce Entropy2Vec, a novel framework for deriving cross-lingual language representations by leveraging the entropy of monolingual language models. Unlike traditional typological inventories that suffer from feature sparsity and static snapshots, Entropy2Vec uses the inherent uncertainty in language models to capture typological relationships between languages. By training a language model on a single language, we hypothesize that the entropy of its predictions reflects its structural similarity to other languages: Low entropy indicates high similarity, while high entropy suggests greater divergence. This approach yields dense, non-sparse language embeddings that are adaptable to different timeframes and free from missing values. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that Entropy2Vec embeddings align with established typological categories and achieved competitive performance in downstream multilingual NLP tasks, such as those addressed by the LinguAlchemy framework.
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spellingShingle Entropy2Vec: Crosslingual Language Modeling Entropy as End-to-End Learnable Language Representations
Irawan, Patrick Amadeus
Diandaru, Ryandito
Syuhada, Belati Jagad Bintang
Suchrady, Randy Zakya
Aji, Alham Fikri
Winata, Genta Indra
Koto, Fajri
Cahyawijaya, Samuel
Computation and Language
We introduce Entropy2Vec, a novel framework for deriving cross-lingual language representations by leveraging the entropy of monolingual language models. Unlike traditional typological inventories that suffer from feature sparsity and static snapshots, Entropy2Vec uses the inherent uncertainty in language models to capture typological relationships between languages. By training a language model on a single language, we hypothesize that the entropy of its predictions reflects its structural similarity to other languages: Low entropy indicates high similarity, while high entropy suggests greater divergence. This approach yields dense, non-sparse language embeddings that are adaptable to different timeframes and free from missing values. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that Entropy2Vec embeddings align with established typological categories and achieved competitive performance in downstream multilingual NLP tasks, such as those addressed by the LinguAlchemy framework.
title Entropy2Vec: Crosslingual Language Modeling Entropy as End-to-End Learnable Language Representations
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05060