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Main Authors: Asano, Shunta, Baek, Jeonghun, Yamasaki, Toshihiko
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29414
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  • Recent studies have shown that code-switching data (CSD), in which multiple languages are mixed within the same context, can improve cross-lingual transfer and multilingual alignment in large language models (LLMs). However, existing studies primarily focus on bilingual transfer between English and a target language, leaving multilingual settings involving three or more languages largely unexplored. In this work, we investigate multilingual code-switching instruction tuning across four languages: English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. We evaluate multilingual understanding on Belebele. Our experiments show that simple sentence-level multilingual CSD consistently improves average multilingual performance across all four languages, indicating that multilingual code-switching can be effective beyond bilingual transfer settings.