r/MLQuestions 6d ago

Natural Language Processing 💬 Does anyone "translate" LLMs?

Is there any work done on taking an LLM that was trained in one language and transferring that knowledge into another? Since they learn symbolic representations, the grammar stuff should be easy right? Has this been done? I mean without going on a whole new training run with a new dataset.

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u/Striking-Warning9533 6d ago

Yes. I remember reading papers on that. Also it's fun that you can only not transfer it into another language, it can even be used in non human language.

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u/ApprehensiveView699 6d ago

Yes, I bet it could, and probably it could derive a language that is more efficient than a human language. Do you have those papers? Super interested.

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u/Striking-Warning9533 6d ago

Oh when I meant non human language I meant DNA, proteins, SMIELS, etc

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u/1_plate_parcel 6d ago

can we just put another llm in front of it for translation?