When English Isn't the Best Teacher: Source Language Effects in Cross-Lingual In-Context Learning

In three linesEmpirical study of cross-lingual transfer in In-Context Learning (ICL) spanning 7 tasks, 6 models, and typologically diverse languages. Results show that fine-tuning-based expectations do not consistently apply in the ICL regime, proposing alternative heuristics for effective source language selection.

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