Changes by less than
The intervention changes the metric by less than threshold in absolute value for every model, evaluation set and question language named.
Hypothesis · H34 · Author-curated prediction
Answering Belebele and MMLU translation pairs with the answer scaffold in the other language changes the likelihood-scored accuracy of Qwen2.5-1.5B and of its two continued-pretraining arms at 500M tokens by less than 3 percentage points, for English and for Polish questions.
Qwen2.5-1.5B and its two continued-pretraining arms at 500M tokens, likelihood-scored four-option prompts; no hooks.
Exact premises and relationships
finding · premise
On 598 translation-paired Belebele items, the likelihood multiple-choice accuracy of Qwen2.5-1.5B is 0.7458 in English and 0.5485 in Polish, an English-minus-Polish gap of 0.1973 (95% interval 0.1558 to 0.2389).The English-minus-Polish accuracy gap of the base model on these translation pairs.
finding · premise
On 589 translation-paired MMLU items, the likelihood multiple-choice accuracy of Qwen2.5-1.5B is 0.5569 in English and 0.3430 in Polish, an English-minus-Polish gap of 0.2139 (95% interval 0.1672 to 0.2606).The English-minus-Polish accuracy gap of the base model on these translation pairs.
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MMLU translation pairs
600 MMLU test items in English paired with their Polish machine translations from openGPT-X mmlux, each a question and four options scored as a multiple-choice prompt.
Scaffold language swap
Ending a prompt with the answer scaffold of the other language: 'Odpowiedź (litera):' after an English question, 'Answer (letter):' after a Polish question.
Belebele translation pairs
600 Belebele test items in English paired with the same items in Polish, each a passage, a question and four options scored as a multiple-choice prompt.
Likelihood multiple-choice accuracy
Fraction of items for which the option letter with the highest log-probability per continuation token, scored zero-shot after an answer scaffold in the item's language, is the gold letter.
Qwen2.5-1.5B
The 1.5B-parameter base language model of the Qwen2.5 series, without further training.
Qwen2.5-1.5B continued with its own tokenizer
Qwen2.5-1.5B after continued pretraining with its original tokenizer on a fixed document sequence of about 80% Polish FineWeb2-HQ and 20% English SlimPajama-6B by Qwen tokens, without a mathematics or code slice.
Qwen2.5-1.5B with APT4 by Fast Vocabulary Transfer, continued
Qwen2.5-1.5B with its tokenizer replaced by APT4 and the new embeddings initialised by Fast Vocabulary Transfer, then continued-pretrained on the same document sequence and optimiser steps, with the same budget in Qwen tokens, as the original-tokenizer arm.
English
The English language.
Polish
The Polish language.
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