The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic 事件

The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic arXiv:2605.24556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual retrieval increasingly underpins cross-lingual question answering and retrieval-augmented generation. Strong zero-shot scores on multilingual benchmarks are often taken as evidence that current encoders transfer reliably across many languages. We argue that this assumption breaks down for underrepresented, morphologically rich languages, and use Amharic as a diagno