AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 9h ago6/10
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The Translation Tax Is Not a Scalar: A Counterfactual Audit of English-Source Cue Inheritance in Chinese Multilingual Benchmarks
Researchers challenge the assumption that the 'Translation Tax'—a uniform penalty in translated multilingual benchmarks—operates as a simple scalar. Through counterfactual analysis of English-to-Chinese translations, they find translation quality effects are heterogeneous, model-dependent, and item-specific rather than uniform across benchmarks.