Same Entity, Different Script: Diagnosing Cross-Script Entity Matching Failures in Language Models

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-22 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-22 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-23

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-10-23

Abstract

Multilingual language models can give different identity judgments when the same people's names are written in different scripts. We study this effect using 601 audited identity pairs with attested Devanagari and Latin forms, holding the question and relation fixed. Qwen2.5-7B's same-person accuracy falls from 35.1% in Latin to 8.5% in Devanagari under Marathi prompts, while different-person accur

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