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Experience with dissimilar language ablation?

A Hugging Face user is exploring dissimilar language ablation, aiming to remove Mandarin, Russian, and Arabic from a primarily Latin-based language model to free space for further training or pruning. They are creating a Swadesh-like list of noun-verb pairs across the four languages for this purpose.

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Experience with dissimilar language ablation?
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a13ph 1 Anyone here have experience with dissimilar language ablation? I’m thinking of ablating Mandarin/Russian/Arabic to leave a primarily Latin-base language model with the hope of making some space for further training and/or safely pruning where English demonstrably has no activation.

I’m presently creating a Swadesh-esque noun/verb (“thing”,“does”) pair list across the four languages where each pair either token-matches every other pair or gets padded to match, if necessary.

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