# Experience with dissimilar language ablation?

> Source: <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/experience-with-dissimilar-language-ablation/177196#post_1>
> Published: 2026-06-27 10:40:13+00:00

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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.