When Meaning Travels: A Granular Lens on Hybrid-MoE's Role in Idiomatic Understanding for Language Models

ArXi:2606.01671v1 Announce Type: new In the contemporary epoch of multilingual education, learning idioms provides a fascinating gateway towards creativity, cultural values, historical context, and diverse perspectives inherent to various linguistic traditions. This paper showcases the navigation of retaining figurative and cultural semantics in low-resource Southeast Asian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, and Thai, where culturally rich idioms pose significant obstacles for computational modeling and cross-linguistic transfer due to their deep metaphorical complexity.