arxiv: 2604.20720 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-22 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI· cs.CL

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COMPASS: COntinual Multilingual PEFT with Adaptive Semantic Sampling

Noah Flynn

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classification 💻 cs.LG cs.AIcs.CL

keywords multilingual adaptationparameter-efficient fine-tuningcontinual learningsemantic samplingcross-lingual transferlanguage adaptersdistribution-aware sampling

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The pith

COMPASS adapts LLMs to target languages by sampling auxiliary data from semantic gaps rather than linguistic similarity.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents COMPASS as a data-centric approach to fine-tuning large language models for multiple languages while avoiding the performance drops that often come from negative cross-lingual interference. It trains lightweight language-specific adapters on a selected subset of auxiliary data, choosing that subset through embeddings and clustering to fill semantic gaps relative to a target distribution. The method is extended into a continual framework called COMPASS-ECDA that monitors for shifts in production data and updates adapters without overwriting prior knowledge. A reader would care because naive multilingual fine-tuning frequently harms results on some languages, and this offers a more targeted, efficient alternative that works across different model sizes and holds up on long-context tasks. Experiments show the approach beats methods that select data based on language similarity.

Core claim

COMPASS is a framework for continual multilingual PEFT that uses a distribution-aware sampling strategy based on multilingual embeddings and clustering to identify semantic gaps between existing training data and a target usage distribution. By prioritizing auxiliary data from under-represented semantic clusters, it trains language-specific adapters to maximize positive cross-lingual transfer while minimizing interference. The framework extends to COMPASS-ECDA, which dynamically updates adapters upon detecting distribution shifts to balance new adaptation with preservation of existing knowledge. Across Phi-4-Mini, Llama-3.1-8B, and Qwen2.5-7B on Global-MMLU, MMLU-ProX, and OneRuler, COMPASS-

What carries the argument

The distribution-aware sampling strategy that clusters multilingual embeddings to prioritize auxiliary data from under-represented semantic clusters during adapter training.

If this is right

Outperforms linguistic-similarity baselines on Global-MMLU and MMLU-ProX across three model architectures.
Maintains gains on unseen long-context tasks such as OneRuler.
Supports continual updates that adapt to new data distributions without erasing prior knowledge.
Provides an efficient, PEFT-based path to sustainable multilingual model maintenance.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Semantic structure captured by embeddings may serve as a stronger guide for cross-lingual transfer than surface linguistic features.
The sampling approach could extend to continual adaptation in non-language domains where distribution shifts occur.
Focusing on semantic gaps might reduce the volume of data needed for effective multilingual adaptation.

Load-bearing premise

That selecting auxiliary data from semantic clusters identified via embeddings will maximize positive cross-lingual transfer while minimizing interference.

What would settle it

A head-to-head comparison on Global-MMLU or MMLU-ProX in which COMPASS shows no improvement or worse results than linguistic-similarity baselines would indicate the sampling strategy fails to deliver its claimed benefits.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.20720 by Noah Flynn.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Performance of Phi4-Mini with COMPASS on Global MMLU, segmented by script categorization [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Global MMLU performance of Phi4-Mini with COMPASS, across a range of auxiliary budgets from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Heatmap of language contribution from each source language (x-axis) to each target language [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Relative change in performance between the baseline model with and without COMPASS on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Learning-forgetting trade-off across strategies. COMPASS-ECDA (dark blue) achieves Pareto [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Temporal performance evolution for Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct. Note that time step 0 includes the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Model performance (Phi4-mini, LLaMA3.1, and Qwen2.5) across COMPASS, baselines, and com [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Learning rate sensitivity comparison between DoRA and LoRA across different ranks on (left) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_9.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Temporal performance evolution for Phi-4-Mini-Instruct-3.8B across five distribution shifts. De [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p049_10.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Temporal performance evolution for LLaMA-3.1-Instruct-8B. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p050_11.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Distribution of optimal clustering parameters across 42 target languages. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p051_12.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit performance disparities across languages, with naive multilingual fine-tuning frequently degrading performance due to negative cross-lingual interference. To address this, we introduce COMPASS (COntinual Multilingual PEFT with Adaptive Semantic Sampling), a novel data-centric framework for adapting LLMs to target languages. COMPASS leverages parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) by training lightweight, language-specific adapters on a judiciously selected subset of auxiliary multilingual data. The core of our method is a distribution-aware sampling strategy that uses multilingual embeddings and clustering to identify semantic gaps between existing training data and a target usage distribution. By prioritizing auxiliary data from under-represented semantic clusters, COMPASS maximizes positive cross-lingual transfer while minimizing interference. We extend this into a continual learning framework, COMPASS-ECDA, which monitors for data distribution shifts in production and dynamically updates adapters to prevent model staleness, balancing adaptation to new data with the preservation of existing knowledge. Across three different model architectures (Phi-4-Mini, Llama-3.1-8B, and Qwen2.5-7B) and multiple challenging multilingual benchmarks (Global-MMLU, MMLU-ProX), including unseen long-context tasks (OneRuler), we demonstrate that COMPASS consistently outperforms baseline methods guided by linguistic similarity, providing an effective, efficient, and sustainable solution for developing and maintaining high-performing multilingual models in dynamic environments.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

COMPASS has a sensible data-selection idea for multilingual PEFT but the abstract supplies no numbers or controls, so the performance claims cannot be checked.

read the letter

The paper's main pitch is a continual multilingual PEFT setup that uses multilingual embeddings and clustering to pick auxiliary data filling semantic gaps, then trains language-specific adapters and adds a monitoring loop to handle distribution shifts without forgetting. It contrasts this with simpler linguistic-similarity baselines and claims better results on Global-MMLU, MMLU-ProX, and OneRuler across Phi-4-Mini, Llama-3.1-8B, and Qwen2.5-7B. That combination of semantic sampling plus continual adapter updates is the concrete new piece, even if the individual parts are established techniques. It does a clean job naming the real problem of negative interference in naive multilingual fine-tuning and framing an efficient, adapter-based path that could scale better than full retraining. The continual extension is a practical touch for production settings where data keeps arriving. The clear weakness is the total lack of evidence. The abstract asserts consistent outperformance but gives no quantitative results, no error bars, no ablation on cluster formation or sampling thresholds, and no detail on how the embeddings are applied or how interference is actually measured. Without those, the central claim that distribution-aware sampling maximizes positive transfer while minimizing interference stays untested. The method also depends on external embeddings, which could carry their own biases not addressed here. This is aimed at people working on efficient multilingual adaptation and continual learning for LLMs. A reader hunting for data-centric tricks might borrow the clustering idea, but the absence of experiments means most practitioners would get little usable value yet. I would not send it to peer review in this form; the idea is coherent and the problem matters, but a referee needs the full results and controls before spending time on it.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces COMPASS, a data-centric continual multilingual PEFT framework. It uses multilingual embeddings and clustering to identify semantic gaps and sample auxiliary data from under-represented clusters for training language-specific adapters, aiming to maximize positive cross-lingual transfer while minimizing interference. An extension, COMPASS-ECDA, adds dynamic monitoring and adapter updates for production distribution shifts. The authors claim consistent outperformance over linguistic-similarity baselines across Phi-4-Mini, Llama-3.1-8B, and Qwen2.5-7B on Global-MMLU, MMLU-ProX, and unseen long-context tasks like OneRuler.

Significance. If the empirical results hold with proper controls, the work could meaningfully advance efficient multilingual adaptation by shifting focus from linguistic to semantic similarity in data selection and incorporating continual learning for deployment. The PEFT-based design supports practicality, and the emphasis on minimizing negative interference addresses a known pain point in multilingual LLMs.

major comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that COMPASS 'consistently outperforms baseline methods guided by linguistic similarity' across three models and multiple benchmarks is asserted without any quantitative metrics, tables, error bars, ablation studies, or details on how clusters were formed or sampling thresholds chosen. This prevents assessment of the result and is load-bearing for the paper's contribution.
[§3 (Method)] Method description: The distribution-aware sampling relies on external multilingual embeddings and clustering to identify semantic gaps, but no equations, pseudocode, or implementation details are supplied for cluster formation, gap identification, or the sampling procedure itself. This is central to the claimed mechanism and reproducibility.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The acronym 'COntinual' uses inconsistent capitalization; standard form is 'Continual'.
[§3.3] Notation for the continual extension (COMPASS-ECDA) is introduced without a clear expansion or diagram showing how it integrates with the base COMPASS adapters.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below and outline the revisions we will make.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that COMPASS 'consistently outperforms baseline methods guided by linguistic similarity' across three models and multiple benchmarks is asserted without any quantitative metrics, tables, error bars, ablation studies, or details on how clusters were formed or sampling thresholds chosen. This prevents assessment of the result and is load-bearing for the paper's contribution.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from including concrete quantitative support for the central claim to allow immediate assessment. In the revised manuscript, we will update the abstract to report key performance metrics from the experimental results (e.g., average gains across Global-MMLU and MMLU-ProX for the three models), reference the presence of error bars and ablation studies in the main text, and briefly note the clustering approach. This change directly addresses the load-bearing nature of the claim while preserving the abstract's conciseness. revision: yes
Referee: [§3 (Method)] Method description: The distribution-aware sampling relies on external multilingual embeddings and clustering to identify semantic gaps, but no equations, pseudocode, or implementation details are supplied for cluster formation, gap identification, or the sampling procedure itself. This is central to the claimed mechanism and reproducibility.

Authors: The referee is correct that the current method section relies on narrative description without formal equations or pseudocode. While the textual account covers the use of multilingual embeddings, clustering for gap detection, and adaptive sampling, we acknowledge this limits reproducibility. We will revise Section 3 to include mathematical formulations (e.g., for embedding-based cluster assignment and semantic gap scoring) and add pseudocode for the full sampling procedure, including threshold selection. These additions will be placed in the main text or a dedicated algorithm box. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The provided abstract and method description rely on external multilingual embeddings and clustering for distribution-aware sampling, which are independent of any internal fitted parameters or self-derived equations within the paper. No equations, derivations, or predictions are shown that reduce to inputs by construction. The central claims are empirical performance results on benchmarks, with the continual learning extension presented as a monitoring framework rather than a self-referential loop. No self-citations, ansatzes, or uniqueness theorems are invoked in a load-bearing manner that would create circularity. The derivation chain is self-contained as a data-centric heuristic applied to PEFT adapters.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the approach implicitly assumes that semantic clusters derived from embeddings reliably predict positive transfer and that dynamic updates preserve knowledge without catastrophic forgetting.

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