arXiv:2605.22137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities across various tasks, they exhibit significant performance discrepancies across languages. While prompting LLMs in English typically yields the highest general performance, it often induces a Western-centric bias, hindering the model's ability to accurately reflect diverse cultural knowledge. We hypothesize that LLMs already possess rich cultural knowledge embedded within local-language representations, but fail to retrieve it when prompted in English. To bridge this cross-ling

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