@article{whenalignmenthurtsdecouplingrepresentati,
  title = {When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models},
  author = {Ahmed Elshabrawy and Hour Kaing and Haiyue Song and Alham Fikri Aji and Hideki Tanaka and Masao Utiyama and Raj Dabre},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2508.12803},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12803},
}