Where's Waldo? Query-language Preference under Cross-lingual Knowledge Disparities

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arXiv:2610.00606v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models increasingly serve as interfaces for knowledge-intensive information seeking tasks across languages by synthesizing multilingual evidence. Prior work has shown that they often exhibit query-language preference -- the tendency to favor sources written in the language of the query -- but has largely examined this behavior in settings where equivalent knowledge is available across languages. However, this bias becomes consequen