Findings of the WMT 2026 Shared Task: Multitask LLMs with Limited Resources

Shu Okabe, Marion Di Marco, Kathy Haemmerl, Daryna Dementieva, Lukas Edman, Marko Měškank, Anita Hendrichowa, Alexander Fraser


Abstract
We present the Findings of the WMT 2026 Shared Task on Multitask LLMs with Limited Resources. This year, we extended the Shared Task to jointly model five diverse NLP tasks, Machine Translation (MT) for five language pairs (eight directions), Question Answering (QA), Spell Checking (SC), Grammar Checking (GC), and Mathematical Reasoning (MR), for two language tracks: Ukrainian and Sorbian (grouping Upper and Lower Sorbian). As the Shared Task is focused on low-resource conditions, the model is restricted to Qwen3.5-2B to remain below the 3B-parameter threshold.

In total, six teams participated across the two language tracks: two in the Ukrainian and four in the Sorbian track. No team participated in both language tracks. All systems have been uploaded to HuggingFace by the participants. Despite our strict restrictions on model and dataset availability, systems were diverse in the resources they used as well as their training and inference strategies. The submitted systems show that a single small model can handle all five tasks, with clear difficulty shown for the challenging MR only.
Anthology ID:
2026.wmt-main.59
Volume:
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
Month:
October
Year:
2026
Address:
Budapest, Hungary
Editors:
Barry Haddow, Tom Kocmi, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz
Venues:
WMT | WS
SIG:
SIGMT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
1180–1202
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.59/
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Shu Okabe, Marion Di Marco, Kathy Haemmerl, Daryna Dementieva, Lukas Edman, Marko Měškank, Anita Hendrichowa, and Alexander Fraser. 2026. Findings of the WMT 2026 Shared Task: Multitask LLMs with Limited Resources. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation, pages 1180–1202, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Findings of the WMT 2026 Shared Task: Multitask LLMs with Limited Resources (Okabe et al., WMT 2026)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.59.pdf