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A Unified Concept Model for Advancing Multilingual Summarization and Semantic Reasoning in the Automotive Space Mercedes-Benz R&D Pvt., Limited
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Singh, Samagra, author.
- Conference Name:
- Symposium on International Automotive Technology (2026) (2026-01-28 : Pune, India)
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource cm
- Place of Publication:
- Warrendale, PA SAE International 2026
- Summary:
- The automotive industry produces a vast amount of multilingual textual data ranging from technical manuals to diagnostic reports that demand efficient summarization and reliable semantic reasoning. At present, the traditional large language models (LLMs) operating at the token level struggle not only with cross-lingual understanding and domain-specific reasoning but also are prone to hallucinations, leading to inaccurate insights and responses [2, 5]. This paper introduces a Unified Concept Model (UCM) architecture for the automotive domain that processes language at the concept level using multilingual, modality-agnostic embeddings, enabling coherent cross-lingual summarization and reasoning. The UCM encodes entire sentences as semantic vectors by leveraging the SONAR embedding space, a multilingual, modality-agnostic sentence representation that supports over 200 languages. This approach to encoding facilitates a deeper understanding across language boundaries and complex technical and legal issues. An LCM-inspired concept transformer then performs reasoning over these embeddings, and a GPT-style decoder reconstructs fluent summaries or explanations in the desired language. Evaluated on diverse automotive datasets in over 20 languages, UCM outperformed token-level baselines, achieving ROUGE-L scores of 88% (+16% over LCM) and reducing hallucination rates to 4%. These results demonstrate UCM's potential for scalable, accurate, and domain-specific AI systems in the automotive sector while enabling cross-lingual semantic reasoning beyond the capabilities of conventional LLMs. Furthermore, the paper briefly contextualizes UCM within the broader landscape of emerging AI models beyond LLMs, such as Large Knowledge Models and Large Reasoning Models, and discusses the problems and future directions for advancing concept-driven AI systems.
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Publisher Number:
- 2026-26-0676
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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