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Justifying Scaling Decisions in Multilingual Model Development

A machine learning team is expanding their multilingual language model from supporting 20 languages to over 100. A junior engineer suggests that to save resources, they should keep the model's parameter count and shared vocabulary size the same as the original model. Analyze the potential negative consequences of this approach and explain the underlying reasons why both model size and vocabulary size generally need to increase with the number of supported languages.

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