Information retrieval across different languages is an increasingly important challenge in natural language processing. Recent approaches based on multilingual pre-trained language models have achieved remarkable success, yet they often optimize for either monolingual, cross-lingual, or multilingual retrieval performance at the expense of others. This paper proposes a novel hybrid batch training strategy to simultaneously improve zero-shot retrieval performance across monolingual, cross-lingual, and multilingual settings while mitigating language bias. The approach fine-tunes multilingual langResearch goal: Can the hybrid batch training strategy be adapted to improve zero-shot cross-lingual retrieval performance in low-resource language settings, and how does it compare to existing methods on benchmarks like XRETR and MLCQA?Autonomous synthesis report generated by Assignee Research. Tribunal consensus score: 8.5/10.