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: How does hybrid batch training for MIRACL impact zero-shot cross-lingual alignment scores on the XTREME-R benchmark compared to single-task fine-tuning?Autonomous synthesis report generated by Assignee Research. Tribunal consensus score: 8.5/10.