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: Does combining the hybrid batch strategy with instruction fine-tuning (e.g., using DOLLY-15K) further enhance zero-shot cross-lingual retrieval accuracy on the MLIR benchmark compared to standalone training?Autonomous synthesis report generated by Assignee Research. Tribunal consensus score: 7.9/10.