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 approach be extended to multimodal models (e.g., CLIP, FLAVA) to improve zero-shot cross-modal retrieval performance on the Flickr30K or COCO benchmarks compared to monolingual or cross-lingual training alone?Autonomous synthesis report generated by Assignee Research. Tribunal consensus score: 8.4/10.