Don't stop fine-tuning: On training regimes for few-shot cross-lingual transfer with multilingual language models

FD Schmidt, I Vulić, G Glavaš - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
A large body of recent work highlights the fallacies of zero-shot cross-lingual transfer (ZS-
XLT) with large multilingual language models. Namely, their performance varies …

Why Does Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Generation Fail? An Explanation and a Solution

T Li, K Murray - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.17325, 2023 - arxiv.org
Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer is when a multilingual model is trained to perform a task in
one language and then is applied to another language. Although the zero-shot cross-lingual …

Transfer to a Low-Resource Language via Close Relatives: The Case Study on Faroese

V Snæbjarnarson, A Simonsen, G Glavaš… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multilingual language models have pushed state-of-the-art in cross-lingual NLP transfer.
The majority of zero-shot cross-lingual transfer, however, use one and the same massively …

The Importance of Being Parameters: An Intra-Distillation Method for Serious Gains

H Xu, P Koehn, K Murray - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.11416, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent model pruning methods have demonstrated the ability to remove redundant
parameters without sacrificing model performance. Common methods remove redundant …

Improving Parameter-Efficient Cross-Lingual Transfer for Low-Resource Languages

M Parovic - 2024 - repository.cam.ac.uk
The rapid development and real-world adoption of natural language processing models in
recent years underscores the imperative to develop such models in different languages. This …

Condensing Multilingual Knowledge with Lightweight Language-Specific Modules

H Xu, W Tan, SS Li, Y Chen, B Van Durme… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Incorporating language-specific (LS) modules is a proven method to boost performance in
multilingual machine translation. This approach bears similarity to Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) …

Silver Data for Coreference Resolution in Ukrainian: Translation, Alignment, and Projection

P Kuchmiichuk - Proceedings of the Second Ukrainian Natural …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Low-resource languages continue to present challenges for current NLP methods, and
multilingual NLP is gaining attention in the research community. One of the main issues is …

Minimizing Language Interference for Multilingual Models

H Xu - 2024 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
Advancements in machine learning have revolutionized natural language processing,
enabling the development of models that can understand and generate multiple languages …