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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Lifting the Curse of Multilinguality by Pre-training Modular Transformers

   Pfeiffer, Goyal, Lin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Our experiments on natural language inference, named entity recognition and question answering show that our approach not only mitigates the negative interference between languages, but also enables positive transfer, resulting in improved monolingual and cr…
   2. Unchecked“Furthermore, our approach enables adding languages post-hoc with no measurable drop in performance, no longer limiting the model usage to the set of pre-trained languages.”

2. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

   Composable Sparse Fine-Tuning for Cross-Lingual Transfer

   Alan, Ponti, Korhonen and Vulić · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   The paper introduces a sparse fine-tuning method using learned masks that can be composed for task and language, and reports it outperforms adapters in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's sparse fine-tuning method beats adapters by a large margin at zero-shot cross-lingual transfer on several multilingual benchmarks.“Most importantly, it outperforms adapters in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer by a large margin in a series of multilingual benchmarks, including Universal Dependencies, MasakhaNER, and AmericasNLI.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors report that keeping fine-tuning sparse is crucial to prevent both interference between combined fine-tunings and overfitting.“Based on an in-depth analysis, we additionally find that sparsity is crucial to prevent both 1) interference between the fine-tunings to be composed and 2) overfitting.”