Afro Xlmr Mini

🚀 afro-xlmr-mini

AfroXLMR-mini 是通過在 17 種非洲語言（阿非利卡語、阿姆哈拉語、豪薩語、伊博語、馬達加斯加語、契瓦語、奧羅莫語、尼日利亞皮欽英語、盧旺達語、基隆迪語、紹納語、索馬里語、塞索托語、斯瓦希里語、科薩語、約魯巴語和祖魯語）以及 3 種高資源語言（阿拉伯語、法語和英語）上對 XLM-R-miniLM 模型進行掩碼語言模型（MLM）調整而創建的。這 17 種非洲語言覆蓋了主要的非洲語系。

✨ 主要特性

• 在多種非洲語言和高資源語言上進行微調，適用於跨語言任務。
• 與其他模型相比，在特定任務上有較好的表現。

📚 詳細文檔

在 MasakhaNER 上的評估結果（F 分數）

BibTeX 引用

@inproceedings{alabi-etal-2022-adapting,
    title = "Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to {A}frican Languages via Multilingual Adaptive Fine-Tuning",
    author = "Alabi, Jesujoba O.  and
      Adelani, David Ifeoluwa  and
      Mosbach, Marius  and
      Klakow, Dietrich",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = oct,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.382",
    pages = "4336--4349",
    abstract = "Multilingual pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on several downstream tasks for both high-resourced and low-resourced languages. However, there is still a large performance drop for languages unseen during pre-training, especially African languages. One of the most effective approaches to adapt to a new language is language adaptive fine-tuning (LAFT) {---} fine-tuning a multilingual PLM on monolingual texts of a language using the pre-training objective. However, adapting to target language individually takes large disk space and limits the cross-lingual transfer abilities of the resulting models because they have been specialized for a single language. In this paper, we perform multilingual adaptive fine-tuning on 17 most-resourced African languages and three other high-resource languages widely spoken on the African continent to encourage cross-lingual transfer learning. To further specialize the multilingual PLM, we removed vocabulary tokens from the embedding layer that corresponds to non-African writing scripts before MAFT, thus reducing the model size by around 50{\%}. Our evaluation on two multilingual PLMs (AfriBERTa and XLM-R) and three NLP tasks (NER, news topic classification, and sentiment classification) shows that our approach is competitive to applying LAFT on individual languages while requiring significantly less disk space. Additionally, we show that our adapted PLM also improves the zero-shot cross-lingual transfer abilities of parameter efficient fine-tuning methods.",
}

📄 許可證

本項目採用 MIT 許可證。