Impact of Optimal Transport Distillation on Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Retrieval for Unseen MIRACL Languages

Benefiting from transformer-based pre-trained language models, neural ranking models have made significant progress. More recently, the advent of multilingual pre-trained language models provides great support for designing neural cross-lingual retrieval models. However, due to unbalanced pre-training data in different languages, multilingual language models have already shown a performance gap between high and low-resource languages in many downstream tasks. And cross-lingual retrieval models built on such pre-trained models can inherit language bias, leading to suboptimal result for low-reso

Research goal: How does optimal transport distillation affect zero-shot cross-lingual retrieval accuracy on MIRACL for languages excluded from the code-switched training data?

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