Hybrid Batch Training Data Ratios and Zero-Shot Retrieval Performance in Multilingual Language Models

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 lang

Research goal: What is the impact of varying the ratio of monolingual, cross-lingual, and multilingual data samples in hybrid batch training on the zero-shot retrieval performance (MRR) of multilingual language models on the BEIR benchmark for typologically diverse languages?

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