Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer Performance of Multilingual vs. Monolingual Intermediate-Task Training on XTREME-R

Intermediate-task training---fine-tuning a pretrained model on an intermediate task before fine-tuning again on the target task---often improves model performance substantially on language understanding tasks in monolingual English settings. We investigate whether English intermediate-task training is still helpful on non-English target tasks. Using nine intermediate language-understanding tasks, we evaluate intermediate-task transfer in a zero-shot cross-lingual setting on the XTREME benchmark. We see large improvements from intermediate training on the BUCC and Tatoeba sentence retrieval tas

Research goal: How does the zero-shot cross-lingual transfer performance of multilingual intermediate-task training compare to monolingual intermediate-task training (e.g., English-only) when evaluated on the XTREME-R benchmark, which includes more diverse low-resource languages and typologies?

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