Semantic Alignment Impact on Zero-Shot Retrieval Performance in Low-Resource Languages

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 incorporating semantic alignment objectives alongside monolingual and cross-lingual objectives in hybrid batch training on zero-shot retrieval performance for low-resource languages in the MTEB evaluation framework?

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