Scaling Low-Resource Languages in Multilingual Pre-Training for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Retrieval

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: How does scaling the number of low-resource languages in multilingual pre-training affect zero-shot cross-lingual retrieval accuracy on the MLDR benchmark when using hybrid batch training?

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