Multilingual Contrastive Learning for Efficient 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 the integration of multilingual contrastive learning objectives in hybrid batch training affect the efficiency (inference latency and memory usage) of zero-shot cross-lingual retrieval on the BEIR benchmark when compared to standard monolingual and cross-lingual baselines?

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