Comparative Analysis of Hybrid Batch Strategy and Few-Shot Fine-Tuning for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Retrieval on XQuAD and MLQA

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 hybrid batch strategy compare to few-shot fine-tuning in terms of zero-shot cross-lingual retrieval performance (MRR@10) on XQuAD and MLQA when varying the number of training examples per language?

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