Model Size and Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Trade-offs in XTREME-R

Pre-trained multilingual language encoders, such as multilingual BERT and XLM-R, show great potential for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer. However, these multilingual encoders do not precisely align words and phrases across languages. Especially, learning alignments in the multilingual embedding space usually requires sentence-level or word-level parallel corpora, which are expensive to be obtained for low-resource languages. An alternative is to make the multilingual encoders more robust; when fine-tuning the encoder using downstream task, we train the encoder to tolerate noise in the contex

Research goal: What is the impact of model size (e.g., XLM-R Base vs. XXL) on the trade-off between zero-shot cross-lingual transfer accuracy and inference latency when evaluated on XTREME-R?

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