Cross-lingual Paraphrase Transfer Efficiency via Mixed-Language Intermediate Task Fine-Tuning

Intermediate-task training---fine-tuning a pretrained model on an intermediate task before fine-tuning again on the target task---often improves model performance substantially on language understanding tasks in monolingual English settings. We investigate whether English intermediate-task training is still helpful on non-English target tasks. Using nine intermediate language-understanding tasks, we evaluate intermediate-task transfer in a zero-shot cross-lingual setting on the XTREME benchmark. We see large improvements from intermediate training on the BUCC and Tatoeba sentence retrieval tas

Research goal: How does fine-tuning on a mix of English and non-English intermediate tasks impact inference efficiency (throughput) for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer on the PAWS-X benchmark for paraphrase identification, compared to English-only intermediate-task training?

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