Robustness Improvement in Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Evaluation via Adversarial 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: Does intermediate-task fine-tuning with adversarial examples (e.g., using A3C or PGD) improve robustness in zero-shot cross-lingual evaluation on XTREME-R compared to standard fine-tuning methods?

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