Intermediate Task Training Effects on Zero-Shot Multimodal Model Performance in XTREME-R

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 the combination of intermediate task training with English text and non-English image captions affect the zero-shot performance of multimodal models on XTREME-R compared to monolingual English text-only training, specifically measured by F1 score improvements on cross-lingual NLI tasks?

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