Scaling Language Model Size in Intermediate-Task Training and Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Performance on 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: Does scaling the size of the language model in intermediate-task training affect the zero-shot cross-lingual transfer performance on XTREME-R, as measured by per-language F1 score comparisons between small (e.g., 1B) and large (e.g., 10B+) models?

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