New Multilingual Model — XTREME
Last Updated on July 24, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Edward Ma
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Developing general-purpose multilingual representations is a trend in recent years. Most of the earlier models are developed based on English while we have several thousand languages all over the world. Previous studies include mBERT and XLM. Although those wonderful models are designed for general-purpose, evaluations of them are often limited to translation and classification and similar languages.
XTREME (Hu et al., 2020) is introduced to overcome the aforementioned limitations. The full name of EXTREME is Cross-lingual TRansfer Evaluation of Multilingual Encoders. It covers 40 languages and able to support up to 9 tasks. Also, XTREME focus… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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