English
Related papers

Related papers: Bridging Language Gaps: Enhancing Few-Shot Languag…

200 papers

Cross-lingual transfer learning enables NLP for low-resource languages by leveraging labeled data from higher-resource sources, yet existing comparisons of source language selection strategies do not control for total training data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tewodros Kederalah Idris , Roald Eiselen , Prasenjit Mitra

Multilingual language models are widely used to extend NLP systems to low-resource languages. However, concrete evidence for the effects of multilinguality on language modeling performance in individual languages remains scarce. Here, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Tyler A. Chang , Catherine Arnett , Zhuowen Tu , Benjamin K. Bergen

Model agnostic meta-learning algorithms aim to infer priors from several observed tasks that can then be used to adapt to a new task with few examples. Given the inherent diversity of tasks arising in existing benchmarks, recent methods use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Rakshith Subramanyam , Mark Heimann , Jayram Thathachar , Rushil Anirudh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Cross-lingual transfer in natural language processing (NLP) models enhances multilingual performance by leveraging shared linguistic knowledge. However, traditional methods that process all data simultaneously often fail to mimic real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Maria Khelli , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Ayu Purwarianti , Genta Indra Winata

The scarcity of labeled training data often prohibits the internationalization of NLP models to multiple languages. Recent developments in cross-lingual understanding (XLU) has made progress in this area, trying to bridge the language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Guokun Lai , Barlas Oguz , Yiming Yang , Veselin Stoyanov

Pre-trained language models (LMs) store knowledge in their parameters and can generate informative responses when used in conversational systems. However, LMs suffer from the problem of "hallucination:" they may generate plausible-looking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Weiwei Sun , Zhengliang Shi , Shen Gao , Pengjie Ren , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Low-resource languages (LRLs) face challenges in supervised neural machine translation due to limited parallel data, prompting research into unsupervised methods. Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) methods, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shilong Pan , Zhiliang Tian , Liang Ding , Zhen Huang , Zhihua Wen , Dongsheng Li

Recent advances in multimodal learning has resulted in powerful vision-language models, whose representations are generalizable across a variety of downstream tasks. Recently, their generalization ability has been further extended by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Koustava Goswami , Srikrishna Karanam , Prateksha Udhayanan , K J Joseph , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have revolutionized the way researchers and practitioners address crucial societal problems. Large language models are now the standard to develop state-of-the-art solutions for text detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Gaurav Verma , Rohit Mujumdar , Zijie J. Wang , Munmun De Choudhury , Srijan Kumar

Approaches to improving multilingual language understanding often struggle with significant performance gaps between high-resource and low-resource languages. While there are efforts to align the languages in a single latent space to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Haeji Jung , Changdae Oh , Jooeon Kang , Jimin Sohn , Kyungwoo Song , Jinkyu Kim , David R. Mortensen

Contrastive learning -- a modern approach to extract useful representations from unlabeled data by training models to distinguish similar samples from dissimilar ones -- has driven significant progress in foundation models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Licong Lin , Song Mei

Large language models (LLMs) have become integral to a wide range of applications worldwide, driving an unprecedented global demand for effective multilingual capabilities. Central to achieving robust multilingual performance is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ping Guo , Yubing Ren , Binbin Liu , Fengze Liu , Haobin Lin , Yifan Zhang , Bingni Zhang , Taifeng Wang , Yin Zheng

There are a thousand ways to caption an image. Contrastive Language Pretraining (CLIP) on the other hand, works by mapping an image and its caption to a single vector -- limiting how well CLIP-like models can represent the diverse ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Samuel Lavoie , Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim , Mahmoud Assran , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Aaron Courville , Nicolas Ballas

Large-scale cross-lingual pre-trained language models (xPLMs) have shown effectiveness in cross-lingual sequence labeling tasks (xSL), such as cross-lingual machine reading comprehension (xMRC) by transferring knowledge from a high-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Nuo Chen , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Jian Pei , Daxin Jiang

The combination of multilingual pre-trained representations and cross-lingual transfer learning is one of the most effective methods for building functional NLP systems for low-resource languages. However, for extremely low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Mengzhou Xia , Guoqing Zheng , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Milad Shokouhi , Graham Neubig , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Although an object may appear in numerous contexts, we often describe it in a limited number of ways. Language allows us to abstract away visual variation to represent and communicate concepts. Building on this intuition, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mohamed El Banani , Karan Desai , Justin Johnson

Text classification is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), and large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their capability to perform this task across various domains. However, the performance of LLMs heavily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mohammad Mahdi Mohajeri , Mohammad Javad Dousti , Majid Nili Ahmadabadi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on NLP classification tasks. However, they typically rely on aggregated labels-often via majority voting-which can obscure the human disagreement inherent in subjective annotations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Benedetta Muscato , Yue Li , Gizem Gezici , Zhixue Zhao , Fosca Giannotti

Recent years have seen exceptional strides in the task of automatic morphological inflection generation. However, for a long tail of languages the necessary resources are hard to come by, and state-of-the-art neural methods that work well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer is a central task in multilingual NLP, allowing models trained in languages with more sufficient training resources to generalize to other low-resource languages. Earlier efforts on this task use parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Fei Wang , Kuan-Hao Huang , Kai-Wei Chang , Muhao Chen