The Impact of Language Adapters in Cross-Lingual Transfer for NLU

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00149v1
• Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:07:43 GMT
• Title: The Impact of Language Adapters in Cross-Lingual Transfer for NLU
• Authors: Jenny Kunz, Oskar Holmstr\"om
• Abstract summary: We study the effect of including a target-language adapter in detailed ablation studies with two multilingual models and three multilingual datasets. Our results show that the effect of target-language adapters is highly inconsistent across tasks, languages and models. Removing the language adapter after training has only a weak negative effect, indicating that the language adapters do not have a strong impact on the predictions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Modular deep learning has been proposed for the efficient adaption of pre-trained models to new tasks, domains and languages. In particular, combining language adapters with task adapters has shown potential where no supervised data exists for a language. In this paper, we explore the role of language adapters in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer for natural language understanding (NLU) benchmarks. We study the effect of including a target-language adapter in detailed ablation studies with two multilingual models and three multilingual datasets. Our results show that the effect of target-language adapters is highly inconsistent across tasks, languages and models. Retaining the source-language adapter instead often leads to an equivalent, and sometimes to a better, performance. Removing the language adapter after training has only a weak negative effect, indicating that the language adapters do not have a strong impact on the predictions.

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