LangSAMP: Language-Script Aware Multilingual Pretraining

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18199v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:29:10 GMT
• Title: LangSAMP: Language-Script Aware Multilingual Pretraining
• Authors: Yihong Liu, Haotian Ye, Chunlan Ma, Mingyang Wang, Hinrich Schütze,
• Abstract summary: Recent multilingual pretrained language models (mPLMs) often avoid using language embeddings. LangSAMP incorporates both language and script embeddings to enhance representation learning. We apply LangSAMP to the continual pretraining of XLM-R on a highly multilingual corpus covering more than 500 languages.
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• Abstract: Recent multilingual pretrained language models (mPLMs) often avoid using language embeddings -- learnable vectors assigned to different languages. These embeddings are discarded for two main reasons: (1) mPLMs are expected to have a single, unified parameter set across all languages, and (2) they need to function seamlessly as universal text encoders without requiring language IDs as input. However, this removal increases the burden on token embeddings to encode all language-specific information, which may hinder the model's ability to produce more language-neutral representations. To address this challenge, we propose Language-Script Aware Multilingual Pretraining (LangSAMP), a method that incorporates both language and script embeddings to enhance representation learning while maintaining a simple architecture. Specifically, we integrate these embeddings into the output of the transformer blocks before passing the final representations to the language modeling head for prediction. We apply LangSAMP to the continual pretraining of XLM-R on a highly multilingual corpus covering more than 500 languages. The resulting model consistently outperforms the baseline. Extensive analysis further shows that language/script embeddings encode language/script-specific information, which improves the selection of source languages for crosslingual transfer. We make our code and models publicly available at \url{https://github.com/cisnlp/LangSAMP}.

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