Ansell, Alan ; Edoardo, Maria Ponti ; Pfeiffer, Jonas ; Ruder, Sebastian ; Glavaš, Goran ; Vulić, Ivan ; Korhonen, Anna (2021)
MAD-G: Multilingual Adapter Generation for Efficient Cross-Lingual Transfer.
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021). Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (07.11.2021-11.11.2021)
Konferenzveröffentlichung, Bibliographie
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
Adapter modules have emerged as a general parameter-efficient means to specialize a pretrained encoder to new domains. Massively multilingual transformers (MMTs) have particularly benefited from additional training of language-specific adapters. However, this approach is not viable for the vast majority of languages, due to limitations in their corpus size or compute budgets. In this work, we propose MAD-G (Multilingual ADapter Generation), which contextually generates language adapters from language representations based on typological features. In contrast to prior work, our time- and space-efficient MAD-G approach enables (1) sharing of linguistic knowledge across languages and (2) zero-shot inference by generating language adapters for unseen languages. We thoroughly evaluate MAD-G in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer on part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, and named entity recognition. While offering (1) improved fine-tuning efficiency (by a factor of around 50 in our experiments), (2) a smaller parameter budget, and (3) increased language coverage, MAD-G remains competitive with more expensive methods for language-specific adapter training across the board. Moreover, it offers substantial benefits for low-resource languages, particularly on the NER task in low-resource African languages. Finally, we demonstrate that MAD-G’s transfer performance can be further improved via: (i) multi-source training, i.e., by generating and combining adapters of multiple languages with available task-specific training data; and (ii) by further fine-tuning generated MAD-G adapters for languages with monolingual data.
| Typ des Eintrags: | Konferenzveröffentlichung |
|---|---|
| Erschienen: | 2021 |
| Autor(en): | Ansell, Alan ; Edoardo, Maria Ponti ; Pfeiffer, Jonas ; Ruder, Sebastian ; Glavaš, Goran ; Vulić, Ivan ; Korhonen, Anna |
| Art des Eintrags: | Bibliographie |
| Titel: | MAD-G: Multilingual Adapter Generation for Efficient Cross-Lingual Transfer |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Publikationsjahr: | 7 November 2021 |
| Verlag: | ACL |
| Buchtitel: | Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 |
| Veranstaltungstitel: | Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021) |
| Veranstaltungsort: | Punta Cana, Dominican Republic |
| Veranstaltungsdatum: | 07.11.2021-11.11.2021 |
| URL / URN: | https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.410/ |
| Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | Adapter modules have emerged as a general parameter-efficient means to specialize a pretrained encoder to new domains. Massively multilingual transformers (MMTs) have particularly benefited from additional training of language-specific adapters. However, this approach is not viable for the vast majority of languages, due to limitations in their corpus size or compute budgets. In this work, we propose MAD-G (Multilingual ADapter Generation), which contextually generates language adapters from language representations based on typological features. In contrast to prior work, our time- and space-efficient MAD-G approach enables (1) sharing of linguistic knowledge across languages and (2) zero-shot inference by generating language adapters for unseen languages. We thoroughly evaluate MAD-G in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer on part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, and named entity recognition. While offering (1) improved fine-tuning efficiency (by a factor of around 50 in our experiments), (2) a smaller parameter budget, and (3) increased language coverage, MAD-G remains competitive with more expensive methods for language-specific adapter training across the board. Moreover, it offers substantial benefits for low-resource languages, particularly on the NER task in low-resource African languages. Finally, we demonstrate that MAD-G’s transfer performance can be further improved via: (i) multi-source training, i.e., by generating and combining adapters of multiple languages with available task-specific training data; and (ii) by further fine-tuning generated MAD-G adapters for languages with monolingual data. |
| Freie Schlagworte: | UKP_p_emergencity, emergenCITY_INF |
| Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 20 Fachbereich Informatik 20 Fachbereich Informatik > Ubiquitäre Wissensverarbeitung LOEWE LOEWE > LOEWE-Zentren LOEWE > LOEWE-Zentren > emergenCITY |
| Hinterlegungsdatum: | 22 Dez 2021 11:13 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 28 Feb 2023 13:53 |
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