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XLM-E: Cross-lingual Language Model Pre-training via ELECTRA

30 Jun 2021ACL 2022 5arXiv:2106.16138archive 2025-07-28

Zewen Chi, Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, Shuming Ma, Bo Zheng, Saksham Singhal, Payal Bajaj, Xia Song, Xian-Ling Mao, Heyan Huang, Furu Wei

In this paper, we introduce ELECTRA-style tasks to cross-lingual language model pre-training. Specifically, we present two pre-training tasks, namely multilingual replaced token detection, and translation replaced token detection. Besides, we pretrain the model, named as XLM-E, on both multilingual and parallel corpora. Our model outperforms the baseline models on various cross-lingual understanding tasks with much less computation cost. Moreover, analysis shows that XLM-E tends to obtain better cross-lingual transferability.

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Language ModelingLanguage ModellingTranslationZero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v6 Avg 85.5 #1 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v6 Question Answering 77.1 #1 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v6 Sentence Retrieval 94.4 #1 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v6 Sentence-pair Classification 91.0 #1 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v6 Structured Prediction 83.8 #1 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v5 Avg 84.5 #4 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v5 Question Answering 76.3 #4 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v5 Sentence Retrieval 93.7 #4 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v5 Sentence-pair Classification 90.3 #4 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer XTREME Turing ULR v5 Structured Prediction 81.7 #4 of 25 Archive leaderboard report

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