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INFOXLM: إطار معلومات نظرية لنموذج اللغة عبر اللغات قبل التدريب
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في هذا العمل، نقدم إطارا نظريا للمعلومات يقوم بتصوير نموذج اللغة عبر اللغات قبل تعظيم المعلومات المتبادلة بين النصوص متعددة اللغات متعددة التحبيب.العرض الموحد يساعدنا على فهم الأساليب الموجودة بشكل أفضل لتعلم تمثيلات عبر اللغات.الأهم من ذلك، مستوحاة من الإطار، نقترح مهمة جديدة قبل التدريب على التعلم المتعاقل.على وجه التحديد، نعتبر زوج جملة ثنائية اللغة كأراضتين لنفس المعنى وتشجيع تمثيلاتها المشفرة أكثر مماثلة من الأمثلة السلبية.من خلال الاستفادة من كل من Corpora Monolingual والمتوازي، فإننا ندرب بشكل مشترك مهام ذريعة التحسين القدرة على التحويل المتبادلة للنماذج المدربة مسبقا.النتائج التجريبية على العديد من المعايير تظهر أن نهجنا يحقق أداء أفضل بكثير.تتوفر الكود والنماذج المدربة مسبقا في https://aka.ms/infoxlm.
In this work, we present an information-theoretic framework that formulates cross-lingual language model pre-training as maximizing mutual information between multilingual-multi-granularity texts. The unified view helps us to better understand the existing methods for learning cross-lingual representations. More importantly, inspired by the framework, we propose a new pre-training task based on contrastive learning. Specifically, we regard a bilingual sentence pair as two views of the same meaning and encourage their encoded representations to be more similar than the negative examples. By leveraging both monolingual and parallel corpora, we jointly train the pretext tasks to improve the cross-lingual transferability of pre-trained models. Experimental results on several benchmarks show that our approach achieves considerably better performance. The code and pre-trained models are available at https://aka.ms/infoxlm.
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