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Aditya Barua

2 accepted papers

2022

Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Generation

EMNLP 2022main

In this paper, we explore the challenging problem of performing a generative task in a target language when labeled data is only available in English, using summarization as a case study. We assume a strict setting with no access to parallel data or machine translation and find that common transfer…

2021

mT5: A Massively Multilingual Pre-trained Text-to-Text Transformer

NAACL 2021long

The recent “Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer” (T5) leveraged a unified text-to-text format and scale to attain state-of-the-art results on a wide variety of English-language NLP tasks. In this paper, we introduce mT5, a multilingual variant of T5 that was pre-trained on a new Common Crawl-based dat…