ACL 2022long136 citations

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

Zewen Chi, Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, Shuming Ma, Bo Zheng, Saksham Singhal, Payal Bajaj, Xia Song

Abstract

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.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{chi-etal-2022-xlm,
    title = "{XLM}-{E}: Cross-lingual Language Model Pre-training via {ELECTRA}",
    author = "Chi, Zewen  and
      Huang, Shaohan  and
      Dong, Li  and
      Ma, Shuming  and
      Zheng, Bo  and
      Singhal, Saksham  and
      Bajaj, Payal  and
      Song, Xia  and
      Mao, Xian-Ling  and
      Huang, Heyan  and
      Wei, Furu",
    editor = "Muresan, Smaranda  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Villavicencio, Aline",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = may,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Dublin, Ireland",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.427/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.427",
    pages = "6170--6182"
}
XLM-E: Cross-lingual Language Model Pre-training via ELECTRA · ACL 2022