unibert
UniBERTs: Adversarial Training for Language-Universal Representations
Avram, Andrei-Marius, Lupaşcu, Marian, Cercel, Dumitru-Clementin, Mironică, Ionuţ, Trăuşan-Matu, Ştefan
This paper presents UniBERT, a compact multilingual language model that leverages an innovative training framework integrating three components: masked language modeling, adversarial training, and knowledge distillation. Pre-trained on a meticulously curated Wikipedia corpus spanning 107 languages, UniBERT is designed to reduce the computational demands of large-scale models while maintaining competitive performance across various natural language processing tasks. Comprehensive evaluations on four tasks -- named entity recognition, natural language inference, question answering, and semantic textual similarity -- demonstrate that our multilingual training strategy enhanced by an adversarial objective significantly improves cross-lingual generalization. Specifically, UniBERT models show an average relative improvement of 7.72% over traditional baselines, which achieved an average relative improvement of only 1.17%, with statistical analysis confirming the significance of these gains (p-value = 0.0181). This work highlights the benefits of combining adversarial training and knowledge distillation to build scalable and robust language models, thereby advancing the field of multilingual and cross-lingual natural language processing.
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