Cross-Lingual Transfer for Natural Language Inference via Multilingual Prompt Translator
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| author | Qiu, Xiaoyu Wang, Yuechen Shi, Jiaxin Zhou, Wengang Li, Houqiang |
| author_facet | Qiu, Xiaoyu Wang, Yuechen Shi, Jiaxin Zhou, Wengang Li, Houqiang |
| contents | Based on multilingual pre-trained models, cross-lingual transfer with prompt learning has shown promising effectiveness, where soft prompt learned in a source language is transferred to target languages for downstream tasks, particularly in the low-resource scenario. To efficiently transfer soft prompt, we propose a novel framework, Multilingual Prompt Translator (MPT), where a multilingual prompt translator is introduced to properly process crucial knowledge embedded in prompt by changing language knowledge while retaining task knowledge. Concretely, we first train prompt in source language and employ translator to translate it into target prompt. Besides, we extend an external corpus as auxiliary data, on which an alignment task for predicted answer probability is designed to convert language knowledge, thereby equipping target prompt with multilingual knowledge. In few-shot settings on XNLI, MPT demonstrates superiority over baselines by remarkable improvements. MPT is more prominent compared with vanilla prompting when transferring to languages quite distinct from source language. |
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| spellingShingle | Cross-Lingual Transfer for Natural Language Inference via Multilingual Prompt Translator Qiu, Xiaoyu Wang, Yuechen Shi, Jiaxin Zhou, Wengang Li, Houqiang Computation and Language Based on multilingual pre-trained models, cross-lingual transfer with prompt learning has shown promising effectiveness, where soft prompt learned in a source language is transferred to target languages for downstream tasks, particularly in the low-resource scenario. To efficiently transfer soft prompt, we propose a novel framework, Multilingual Prompt Translator (MPT), where a multilingual prompt translator is introduced to properly process crucial knowledge embedded in prompt by changing language knowledge while retaining task knowledge. Concretely, we first train prompt in source language and employ translator to translate it into target prompt. Besides, we extend an external corpus as auxiliary data, on which an alignment task for predicted answer probability is designed to convert language knowledge, thereby equipping target prompt with multilingual knowledge. In few-shot settings on XNLI, MPT demonstrates superiority over baselines by remarkable improvements. MPT is more prominent compared with vanilla prompting when transferring to languages quite distinct from source language. |
| title | Cross-Lingual Transfer for Natural Language Inference via Multilingual Prompt Translator |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12407 |