LUSIFER: Language Universal Space Integration for Enhanced Multilingual Embeddings with Large Language Models
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| author | Man, Hieu Ngo, Nghia Trung Lai, Viet Dac Rossi, Ryan A. Dernoncourt, Franck Nguyen, Thien Huu |
| author_facet | Man, Hieu Ngo, Nghia Trung Lai, Viet Dac Rossi, Ryan A. Dernoncourt, Franck Nguyen, Thien Huu |
| contents | Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) based embedding models have established new state-of-the-art benchmarks for text embedding tasks, particularly in dense vector-based retrieval. However, these models predominantly focus on English, leaving multilingual embedding capabilities largely unexplored. To address this limitation, we present LUSIFER, a novel zero-shot approach that adapts LLM-based embedding models for multilingual tasks without requiring multilingual supervision. LUSIFER's architecture combines a multilingual encoder, serving as a language-universal learner, with an LLM-based embedding model optimized for embedding-specific tasks. These components are seamlessly integrated through a minimal set of trainable parameters that act as a connector, effectively transferring the multilingual encoder's language understanding capabilities to the specialized embedding model. Additionally, to comprehensively evaluate multilingual embedding performance, we introduce a new benchmark encompassing 5 primary embedding tasks, 123 diverse datasets, and coverage across 14 languages. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that LUSIFER significantly enhances the multilingual performance across various embedding tasks, particularly for medium and low-resource languages, without requiring explicit multilingual training data. |
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| spellingShingle | LUSIFER: Language Universal Space Integration for Enhanced Multilingual Embeddings with Large Language Models Man, Hieu Ngo, Nghia Trung Lai, Viet Dac Rossi, Ryan A. Dernoncourt, Franck Nguyen, Thien Huu Computation and Language Information Retrieval Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) based embedding models have established new state-of-the-art benchmarks for text embedding tasks, particularly in dense vector-based retrieval. However, these models predominantly focus on English, leaving multilingual embedding capabilities largely unexplored. To address this limitation, we present LUSIFER, a novel zero-shot approach that adapts LLM-based embedding models for multilingual tasks without requiring multilingual supervision. LUSIFER's architecture combines a multilingual encoder, serving as a language-universal learner, with an LLM-based embedding model optimized for embedding-specific tasks. These components are seamlessly integrated through a minimal set of trainable parameters that act as a connector, effectively transferring the multilingual encoder's language understanding capabilities to the specialized embedding model. Additionally, to comprehensively evaluate multilingual embedding performance, we introduce a new benchmark encompassing 5 primary embedding tasks, 123 diverse datasets, and coverage across 14 languages. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that LUSIFER significantly enhances the multilingual performance across various embedding tasks, particularly for medium and low-resource languages, without requiring explicit multilingual training data. |
| title | LUSIFER: Language Universal Space Integration for Enhanced Multilingual Embeddings with Large Language Models |
| topic | Computation and Language Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00874 |