Languages You Know Influence Those You Learn: Impact of Language Characteristics on Multi-Lingual Text-to-Text Transfer

no code implementations • 4 Dec 2022 • Benjamin Muller, Deepanshu Gupta, Siddharth Patwardhan, Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, David Vandyke, Sachin Agarwal

For a given language, we are able to predict zero-shot performance, that increases on a logarithmic scale with the number of few-shot target language data points.

Cross-Lingual Transfer XLM-R

Can Open Domain Question Answering Systems Answer Visual Knowledge Questions?

no code implementations • 9 Feb 2022 • Jiawen Zhang, Abhijit Mishra, Avinesh P. V. S, Siddharth Patwardhan, Sachin Agarwal

In this work, we propose a potentially data-efficient approach that reuses existing systems for (a) image analysis, (b) question rewriting, and (c) text-based question answering to answer such visual questions.

Open-Domain Question Answering Question Rewriting +1

Model Stability with Continuous Data Updates

no code implementations • 14 Jan 2022 • Huiting Liu, Avinesh P. V. S., Siddharth Patwardhan, Peter Grasch, Sachin Agarwal

For this study, we propose a methodology for the assessment of model stability (which we refer to as jitter under various experimental conditions.

Decoder text-classification +1