Exploring Anisotropy and Outliers in Multilingual Language Models for Cross-Lingual Semantic Sentence Similarity (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have shown that contextual language models display outlier dimensions . this is true for monolingual and multilingual models, but little work has been done on multilingual contexts . |
| Approach: | They investigate outlier dimensions and their relationship to anisotropy in multilingual contexts . they focus on cross-lingual semantic similarity tasks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on cross-lingual semantic similarity tasks. |
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