Order Matters in the Presence of Dataset Imbalance for Multilingual Learning
Dami Choi ⋅ Derrick Xin ⋅ Hamid Dadkhahi ⋅ Justin Gilmer ⋅ Ankush Garg ⋅ Orhan Firat ⋅ Chih-Kuan Yeh ⋅ Andrew Dai ⋅ Behrooz Ghorbani
2023 Poster
Abstract
In this paper, we empirically study the optimization dynamics of multi-task learning, particularly focusing on those that govern a collection of tasks with significant data imbalance. We present a simple yet effective method of pre-training on high-resource tasks, followed by fine-tuning on a mixture of high/low-resource tasks. We provide a thorough empirical study and analysis of this method's benefits showing that it achieves consistent improvements relative to the performance trade-off profile of standard static weighting. We analyze under what data regimes this method is applicable and show its improvements empirically in neural machine translation (NMT) and multi-lingual language modeling.
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