From English-Centric to Effective Bilingual: LLMs with Custom Tokenizers for Underrepresented Languages
Abstrak
In this paper, we propose a model-agnostic cost-effective approach to developing bilingual base large language models (LLMs) to support English and any target language. The method includes vocabulary expansion, initialization of new embeddings, model training and evaluation. We performed our experiments with three languages, each using a non-Latin script - Ukrainian, Arabic, and Georgian. Our approach demonstrates improved language performance while reducing computational costs. It mitigates the disproportionate penalization of underrepresented languages, promoting fairness and minimizing adverse phenomena such as code-switching and broken grammar. Additionally, we introduce new metrics to evaluate language quality, revealing that vocabulary size significantly impacts the quality of generated text.
Penulis (13)
Artur Kiulian
Anton Polishko
Mykola Khandoga
Yevhen Kostiuk
Guillermo Gabrielli
Łukasz Gagała
Fadi Zaraket
Qusai Abu Obaida
Hrishikesh Garud
Wendy Wing Yee Mak
Dmytro Chaplynskyi
Selma Belhadj Amor
Grigol Peradze
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2024
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- arXiv
- Akses
- Open Access ✓