Investigating Multilingual Instruction-Tuning: Do Polyglot Models Demand for Multilingual Instructions?

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العنوان: Investigating Multilingual Instruction-Tuning: Do Polyglot Models Demand for Multilingual Instructions?
المؤلفون: Weber, Alexander Arno, Thellmann, Klaudia, Ebert, Jan, Flores-Herr, Nicolas, Lehmann, Jens, Fromm, Michael, Ali, Mehdi
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language
الوصف: The adaption of multilingual pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) into eloquent and helpful assistants is essential to facilitate their use across different language regions. In that spirit, we are the first to conduct an extensive study of the performance of multilingual models on parallel, multi-turn instruction-tuning benchmarks across a selection of the most-spoken Indo-European languages. We systematically examine the effects of language and instruction dataset size on a mid-sized, multilingual LLM by instruction-tuning it on parallel instruction-tuning datasets. Our results demonstrate that instruction-tuning on parallel instead of monolingual corpora benefits cross-lingual instruction following capabilities by up to 4.6%. Furthermore, we show that the Superficial Alignment Hypothesis does not hold in general, as the investigated multilingual 7B parameter model presents a counter-example requiring large-scale instruction-tuning datasets. Finally, we conduct a human annotation study to understand the alignment between human-based and GPT-4-based evaluation within multilingual chat scenarios.
Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13703
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2402.13703
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv