Language Specific
Language-specific research in artificial intelligence focuses on improving the performance and efficiency of models across diverse languages, addressing challenges posed by linguistic differences and limited resources for some languages. Current research emphasizes developing models that leverage both shared and language-specific knowledge, often employing Mixture-of-Experts architectures, sparse training techniques, and language-adaptive inference methods to achieve this balance. This work is significant because it enables more inclusive and effective AI applications, particularly in areas like machine translation, speech recognition, and natural language understanding, where language diversity is crucial.
Papers
Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning
Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Jeff Donahue, Pauline Luc, Antoine Miech, Iain Barr, Yana Hasson, Karel Lenc, Arthur Mensch, Katie Millican, Malcolm Reynolds, Roman Ring, Eliza Rutherford, Serkan Cabi, Tengda Han, Zhitao Gong, Sina Samangooei, Marianne Monteiro, Jacob Menick, Sebastian Borgeaud, Andrew Brock, Aida Nematzadeh, Sahand Sharifzadeh, Mikolaj Binkowski, Ricardo Barreira, Oriol Vinyals, Andrew Zisserman, Karen Simonyan
Por Qu\'e N\~ao Utiliser Alla Spr{\aa}k? Mixed Training with Gradient Optimization in Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer
Haoran Xu, Kenton Murray