arXiv AI

BERTomelo: Your Portuguese Encoder Best Friend

arXiv:2606. 28999v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Encoders have become the state of the art for multiple NLP tasks, especially those requiring deep contextual understanding.

arXiv AI

Jul 7

Beyond Multilingual Averages: MTEB-PT, a Benchmark for Portuguese Sentence Encoders

arXiv:2607. 04071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Portuguese remains underrepresented in text embedding evaluation, despite being one of the most widely spoken languages in the world.

By Lucas Hideki Takeuchi Okamura, Alexandre Alcoforado, Anna Helena Reali Costa

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

EuroBERT: Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages

arXiv:2503. 05500v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose multilingual vector representations, used in retrieval, regression and classification, are traditionally obtained from bidirectional encoder models.

By Nicolas Boizard, Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef, Duarte M. Alves, Andr\'e Martins, Ayoub Hammal, Caio Corro, C\'eline Hudelot, Emmanuel Malherbe, Etienne Malaboeuf, Fanny Jourdan, Gabriel Hautreux, Jo\~ao Alves, Kevin El Haddad, Manuel Faysse, Maxime Peyrard, Nuno M. Guerreiro, Patrick Fernandes, Ricardo Rei, Pierre Colombo

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

MTEB-PT: A Text Embedding Benchmark for Brazilian Portuguese

arXiv:2607. 04581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text embeddings for Portuguese have no dedicated benchmark: evaluation rests on translated corpora such as English MS MARCO or on thin multilingual coverage, with native tasks scattered and unconsolidated.

By Tardelli Ronan Coelho Stekel

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 9

MTEB-BR: A Text Embedding Benchmark for Brazilian Portuguese

arXiv:2607. 04581v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text embeddings for Portuguese have no dedicated benchmark: evaluation rests on translated corpora such as English MS MARCO or on thin multilingual coverage, with native tasks scattered and unconsolidated.

By Tardelli Ronan Coelho Stekel

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arXiv AI

Jun 12

SkMTEB: Slovak Massive Text Embedding Benchmark and Model Adaptation

arXiv:2606. 13647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce SkMTEB, the first comprehensive MTEB-style text embedding benchmark for Slovak, a low-resource West Slavic language, comprising 31 datasets across 7 task types -- nearly 4$\times$ the depth of existing multilingual benchmark coverage for Slovak.

By Marek \v{S}uppa, Andrej Ridzik, Daniel Hl\'adek, Nat\'alia K\v{n}a\v{z}ekov\'a, Vikt\'oria Ondrejov\'a

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arXiv AI

Jul 1

Cross-lingual Relation Extraction with Large Language Models: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Fine-Tuned Evaluation on Romanian

arXiv:2606. 31718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relation extraction (RE) for low-resource languages is typically constrained by the lack of annotated corpora.

By Dragos-Mitrut Vasile, Elena-Simona Apostol, Stefan-Adrian Toma, Adrian Paschke, Ciprian-Octavian Truica

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arXiv AI

Jun 9

Multilingual Training and Evaluation Resources for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2604. 18347v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) achieved rapid progress in the recent years.

By Daniela Baiamonte, Elena Fano, Matteo Gabburo, Stefano Simonazzi, Leonardo Rigutini, Andrea Zugarini

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

TokSuite: Measuring the Impact of Tokenizer Choice on Language Model Behavior

arXiv:2512. 20757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tokenizers provide the fundamental basis through which text is represented and processed by language models (LMs).

By G\"ul Sena Alt{\i}nta\c{s}, Malikeh Ehghaghi, Brian Lester, Fengyuan Liu, Wanru Zhao, Marco Ciccone, Colin Raffel

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Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jul 23

DONDO: Open w2v-BERT Speech-Recognition Base Models for African Languages

We present DONDO, a family of open, permissively licensed automatic speech recognition (ASR) base models for African languages, built on the w2v-BERT 2. 0 self-supervised speech encoder.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 11

Embedding Initialization for Unseen Low-resource Languages in Multilingual NMT: A Case Study on Limbum-English Translation

arXiv:2608. 07629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual neural machine translation models such as NLLB-200 cover 200 languages but leave thousands unsupported, including most Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon.

By Samiratu Ntohsi, Neza David Tuyishimire, Anesu Kafesu, Marvin Ogore, Samuel Oluwajunwonlo Babalola, Oche Ankeli

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

GottBERT: a pure German Language Model

arXiv:2012. 02110v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pre-trained language models have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), especially with the introduction of BERT and its optimized version, RoBERTa.

By Raphael Scheible, Johann Frei, Fabian Thomczyk, Henry He, Patric Tippmann, Jochen Knaus, Victor Jaravine, Frank Kramer, Martin Boeker

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arXiv AI

Jul 31

ARC-Encoder: learning compressed text representations for large language models

arXiv:2510. 20535v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation or chain-of-thought reasoning have led to longer contexts and increased inference costs.

By Hippolyte Pilchen, Edouard Grave, Patrick P\'erez

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