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AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Oreen Yousuf +5
In recent years, multilingual pre-trained language models have gained prominence due to their remarkable performance on numerous downstream Natural Language Processing tasks (NLP).…
MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder +42
African languages are spoken by over a billion people, but are underrepresented in NLP research and development. The challenges impeding progress include the limited availability o…
GFlowOut: Dropout with Generative Flow Networks
Dianbo Liu, Moksh Jain, Bonaventure Dossou +10
Bayesian Inference offers principled tools to tackle many critical problems with modern neural networks such as poor calibration and generalization, and data inefficiency. However,…
Graph-Based Active Machine Learning Method for Diverse and Novel Antimicrobial Peptides Generation and Selection
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Dianbo Liu, Xu Ji +5
As antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains are rapidly spreading worldwide, infections caused by these strains are emerging as a global crisis causing the death of millions of peopl…
A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Angela Fan +42
Recent advances in the pre-training of language models leverage large-scale datasets to create multilingual models. However, low-resource languages are mostly left out in these dat…
MMTAfrica: Multilingual Machine Translation for African Languages
Chris C. Emezue, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou
In this paper, we focus on the task of multilingual machine translation for African languages and describe our contribution in the 2021 WMT Shared Task: Large-Scale Multilingual Ma…
Biological Sequence Design with GFlowNets
Moksh Jain, Emmanuel Bengio, Alex-Hernandez Garcia +10
Design of de novo biological sequences with desired properties, like protein and DNA sequences, often involves an active loop with several rounds of molecule ideation and expensive…