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Revisiting Pre-trained Language Models and their Evaluation for Arabic Natural Language Understanding
Abbas Ghaddar, Yimeng Wu, Sunyam Bagga +11
There is a growing body of work in recent years to develop pre-trained language models (PLMs) for the Arabic language. This work concerns addressing two major problems in existing…
CILDA: Contrastive Data Augmentation using Intermediate Layer Knowledge Distillation
Md Akmal Haidar, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Abbas Ghaddar +3
Knowledge distillation (KD) is an efficient framework for compressing large-scale pre-trained language models. Recent years have seen a surge of research aiming to improve KD by le…
JABER and SABER: Junior and Senior Arabic BERt
Abbas Ghaddar, Yimeng Wu, Ahmad Rashid +10
Language-specific pre-trained models have proven to be more accurate than multilingual ones in a monolingual evaluation setting, Arabic is no exception. However, we found that prev…
Knowledge Distillation with Noisy Labels for Natural Language Understanding
Shivendra Bhardwaj, Abbas Ghaddar, Ahmad Rashid +5
Knowledge Distillation (KD) is extensively used to compress and deploy large pre-trained language models on edge devices for real-world applications. However, one neglected area of…