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Dynamic Multi-Byte Prediction With Hierarchical Language Models
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant +2
Byte-level hierarchical language models (LMs) have recently emerged as a robust alternative to their popular counterparts that use subword tokenization. However, generating one byt…
Continually Adding New Languages to Multilingual Language Models
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Sachin Kumar
Multilingual language models are trained on a fixed set of languages, and to support new languages, the models need to be retrained from scratch. This is an expensive endeavor and…
FLEXITOKENS: Flexible Tokenization for Evolving Language Models
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Orevaoghene Ahia, Sachin Kumar
Adapting language models to new data distributions by simple finetuning is challenging. This is due to the rigidity of their subword tokenizers, which typically remain unchanged du…
AccentFold: A Journey through African Accents for Zero-Shot ASR Adaptation to Target Accents
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Aditya Yadavalli, Chris Chinenye Emezue +2
Despite advancements in speech recognition, accented speech remains challenging. While previous approaches have focused on modeling techniques or creating accented speech datasets,…
A Decade of Scholarly Research on Open Knowledge Graphs
Houcemeddine Turki, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb +2
The proliferation of open knowledge graphs has led to a surge in scholarly research on the topic over the past decade. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the scholarly…
AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen R. Gwadabe, Clara E. Rivera +49
African languages have far less in-language content available digitally, making it challenging for question answering systems to satisfy the information needs of users. Cross-lingu…