# XLM-Align

**XLM-Align** (ACL 2021, [paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.265/), [repo](https://github.com/CZWin32768/XLM-Align), [model](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/xlm-align-base)) Improving Pretrained Cross-Lingual Language Models via Self-Labeled Word Alignment

XLM-Align is a pretrained cross-lingual language model that supports 94 languages. See details in our [paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.265/).

## Example

```
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("microsoft/xlm-align-base")
```

## Evaluation Results

XTREME cross-lingual understanding tasks:

| Model | POS | NER  | XQuAD | MLQA | TyDiQA | XNLI | PAWS-X | Avg |
|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:-----:|:----:|:-----:|:----:|:----:|
| XLM-R_base | 75.6 | 61.8 | 71.9 / 56.4 | 65.1 / 47.2 | 55.4 / 38.3 | 75.0 | 84.9 | 66.4 |
| XLM-Align | **76.0** | **63.7** | **74.7 / 59.0** | **68.1 / 49.8**  |  **62.1 / 44.8** | **76.2**  | **86.8**  | **68.9** |

## MD5

```
b9d214025837250ede2f69c9385f812c  config.json
6005db708eb4bab5b85fa3976b9db85b  pytorch_model.bin
bf25eb5120ad92ef5c7d8596b5dc4046  sentencepiece.bpe.model
eedbd60a7268b9fc45981b849664f747  tokenizer.json
```

## About

Contact: chizewen\@outlook.com

BibTeX:

```
@inproceedings{xlmalign,
  title = "Improving Pretrained Cross-Lingual Language Models via Self-Labeled Word Alignment",
  author={Zewen Chi and Li Dong and Bo Zheng and Shaohan Huang and Xian-Ling Mao and Heyan Huang and Furu Wei},
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
  month = aug,
  year = "2021",
  address = "Online",
  publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
  url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.265",
  doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.265",
  pages = "3418--3430",}
```