There is No Theoretical Curse of Multilinguality For Embedding Space Structure
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arxiv.org
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Niyati Bafna, Neha Verma, Vil\'em Zouhar, Philipp Koehn, David Yarowsky
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Why it matters
If capacity is not the binding constraint, then the fix for multilingual degradation is data and training rather than a larger embeddingA list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, so that similar meanings end up numerically close and can be searched.Full definition → space, which changes where the effort goes.
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embedding — A list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, so that similar meanings end up numerically close and can be searched.