Breaking Language Barriers with Transfer Learning

Empowering low-resource languages through advanced NLP techniques. Our transfer learning models bring high-quality language processing to underserved communities.

# Initialize base model (mBERT)

base_model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('bert-base-multilingual-cased')


# Add task-specific layers

class PolyglotModel(nn.Module):

def __init__(self, base_model, num_languages):

super().__init__()

self.base = base_model

self.classifier = nn.Linear(768, num_languages)


def forward(self, input_ids, attention_mask):

outputs = self.base(input_ids, attention_mask)

pooled = outputs.last_hidden_state[:, 0, :]

return self.classifier(pooled)


# Train with low-resource data

train_model(low_resource_data, epochs=5, lr=2e-5)

Transfer Learning in Action

Supported Low-Resource Languages

We currently support these languages with limited digital resources, helping bridge the digital divide.

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Nepali

~30M speakers

45% coverage
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Amharic

~25M speakers

38% coverage
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Swahili

~16M speakers

65% coverage
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Burmese

~33M speakers

28% coverage
🇮🇳

Odia

~35M speakers

22% coverage
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Sindhi

~30M speakers

18% coverage

Our Transfer Learning Approach

Leveraging state-of-the-art techniques to bring NLP to languages with limited digital resources.

Multilingual Base Models

We use pretrained multilingual models like mBERT and XLM-R as our foundation, then fine-tune them for specific low-resource languages.

  • Leverages cross-lingual transfer
  • Requires minimal target language data

Adaptive Fine-Tuning

Our progressive unfreezing technique carefully adapts the model layers to preserve valuable multilingual knowledge while specializing for target languages.

  • Preserves multilingual capabilities
  • Optimizes for low-resource scenarios

Task-Specific Heads

We add lightweight task-specific layers on top of the multilingual base, enabling efficient adaptation for various NLP tasks with minimal data.

  • Supports multiple NLP tasks
  • Reduces catastrophic forgetting

Our Transfer Learning Architecture

Input Text (Low-Resource Language)
Multilingual Tokenizer
Shared Vocabulary
Multilingual Base Model (Frozen Initial Layers)
Adaptive Fine-Tuned Layers
Language-Specific Task Head
Trained on Target Data
Task Output (e.g., Translation, Sentiment, etc.)

Try Our Polyglot NLP Demo

Experience how transfer learning enables NLP for low-resource languages.

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About This Demo

This demo simulates how our transfer learning approach works with low-resource languages. While we can't run actual models in the browser, this shows the interface and expected behavior of our system.

Our Mission: Inclusive NLP

Over 3,000 languages are spoken worldwide, yet most NLP research focuses on just a handful of high-resource languages. We're changing that by making NLP accessible to all languages, regardless of available digital resources.

Our transfer learning techniques allow us to achieve state-of-the-art results with as little as 1% of the data typically required for training NLP models from scratch.

Data Efficiency

Achieve 90% of high-resource language performance with just thousands (not millions) of training examples.

Cross-Lingual Transfer

Knowledge from related languages boosts performance on truly low-resource languages.

Performance Comparison

Our transfer learning approach outperforms traditional methods for low-resource languages:

Model F1 Score
From Scratch 42%
Standard Fine-Tuning 67%
Our Transfer Learning 83%

Average performance across 5 low-resource languages on NER task

Data Requirements Comparison

1M+
From Scratch
100K
Standard FT
10K
Our Approach
83% average performance

Get Started With Polyglot NLP

Whether you're a researcher, developer, or language community representative, we'd love to hear from you.

Email Us

contact@polyglotnlp.org

GitHub

github.com/polyglot-nlp

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