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# AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages
- [GitHub Repository of the Paper](https://github.com/bonaventuredossou/MLM_AL)
This repository contains the dataset for our paper [`AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages`](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03263.pdf) which will appear at the third Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing, at EMNLP 2022.
## Our self-active learning framework
## Languages Covered
AfroLM has been pretrained from scratch on 23 African Languages: Amharic, Afan Oromo, Bambara, Ghomalá, Éwé, Fon, Hausa, Ìgbò, Kinyarwanda, Lingala, Luganda, Luo, Mooré, Chewa, Naija, Shona, Swahili, Setswana, Twi, Wolof, Xhosa, Yorùbá, and Zulu.
## Evaluation Results
AfroLM was evaluated on MasakhaNER1.0 (10 African Languages) and MasakhaNER2.0 (21 African Languages) datasets; on text classification and sentiment analysis. AfroLM outperformed AfriBERTa, mBERT, and XLMR-base, and was very competitive with AfroXLMR. AfroLM is also very data efficient because it was pretrained on a dataset 14x+ smaller than its competitors' datasets. Below the average F1-score performances of various models, across various datasets. Please consult our paper for more language-level performance.
Model | MasakhaNER | MasakhaNER2.0* | Text Classification (Yoruba/Hausa) | Sentiment Analysis (YOSM) | OOD Sentiment Analysis (Twitter -> YOSM) |
|:---: |:---: |:---: | :---: |:---: | :---: |
`AfroLM-Large` | **80.13** | **83.26** | **82.90/91.00** | **85.40** | **68.70** |
`AfriBERTa` | 79.10 | 81.31 | 83.22/90.86 | 82.70 | 65.90 |
`mBERT` | 71.55 | 80.68 | --- | --- | --- |
`XLMR-base` | 79.16 | 83.09 | --- | --- | --- |
`AfroXLMR-base` | `81.90` | `84.55` | --- | --- | --- |
- (*) The evaluation was made on the 11 additional languages of the dataset.
- Bold numbers represent the performance of the model with the **smallest pretrained data**.
## Pretrained Models and Dataset
**Models:**: [AfroLM-Large](https://huggingface.co/bonadossou/afrolm_active_learning) and **Dataset**: [AfroLM Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/bonadossou/afrolm_active_learning_dataset)
## HuggingFace usage of AfroLM-large
```python
from transformers import XLMRobertaModel, XLMRobertaTokenizer
model = XLMRobertaModel.from_pretrained("bonadossou/afrolm_active_learning")
tokenizer = XLMRobertaTokenizer.from_pretrained("bonadossou/afrolm_active_learning")
tokenizer.model_max_length = 256
```
`Autotokenizer` class does not successfully load our tokenizer. So we recommend using directly the `XLMRobertaTokenizer` class. Depending on your task, you will load the according mode of the model. Read the [XLMRoberta Documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/xlm-roberta)
## Reproducing our result: Training and Evaluation
- To train the network, run `python active_learning.py`. You can also wrap it around a `bash` script.
- For the evaluation:
- NER Classification: `bash ner_experiments.sh`
- Text Classification & Sentiment Analysis: `bash text_classification_all.sh`
## Citation
``@inproceedings{dossou-etal-2022-afrolm,
title = "{A}fro{LM}: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 {A}frican Languages",
author = "Dossou, Bonaventure F. P. and
Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo and
Yousuf, Oreen and
Osei, Salomey and
Oppong, Abigail and
Shode, Iyanuoluwa and
Awoyomi, Oluwabusayo Olufunke and
Emezue, Chris",
booktitle = "Proceedings of The Third Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing (SustaiNLP)",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.sustainlp-1.11",
pages = "52--64",}``
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