Jakhongir Saydaliev
2026
ConLID: Supervised Contrastive Learning for Low-Resource Language Identification
Negar Foroutan | Jakhongir Saydaliev | Grace Kim | Antoine Bosselut
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Negar Foroutan | Jakhongir Saydaliev | Grace Kim | Antoine Bosselut
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Language identification (LID) is a critical step in curating multilingual LLM pretraining corpora from web crawls. While many studies on LID model training focus on collecting diverse training data to improve performance, low-resource languages – often limited to single-domain data, such as the Bible – continue to perform poorly. To resolve these class imbalance and bias issues, we propose a novel supervised contrastive learning (SCL) approach to learn domain-invariant representations for low-resource languages. We show that our approach improves LID performance on out-of-domain data for low-resource languages by 3.2 percentage points, while maintaining its performance for the high-resource languages.