Peilun Cheng


2023

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AraMUS: Pushing the Limits of Data and Model Scale for Arabic Natural Language Processing
Asaad Alghamdi | Xinyu Duan | Wei Jiang | Zhenhai Wang | Yimeng Wu | Qingrong Xia | Zhefeng Wang | Yi Zheng | Mehdi Rezagholizadeh | Baoxing Huai | Peilun Cheng | Abbas Ghaddar
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

Developing monolingual large Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) is shown to be very successful in handling different tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this work, we present AraMUS, the largest Arabic PLM with 11B parameters trained on 529GB of high-quality Arabic textual data. AraMUS achieves state-of-the-art performances on a diverse set of Arabic classification and generative tasks. Moreover, AraMUS shows impressive few-shot learning abilities compared with the best existing Arabic PLMs.