Exploring Multilingual Text Data Distillation
Shivam Sahni Harsh Patel
With the rise of deep learning, large datasets and complex models have become
common, requiring significant computing power. To address this, data
distillation has emerged as a technique to quickly train models with lower
memory and time requirements. However, data distillation on text-based datasets
hasn't been explored much because of the challenges rising due to its discrete
nature. Additionally, existing dataset distillation methods often struggle to
generalize to new architectures. In the paper, we propose several data
distillation techniques for multilingual text classification datasets using
language-model-based learning methods. We conduct experiments to analyze their
performance in terms of classification strength, and cross-architecture
generalization. Furthermore, we investigate the language-specific fairness of
the data summaries generated by these methods. Our approach builds upon
existing techniques, enhancing cross-architecture generalization in the text
data distillation domain.