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arxiv:2402.03053

Multi-Lingual Malaysian Embedding: Leveraging Large Language Models for Semantic Representations

Published on Feb 5

Abstract

In this work, we present a comprehensive exploration of finetuning Malaysian language models, specifically Llama2 and Mistral, on embedding tasks involving negative and positive pairs. We release two distinct models tailored for Semantic Similarity and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). For Semantic Similarity, our 600 million parameter Llama2 model outperforms OpenAI text-embedding-ada-002 across all recall@k metrics for b.cari.com.my, c.cari.com.my, Malay news, and Malaysian Twitter test sets. In the realm of RAG models, our approach proves competitive with OpenAI text-embedding-ada-002 in the Malaysian context. Notably, our 2 billion parameter Llama2 model achieves superior Recall@5, Recall@10 for the "Melayu" keyword research papers dataset and excels in Recall@3, Recall@5, and Recall@10 for the lom.agc.gov.my dataset. These findings underscore the effectiveness of our finetuning strategy and highlight the performance gains in both Semantic Similarity and RAG tasks. All models released at https://huggingface.co./collections/mesolitica/malaysian-embedding-6523612bfe5881ad35f81b99

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