Sample-Efficient Language Model for Hinglish Conversational AI
This addresses the challenge of building efficient chatbots for Hinglish speakers, but it is incremental as it applies existing fine-tuning methods to a specific language domain.
This paper tackled the problem of developing a conversational AI for Hinglish, a code-mixed language with limited data, by fine-tuning pre-trained models like Gemma3-4B and Qwen2.5-7B on synthetic and existing datasets, achieving competitive performance with fewer parameters.
This paper presents our process for developing a sample-efficient language model for a conversational Hinglish chatbot. Hinglish, a code-mixed language that combines Hindi and English, presents a unique computational challenge due to inconsistent spelling, lack of standardization, and limited quality of conversational data. This work evaluates multiple pre-trained cross-lingual language models, including Gemma3-4B and Qwen2.5-7B, and employs fine-tuning techniques to improve performance on Hinglish conversational tasks. The proposed approach integrates synthetically generated dialogues with insights from existing Hinglish datasets to address data scarcity. Experimental results demonstrate that models with fewer parameters, when appropriately fine-tuned on high-quality code-mixed data, can achieve competitive performance for Hinglish conversation generation while maintaining computational efficiency.