I want to do NER task on news articles that are in dozens of languages. Is the best option to go for  xlm-roberta-large-finetuned-conll03-english  28? I read that XLM models fine-tuned for a language work well in other languages as well. My main issue is that this model is too big. Should I go for language specific smaller models if I already know what language I’m dealing with?
Also I’m curious, why does the  xlm-roberta-large-finetuned-conll03-german  3 have so much more downloads than the English one?