تقرير
Generalisation First, Memorisation Second? Memorisation Localisation for Natural Language Classification Tasks
العنوان: | Generalisation First, Memorisation Second? Memorisation Localisation for Natural Language Classification Tasks |
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المؤلفون: | Dankers, Verna, Titov, Ivan |
سنة النشر: | 2024 |
المجموعة: | Computer Science |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Computer Science - Computation and Language |
الوصف: | Memorisation is a natural part of learning from real-world data: neural models pick up on atypical input-output combinations and store those training examples in their parameter space. That this happens is well-known, but how and where are questions that remain largely unanswered. Given a multi-layered neural model, where does memorisation occur in the millions of parameters? Related work reports conflicting findings: a dominant hypothesis based on image classification is that lower layers learn generalisable features and that deeper layers specialise and memorise. Work from NLP suggests this does not apply to language models, but has been mainly focused on memorisation of facts. We expand the scope of the localisation question to 12 natural language classification tasks and apply 4 memorisation localisation techniques. Our results indicate that memorisation is a gradual process rather than a localised one, establish that memorisation is task-dependent, and give nuance to the generalisation first, memorisation second hypothesis. Comment: Published in ACL Findings 2024; 19 pages total (9 in the main paper, 4 pages with limitations, acknowledgments and references, 6 pages with appendices) |
نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04965 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2408.04965 |
قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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