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Does My Representation Capture X? Probe-Ably

Machine Learning 2021-10-01 v2 Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language

Abstract

Probing (or diagnostic classification) has become a popular strategy for investigating whether a given set of intermediate features is present in the representations of neural models. Probing studies may have misleading results, but various recent works have suggested more reliable methodologies that compensate for the possible pitfalls of probing. However, these best practices are numerous and fast-evolving. To simplify the process of running a set of probing experiments in line with suggested methodologies, we introduce Probe-Ably: an extendable probing framework which supports and automates the application of probing methods to the user's inputs.

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@article{arxiv.2104.05807,
  title  = {Does My Representation Capture X? Probe-Ably},
  author = {Deborah Ferreira and Julia Rozanova and Mokanarangan Thayaparan and Marco Valentino and André Freitas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05807},
  year   = {2021}
}

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ACL 2021 (System Demonstrations)

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