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Language models (LMs) increasingly drive real-world applications that require world knowledge. However, the internal processes through which models turn data into representations of knowledge and beliefs about the world, are poorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Daniela Gottesman , Alon Gilae-Dotan , Ido Cohen , Yoav Gur-Arieh , Marius Mosbach , Ori Yoran , Mor Geva

Knowledge-Enhanced Pre-trained Language Models (KEPLMs) are pre-trained models with relation triples injecting from knowledge graphs to improve language understanding abilities. To guarantee effective knowledge injection, previous studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Taolin Zhang , Chengyu Wang , Nan Hu , Minghui Qiu , Chengguang Tang , Xiaofeng He , Jun Huang

Language models (LMs) are pre-trained on raw text datasets to generate text sequences token-by-token. While this approach facilitates the learning of world knowledge and reasoning, it does not explicitly optimize for linguistic competence.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Atsuki Yamaguchi , Maggie Mi , Nikolaos Aletras

With the advent of pretrained language models (LMs), increasing research efforts have been focusing on infusing commonsense and domain-specific knowledge to prepare LMs for downstream tasks. These works attempt to leverage knowledge graphs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Shangbin Feng , Zhaoxuan Tan , Wenqian Zhang , Zhenyu Lei , Yulia Tsvetkov

Transformer models pre-trained with a masked-language-modeling objective (e.g., BERT) encode commonsense knowledge as evidenced by behavioral probes; however, the extent to which this knowledge is acquired by systematic inference over the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Ian Porada , Alessandro Sordoni , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) which are trained on large text corpus via self-supervised learning method, have yielded promising performance on various tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, though PLMs with huge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Linmei Hu , Zeyi Liu , Ziwang Zhao , Lei Hou , Liqiang Nie , Juanzi Li

Open-domain question answering (QA) is known to involve several underlying knowledge and reasoning challenges, but are models actually learning such knowledge when trained on benchmark tasks? To investigate this, we introduce several new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Kyle Richardson , Ashish Sabharwal

Pretrained language models (LMs) encode implicit representations of knowledge in their parameters. However, localizing these representations and disentangling them from each other remains an open problem. In this work, we investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Deniz Bayazit , Negar Foroutan , Zeming Chen , Gail Weiss , Antoine Bosselut

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) were considered to be able to store relational knowledge present in the training data. However, some relational knowledge seems to be discarded unsafely in PLMs due to \textbf{report bias}: low-frequency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Hongbo Zhang , Xiang Wan , Benyou Wang

This paper presents a parameter-lite transfer learning approach of pretrained language models (LM) for knowledge graph (KG) completion. Instead of finetuning, which modifies all LM parameters, we only tune a few new parameters while keeping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jianhao Shen , Chenguang Wang , Ye Yuan , Jiawei Han , Heng Ji , Koushik Sen , Ming Zhang , Dawn Song

The success of large pretrained language models (LMs) such as BERT and RoBERTa has sparked interest in probing their representations, in order to unveil what types of knowledge they implicitly capture. While prior research focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ivan Vulić , Edoardo Maria Ponti , Robert Litschko , Goran Glavaš , Anna Korhonen

Recent days have witnessed a diverse set of knowledge injection models for pre-trained language models (PTMs); however, most previous studies neglect the PTMs' own ability with quantities of implicit knowledge stored in parameters. A recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Yunzhi Yao , Shaohan Huang , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been revolutionized by the use of Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) such as BERT. Despite setting new records in nearly every NLP task, PLMs still face a number of challenges including poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Chaoqi Zhen , Yanlei Shang , Xiangyu Liu , Yifei Li , Yong Chen , Dell Zhang

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have produced substantial improvements in discourse-aware neural machine translation (NMT), for example, improved coherence in spoken language translation. However, the underlying reasons for their strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Zhihong Huang , Longyue Wang , Siyou Liu , Derek F. Wong

Despite serving as the foundation models for a wide range of NLP benchmarks, pre-trained language models have shown limited capabilities of acquiring implicit commonsense knowledge from self-supervision alone, compared to learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Wangchunshu Zhou , Ronan Le Bras , Yejin Choi

Pre-trained language models (PLM) have advanced the state-of-the-art across NLP applications, but lack domain-specific knowledge that does not naturally occur in pre-training data. Previous studies augmented PLMs with symbolic knowledge for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Denis Emelin , Daniele Bonadiman , Sawsan Alqahtani , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour

We study knowledge-grounded dialogue generation with pre-trained language models. Instead of pursuing new state-of-the-art on benchmarks, we try to understand if the knowledge stored in parameters of the pre-trained models is already enough…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yufan Zhao , Wei Wu , Can Xu

While pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown evidence of acquiring vast amounts of knowledge, it remains unclear how much of this parametric knowledge is actually usable in performing downstream tasks. We propose a systematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Amirhossein Kazemnejad , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Prasanna Parthasarathi , Sarath Chandar

Pre-trained language models (PTLM) have achieved impressive results in a range of natural language understanding (NLU) and generation (NLG) tasks. However, current pre-training objectives such as masked token prediction (for BERT-style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Wangchunshu Zhou , Dong-Ho Lee , Ravi Kiran Selvam , Seyeon Lee , Bill Yuchen Lin , Xiang Ren

Knowledge Tracing (KT) is a critical task in online learning for modeling student knowledge over time. Despite the success of deep learning-based KT models, which rely on sequences of numbers as data, most existing approaches fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Unggi Lee , Jiyeong Bae , Dohee Kim , Sookbun Lee , Jaekwon Park , Taekyung Ahn , Gunho Lee , Damji Stratton , Hyeoncheol Kim