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While recent research on natural language inference has considerably benefited from large annotated datasets, the amount of inference-related knowledge (including commonsense) provided in the annotated data is still rather limited. There…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Xiaoyu Yang , Xiaodan Zhu , Zhan Shi , Tianda Li

Deep pretrained language models have achieved great success in the way of pretraining first and then fine-tuning. But such a sequential transfer learning paradigm often confronts the catastrophic forgetting problem and leads to sub-optimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Sanyuan Chen , Yutai Hou , Yiming Cui , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Xiangzhan Yu

Large-scale pretraining instills large amounts of knowledge in deep neural networks. This, in turn, improves the generalization behavior of these models in downstream tasks. What exactly are the limits to the generalization benefits of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-23 A. Emin Orhan

Knowledge Graphs are a great resource to capture semantic knowledge in terms of entities and relationships between the entities. However, current deep learning models takes as input distributed representations or vectors. Thus, the graph is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tarun Garg , Kaushik Roy , Amit Sheth

Conversational semantic parsing over tables requires knowledge acquiring and reasoning abilities, which have not been well explored by current state-of-the-art approaches. Motivated by this fact, we propose a knowledge-aware semantic parser…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yibo Sun , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Jingjing Xu , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

The increasing scale of Transformer models has led to an increase in their pre-training computational requirements. While quantization has proven to be effective after pre-training and during fine-tuning, applying quantization in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Kamran Chitsaz , Quentin Fournier , Gonçalo Mordido , Sarath Chandar

Training deep networks requires various design decisions regarding for instance their architecture, data augmentation, or optimization. In this work, we find these training variations to result in networks learning unique feature sets from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Karsten Roth , Lukas Thede , Almut Sophia Koepke , Oriol Vinyals , Olivier Hénaff , Zeynep Akata

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) cannot well recall rich factual knowledge of entities exhibited in large-scale corpora, especially those rare entities. In this paper, we propose to build a simple but effective Pluggable Entity Lookup…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Deming Ye , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Maosong Sun , Zhiyuan Liu

The impressive performance gains of modern language models currently rely on scaling parameters: larger models store more world knowledge and reason better. Yet compressing all world knowledge into parameters is unnecessary, as only a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hadi Pouransari , David Grangier , C Thomas , Michael Kirchhof , Oncel Tuzel

As many fine-tuned pre-trained language models~(PLMs) with promising performance are generously released, investigating better ways to reuse these models is vital as it can greatly reduce the retraining computational cost and the potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Lei Li , Yankai Lin , Xuancheng Ren , Guangxiang Zhao , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

In recent years, Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have shown their superiority by pre-training on unstructured text corpus and then fine-tuning on downstream tasks. On entity-rich textual resources like Wikipedia, Knowledge-Enhanced PLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yichuan Li , Jialong Han , Kyumin Lee , Chengyuan Ma , Benjamin Yao , Derek Liu

There is growing evidence that pretrained language models improve task-specific fine-tuning not just for the languages seen in pretraining, but also for new languages and even non-linguistic data. What is the nature of this surprising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhengxuan Wu , Nelson F. Liu , Christopher Potts

Pre-trained language models are still far from human performance in tasks that need understanding of properties (e.g. appearance, measurable quantity) and affordances of everyday objects in the real world since the text lacks such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Woojeong Jin , Dong-Ho Lee , Chenguang Zhu , Jay Pujara , Xiang Ren

As the knowledge of large language models (LLMs) becomes outdated over time, there is a growing need for efficient methods to update them, especially when injecting proprietary information. Our study reveals that comprehension-intensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Essa Jan , Moiz Ali , Muhammad Saram Hassan , Fareed Zaffar , Yasir Zaki

While transformers demonstrate impressive performance on many knowledge intensive (KI) tasks, their ability to serve as implicit knowledge bases (KBs) remains limited, as shown on several slot-filling, question-answering (QA), fact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Nic Jedema , Thuy Vu , Manish Gupta , Alessandro Moschitti

Existing pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated the effectiveness of self-supervised learning for a broad range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, most of them are not explicitly aware of domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Song Xu , Haoran Li , Peng Yuan , Yujia Wang , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Ying Liu , Bowen Zhou

There have been many recent investigations into prompt-based training of transformer language models for new text genres in low-resource settings. The prompt-based training approach has been found to be effective in generalizing pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jennifer D'Souza , Moussab Hrou , Sören Auer

Pre-trained Language Model (PLM) has become a representative foundation model in the natural language processing field. Most PLMs are trained with linguistic-agnostic pre-training tasks on the surface form of the text, such as the masked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yiming Cui , Wanxiang Che , Shijin Wang , Ting Liu

Large language models (LLMs) acquire knowledge across diverse domains such as science, history, and geography encountered during generative pre-training. However, due to their stochasticity, it is difficult to predict what LLMs have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kartik Sharma , Yiqiao Jin , Rakshit Trivedi , Srijan Kumar

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on web-scale text corpora have been shown to capture world knowledge in their parameters. However, the mechanism by which language models store different types of knowledge is poorly understood. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jared Fernandez , Yonatan Bisk , Emma Strubell