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Foundational Language Models (FLMs) have advanced natural language processing (NLP) research. Current researchers are developing larger FLMs (e.g., XLNet, T5) to enable contextualized language representation, classification, and generation.…

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Large pre-trained language models have recently gained significant traction due to their improved performance on various down-stream tasks like text classification and question answering, requiring only few epochs of fine-tuning. However,…

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Large pretrained masked language models have become state-of-the-art solutions for many NLP problems. While studies have shown that monolingual models produce better results than multilingual models, the training datasets must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Matej Ulčar , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a transformative leap with the advent of transformer-based architectures, which have significantly enhanced the ability of machines to understand and generate human-like text. This paper…

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Pre-trained language models (PLM), for example BERT or RoBERTa, mark the state-of-the-art for natural language understanding task when fine-tuned on labeled data. However, their large size poses challenges in deploying them for inference in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Aaron Klein , Jacek Golebiowski , Xingchen Ma , Valerio Perrone , Cedric Archambeau

Transformers-based models, such as BERT, have dramatically improved the performance for various natural language processing tasks. The clinical knowledge enriched model, namely ClinicalBERT, also achieved state-of-the-art results when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Yikuan Li , Ramsey M. Wehbe , Faraz S. Ahmad , Hanyin Wang , Yuan Luo

Adding linguistic information (syntax or semantics) to neural machine translation (NMT) has mostly focused on using point estimates from pre-trained models. Directly using the capacity of massive pre-trained contextual word embedding models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

The introduction of the Transformer neural network, along with techniques like self-supervised pre-training and transfer learning, has paved the way for advanced models like BERT. Despite BERT's impressive performance, opportunities for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Farnaz Zeidi , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali , Çiğdem Erol

The large pre-trained BERT has achieved remarkable performance on Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks but is also computation and memory expensive. As one of the powerful compression approaches, binarization extremely reduces the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Haotong Qin , Yifu Ding , Mingyuan Zhang , Qinghua Yan , Aishan Liu , Qingqing Dang , Ziwei Liu , Xianglong Liu

Few-shot learning-the ability to train models with access to limited data-has become increasingly popular in the natural language processing (NLP) domain, as large language models such as GPT and T0 have been empirically shown to achieve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Robert Kraig Helmeczi , Mucahit Cevik , Savas Yıldırım

Although BERT is widely used by the NLP community, little is known about its inner workings. Several attempts have been made to shed light on certain aspects of BERT, often with contradicting conclusions. A much raised concern focuses on…

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The rise of big data analytics on top of NLP increases the computational burden for text processing at scale. The problems faced in NLP are very high dimensional text, so it takes a high computation resource. The MapReduce allows…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Kuncahyo Setyo Nugroho , Anantha Yullian Sukmadewa , Novanto Yudistira

GPT-2 and BERT demonstrate the effectiveness of using pre-trained language models (LMs) on various natural language processing tasks. However, LM fine-tuning often suffers from catastrophic forgetting when applied to resource-rich tasks. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jiacheng Yang , Mingxuan Wang , Hao Zhou , Chengqi Zhao , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang , Lei Li

Training large deep neural networks needs massive high quality annotation data, but the time and labor costs are too expensive for small business. We start a company-name recognition task with a small scale and low quality training data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Han Zhang

The transformer-based pre-trained language model BERT has helped to improve state-of-the-art performance on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Using the same architecture and parameters, we developed and evaluated a monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Wietse de Vries , Andreas van Cranenburgh , Arianna Bisazza , Tommaso Caselli , Gertjan van Noord , Malvina Nissim

Heavily overparameterized language models such as BERT, XLNet and T5 have achieved impressive success in many NLP tasks. However, their high model complexity requires enormous computation resources and extremely long training time for both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Xiaohan Chen , Yu Cheng , Shuohang Wang , Zhe Gan , Zhangyang Wang , Jingjing Liu

Language model pre-training has proven to be useful in learning universal language representations. As a state-of-the-art language model pre-training model, BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) has achieved amazing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Chi Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Yige Xu , Xuanjing Huang

Recent advances in neural architectures, such as the Transformer, coupled with the emergence of large-scale pre-trained models such as BERT, have revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), pushing the state of the art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Anton Chernyavskiy , Dmitry Ilvovsky , Preslav Nakov

Pre-trained text encoders have rapidly advanced the state of the art on many NLP tasks. We focus on one such model, BERT, and aim to quantify where linguistic information is captured within the network. We find that the model represents the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Ian Tenney , Dipanjan Das , Ellie Pavlick

The pre-trained language models like BERT, though powerful in many natural language processing tasks, are both computation and memory expensive. To alleviate this problem, one approach is to compress them for specific tasks before…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Lu Hou , Zhiqi Huang , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Xiao Chen , Qun Liu