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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…

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An exhaustive study on neural network language modeling (NNLM) is performed in this paper. Different architectures of basic neural network language models are described and examined. A number of different improvements over basic neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Dengliang Shi

The dominating NLP paradigm of training a strong neural predictor to perform one task on a specific dataset has led to state-of-the-art performance in a variety of applications (eg. sentiment classification, span-prediction based question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Paul Michel

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

Fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) on a diverse array of tasks has become a common approach for building models that can solve various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, where and to what extent these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zheng Zhao , Yftah Ziser , Shay B. Cohen

Recently, data-driven deep saliency models have achieved high performance and have outperformed classical saliency models, as demonstrated by results on datasets such as the MIT300 and SALICON. Yet, there remains a large gap between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Sen He , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Ali Borji , Yang Mi , Nicolas Pugeault

Neuron analysis provides insights into how knowledge is structured in representations and discovers the role of neurons in the network. In addition to developing an understanding of our models, neuron analysis enables various applications…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Fahim Dalvi , Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani

We present a toolkit to facilitate the interpretation and understanding of neural network models. The toolkit provides several methods to identify salient neurons with respect to the model itself or an external task. A user can visualize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Fahim Dalvi , Avery Nortonsmith , D. Anthony Bau , Yonatan Belinkov , Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , James Glass

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

Large language models (LLMs) have learned vast amounts of factual knowledge through self-supervised pre-training on large-scale corpora. Meanwhile, LLMs have also demonstrated excellent multilingual capabilities, which can express the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Pengfei Cao , Yuheng Chen , Zhuoran Jin , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP), and recent studies have aimed to understand their underlying mechanisms. However, most of this research is conducted within a monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Weixuan Wang , Barry Haddow , Minghao Wu , Wei Peng , Alexandra Birch

Structural probing work has found evidence for latent syntactic information in pre-trained language models. However, much of this analysis has focused on monolingual models, and analyses of multilingual models have employed correlational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Aaron Mueller , Yu Xia , Tal Linzen

A large number of studies that analyze deep neural network models and their ability to encode various linguistic and non-linguistic concepts provide an interpretation of the inner mechanics of these models. The scope of the analyses is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Fahim Dalvi , Abdul Rafae Khan , Firoj Alam , Nadir Durrani , Jia Xu , Hassan Sajjad

In large language models (LLMs), certain \emph{neurons} can store distinct pieces of knowledge learned during pretraining. While factual knowledge typically appears as a combination of \emph{relations} and \emph{entities}, it remains…

Building systems that achieve a deeper understanding of language is one of the central goals of natural language processing (NLP). Towards this goal, recent works have begun to train language models on narrative datasets which require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Khai Loong Aw , Mariya Toneva

Neural language models have become powerful tools for learning complex representations of entities in natural language processing tasks. However, their interpretability remains a significant challenge, particularly in domains like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Divya Nori , Shivali Singireddy , Marina Ten Have

The success of multilingual pre-trained models is underpinned by their ability to learn representations shared by multiple languages even in absence of any explicit supervision. However, it remains unclear how these models learn to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Karolina Stańczak , Edoardo Ponti , Lucas Torroba Hennigen , Ryan Cotterell , Isabelle Augenstein

One central mystery of neural NLP is what neural models "know" about their subject matter. When a neural machine translation system learns to translate from one language to another, does it learn the syntax or semantics of the languages?…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Chaitanya Malaviya , Graham Neubig , Patrick Littell

Alignment of large language models (LLMs) with human values and preferences, often achieved through fine-tuning based on human feedback, is essential for ensuring safe and responsible AI behaviors. However, the process typically requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Runjin Chen , Gabriel Jacob Perin , Xuxi Chen , Xilun Chen , Yan Han , Nina S. T. Hirata , Junyuan Hong , Bhavya Kailkhura

Code-trained language models have proven to be highly effective for various code intelligence tasks. However, they can be challenging to train and deploy for many software engineering applications due to computational bottlenecks and memory…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Arushi Sharma , Zefu Hu , Christopher Quinn , Ali Jannesari