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Field: Arts and Humanities ×Clear all

3 claims from 2 papers

1. Arts and Humanities › Digital Humanities and Scholarship

   HISTORIAE, History of Socio-Cultural Transformation as Linguistic Data Science. A Humanities Use Case

   Yinhan, Myle, Naman et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

   A replication study of BERT pretraining measured the effect of key hyperparameters and training data size, and reports that BERT was undertrained and that a better-trained version reached state-of-the-art results.

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   1. UncheckedComparing pretrained language models is hard: training is costly, data are private and vary in size, and hyperparameters matter greatly.“Training is computationally expensive, often done on private datasets of different sizes, and, as we will show, hyperparameter choices have significant impact on the final results.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' best retrained BERT-style model reports state-of-the-art results on three language-understanding benchmarks: GLUE, RACE and SQuAD.“Our best model achieves state-of-the-art results on GLUE, RACE and SQuAD.”

2. Arts and Humanities › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

   Debate Helps Supervise Unreliable Experts

   Michael, Mahdi, David et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   The paper tests whether debate between two unreliable experts helps a non-expert judge find the truth, using human-written debates on hard reading comprehension questions, and compares it with consultancy.

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   1. Supported · 71%In this study, judges who saw a debate between two experts picked the right answer 84% of the time, against 74% when shown a single expert.“Comparing debate to a baseline we call consultancy, where a single expert argues for only one answer which is correct half of the time, we find that debate performs significantly better, with 84% judge accuracy compared to consultancy's 74%.”