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1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Intrinsic Dimensionality Explains the Effectiveness of Language Model Fine-Tuning

   Aghajanyan, Gupta and Zettlemoyer · 2021

   The paper argues that intrinsic dimension helps explain why large pretrained language models can be fine-tuned well on small datasets, and links it to generalisation bounds independent of parameter count.

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   1. UncheckedPre-training appears to reduce a model's intrinsic dimension, and larger models tend to have lower intrinsic dimension after the same number of pre-training updates.“Furthermore, we empirically show that pre-training implicitly minimizes intrinsic dimension and, perhaps surprisingly, larger models tend to have lower intrinsic dimension after a fixed number of pre-training updates, at least in part explaining their extreme effectiveness.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors report that common pre-trained language models have a very low intrinsic dimension: a small reparameterisation can fine-tune about as well as all parameters.“We empirically show that common pre-trained models have a very low intrinsic dimension; in other words, there exists a low dimension reparameterization that is as effective for fine-tuning as the full parameter space.”