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1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   On the instability of further pre-training: Does a single sentence matter to BERT?

   Bacco, Minnema, Caselli, Dell’Orletta⋄, Merone and Nissim · Natural Language Processing Journal · 2023

   The paper reports that one-step, single-sentence further pre-training of BERT barely alters the model yet noticeably changes the fine-tuned models, with effects on a sentiment analysis task.

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   1. UncheckedIn BERT-like models, one training step on a single sentence can noticeably change how the model later behaves once it is fine-tuned.“We observe a remarkable instability in BERT-like models: minimal changes in the internal representations of BERT, as induced by one-step further pre-training with even a single sentence, can noticeably change the behaviour of subsequently fine-tuned models.”