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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

   Transfer learning for language model adaptation

   Saiful · 2023

   A dissertation on adapting language models across languages, tasks and domains, proposing methods for cross-lingual transfer, self-training, nearest-neighbour inference and multitask prompt tuning.

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   1. UncheckedThe author observes that, unless a language model is extremely large (over 100 billion parameters), a model adapted to one task cannot be reused for another.“Unless we use an extremely large language model (>100B), a model used for a specific task adaptation cannot be used for another task.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Deep Ensembling with No Overhead for either Training or Testing: The All-Round Blessings of Dynamic Sparsity

   Liu, Chen, Atashgahi et al. · TU/e Research Portal · 2021

   The paper proposes FreeTickets, an ensemble of sparse subnetworks from dynamic sparse training, which it reports beats a dense baseline on accuracy, uncertainty, robustness and efficiency.

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   1. UncheckedThe FreeTickets ensemble method is reported to use fewer parameters and fewer training FLOPs than one dense model, despite combining several networks.“Despite being an ensemble method, FreeTickets has even fewer parameters and training FLOPs than a single dense model.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors report that FreeTickets, an ensemble of sparse subnetworks, beats a single dense network on accuracy, uncertainty, robustness and efficiency.“FreeTickets surpasses the dense baseline in all the following criteria: prediction accuracy, uncertainty estimation, out-of-distribution (OoD) robustness, as well as efficiency for both training and inference.”
   3. UncheckedFreeTickets, a sparse-subnetwork ensemble, is reported to beat a naive ResNet50 deep ensemble on ImageNet using around one fifth of its training FLOPs.“Impressively, FreeTickets outperforms the naive deep ensemble with ResNet50 on ImageNet using around only 1/5 of the training FLOPs required by the latter.”