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The Effect of Masking Strategies on Knowledge Retention by Language Models
Jonas Wallat, Tianyi Zhang, Avishek Anand
Language models retain a significant amount of world knowledge from their pre-training stage. This allows knowledgeable models to be applied to knowledge-intensive tasks prevalent…
TempLM: Distilling Language Models into Template-Based Generators
Tianyi Zhang, Mina Lee, Lisa Li +2
While pretrained language models (PLMs) have greatly improved text generation, they have also been known to produce unfaithful or inappropriate content. In contrast, classic templa…
On the Inductive Bias of Masked Language Modeling: From Statistical to Syntactic Dependencies
Tianyi Zhang, Tatsunori Hashimoto
We study how masking and predicting tokens in an unsupervised fashion can give rise to linguistic structures and downstream performance gains. Recent theories have suggested that p…
Revisiting Few-sample BERT Fine-tuning
Tianyi Zhang, Felix Wu, Arzoo Katiyar +2
This paper is a study of fine-tuning of BERT contextual representations, with focus on commonly observed instabilities in few-sample scenarios. We identify several factors that cau…
BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT
Tianyi Zhang, Varsha Kishore, Felix Wu +2
We propose BERTScore, an automatic evaluation metric for text generation. Analogously to common metrics, BERTScore computes a similarity score for each token in the candidate sente…