4 papers
Don't Ignore the Tail: Decoupling top-K Probabilities for Efficient Language Model Distillation
Sayantan Dasgupta, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
The core learning signal used in language model distillation is the standard Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the student and teacher distributions. Traditional KL divergen…
TuBA: Cross-Lingual Transferability of Backdoor Attacks in LLMs with Instruction Tuning
Xuanli He, Jun Wang, Qiongkai Xu +4
The implications of backdoor attacks on English-centric large language models (LLMs) have been widely examined - such attacks can be achieved by embedding malicious behaviors durin…
Don't Throw Away Data: Better Sequence Knowledge Distillation
Jun Wang, Eleftheria Briakou, Hamid Dadkhahi +3
A critical component in knowledge distillation is the means of coupling the teacher and student. The predominant sequence knowledge distillation method involves supervised learning…
SEEP: Training Dynamics Grounds Latent Representation Search for Mitigating Backdoor Poisoning Attacks
Xuanli He, Qiongkai Xu, Jun Wang +2
Modern NLP models are often trained on public datasets drawn from diverse sources, rendering them vulnerable to data poisoning attacks. These attacks can manipulate the model's beh…