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Zhang, Yian, Warstadt, Alex, Li, Xiaocheng, Bowman, Samuel R.·2021·Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
DOI 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.90
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Yian Zhang, Alex Warstadt, Xiaocheng Li, Samuel R. Bowman. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2021.

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Figure 1 Overall learning curves for the five evaluation methods. For each method, we compute overall performance for each RoBERTa model tested as the macro average over sub-task's performance after normalization. We fit an exponential curve which we scale to have an initial value of 0 and an asymptote at 1. Classifier and MDL probing mainly test models' encoding of linguistic features; BLiMP tests model's understanding of linguistic phenomena; LAMA tests factual knowledge; SuperGLUE is a suite of conventional NLU tasks.
Figure 1 Overall learning curves for the five evaluation methods. For each method, we compute overall performance for each RoBERTa model tested as the macro average over sub-task's performance after normalization. We fit an exponential curve which we scale to have an initial value of 0 and an asymptote at 1. Classifier and MDL probing mainly test models' encoding of linguistic features; BLiMP tests model's understanding of linguistic phenomena; LAMA tests factual knowledge; SuperGLUE is a suite of conventional NLU tasks.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 2 Classifier probing results for each task in the edge probing suite. Results are adjusted with min-max normalization for readability (see the Appendix for a non-normalized version). In each subplot we also plot the overall edge-probing performance, which we calculate for each MiniBERTa as its average F1 score on the 10 edgeprobing tasks (after normalization). For context, we also plot BERTLARGE performance for each task as reported by Tenney et al. (2019a).
Figure 2 Classifier probing results for each task in the edge probing suite. Results are adjusted with min-max normalization for readability (see the Appendix for a non-normalized version). In each subplot we also plot the overall edge-probing performance, which we calculate for each MiniBERTa as its average F1 score on the 10 edgeprobing tasks (after normalization). For context, we also plot BERTLARGE performance for each task as reported by Tenney et al. (2019a).CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 3 Edge Probing results for each group of tasks adjusted using min-max normalization. Syntactic tasks are Part-of-Speech, Dependencies, and Constituents. The commonsense task is Winograd coref. Semantic tasks are all remaining tasks.
Figure 3 Edge Probing results for each group of tasks adjusted using min-max normalization. Syntactic tasks are Part-of-Speech, Dependencies, and Constituents. The commonsense task is Winograd coref. Semantic tasks are all remaining tasks.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 4 MDL results for each edge probing task. We do not plot a exponential curve for the Winograd coref. results because we could not find an adequate fit.
Figure 4 MDL results for each edge probing task. We do not plot a exponential curve for the Winograd coref. results because we could not find an adequate fit.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 5 BLiMP results by category. BLiMP has 67 constituent datasets covering 12 linguistic phenomena. For each task the objective is to predict the more grammatically acceptable sentence of a minimal pair in an unsupervised setting. For context, we also plot human accuracy numbers from Warstadt et al. (2020a) and RoBERTaLARGE performance from Salazar et al. (2020).
Figure 5 BLiMP results by category. BLiMP has 67 constituent datasets covering 12 linguistic phenomena. For each task the objective is to predict the more grammatically acceptable sentence of a minimal pair in an unsupervised setting. For context, we also plot human accuracy numbers from Warstadt et al. (2020a) and RoBERTaLARGE performance from Salazar et al. (2020).CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 6 LAMA results. The metric for all tasks is mean precision at 1, i.e. the proportion of examples where the model assigns the highest probability to the ground truth token. For context, we also plot RoBERTaLARGE results.
Figure 6 LAMA results. The metric for all tasks is mean precision at 1, i.e. the proportion of examples where the model assigns the highest probability to the ground truth token. For context, we also plot RoBERTaLARGE results.CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 7 SuperGLUE results. The metric for BoolQ, COPA, WiC, RTE is accuracy, and for CB it is the average of accuracy and F1 score. Results are adjusted with min-max normalization for readability (see the Appendix for a non-normalized version). For context, we plot RoBERTaLARGE performance reported at https://github.com/ pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/roberta .
Figure 7 SuperGLUE results. The metric for BoolQ, COPA, WiC, RTE is accuracy, and for CB it is the average of accuracy and F1 score. Results are adjusted with min-max normalization for readability (see the Appendix for a non-normalized version). For context, we plot RoBERTaLARGE performance reported at https://github.com/ pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/roberta .CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 8 Our absolute edge probing dev set results (not normalized) compared to BERTLARGE test set results from Tenney et al. (2019b).
Figure 8 Our absolute edge probing dev set results (not normalized) compared to BERTLARGE test set results from Tenney et al. (2019b).CC-BY · From the PDF
Figure 9 Our absolute SuperGLUE results (not normalized) compared to RoBERTaLARGE results from Liu et al. (2019).
Figure 9 Our absolute SuperGLUE results (not normalized) compared to RoBERTaLARGE results from Liu et al. (2019).CC-BY · From the PDF

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Authors
Zhang, Y., Warstadt, A., Li, X., & Bowman, S. R.
Affiliations
New York University (US)
ORCID
Venue
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Published
2021
Pages
1112-1125
DOI
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.90
OpenAlex
W3176198948
Cited by
85
References
69
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 10
FWCI
8.66
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conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Funders
National Science Foundation (1850208)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
pre-training, language models, training data requirements

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