Unsupervised Cross-Task Generalization for Multi-Task NLP Models
Enhance the multi-task NLP models with unsupervised cross-task generalization through retrieval augmentation. Explore frameworks like ReCross to improve model performance across diverse tasks. Dive into the world of upstream training and hidden dimensions in this cutting-edge approach to natural language processing.
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Unsupervised Cross-Task Generalization via Retrieval Augmentation https://inklab.usc.edu/ReCross/
Massively Multi-Task NLP Models Upstream Training upstreamtasks Input: Is this review positive or negative? Review: Best cast ... ? Output: Positive : amazon_plority ?? Make a title for news: British mathematician Stephen Haw... Input: Output: Mathematician Hawking ... Multi-Task NLP Model ?1, ,?? ?? : gigawords
CrossFit (Ye et al. 2021) upstreamtasks Multi-Task NLP Model T0 (Sanh et al. 2022) FLAN (Wei et al. 2022)
Unsupervised Cross-Task Generalization upstreamtasks Multi-Task NLP Model I want to ski! ??: an unseen task w/ a few unlabeled data Fred is ... He .... In the sentence, does the pronoun "he" refer to Fred? Yes, no? Input: Unsupervised Cross-Task Generalization Does "her" refer to Alice or Mary in this sentence: Alice ... Mary... and her ... Input: ??
Retrieval Augmentation ??: an unseen task w/ a few unlabeled data upstreamtasks Retrieve some additional data for re-learning relevant skills.
??: an unseen task w/ a few unlabeled data Fred is ... He .... In the sentence, does the pronoun "he" refer to Fred? Yes, no? Input: Unsupervised Cross-Task Generalization Does "her" refer to Alice or Mary in this sentence: Alice ... Mary... and her ... Input: ?? The ReCross Framework ?i ? ?? ? Reranker topK Encoders MIPS Dense Index ??
pair-wise score hidden dim #examples Dense Index Decoders Reranker cand. query upstreamdata distant sup. ? Encoders Make a title for news: British mathemat ...
Evaluation 1/8 size 5 different query sets: Q
Conclusion ReCross: a retrieval augmentation method for unsupervised cross-task generalization. Two ranking stages: simple & intuitive Significant improvement. Future directions More rigorous task/example representation for indexing. Parameter-efficient tuning for faster adaptation. Methods to use unlabeled data for guiding re-learning. .