Summary of Dependency Transformer Grammars: Integrating Dependency Structures Into Transformer Language Models, by Yida Zhao et al.
Dependency Transformer Grammars: Integrating Dependency Structures into Transformer Language Models
by Yida Zhao, Chao Lou, Kewei Tu
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Dependency Transformer Grammars (DTGs), a novel type of Syntactic Transformer language model that incorporates explicit dependency-based inductive bias. Unlike previous work focusing on constituency-based structures, DTGs modify attention masks to simulate dependency transition systems with constrained attention patterns and incorporate stack information through relative positional encoding. The authors train DTGs on a dataset annotated with dependency trees and achieve better generalization while maintaining comparable perplexity with Transformer language model baselines. Notably, DTGs outperform recent constituency-based models, demonstrating the effectiveness of dependency-based guidance for Syntactic Transformers. The code is released at https://github.com/zhaoyd1/Dep_Transformer_Grammars. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research explores new ways to improve language models like Transformers. Instead of just looking at sentence structure, it adds a new layer that considers how words relate to each other in terms of dependencies. This approach helps the model make better predictions and generalizations. The authors tested this new method on a large dataset and found that it outperformed previous attempts to improve Transformers. This breakthrough could lead to more accurate language processing and understanding. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Generalization » Language model » Perplexity » Positional encoding » Transformer
