Summary of Beyond Individual Facts: Investigating Categorical Knowledge Locality Of Taxonomy and Meronomy Concepts in Gpt Models, by Christopher Burger et al.
Beyond Individual Facts: Investigating Categorical Knowledge Locality of Taxonomy and Meronomy Concepts in GPT Models
by Christopher Burger, Yifan Hu, Thai Le
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The research investigates a broader view of knowledge location within Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)-like models, focusing on concepts or clusters of related information rather than individual facts. The study curates a novel dataset, DARC, comprising 34 concepts and ~120K factual statements organized into taxonomy and meronomy categories. Existing causal mediation analysis methods are applied to identify regions of importance for these concepts, revealing that similar categories share distinct areas of importance. However, fine-grained localization of individual category subsets is not apparent. This work paves the way for editing outdated, erroneous, or harmful information within GPT-like models without retraining the entire model. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The research looks at where knowledge is stored in special computer models called GPT-like models. Instead of finding small pieces of information, they’re looking at bigger chunks of related ideas. They created a new dataset with 34 groups of information and used special methods to see if these groups are connected to specific areas within the model. The results show that similar groups have similar connections, but it’s hard to find where individual parts of each group fit in. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Gpt * Transformer
