Summary of Laying Anchors: Semantically Priming Numerals in Language Modeling, by Mandar Sharma et al.
Laying Anchors: Semantically Priming Numerals in Language Modeling
by Mandar Sharma, Rutuja Murlidhar Taware, Pravesh Koirala, Nikhil Muralidhar, Naren Ramakrishnan
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 explores ways to improve pre-trained language models’ ability to understand numbers. Current models struggle with numerical comprehension, limiting their performance on tasks that require numeric processing. The authors propose strategies to “prime” numerals in any dataset by generating anchors based on the numeral distribution, allowing for mathematically grounded representations of these tokens. They evaluate their approach on various numeracy tasks and demonstrate significant improvements, even extending their evaluation to numerals ranging from 1 to 10 billion. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making language models better at understanding numbers. Right now, they’re not very good at it, which can be a problem when we need them to do math or understand things that involve numbers. The authors have some ideas to help these models get better by giving them “anchors” based on the way numbers are used in a particular dataset. This helps the models create more accurate and meaningful representations of numbers. They tested their approach on lots of different number-related tasks and showed that it works really well, even with huge numbers like 10 billion. |
