Summary of Model-diff: a Tool For Comparative Study Of Language Models in the Input Space, by Weitang Liu et al.
Model-diff: A Tool for Comparative Study of Language Models in the Input Space
by Weitang Liu, Yuelei Li, Ying Wai Li, Zihan Wang, Jingbo Shang
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Dec 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 The proposed framework uses text generation to estimate prediction differences between two language models in a large input space efficiently and unbiasedly. The approach involves sampling and deweighting histogram statistics to quantify similarities and differences in predictions. This novel method can facilitate the analysis of language models for applications such as model plagiarism, allowing researchers to identify potential differences in prediction patterns. By leveraging a large input space that encompasses all token sequences a model would produce with low perplexity, the framework provides an unbiased view of model performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about comparing two big language models and finding out what they have in common or how they are different. Right now, we can only compare them on limited sets of data, which doesn’t help us understand their differences very well. The authors propose a new way to compare these models that looks at all the possible things they could say (in this case, words and phrases). They use something called “text generation” to do this, where they generate lots of text and then count how many times each prediction difference shows up. This helps us understand the differences between these language models in a way that’s fair and accurate. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Perplexity » Text generation » Token
