Summary of Reawakening Knowledge: Anticipatory Recovery From Catastrophic Interference Via Structured Training, by Yanlai Yang et al.
Reawakening knowledge: Anticipatory recovery from catastrophic interference via structured training
by Yanlai Yang, Matt Jones, Michael C. Mozer, Mengye Ren
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 paper explores the dynamics of neural network training in a non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) setting where documents are presented in a repeated sequence. Typically, networks suffer from catastrophic interference when trained on such sequences. However, finetuned large language models (LLMs) exhibit anticipatory behavior, recovering from forgetting on documents before encountering them again. This behavior emerges as the architecture scales up its number of parameters. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this study, researchers looked at how neural networks train in a special kind of situation where documents are presented in a repeating sequence. Usually, this causes problems for the networks. But surprisingly, large language models that were trained on these sequences first showed an ability to remember things they learned earlier, even if they didn’t see those documents again right away. This means that over-parametrized neural networks can recover from forgetting and learn new things. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Neural network
