Summary of Tapweight: Reweighting Pretraining Objectives For Task-adaptive Pretraining, by Ruiyi Zhang et al.
TapWeight: Reweighting Pretraining Objectives for Task-Adaptive Pretraining
by Ruiyi Zhang, Sai Ashish Somayajula, Pengtao Xie
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes TapWeight, a task-adaptive pretraining framework that automatically determines the optimal importance of each pretraining objective based on downstream feedback. This framework is designed to address performance degradation issues in certain cases where large-scale general domain pretraining followed by downstream-specific finetuning may not be sufficient. The proposed method reweights each pretraining objective by solving a multi-level optimization problem, allowing it to adapt to the specific task at hand. Experimental results show that TapWeight significantly surpasses baseline methods on both molecular property prediction and natural language understanding tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary TapWeight is a new way to train machine learning models. Normally, we would pretrain a model on a big dataset, then fine-tune it for a specific job. But sometimes this doesn’t work well because the pretraining data might not be similar enough to the real task. TapWeight tries to solve this problem by adjusting how much importance each part of the training process gets based on feedback from the task itself. This helps the model learn better and make fewer mistakes. The results show that TapWeight works well for predicting chemical properties and understanding human language. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Language understanding » Machine learning » Optimization » Pretraining
