Summary of Towards a Theory Of How the Structure Of Language Is Acquired by Deep Neural Networks, By Francesco Cagnetta et al.
Towards a theory of how the structure of language is acquired by deep neural networks
by Francesco Cagnetta, Matthieu Wyart
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); 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 A probabilistic generative model called Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar (PCFG) is used to create synthetic datasets that mimic the hierarchical structures found in natural languages. The study investigates how much data is required to learn the structure of a language via next-token prediction, and finds that a Language Model can build a deeper representation of the grammar’s structure as the size of the training set increases. This allows for good performance despite the high dimensionality of the problem. The relationship between training set size and effective range of correlations is conjectured to hold beyond synthetic datasets, with implications for test loss behaviour depending on context window length. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers wanted to know how much data you need to learn about a language’s structure. They created fake datasets using a special model that looks like the way languages are structured. They found out that as you add more training data, your language model can understand the language better. This is important because it means we might be able to make language models that are really good at understanding natural language, even if they’re dealing with huge amounts of information. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Context window » Generative model » Language model » Token
