Summary of Tracing the Roots Of Facts in Multilingual Language Models: Independent, Shared, and Transferred Knowledge, by Xin Zhao et al.
Tracing the Roots of Facts in Multilingual Language Models: Independent, Shared, and Transferred Knowledge
by Xin Zhao, Naoki Yoshinaga, Daisuke Oba
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The abstract discusses a study on how multilingual language models (ML-LMs) acquire and represent factual knowledge in low-resource languages. Researchers used the mLAMA dataset to investigate the neurons of multilingual BERT, tracing facts back to their sources to identify patterns of fact acquisition and representation. The findings highlight the challenge of maintaining consistent factual knowledge across languages, emphasizing the need for better fact representation learning in ML-LMs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In low-resource languages, it’s hard for language models to learn new facts. To solve this problem, researchers use cross-lingual transfer from multilingual language models (ML-LMs). This study looks at how ML-LMs learn and store factual information. They used a special dataset called mLAMA and analyzed the neurons of a popular ML-LM, multilingual BERT. By tracing facts back to their sources, they found that ML-LMs use different methods to learn new facts. The results show that it’s hard for ML-LMs to keep accurate information across languages, so we need better ways for them to store and understand facts. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Bert » Representation learning
