Summary of Unlocking Memorization in Large Language Models with Dynamic Soft Prompting, by Zhepeng Wang et al.
Unlocking Memorization in Large Language Models with Dynamic Soft Prompting
by Zhepeng Wang, Runxue Bao, Yawen Wu, Jackson Taylor, Cao Xiao, Feng Zheng, Weiwen Jiang, Shangqian Gao, Yanfu Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); 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 novel method for estimating large language model (LLM) memorization uses dynamic, prefix-dependent soft prompts to accurately extract memorized data. This approach is an improvement over previous methods that only used prefixes or prepended a constant soft prompt. The new method involves training a transformer-based generator to produce soft prompts that adapt to changes in input. This leads to superior performance in diverse experimental settings compared to state-of-the-art techniques, achieving a maximum relative improvement of 112.75% and 32.26% for text generation and code generation tasks, respectively. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are super smart at doing things like summarizing texts or answering questions. But they also have a weakness: they can remember the training data, which is bad news because it means they might accidentally share private information or copy stuff without permission. To figure out how much they’re actually remembering, we need to come up with better ways to measure this. The old methods just didn’t cut it, so we created a new way using special “soft prompts” that can change depending on what you ask the model to do. It works really well and helps us understand how these models are storing information. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Large language model » Prompt » Text generation » Transformer
