Guiding Attention for Self-Supervised Learning with Transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02399v1
• Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 00:04:08 GMT
• Title: Guiding Attention for Self-Supervised Learning with Transformers
• Authors: Ameet Deshpande, Karthik Narasimhan
• Abstract summary: We propose a technique to allow for efficient self-supervised learning with bi-directional Transformers. Our approach is motivated by recent studies demonstrating that self-attention patterns in trained models contain a majority of non-linguistic regularities.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we propose a simple and effective technique to allow for efficient self-supervised learning with bi-directional Transformers. Our approach is motivated by recent studies demonstrating that self-attention patterns in trained models contain a majority of non-linguistic regularities. We propose a computationally efficient auxiliary loss function to guide attention heads to conform to such patterns. Our method is agnostic to the actual pre-training objective and results in faster convergence of models as well as better performance on downstream tasks compared to the baselines, achieving state of the art results in low-resource settings. Surprisingly, we also find that linguistic properties of attention heads are not necessarily correlated with language modeling performance.

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