Induced Natural Language Rationales and Interleaved Markup Tokens Enable Extrapolation in Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11445v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:25:27 GMT
• Title: Induced Natural Language Rationales and Interleaved Markup Tokens Enable Extrapolation in Large Language Models
• Authors: Mirelle Bueno, Carlos Gemmel, Jeffrey Dalton, Roberto Lotufo, Rodrigo Nogueira
• Abstract summary: The ability to extrapolate, i.e., to make predictions on sequences that are longer than those presented as training examples, is a challenging problem for deep learning models. Recent work shows that this limitation persists in state-of-the-art Transformer-based models. We demonstrate that large language models can succeed in extrapolation without modifying their architecture or training procedure.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The ability to extrapolate, i.e., to make predictions on sequences that are longer than those presented as training examples, is a challenging problem for current deep learning models. Recent work shows that this limitation persists in state-of-the-art Transformer-based models. Most solutions to this problem use specific architectures or training methods that do not generalize to other tasks. We demonstrate that large language models can succeed in extrapolation without modifying their architecture or training procedure. Experimental results show that generating step-by-step rationales and introducing marker tokens are both required for effective extrapolation. First, we induce it to produce step-by-step rationales before outputting the answer to effectively communicate the task to the model. However, as sequences become longer, we find that current models struggle to keep track of token positions. To address this issue, we interleave output tokens with markup tokens that act as explicit positional and counting symbols. Our findings show how these two complementary approaches enable remarkable sequence extrapolation and highlight a limitation of current architectures to effectively generalize without explicit surface form guidance. Code available at https://github.com/MirelleB/induced-rationales-markup-tokens

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