Measuring the Knowledge Acquisition-Utilization Gap in Pretrained Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14775v1
• Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 06:26:11 GMT
• Title: Measuring the Knowledge Acquisition-Utilization Gap in Pretrained Language Models
• Authors: Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Sarath Chandar
• Abstract summary: Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown evidence of acquiring vast amounts of knowledge. It remains unclear how much of this parametric knowledge is actually usable in performing downstream tasks. We propose a systematic framework to measure parametric knowledge utilization in PLMs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown evidence of acquiring vast amounts of knowledge, it remains unclear how much of this parametric knowledge is actually usable in performing downstream tasks. We propose a systematic framework to measure parametric knowledge utilization in PLMs. Our framework first extracts knowledge from a PLM's parameters and subsequently constructs a downstream task around this extracted knowledge. Performance on this task thus depends exclusively on utilizing the model's possessed knowledge, avoiding confounding factors like insufficient signal. As an instantiation, we study factual knowledge of PLMs and measure utilization across 125M to 13B parameter PLMs. We observe that: (1) PLMs exhibit two gaps - in acquired vs. utilized knowledge, (2) they show limited robustness in utilizing knowledge under distribution shifts, and (3) larger models close the acquired knowledge gap but the utilized knowledge gap remains. Overall, our study provides insights into PLMs' capabilities beyond their acquired knowledge.

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