Understanding Probe Behaviors through Variational Bounds of Mutual
Information
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10019v1
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:38:18 GMT
- Title: Understanding Probe Behaviors through Variational Bounds of Mutual
Information
- Authors: Kwanghee Choi, Jee-weon Jung, Shinji Watanabe
- Abstract summary: We provide guidelines for linear probing by constructing a novel mathematical framework leveraging information theory.
First, we connect probing with the variational bounds of mutual information (MI) to relax the probe design, equating linear probing with fine-tuning.
We show that the intermediate representations can have the biggest MI estimate because of the tradeoff between better separability and decreasing MI.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: With the success of self-supervised representations, researchers seek a
better understanding of the information encapsulated within a representation.
Among various interpretability methods, we focus on classification-based linear
probing. We aim to foster a solid understanding and provide guidelines for
linear probing by constructing a novel mathematical framework leveraging
information theory. First, we connect probing with the variational bounds of
mutual information (MI) to relax the probe design, equating linear probing with
fine-tuning. Then, we investigate empirical behaviors and practices of probing
through our mathematical framework. We analyze the layer-wise performance curve
being convex, which seemingly violates the data processing inequality. However,
we show that the intermediate representations can have the biggest MI estimate
because of the tradeoff between better separability and decreasing MI. We
further suggest that the margin of linearly separable representations can be a
criterion for measuring the "goodness of representation." We also compare
accuracy with MI as the measuring criteria. Finally, we empirically validate
our claims by observing the self-supervised speech models on retaining word and
phoneme information.
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