On Catastrophic Inheritance of Large Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01909v2
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:40:23 GMT
• Title: On Catastrophic Inheritance of Large Foundation Models
• Authors: Hao Chen, Bhiksha Raj, Xing Xie, Jindong Wang,
• Abstract summary: Large foundation models (LFMs) are claiming incredible performances. Yet great concerns have been raised about their mythic and uninterpreted potentials. We propose to identify a neglected issue deeply rooted in LFMs: Catastrophic Inheritance. We discuss the challenges behind this issue and propose UIM, a framework to understand the catastrophic inheritance of LFMs from both pre-training and downstream adaptation.
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• Abstract: Large foundation models (LFMs) are claiming incredible performances. Yet great concerns have been raised about their mythic and uninterpreted potentials not only in machine learning, but also in various other disciplines. In this position paper, we propose to identify a neglected issue deeply rooted in LFMs: Catastrophic Inheritance, describing the weaknesses and limitations inherited from biased large-scale pre-training data to behaviors of LFMs on the downstream tasks, including samples that are corrupted, long-tailed, noisy, out-of-distributed, to name a few. Such inheritance can potentially cause catastrophes to downstream applications, such as bias, lack of generalization, deteriorated performance, security vulnerability, privacy leakage, and value misalignment. We discuss the challenges behind this issue and propose UIM, a framework to Understand the catastrophic inheritance of LFMs from both pre-training and downstream adaptation, Interpret the implications of catastrophic inheritance on downstream tasks, and how to Mitigate it. UIM aims to unite both the machine learning and social sciences communities for more responsible and promising AI development and deployment.

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