Model Collapse Demystified: The Case of Regression

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07712v2
• Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:03:13 GMT
• Title: Model Collapse Demystified: The Case of Regression
• Authors: Elvis Dohmatob, Yunzhen Feng, Julia Kempe,
• Abstract summary: We study the phenomenon of "model collapse" in the era of proliferation of large language and image generation models. We obtain analytic formulae which quantitatively outline this phenomenon in a broad range of regimes. We propose a simple strategy based on adaptive regularization to mitigate model collapse.
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• Abstract: In the era of proliferation of large language and image generation models, the phenomenon of "model collapse" refers to the situation whereby as a model is trained recursively on data generated from previous generations of itself over time, its performance degrades until the model eventually becomes completely useless, i.e the model collapses. In this work, we study this phenomenon in the setting of high-dimensional regression and obtain analytic formulae which quantitatively outline this phenomenon in a broad range of regimes. In the special case of polynomial decaying spectral and source conditions, we obtain modified scaling laws which exhibit new crossover phenomena from fast to slow rates. We also propose a simple strategy based on adaptive regularization to mitigate model collapse. Our theoretical results are validated with experiments.

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