Abstract
In recent years, pretrained models revolutionized the paradigm of natural language understanding (NLU), where we append a randomly initialized classification head after the pretrained backbone, e.g. BERT, and finetune the whole model. As the pretrained backbone makes a major contribution to the improvement, we naturally expect a good pretrained classification head can also benefit the training. However, the final-layer output of the backbone, i.e. the input of the classification head, will change greatly during finetuning, making the usual head-only pretraining ineffective. In this paper, we find that parameter-efficient tuning makes a good classification head, with which we can simply replace the randomly initialized heads for a stable performance gain. Our experiments demonstrate that the classification head jointly pretrained with parameter-efficient tuning consistently improves the performance on 9 tasks in GLUE and SuperGLUE.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.emnlp-main.514
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Editors:
- Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 7576–7586
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.514
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.514
- Cite (ACL):
- Zhuoyi Yang, Ming Ding, Yanhui Guo, Qingsong Lv, and Jie Tang. 2022. Parameter-Efficient Tuning Makes a Good Classification Head. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 7576–7586, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Parameter-Efficient Tuning Makes a Good Classification Head (Yang et al., EMNLP 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_acl24_videos/2022.emnlp-main.514.pdf