@inproceedings{aina-etal-2022-performance,
    title = "Performance-Efficiency Trade-Offs in Adapting Language Models to Text Classification Tasks",
    author = "Aina, Laura  and
      Voskarides, Nikos  and
      Blanco, Roi",
    editor = "He, Yulan  and
      Ji, Heng  and
      Li, Sujian  and
      Liu, Yang  and
      Chang, Chua-Hui",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Online only",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2022.aacl-short.31/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.aacl-short.31",
    pages = "244--253",
    abstract = "Pre-trained language models (LMs) obtain state-of-the-art performance when adapted to text classification tasks. However, when using such models in real world applications, efficiency considerations are paramount. In this paper, we study how different training procedures that adapt LMs to text classification perform, as we vary model and train set size. More specifically, we compare standard fine-tuning, prompting, and knowledge distillation (KD) when the teacher was trained with either fine-tuning or prompting. Our findings suggest that even though fine-tuning and prompting work well to train large LMs on large train sets, there are more efficient alternatives that can reduce compute or data cost. Interestingly, we find that prompting combined with KD can reduce compute and data cost at the same time."
}