Life after BERT: What do Other Muppets Understand about Language?

Vladislav Lialin, Kevin Zhao, Namrata Shivagunde, Anna Rumshisky

Abstract
Existing pre-trained transformer analysis works usually focus only on one or two model families at a time, overlooking the variability of the architecture and pre-training objectives. In our work, we utilize the oLMpics bench- mark and psycholinguistic probing datasets for a diverse set of 29 models including T5, BART, and ALBERT. Additionally, we adapt the oLMpics zero-shot setup for autoregres- sive models and evaluate GPT networks of different sizes. Our findings show that none of these models can resolve compositional questions in a zero-shot fashion, suggesting that this skill is not learnable using existing pre-training objectives. Furthermore, we find that global model decisions such as architecture, directionality, size of the dataset, and pre-training objective are not predictive of a model’s linguistic capabilities.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-long.227
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
May
Year:
2022
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Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
3180–3193
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.227
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.227
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Vladislav Lialin, Kevin Zhao, Namrata Shivagunde, and Anna Rumshisky. 2022. Life after BERT: What do Other Muppets Understand about Language?. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 3180–3193, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Life after BERT: What do Other Muppets Understand about Language? (Lialin et al., ACL 2022)
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