Evolving Knowledge Distillation with Large Language Models and Active Learning
Chengyuan Liu, Fubang Zhao, Kun Kuang, Yangyang Kang, Zhuoren Jiang, Changlong Sun, Fei Wu
Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various NLP tasks. However, their computational costs are prohibitively high. To address this issue, previous research has attempted to distill the knowledge of LLMs into smaller models by generating annotated data. Nonetheless, these works have mainly focused on the direct use of LLMs for text generation and labeling, without fully exploring their potential to comprehend the target task and acquire valuable knowledge. In this paper, we propose EvoKD: Evolving Knowledge Distillation, which leverages the concept of active learning to interactively enhance the process of data generation using large language models, simultaneously improving the task capabilities of small domain model (student model). Different from previous work, we actively analyze the student model’s weaknesses, and then synthesize labeled samples based on the analysis. In addition, we provide iterative feedback to the LLMs regarding the student model’s performance to continuously construct diversified and challenging samples. Experiments and analysis on different NLP tasks, namely, text classification and named entity recognition show the effectiveness of EvoKD.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.lrec-main.593
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
- Venues:
- LREC | COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 6717–6731
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.593
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Chengyuan Liu, Fubang Zhao, Kun Kuang, Yangyang Kang, Zhuoren Jiang, Changlong Sun, and Fei Wu. 2024. Evolving Knowledge Distillation with Large Language Models and Active Learning. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 6717–6731, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Evolving Knowledge Distillation with Large Language Models and Active Learning (Liu et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.lrec-main.593.pdf