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A Bayesian Framework for Information-Theoretic Probing ...
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Anthology paper link: https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.229/ Abstract: Pimentel et al. (2020) recently analysed probing from an information-theoretic perspective. They argue that probing should be seen as approximating a mutual information. This led to the rather unintuitive conclusion that representations encode exactly the same information about a target task as the original sentences. The mutual information, however, assumes the true probability distribution of a pair of random variables is known, leading to unintuitive results in settings where it is not. This paper proposes a new framework to measure what we term Bayesian mutual information, which analyses information from the perspective of Bayesian agents -- allowing for more intuitive findings in scenarios with finite data. For instance, under Bayesian MI we have that data can add information, processing can help, and information can hurt, which makes it more intuitive for machine learning applications. Finally, we apply our framework to ...
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Computational Linguistics; Machine Learning; Machine Learning and Data Mining; Natural Language Processing
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URL: https://underline.io/lecture/37413-a-bayesian-framework-for-information-theoretic-probing
https://dx.doi.org/10.48448/gnht-ez32
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A surprisal--duration trade-off across and within the world's languages ...
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On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs ...
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Are All Languages Equally Hard to Language-Model?
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2019)
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Rethinking Phonotactic Complexity
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2019)
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Quantifying the Trade-off Between Two Types of Morphological Complexity
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2018)
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