Naomi Saphra
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    • How to visualize training dynamics in neural networks
    • PolyPythias: Stability and Outliers across Fifty Language Model Pre-Training Runs
    • Recite, Reconstruct, Recollect: Memorization in LMs as a Multifaceted Phenomenon
    • Distributional Scaling Laws for Emergent Capabilities
    • Sometimes I am a Tree: Data drives fragile hierarchical generalization
    • Attribute Diversity Determines the Systematicity Gap in VQA
    • Benchmarks as Microscopes: A Call for Model Metrology
    • Causation Does Not Imply Correlation: A Study of Circuit Mechanisms and Model Behaviors
    • ChatGPT Doesn't Trust Chargers Fans: Guardrail Sensitivity in Context
    • Dynamic Masking Rate Schedules for MLM Pretraining
    • Fast Forwarding Low-Rank Training
    • First Tragedy, then Parse: History Repeats Itself in the New Era of Large Language Models
    • Loss in the Crowd: Hidden Breakthroughs in Language Model Training
    • Mechanistic?
    • Sudden Drops in the Loss: Syntax Acquisition, Phase Transitions, and Simplicity Bias in MLMs
    • TRAM: Bridging Trust Regions and Sharpness Aware Minimization
    • Transcendence: Generative Models Can Outperform The Experts That Train Them
    • Understanding biological active sensing behaviors by interpreting learned artificial agent policies
    • Delays, Detours, and Forks in the Road: Latent State Models of Training Dynamics
    • Interpretability Creationism
    • Linear Connectivity Reveals Generalization Strategies
    • Shapley Interactions for Complex Feature Attribution
    • State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP: a taxonomy and review
    • Towards out-of-distribution generalization in large-scale astronomical surveys: robust networks learn similar representations
    • Learning Transductions to Test Systematic Compositionality
    • One Venue, Two Conferences: The Separation of Chinese and American Citation Networks
    • The MultiBERTs: BERT Reproductions for Robustness Analysis
    • A Non-Linear Structural Probe
    • LSTMs Compose---and Learn---Bottom-Up
    • Pareto Probing: Trading Off Accuracy for Complexity
    • Understanding Privacy-Related Questions on Stack Overflow
    • Carbon AI and the Concentration of Computational Work
    • Sparsity Emerges Naturally in Neural Language Models
    • Understanding Learning Dynamics Of Language Models with SVCCA
    • DyNet: The Dynamic Neural Network Toolkit
    • Evaluating Informal-Domain Word Representations with UrbanDictionary
    • AMRICA: an AMR Inspector for Cross-language Alignments
    • A framework for (under) specifying dependency syntax without overloading annotators
    • An Algerian Arabic-French Code-Switched Corpus
    • Understanding Objects in Detail with Fine-grained Attributes
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    • The Parable of the Prinia's Egg: An Allegory for AI Science
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    • Against Monodomainism
    • What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
    • Model Scheduling
    • Understanding Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Sudden Drops in the Loss: Syntax Acquisition, Phase Transitions, and Simplicity Bias in MLMs

Jan 1, 2024·
Angelica Chen
,
Ravid Schwartz-Ziv
,
Kyunghyun Cho
,
Matthew Leavitt
Naomi Saphra
Naomi Saphra
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International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
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