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title = "Mixture-of-Linguistic-Experts Adapters for Improving and Interpreting Pre-trained Language Models",
author = "Li, Raymond and
Murray, Gabriel and
Carenini, Giuseppe",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.634/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.634",
pages = "9456--9469",
abstract = "In this work, we propose a method that combines two popular research areas by injecting linguistic structures into pre-trained language models in the parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) setting. In our approach, parallel adapter modules encoding different linguistic structures are combined using a novel Mixture-of-Linguistic-Experts architecture, where Gumbel-Softmax gates are used to determine the importance of these modules at each layer of the model. To reduce the number of parameters, we first train the model for a fixed small number of steps before pruning the experts based on their important scores. Our experiment results with three different pre-trained models show that our approach can outperform state-of-the-art PEFT methods with a comparable number of parameters. In addition, we provide additional analysis to examine the experts selected by each model at each layer to provide insights for future studies."
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%A Carenini, Giuseppe
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%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
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%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
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Markdown (Informal)
[Mixture-of-Linguistic-Experts Adapters for Improving and Interpreting Pre-trained Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.634/) (Li et al., Findings 2023)
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