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Gabriele Prato

pratogab@mila.quebec
PhD - Université de Montréal
Supervisor
Sarath Chandar Anbil Parthipan
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EpiK-Eval: Evaluation for Language Models as Epistemic Models
Gabriele Prato
Jerry Huang
Prasanna Parthasarathi
Shagun Sodhani
Sarath Chandar Anbil Parthipan
In the age of artificial intelligence, the role of large language models (LLMs) is becoming increasingly central. Despite their growing prev… (see more)alence, their capacity to consolidate knowledge from different training documents—a crucial ability in numerous applications—remains unexplored. This paper presents the first study examining the capability of LLMs to effectively combine such information within their parameter space. We introduce EpiK-Eval, a novel question-answering benchmark tailored to evaluate LLMs' proficiency in formulating a coherent and consistent knowledge representation from segmented narratives. Evaluations across various LLMs reveal significant weaknesses in this domain. We contend that these shortcomings stem from the intrinsic nature of prevailing training objectives. Consequently, we advocate for refining the approach towards knowledge consolidation, as it harbors the potential to dramatically improve their overall effectiveness and performance. The findings from this study offer insights for developing more robust and reliable LLMs. Our code and benchmark are available at https://github.com/chandar-lab/EpiK-Eval
2023-10-07
EMNLP/2023/Conference (accepted)
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PatchBlender: A Motion Prior for Video Transformers
Gabriele Prato
Yale Song
Janarthanan Rajendran
(Rex) Devon Hjelm
Neel Joshi
Sarath Chandar Anbil Parthipan
2022-11-11
ArXiv (preprint)
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Scaling Laws for the Few-Shot Adaptation of Pre-trained Image Classifiers
Gabriele Prato
Simon Guiroy
Ethan Caballero
Irina Rish
Sarath Chandar Anbil Parthipan
Empirical science of neural scaling laws is a rapidly growing area of significant importance to the future of machine learning, particularly… (see more) in the light of recent breakthroughs achieved by large-scale pre-trained models such as GPT-3, CLIP and DALL-e. Accurately predicting the neural network performance with increasing resources such as data, compute and model size provides a more comprehensive evaluation of different approaches across multiple scales, as opposed to traditional point-wise comparisons of fixed-size models on fixed-size benchmarks, and, most importantly, allows for focus on the best-scaling, and thus most promising in the future, approaches. In this work, we consider a challenging problem of few-shot learning in image classification, especially when the target data distribution in the few-shot phase is different from the source, training, data distribution, in a sense that it includes new image classes not encountered during training. Our current main goal is to investigate how the amount of pre-training data affects the few-shot generalization performance of standard image classifiers. Our key observations are that (1) such performance improvements are well-approximated by power laws (linear log-log plots) as the training set size increases, (2) this applies to both cases of target data coming from either the same or from a different domain (i.e., new classes) as the training data, and (3) few-shot performance on new classes converges at a faster rate than the standard classification performance on previously seen classes. Our findings shed new light on the relationship between scale and generalization.
2021-10-13
ArXiv (preprint)
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