Chen, Lichang
(2023)
PTP: Boosting Stability and Performance of Prompt Tuning with Perturbation-Based Regularizer.
Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Recent studies show that prompt tuning can better leverage the power of large language models than fine-tuning on downstream natural language understanding tasks. However, the existing prompt tuning methods have training instability issues, as the variance of scores under different random seeds is quite large. To address this critical problem, we first investigate and find that the loss landscape of vanilla prompt tuning is precipitous when it is visualized, where a slight change of input data can cause a big fluctuation in the loss landscape. This is an essential factor that leads to the instability of prompt tuning. Based on this observation, we introduce perturbation-based regularizers, which can smooth the loss landscape, into prompt tuning. We propose a new algorithm, called Prompt Tuning with Perturbation-based regularizer (PTP), which can not only alleviate training instability dramatically but also boost the performance of prompt tuning. We design two kinds of perturbation-based regularizers, including random-noise-based and adversarial-based. In particular, our proposed perturbations are flexible on both text space and embedding space. Extensive experiments show the effectiveness of our proposed methods in stabilizing the training. Our new algorithms improve the state-of-the-art prompt tuning methods by 1.94% and 2.34% on SuperGLUE and FewGLUE benchmarks, respectively.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
13 June 2023 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
12 April 2023 |
| Approval Date: |
13 June 2023 |
| Submission Date: |
27 March 2023 |
| Access Restriction: |
1 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 1 year. |
| Number of Pages: |
20 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Swanson School of Engineering > Computer Engineering |
| Degree: |
MS - Master of Science |
| Thesis Type: |
Master's Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing |
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| Date Deposited: |
13 Jun 2023 14:18 |
| Last Modified: |
13 Jun 2024 05:15 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/44340 |
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