Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer

Raffel et al., 2020, Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer (Journal of Machine Learning Research)

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3. Experiments

  1. How did the T5 study explore the design space?
    “Coordinate ascent”: start from a reasonable baseline and change one factor at a time (architecture, objective, data, training strategy, scale), which may miss interactions but avoids an infeasible combinatorial search.

Source

  • Colin Raffel, Noam Shazeer, Adam Roberts, Katherine Lee, Sharan Narang, Michael Matena, Yanqi Zhou, Wei Li and Peter J. Liu. 2020. Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer. In Journal of Machine Learning Research, pp. 1–67. License: CC BY 4.0. Flashcards adapted from this work. https://jmlr.org/papers/v21/20-074.html