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Implement and perform the interpretability analysis of the BigScience models

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
pytorch, scikit-learn

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked BigScience models, interpretability papers, probing-classifier survey, and BERTology primer, then use the SentEval coding challenge to perform a diagnostic classification study of a GPT-like model. Discuss the analysis results with mentor @oserikov and define the final model coverage and interpretability results before proceeding.

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Description

duration: scalable, can be both 175 and 350 hours
mentor: @oserikov
difficulty: easy
requirements:

  1. pytorch
  2. sklearn
  3. experience with re-using the academic code
  4. experience with Transformer Language models

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Idea Description:

During the season 2021/22, the BigScience team reached several crucial milestones by producing large-scale transformer language models. Some of them even come with the training checkpoints archived, thus allowing to study the emergence of the structures in language models. During this task, we propose to cover the released models with the supplementary interpretability information by applying classical XAI and probing methods described in the attached papers.

Coding Challenge

To better feel what the interpretability work looks like, we ask you to perform a diagnostic classification study of the GPT-like language model, using the SentEval data. Reach out to mentors as soon as possible to discuss the analysis results.

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