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GPT-Neo for commonsense reasoning -- a theoretical and practical lens

28 Nov 2022arXiv:2211.15593archive 2025-07-28

Rohan Kashyap, Vivek Kashyap, Narendra C. P.

Recent work has demonstrated substantial gains in pre-training large-language models (LLMs) followed by supervised fine-tuning on the downstream task. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of the GPT-neo model using 6 commonsense reasoning benchmark tasks. We aim to examine the performance of smaller models using the GPT-neo models against several larger model baselines such as GPT-3, Llama-2, MPT and Falcon. Upon fine-tuning with the appropriate set of hyperparameters, our model achieves competitive accuracy on several tasks. We also investigate and substantiate our results using attention-head visualization to better understand the model performance. Finally, we conduct various robustness tests using various methods to gauge the model performance under numerous settings.

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AdamAttentionAttention DropoutBPECosine AnnealingDense ConnectionsDiscriminative Fine-TuningDropoutGPT-2GPT-3GPT-NeoLayer NormalizationLinear LayerLinear Warmup With Cosine AnnealingMulti-Head AttentionResidual ConnectionSoftmaxWeight Decay

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