ProxyLM: Predicting Language Model Performance on Multilingual Tasks via Proxy Models

Performance prediction is a method to estimate the performance of Language Models (LMs) on various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, mitigating computational costs associated with model capacity and data for fine-tuning. Our paper presents ProxyLM, a scalable task- and language-agnostic frame...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-12
Main Authors: Anugraha, David, Genta Indra Winata, Li, Chenyue, Irawan, Patrick Amadeus, En-Shiun Annie Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computing costs
Error analysis
Iterative methods
Natural language processing
Performance prediction
Root-mean-square errors
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Summary:Performance prediction is a method to estimate the performance of Language Models (LMs) on various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, mitigating computational costs associated with model capacity and data for fine-tuning. Our paper presents ProxyLM, a scalable task- and language-agnostic framework designed to predict the performance of LMs using proxy models. These proxy models act as surrogates, approximating the performance of the LM of interest. By leveraging these proxy models, ProxyLM significantly reduces computational overhead in task evaluations, achieving up to a 37.08x speedup over traditional methods, even with our smallest proxy models. Our results across multiple multilingual NLP tasks and various robustness tests demonstrate that ProxyLM not only adapts well to previously unseen languages in pre-trained LMs, but also generalizes effectively across different datasets, outperforming the state-of-the-art by at least 1.78x in terms of root-mean-square error (RMSE).
ISSN:2331-8422