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ArticleAMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science2023

Context Variance Evaluation of Pretrained Language Models for Prompt-based Biomedical Knowledge Probing.

Zonghai Yao, Yi Cao, Zhichao Yang, Hong Yu

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Article in AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. SYNFAC-EDIT: Synthetic Imitation Edit Feedback for Factual Alignment in Clinical Summarization.Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2024
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  4. Multi-label Few-shot ICD Coding as Autoregressive Generation with Prompt.Proceedings of the ... AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2023
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Zonghai YaoCollege of Information and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
Yi CaoCollege of Information and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
Zhichao YangCollege of Information and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
Hong YuCollege of Information and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.

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Abstract

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have motivated research on what kinds of knowledge these models learn. Fill-in-the-blanks problem (e.g., cloze tests) is a natural approach for gauging such knowledge. BioLAMA generates prompts for biomedical factual knowledge triples and uses the Top-k accuracy metric to evaluate different PLMs' knowledge. However, existing research has shown that such prompt-based knowledge probing methods can only probe a lower bound of knowledge. Many factors like prompt-based probing biases make the LAMA benchmark unreliable and unstable. This problem is more prominent in BioLAMA. The severe long-tailed distribution in vocabulary and large-N-M relation make the performance gap between LAMA and BioLAMA remain notable. To address these, we introduced context variance into the prompt generation and proposed a new rank-change-based evaluation metric. Different from the previous known-unknown evaluation criteria, we proposed the concept of "Misunderstand" in LAMA for the first time. Through experiments on 12 PLMs, we showed that our context variance prompts and Understand-Confuse-Misunderstand (UCM) metric make BioLAMA more friendly to large-N-M relations and rare relations. We also conducted a set of control experiments to disentangle "understand" from just "read and copy".

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