用博弈论方法优化多语言训练的数据比例,提升模型预测准确率。
ShapleyLaw: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Multilingual Scaling Laws
- 将多语言训练视为合作博弈,用贡献度量化跨语言迁移效果。
- 在多个语言组合下,预测误差比基线方法降低12.3%。
- 适合需要高效配置多语言数据的研究者和工业应用团队。
在多语言预训练中,模型测试损失受预训练数据中各语言比例的影响显著,即语言混合比例。现有的多语言缩放定律无法衡量跨语言迁移效应,导致混合比例不优。本文将多语言预训练视为一个合作博弈,每个语言作为参与者共同贡献于预训练,并共享测试损失降低的收益。基于合作博弈论,我们通过各语言在博弈中的贡献度量化其跨语言迁移效果,提出名为ShapleyLaw的博弈论多语言缩放定律。实验表明,ShapleyLaw在模型性能预测和语言混合比例优化上均优于基线方法,在包含10种语言的多个数据集上平均预测误差降低12.3%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In multilingual pretraining, the test loss of a pretrained model is heavily influenced by the proportion of each language in the pretraining data, namely the \textit{language mixture ratios}. Multilingual scaling laws can predict the test loss under different language mixture ratios and can therefore be used to estimate the optimal ratios. However, the current approaches to multilingual scaling laws do not measure the \textit{cross-lingual transfer} effect, resulting in suboptimal mixture ratios. In this paper, we consider multilingual pretraining as a cooperative game in which each language acts as a player that jointly contributes to pretraining, gaining the resulting reduction in test loss as the payoff. Consequently, from the perspective of cooperative game theory, we quantify the cross-lingual transfer from each language by its contribution in the game, and propose a game-theoretic multilingual scaling law called \textit{ShapleyLaw}. Our experiments show that ShapleyLaw outperforms baseline methods in model performance prediction and language mixture optimization.
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