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Diminishing Returns Shape Constraints for Interpretability and Regularization
Maya Gupta, Dara Bahri, Andrew Cotter, Kevin Canini
Similarly, a model that predicts the time it will take a customer to grocery shop should decrease in the number of cashiers, but each addedcashierreduces average wait time by less. In both cases, we would like to be able to incorporate this prior knowledge by constraining the machine learned model's output to have a diminishing returns response to the size of the apartment or number of cashiers.
Language Model Tokenizers Introduce Unfairness Between Languages
Recent language models have shown impressive multilingual performance, even when not explicitly trained for it. Despite this, there are concerns about the quality of their outputs across different languages. In this paper, we show how disparity in the treatment of different languages arises at the tokenization stage, well before a model is even invoked. The same text translated into different languages can have drastically different tok-enization lengths, with differences up to 15 times in some cases. These disparities persist even for tokenizers that are intentionally trained for multilingual support.