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Auteurs principaux: Cho, Sangyeon, Jeon, Jangyeong, Lee, Dongjoon, Lee, Changhee, Kim, Junyeong
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Publié: 2024
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14904
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author Cho, Sangyeon
Jeon, Jangyeong
Lee, Dongjoon
Lee, Changhee
Kim, Junyeong
author_facet Cho, Sangyeon
Jeon, Jangyeong
Lee, Dongjoon
Lee, Changhee
Kim, Junyeong
contents The use of pre-trained language models fine-tuned to address specific downstream tasks is a common approach in natural language processing (NLP). However, acquiring domain-specific knowledge via fine-tuning is challenging. Traditional methods involve pretraining language models using vast amounts of domain-specific data before fine-tuning for particular tasks. This study investigates emergency/non-emergency classification tasks based on electronic medical record (EMR) data obtained from pediatric emergency departments (PEDs) in Korea. Our findings reveal that existing domain-specific pre-trained language models underperform compared to general language models in handling N-lingual free-text data characteristics of non-English-speaking regions. To address these limitations, we propose a domain knowledge transfer methodology that leverages knowledge distillation to infuse general language models with domain-specific knowledge via fine-tuning. This study demonstrates the effective transfer of specialized knowledge between models by defining a general language model as the student model and a domain-specific pre-trained model as the teacher model. In particular, we address the complexities of EMR data obtained from PEDs in non-English-speaking regions, such as Korea, and demonstrate that the proposed method enhances classification performance in such contexts. The proposed methodology not only outperforms baseline models on Korean PED EMR data, but also promises broader applicability in various professional and technical domains. In future works, we intend to extend this methodology to include diverse non-English-speaking regions and address additional downstream tasks, with the aim of developing advanced model architectures using state-of-the-art KD techniques. The code is available in https://github.com/JoSangYeon/DSG-KD.
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spellingShingle DSG-KD: Knowledge Distillation from Domain-Specific to General Language Models
Cho, Sangyeon
Jeon, Jangyeong
Lee, Dongjoon
Lee, Changhee
Kim, Junyeong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
The use of pre-trained language models fine-tuned to address specific downstream tasks is a common approach in natural language processing (NLP). However, acquiring domain-specific knowledge via fine-tuning is challenging. Traditional methods involve pretraining language models using vast amounts of domain-specific data before fine-tuning for particular tasks. This study investigates emergency/non-emergency classification tasks based on electronic medical record (EMR) data obtained from pediatric emergency departments (PEDs) in Korea. Our findings reveal that existing domain-specific pre-trained language models underperform compared to general language models in handling N-lingual free-text data characteristics of non-English-speaking regions. To address these limitations, we propose a domain knowledge transfer methodology that leverages knowledge distillation to infuse general language models with domain-specific knowledge via fine-tuning. This study demonstrates the effective transfer of specialized knowledge between models by defining a general language model as the student model and a domain-specific pre-trained model as the teacher model. In particular, we address the complexities of EMR data obtained from PEDs in non-English-speaking regions, such as Korea, and demonstrate that the proposed method enhances classification performance in such contexts. The proposed methodology not only outperforms baseline models on Korean PED EMR data, but also promises broader applicability in various professional and technical domains. In future works, we intend to extend this methodology to include diverse non-English-speaking regions and address additional downstream tasks, with the aim of developing advanced model architectures using state-of-the-art KD techniques. The code is available in https://github.com/JoSangYeon/DSG-KD.
title DSG-KD: Knowledge Distillation from Domain-Specific to General Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14904