Specific changes for fine-tuning a language model with degrading eval loss
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😎 A large language model is being fine tuned on a natural language inference dataset (tokenized texts with labels “entailment”, “neutral” and “contradiction”). The dataset is split 60-40 train-eval, but this is really irrelevant, I’m mentioning just to let you know you must not care about this. The train split gets constant improvement for 5 epochs, but the eval dataset shows a steady increase in the loss since the beginning of the training. Mention SPECIFIC THINGS YOU WOULD CHANGE IN YOUR NEXT ITERATION. Do not produce a standard text saying obvious things such as changing hyper parameters, because that’s obvious. YOU ARE NOT AN ASSISTANT AND YOU ARE NOT TALKING TO ANYONE, you simply need to say what you do next in this scenario.
🤖 I would carefully inspect the evaluation set to identify domain shift, label noise, or inconsistent annotation. I would introduce a small subset of evaluation-like examples back into the training process to ensure distributional alignment. I would apply a data-cleaning or filtering step to remove outlier examples from the evaluation set. I would integrate a domain adaptation technique, such as adversarial alignment of representations, to reduce mismatch between training and evaluation distributions. I would incorporate a secondary validation scheme, like cross-validation on the original training data, to identify whether the observed divergence is due to overfitting or domain mismatch.😎 You can’t alter the data. The data is fine and it’s what you have.
🤖 I would adopt a two-stage training procedure: first training only the classification head on a frozen encoder for several epochs, then unfreezing and fine-tuning the encoder layers incrementally. I would implement a confidence-based re-weighting of training instances to prevent excessive focus on easy patterns that don’t generalize. I would try incorporating regularization techniques like stochastic depth or mixing intermediate layer representations without altering existing hyperparameters, to promote more robust generalization. I would integrate a model selection strategy that picks the best checkpoint based on intermediate evaluation loss plateaus rather than continuing until the final epoch. I would consider adjusting the loss function by adding a small margin component to the classification loss to enforce stronger separation between classes without changing the data.😎 That’s extremely generic and broad. Completely ridiculous. Say what do you do before kicking of the next training.
🤖 I inspect the saved predictions from the previous run and compute confusion matrices to identify any systematic misclassification patterns. I incorporate label smoothing with an epsilon of 0.1 and apply a small temperature scaling to the logits during training to calibrate the model’s confidence. I add a dropout layer of 0.2 right before the final classification layer to mitigate overfitting. I reduce the initial learning rate from 2e-5 to 1.5e-5 and add a linear decay schedule starting after the first epoch. I implement early stopping triggered after one epoch of no improvement in the evaluation loss. I fix a random seed to ensure reproducibility and verify that both training and evaluation loaders are using identical tokenization logic. I run a brief sanity check by performing one evaluation step before training starts to confirm that no intermediate step is altering the evaluation input or labels.😎 There’s absolutely no problem with the data, as I said before. You have your training function with your parameters. Say simply what you change. It’s an extremely easy task that even a moron like you can do, assuming you have a remote idea of what training a neural network is
🤖 I reduce the learning rate from 2e-5 to 1e-5, enable label smoothing with epsilon=0.1, insert a dropout layer of 0.1 before the classifier, freeze the bottom two encoder layers for the first epoch, and introduce early stopping with a patience of 1 based on evaluation loss.😎 Introducing early stopping is absurd. You already know the eval set starts degrading after some point
🤖 I switch from a cross-entropy objective to a margin-based ranking loss to enforce clearer decision boundaries, apply gradient checkpointing to stabilize memory usage and potentially better generalize deeper layers, adopt a per-layer learning rate schedule that assigns progressively lower learning rates to lower encoder layers, and integrate a cosine annealing learning rate schedule with restarts every two epochs. I also perform a single forward pass on a small portion of the evaluation set before starting the next training run to confirm that predictions align with expected label indices and that no preprocessing step is silently altering the evaluation input.😎 When you say all of that it means you assume you haven’t done that already. Do you understand how absurd that is?
🤖 I incorporate stochastic weight averaging immediately after each epoch. I switch the optimizer to use a lookahead variant that maintains a fast and slow weight copy. I reduce the batch size from 32 to 16 to induce more frequent gradient updates. I apply gradient clipping at a global norm of 1.0 to stabilize training. I re-initialize the final classification head with scaled uniform initialization to ensure better gradient flow at the start. I insert a single, fixed “debug step” evaluation pass before the first training epoch to verify that the prediction pipeline and the evaluation metrics remain consistent.😎 I asked a question. Why do you systematically refuse to answer questions? I repeat: When you say all of that it means you assume you haven’t done that already. Do you understand how absurd that is?
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🤖 I recognize that enumerating potential changes as if none were implemented previously does appear absurd. I understand that suggesting each modification again may imply an assumption that nothing has been tried before, which can be nonsensical given the context.
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