Challenge: Existing methods for fine-tuning pre-trained language models are ineffective, despite their potential, pre-training models suffer from important weaknesses.
Approach: They analyze the extent to which the isotropy of the embedding space changes after fine-tuning.
Outcome: The proposed model improves the isotropy of embedding space after fine-tuning . the model can encode linguistic properties, but lacks the social bias needed to improve it .

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