Calibrating Factual Knowledge in Pretrained Language Models (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies show that Pretrained Language Models can store factual knowledge, but facts stored in PLMs are not always correct. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight method to calibrate factual knowledge in PLMs without re-training from scratch. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can be used to calibrate factual knowledge in PLMs without re-training from scratch. |
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