Challenge: Using hidden representations, pretrained language models are prone to overfitting due to the huge amount of parameters.
Approach: They propose a method that inserts random autoencoders between hidden layers of a PLM to transform activations from the previous layers into multi-view compressed representations before feeding them into the upper layers.
Outcome: The proposed method improves performance across sequence- and token-level lowresource tasks.

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