BiKT: Enabling Bidirectional Knowledge Transfer Between Pretrained Models and Sequential Downstream Tasks (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing frameworks adapt from initial pretrained model to each downstream task directly, but ignore sequential nature of downstream tasks and feedback effect on pretrained models. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to enable bidirectional knowledge transfer between pretrained models and downstream tasks in rounds. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on 9 GLUE datasets and 6 SuperGLUEs. |
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