@inproceedings{rozanova-etal-2023-interventional,
title = "Interventional Probing in High Dimensions: An {NLI} Case Study",
author = "Rozanova, Julia and
Valentino, Marco and
Cordeiro, Lucas and
Freitas, Andr{\'e}",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-eacl.188",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-eacl.188",
pages = "2489--2500",
abstract = "Probing strategies have been shown to detectthe presence of various linguistic features inlarge language models; in particular, seman-tic features intermediate to the {``}natural logic{''}fragment of the Natural Language Inferencetask (NLI). In the case of natural logic, the rela-tion between the intermediate features and theentailment label is explicitly known: as such,this provides a ripe setting for interventionalstudies on the NLI models{'} representations, al-lowing for stronger causal conjectures and adeeper critical analysis of interventional prob-ing methods. In this work, we carry out newand existing representation-level interventionsto investigate the effect of these semantic fea-tures on NLI classification: we perform am-nesic probing (which removes features as di-rected by learned linear probes) and introducethe mnestic probing variation (which forgetsall dimensions except the probe-selected ones).Furthermore, we delve into the limitations ofthese methods and outline some pitfalls havebeen obscuring the effectivity of interventionalprobing studies.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Interventional Probing in High Dimensions: An NLI Case Study
%A Rozanova, Julia
%A Valentino, Marco
%A Cordeiro, Lucas
%A Freitas, André
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023
%D 2023
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Dubrovnik, Croatia
%F rozanova-etal-2023-interventional
%X Probing strategies have been shown to detectthe presence of various linguistic features inlarge language models; in particular, seman-tic features intermediate to the “natural logic”fragment of the Natural Language Inferencetask (NLI). In the case of natural logic, the rela-tion between the intermediate features and theentailment label is explicitly known: as such,this provides a ripe setting for interventionalstudies on the NLI models’ representations, al-lowing for stronger causal conjectures and adeeper critical analysis of interventional prob-ing methods. In this work, we carry out newand existing representation-level interventionsto investigate the effect of these semantic fea-tures on NLI classification: we perform am-nesic probing (which removes features as di-rected by learned linear probes) and introducethe mnestic probing variation (which forgetsall dimensions except the probe-selected ones).Furthermore, we delve into the limitations ofthese methods and outline some pitfalls havebeen obscuring the effectivity of interventionalprobing studies.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-eacl.188
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-eacl.188
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-eacl.188
%P 2489-2500
Markdown (Informal)
[Interventional Probing in High Dimensions: An NLI Case Study](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-eacl.188) (Rozanova et al., Findings 2023)
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