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title = "A Comprehensive Analysis of Memorization in Large Language Models",
author = "Kiyomaru, Hirokazu and
Sugiura, Issa and
Kawahara, Daisuke and
Kurohashi, Sadao",
editor = "Mahamood, Saad and
Minh, Nguyen Le and
Ippolito, Daphne",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference",
month = sep,
year = "2024",
address = "Tokyo, Japan",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.inlg-main.45",
pages = "584--596",
abstract = "This paper presents a comprehensive study that investigates memorization in large language models (LLMs) from multiple perspectives. Experiments are conducted with the Pythia and LLM-jp model suites, both of which offer LLMs with over 10B parameters and full access to their pre-training corpora. Our findings include: (1) memorization is more likely to occur with larger model sizes, longer prompt lengths, and frequent texts, which aligns with findings in previous studies; (2) memorization is less likely to occur for texts not trained during the latter stages of training, even if they frequently appear in the training corpus; (3) the standard methodology for judging memorization can yield false positives, and texts that are infrequent yet flagged as memorized typically result from causes other than true memorization.",
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%T A Comprehensive Analysis of Memorization in Large Language Models
%A Kiyomaru, Hirokazu
%A Sugiura, Issa
%A Kawahara, Daisuke
%A Kurohashi, Sadao
%Y Mahamood, Saad
%Y Minh, Nguyen Le
%Y Ippolito, Daphne
%S Proceedings of the 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference
%D 2024
%8 September
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Tokyo, Japan
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%X This paper presents a comprehensive study that investigates memorization in large language models (LLMs) from multiple perspectives. Experiments are conducted with the Pythia and LLM-jp model suites, both of which offer LLMs with over 10B parameters and full access to their pre-training corpora. Our findings include: (1) memorization is more likely to occur with larger model sizes, longer prompt lengths, and frequent texts, which aligns with findings in previous studies; (2) memorization is less likely to occur for texts not trained during the latter stages of training, even if they frequently appear in the training corpus; (3) the standard methodology for judging memorization can yield false positives, and texts that are infrequent yet flagged as memorized typically result from causes other than true memorization.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.inlg-main.45
%P 584-596
Markdown (Informal)
[A Comprehensive Analysis of Memorization in Large Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2024.inlg-main.45) (Kiyomaru et al., INLG 2024)
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