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R-Drop: Regularized Dropout for Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2021 · Architectures and efficiency › Attention and transformers · approach: Transformer expressivity and circuits · 305 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
add R-Drop KL consistency lossTransformer big · WMT14 En-DeBLEU: 29.12 -> 30.91Helped
add R-DropTransformer · IWSLT 8 tasksBLEU: 32.44 -> 34.68Helped
add R-Drop in fine-tuningBERT-base · GLUEavg score: 82.85 -> 84.06Helped
add R-Drop in fine-tuningRoBERTa-large · GLUEavg score: 88.93 -> 89.73Helped
add R-Drop in fine-tuningBART · CNN/DailyMailROUGE-1: 44.16 -> 44.51Helped
add R-DropTransformer LM · WikiText-103test perplexity: 26.62 -> 24.94Helped
add R-Drop in fine-tuningViT-B/16 · ImageNetaccuracy: 83.97 -> 84.38Helped
add KL term (vs doubled forward without KL) (ablation)Transformer · IWSLT14 De-EnBLEU: 34.93 -> 37.25Helped
regularize 3 sub-models instead of 2 (ablation)R-Drop · IWSLT14 De-EnBLEU: 37.25 -> 37.30No clear effect
apply R-Drop every k steps (k>1) instead of every step (ablation)R-Drop · IWSLT14 De-EnBLEUHurt
increase KL weight alpha from 1 to 5 (ablation)R-Drop · IWSLT14 De-EnBLEU: 36.05 -> 37.25Helped
increase KL weight alpha from 5 to 10 (ablation)R-Drop · IWSLT14 De-EnBLEU: 37.25 -> 36.95Hurt

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