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Augmenting interpretable models with large language models during training

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Chandan Singh *
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Armin Askari
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Rich Caruana
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Jianfeng Gao
DOI:10.1038/s41467-023-43713-1delete
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Recent large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have demonstrated remarkable prediction performance for a growing array of tasks. However, their proliferation into high-stakes domains and compute-limited settings has created a burgeoning need for interpretability and efficiency. We address this need by proposing Aug-imodels, a framework for leveraging the knowledge learned by LLMs to build extremely efficient and interpretable prediction models. Aug-imodels use LLMs during fitting but not during inference, allowing complete transparency and often a speed/memory improvement of greater than 1000x for inference compared to LLMs. We explore two instantiations of Aug-imodels in natural-language processing: Aug-Linear, which augments a linear model with decoupled embeddings from an LLM and Aug-Tree, which augments a decision tree with LLM feature expansions. Across a variety of text-classification datasets, both outperform their non-augmented, interpretable counterparts. Aug-Linear can even outperform much larger models, e.g. a 6-billion parameter GPT-J model, despite having 10,000x fewer parameters and being fully transparent. We further explore Aug-imodels in a natural-language fMRI study, where they generate interesting interpretations from scientific data. Prediction and interpretation tasks may be challenging in high-stakes applications, such as medical decision-making, or systems with compute-limited hardware. The authors introduce an augmented framework for leveraging the knowledge learned by Large Language Models to build interpretable models which are both accurate and efficient.
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