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Overfitting and Generalization Issues in BERT Fine-Tuning
A key challenge in fine-tuning BERT is the risk of overfitting to new task-specific data, which can impair the model's ability to generalize. This issue can manifest as a degradation in performance on an original task after the model has been fine-tuned for a new one. For example, a BERT model that performs well on a specific task might see its performance on that original task decrease after being adapted for a new application. This problem is closely related to catastrophic forgetting.
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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models Course
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Ch.1 Pre-training - Foundations of Large Language Models
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Overfitting and Generalization Issues in BERT Fine-Tuning
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Catastrophic Forgetting in Fine-Tuning
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