Anchor function: a type of benchmark functions for studying language models

Understand

Understanding transformer-based language models is becoming increasingly crucial, particularly as they play pivotal roles in advancing towards artificial general intelligence.

• However, language model research faces significant challenges, especially for academic research groups with constrained resources.
• These challenges include complex data structures, unknown target functions, high computational costs and memory requirements, and a lack of interpretability in the inference process, etc.
• Drawing a parallel to the use of simple models in scientific research, we propose the concept of an anchor function.