Pretrained language models have achieved remarkable success in various
natural language processing tasks. However, pretraining has recently shifted
toward larger models and larger data, and this has resulted in significant
computational and energy costs. In this paper, we propose Influence Subset
Selection (ISS) for language model, which explicitly utilizes end-task
knowledge to select a tiny subset of the pretraining corpus. Specifically, the
ISS selects the samples that will provide the most positive influence on the
performance of the end-task. Furthermore, we design a gradient matching based
influence estimation method, which can drastically reduce the computation time
of influence. With only 0.45% of the data and a three-orders-of-magnitude lower
computational cost, ISS outperformed pretrained models (e.g., RoBERTa) on eight
datasets covering four domains.

本文提出了一种基于 Influence Subset Selection（ISS）的方法，利用端到端任务知识选择一个较小的语言模型预训练语料库子集，并以较低的计算成本获得与 RoBERTa 等大型预训练模型相媲美的性能。