Codes for <Do You Have the Right Scissors? Tailoring Pre-trained Language Models via Monte-Carlo Methods>. MC-tailor is a Monte-Carlo based method aimed to improve language-model finetuning. It consists of a ratio estimator and a sampler. Please refer to our paper for details.

• python 3.7
• tensorflow 1.13
• toposort
• Please download GPT-2 small (117M) and put it under ./model

All datasets used in our paper are attached here. Please don't forget to cite corresponding papers if you are going to use them.

• Firstly, perform finetuning (as baseline and the base model for tailoring)
  python3 Tailor_SMC.py/Tailor_ERS.py --finetune
• To evaluate finetuning model
  python3 Tailor_SMC.py/Tailor_ERS.py --evaluate_finetune
• To perform tailoring
  python3 Tailor_SMC.py/Tailor_ERS.py --train_tailor
• To evaluate the tailor
  python3 Tailor_SMC.py/Tailor_ERS.py --evaluate_tailor