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20182026
most citedThe Flan Collection: Designing Data and Methods for Effective Instruction Tuning

113 citations · 164 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2026

Dense Supervision Is Not Enough: The Readout Blind Spot in Looped Language Models

Rituraj Sharma, Tu Vu

Looped language models turn hidden states into runtime state: each state is decoded for prediction and fed back into future computation. This creates a basic supervision question:…

cs.LG2024

What Matters for Model Merging at Scale?

Prateek Yadav, Tu Vu, Jonathan Lai +4

Model merging aims to combine multiple expert models into a more capable single model, offering benefits such as reduced storage and serving costs, improved generalization, and sup…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

FreshLLMs: Refreshing Large Language Models with Search Engine Augmentation

Tu Vu, Mohit Iyyer, Xuezhi Wang +8

Most large language models (LLMs) are trained once and never updated; thus, they lack the ability to dynamically adapt to our ever-changing world. In this work, we perform a detail…

cs.CL2023★ 20 cited

Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning:A Winning Combination for Large Language Models

Sheng Shen, Le Hou, Yanqi Zhou +17

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a neural architecture design that can be utilized to add learnable parameters to Large Language Models (LLMs) without increasing inference cost.…

cs.AI2023★ 113 cited

The Flan Collection: Designing Data and Methods for Effective Instruction Tuning

Shayne Longpre, Le Hou, Tu Vu +8

We study the design decisions of publicly available instruction tuning methods, and break down the development of Flan 2022 (Chung et al., 2022). Through careful ablation studies o…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Dialect-robust Evaluation of Generated Text

Jiao Sun, Thibault Sellam, Elizabeth Clark +6

Evaluation metrics that are not robust to dialect variation make it impossible to tell how well systems perform for many groups of users, and can even penalize systems for producin…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Generation

Tu Vu, Aditya Barua, Brian Lester +3

In this paper, we explore the challenging problem of performing a generative task in a target language when labeled data is only available in English, using summarization as a case…

cs.CL2022

Leveraging QA Datasets to Improve Generative Data Augmentation

Dheeraj Mekala, Tu Vu, Timo Schick +1

The ability of generative language models (GLMs) to generate text has improved considerably in the last few years, enabling their use for generative data augmentation. In this work…

cs.CL2021

SPoT: Better Frozen Model Adaptation through Soft Prompt Transfer

Tu Vu, Brian Lester, Noah Constant +2

There has been growing interest in parameter-efficient methods to apply pre-trained language models to downstream tasks. Building on the Prompt Tuning approach of Lester et al. (20…

cs.CL2021

STraTA: Self-Training with Task Augmentation for Better Few-shot Learning

Tu Vu, Minh-Thang Luong, Quoc V. Le +2

Despite their recent successes in tackling many NLP tasks, large-scale pre-trained language models do not perform as well in few-shot settings where only a handful of training exam…

cs.CL2020★ 11 cited

Exploring and Predicting Transferability across NLP Tasks

Tu Vu, Tong Wang, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai +5

Recent advances in NLP demonstrate the effectiveness of training large-scale language models and transferring them to downstream tasks. Can fine-tuning these models on tasks other…

cs.CL2019

Encouraging Paragraph Embeddings to Remember Sentence Identity Improves Classification

Tu Vu, Mohit Iyyer

While paragraph embedding models are remarkably effective for downstream classification tasks, what they learn and encode into a single vector remains opaque. In this paper, we inv…

cs.CL2018★ 3 cited

Integrating Multiplicative Features into Supervised Distributional Methods for Lexical Entailment

Tu Vu, Vered Shwartz

Supervised distributional methods are applied successfully in lexical entailment, but recent work questioned whether these methods actually learn a relation between two words. Spec…

cs.CL2018★ 7 cited

Sentence Simplification with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks

Tu Vu, Baotian Hu, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai +1

Sentence simplification aims to simplify the content and structure of complex sentences, and thus make them easier to interpret for human readers, and easier to process for downstr…