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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…
Large Language Models as Optimizers
Chengrun Yang, Xuezhi Wang, Yifeng Lu +4
Optimization is ubiquitous. While derivative-based algorithms have been powerful tools for various problems, the absence of gradient imposes challenges on many real-world applicati…
Simple synthetic data reduces sycophancy in large language models
Jerry Wei, Da Huang, Yifeng Lu +2
Sycophancy is an undesirable behavior where models tailor their responses to follow a human user's view even when that view is not objectively correct (e.g., adapting liberal views…
Not All Semantics are Created Equal: Contrastive Self-supervised Learning with Automatic Temperature Individualization
Zi-Hao Qiu, Quanqi Hu, Zhuoning Yuan +3
In this paper, we aim to optimize a contrastive loss with individualized temperatures in a principled and systematic manner for self-supervised learning. The common practice of usi…
Large Language Models as Tool Makers
Tianle Cai, Xuezhi Wang, Tengyu Ma +2
Recent research has highlighted the potential of large language models (LLMs) to improve their problem-solving capabilities with the aid of suitable external tools. In our work, we…
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.…
A Pretrainer's Guide to Training Data: Measuring the Effects of Data Age, Domain Coverage, Quality, & Toxicity
Shayne Longpre, Gregory Yauney, Emily Reif +8
Pretraining is the preliminary and fundamental step in developing capable language models (LM). Despite this, pretraining data design is critically under-documented and often guide…
PaLM 2 Technical Report
Rohan Anil, Andrew M. Dai, Orhan Firat +125
We introduce PaLM 2, a new state-of-the-art language model that has better multilingual and reasoning capabilities and is more compute-efficient than its predecessor PaLM. PaLM 2 i…
Symbol tuning improves in-context learning in language models
Jerry Wei, Le Hou, Andrew Lampinen +8
We present symbol tuning - finetuning language models on in-context input-label pairs where natural language labels (e.g., "positive/negative sentiment") are replaced with arbitrar…
Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug
Xinyun Chen, Maxwell Lin, Nathanael Schärli +1
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on code generation. However, for complex programming tasks, generating the correct solution in one go becomes chal…
Larger language models do in-context learning differently
Jerry Wei, Jason Wei, Yi Tay +8
We study how in-context learning (ICL) in language models is affected by semantic priors versus input-label mappings. We investigate two setups-ICL with flipped labels and ICL with…
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…
Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context
Freda Shi, Xinyun Chen, Kanishka Misra +5
Large language models have achieved impressive performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, so far they have been evaluated primarily on benchmarks where all…