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Fine-Tuning Language Models with Advantage-Induced Policy Alignment
Banghua Zhu, Hiteshi Sharma, Felipe Vieira Frujeri +4
Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a reliable approach to aligning large language models (LLMs) to human preferences. Among the plethora of RLHF techn…
PEARL: Prompting Large Language Models to Plan and Execute Actions Over Long Documents
Simeng Sun, Yang Liu, Shuohang Wang +2
Strategies such as chain-of-thought prompting improve the performance of large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks by decomposing input examples into intermediate ste…
i-Code Studio: A Configurable and Composable Framework for Integrative AI
Yuwei Fang, Mahmoud Khademi, Chenguang Zhu +8
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires comprehensive understanding and generation capabilities for a variety of tasks spanning different modalities and functionalities. Int…
LMGQS: A Large-scale Dataset for Query-focused Summarization
Ruochen Xu, Song Wang, Yang Liu +5
Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to extract or generate a summary of an input document that directly answers or is relevant to a given query. The lack of large-scale datasets…
InheritSumm: A General, Versatile and Compact Summarizer by Distilling from GPT
Yichong Xu, Ruochen Xu, Dan Iter +4
While large models such as GPT-3 demonstrate exceptional performance in zeroshot and fewshot summarization tasks, their extensive serving and fine-tuning costs hinder their utiliza…
i-Code V2: An Autoregressive Generation Framework over Vision, Language, and Speech Data
Ziyi Yang, Mahmoud Khademi, Yichong Xu +16
The convergence of text, visual, and audio data is a key step towards human-like artificial intelligence, however the current Vision-Language-Speech landscape is dominated by encod…
Small Models are Valuable Plug-ins for Large Language Models
Canwen Xu, Yichong Xu, Shuohang Wang +3
Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and GPT-4 are powerful but their weights are often publicly unavailable and their immense sizes make the models difficult to be tuned wit…
In-Context Demonstration Selection with Cross Entropy Difference
Dan Iter, Reid Pryzant, Ruochen Xu +4
Large language models (LLMs) can use in-context demonstrations to improve performance on zero-shot tasks. However, selecting the best in-context examples is challenging because mod…
Automatic Prompt Optimization with "Gradient Descent" and Beam Search
Reid Pryzant, Dan Iter, Jerry Li +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance as general purpose agents, but their abilities remain highly dependent on prompts which are hand written with onerous…
G-Eval: NLG Evaluation using GPT-4 with Better Human Alignment
Yang Liu, Dan Iter, Yichong Xu +3
The quality of texts generated by natural language generation (NLG) systems is hard to measure automatically. Conventional reference-based metrics, such as BLEU and ROUGE, have bee…
How Does In-Context Learning Help Prompt Tuning?
Simeng Sun, Yang Liu, Dan Iter +2
Fine-tuning large language models is becoming ever more impractical due to their rapidly-growing scale. This motivates the use of parameter-efficient adaptation methods such as pro…
APOLLO: A Simple Approach for Adaptive Pretraining of Language Models for Logical Reasoning
Soumya Sanyal, Yichong Xu, Shuohang Wang +5
Logical reasoning of text is an important ability that requires understanding the information present in the text, their interconnections, and then reasoning through them to infer…
Empowering Language Models with Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Question Answering
Ziniu Hu, Yichong Xu, Wenhao Yu +5
Answering open-domain questions requires world knowledge about in-context entities. As pre-trained Language Models (LMs) lack the power to store all required knowledge, external kn…
UniSumm and SummZoo: Unified Model and Diverse Benchmark for Few-Shot Summarization
Yulong Chen, Yang Liu, Ruochen Xu +4
The high annotation costs and diverse demands of various summarization tasks motivate the development of few-shot summarization. However, despite the emergence of many summarizatio…
MACSum: Controllable Summarization with Mixed Attributes
Yusen Zhang, Yang Liu, Ziyi Yang +6
Controllable summarization allows users to generate customized summaries with specified attributes. However, due to the lack of designated annotations of controlled summaries, exis…
Retrieval Augmentation for Commonsense Reasoning: A Unified Approach
Wenhao Yu, Chenguang Zhu, Zhihan Zhang +4
A common thread of retrieval-augmented methods in the existing literature focuses on retrieving encyclopedic knowledge, such as Wikipedia, which facilitates well-defined entity and…
Towards a Unified Multi-Dimensional Evaluator for Text Generation
Ming Zhong, Yang Liu, Da Yin +6
Multi-dimensional evaluation is the dominant paradigm for human evaluation in Natural Language Generation (NLG), i.e., evaluating the generated text from multiple explainable dimen…
Task Compass: Scaling Multi-task Pre-training with Task Prefix
Zhuosheng Zhang, Shuohang Wang, Yichong Xu +6
Leveraging task-aware annotated data as supervised signals to assist with self-supervised learning on large-scale unlabeled data has become a new trend in pre-training language mod…
FAST: Improving Controllability for Text Generation with Feedback Aware Self-Training
Junyi Chai, Reid Pryzant, Victor Ye Dong +3
Controllable text generation systems often leverage control codes to direct various properties of the output like style and length. Inspired by recent work on causal inference for…
A Unified Encoder-Decoder Framework with Entity Memory
Zhihan Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Chenguang Zhu +1
Entities, as important carriers of real-world knowledge, play a key role in many NLP tasks. We focus on incorporating entity knowledge into an encoder-decoder framework for informa…
Generate rather than Retrieve: Large Language Models are Strong Context Generators
Wenhao Yu, Dan Iter, Shuohang Wang +6
Knowledge-intensive tasks, such as open-domain question answering (QA), require access to a large amount of world or domain knowledge. A common approach for knowledge-intensive tas…
Z-Code++: A Pre-trained Language Model Optimized for Abstractive Summarization
Pengcheng He, Baolin Peng, Liyang Lu +11
This paper presents Z-Code++, a new pre-trained language model optimized for abstractive text summarization. The model extends the state of the art encoder-decoder model using thre…
Leveraging Locality in Abstractive Text Summarization
Yixin Liu, Ansong Ni, Linyong Nan +4
Neural attention models have achieved significant improvements on many natural language processing tasks. However, the quadratic memory complexity of the self-attention module with…
Automatic Rule Induction for Interpretable Semi-Supervised Learning
Reid Pryzant, Ziyi Yang, Yichong Xu +2
Semi-supervised learning has shown promise in allowing NLP models to generalize from small amounts of labeled data. Meanwhile, pretrained transformer models act as black-box correl…