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cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Efficiency Pentathlon: A Standardized Arena for Efficiency Evaluation

Hao Peng, Qingqing Cao, Jesse Dodge +11

Rising computational demands of modern natural language processing (NLP) systems have increased the barrier to entry for cutting-edge research while posing serious environmental co…

cs.CL2023★ 39 cited

How Far Can Camels Go? Exploring the State of Instruction Tuning on Open Resources

Yizhong Wang, Hamish Ivison, Pradeep Dasigi +8

In this work we explore recent advances in instruction-tuning language models on a range of open instruction-following datasets. Despite recent claims that open models can be on pa…

cs.CL2023

Just CHOP: Embarrassingly Simple LLM Compression

Ananya Harsh Jha, Tom Sherborne, Evan Pete Walsh +3

Large language models (LLMs) enable unparalleled few- and zero-shot reasoning capabilities but at a high computational footprint. A growing assortment of methods for compression pr…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

TESS: Text-to-Text Self-Conditioned Simplex Diffusion

Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi, Hamish Ivison, Jaesung Tae +4

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generation, obtaining strong performance in various continuous domains. However, applying continuous diffusion models to na…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

Z-ICL: Zero-Shot In-Context Learning with Pseudo-Demonstrations

Xinxi Lyu, Sewon Min, Iz Beltagy +2

Although large language models can be prompted for both zero- and few-shot learning, performance drops significantly when no demonstrations are available. In this paper, we introdu…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

What Language Model to Train if You Have One Million GPU Hours?

Teven Le Scao, Thomas Wang, Daniel Hesslow +16

The crystallization of modeling methods around the Transformer architecture has been a boon for practitioners. Simple, well-motivated architectural variations can transfer across t…

cs.CL2022

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

SciFact-Open: Towards open-domain scientific claim verification

David Wadden, Kyle Lo, Bailey Kuehl +4

While research on scientific claim verification has led to the development of powerful systems that appear to approach human performance, these approaches have yet to be tested in…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Continued Pretraining for Better Zero- and Few-Shot Promptability

Zhaofeng Wu, Robert L. Logan, Pete Walsh +4

Recently introduced language model prompting methods can achieve high accuracy in zero- and few-shot settings while requiring few to no learned task-specific parameters. Neverthele…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Transparency Helps Reveal When Language Models Learn Meaning

Zhaofeng Wu, William Merrill, Hao Peng +2

Many current NLP systems are built from language models trained to optimize unsupervised objectives on large amounts of raw text. Under what conditions might such a procedure acqui…

cs.CL2022★ 23 cited

What Language Model Architecture and Pretraining Objective Work Best for Zero-Shot Generalization?

Thomas Wang, Adam Roberts, Daniel Hesslow +5

Large pretrained Transformer language models have been shown to exhibit zero-shot generalization, i.e. they can perform a wide variety of tasks that they were not explicitly traine…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Staged Training for Transformer Language Models

Sheng Shen, Pete Walsh, Kurt Keutzer +3

The current standard approach to scaling transformer language models trains each model size from a different random initialization. As an alternative, we consider a staged training…

cs.CL2022★ 7 cited

Don't Say What You Don't Know: Improving the Consistency of Abstractive Summarization by Constraining Beam Search

Daniel King, Zejiang Shen, Nishant Subramani +3

Abstractive summarization systems today produce fluent and relevant output, but often "hallucinate" statements not supported by the source text. We analyze the connection between h…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Few-Shot Self-Rationalization with Natural Language Prompts

Ana Marasović, Iz Beltagy, Doug Downey +1

Self-rationalization models that predict task labels and generate free-text elaborations for their predictions could enable more intuitive interaction with NLP systems. These model…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

PRIMERA: Pyramid-based Masked Sentence Pre-training for Multi-document Summarization

Wen Xiao, Iz Beltagy, Giuseppe Carenini +1

We introduce PRIMERA, a pre-trained model for multi-document representation with a focus on summarization that reduces the need for dataset-specific architectures and large amounts…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

FLEX: Unifying Evaluation for Few-Shot NLP

Jonathan Bragg, Arman Cohan, Kyle Lo +1

Few-shot NLP research is highly active, yet conducted in disjoint research threads with evaluation suites that lack challenging-yet-realistic testing setups and fail to employ care…

cs.CL2021★ 13 cited

Scientific Language Models for Biomedical Knowledge Base Completion: An Empirical Study

Rahul Nadkarni, David Wadden, Iz Beltagy +3

Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) hold rich information on entities such as diseases, drugs, and genes. Predicting missing links in these graphs can boost many important applicatio…

cs.CL2021

A Dataset of Information-Seeking Questions and Answers Anchored in Research Papers

Pradeep Dasigi, Kyle Lo, Iz Beltagy +3

Readers of academic research papers often read with the goal of answering specific questions. Question Answering systems that can answer those questions can make consumption of the…

cs.CL2021★ 11 cited

SciCo: Hierarchical Cross-Document Coreference for Scientific Concepts

Arie Cattan, Sophie Johnson, Daniel Weld +4

Determining coreference of concept mentions across multiple documents is a fundamental task in natural language understanding. Previous work on cross-document coreference resolutio…

cs.CL2021★ 8 cited

MS2: Multi-Document Summarization of Medical Studies

Jay DeYoung, Iz Beltagy, Madeleine van Zuylen +2

To assess the effectiveness of any medical intervention, researchers must conduct a time-intensive and highly manual literature review. NLP systems can help to automate or assist i…

cs.CL2021

CDLM: Cross-Document Language Modeling

Avi Caciularu, Arman Cohan, Iz Beltagy +3

We introduce a new pretraining approach geared for multi-document language modeling, incorporating two key ideas into the masked language modeling self-supervised objective. First,…

cs.CL2020

SPECTER: Document-level Representation Learning using Citation-informed Transformers

Arman Cohan, Sergey Feldman, Iz Beltagy +2

Representation learning is a critical ingredient for natural language processing systems. Recent Transformer language models like BERT learn powerful textual representations, but t…

cs.CL2020

Don't Stop Pretraining: Adapt Language Models to Domains and Tasks

Suchin Gururangan, Ana Marasović, Swabha Swayamdipta +4

Language models pretrained on text from a wide variety of sources form the foundation of today's NLP. In light of the success of these broad-coverage models, we investigate whether…

cs.CL2020

SciREX: A Challenge Dataset for Document-Level Information Extraction

Sarthak Jain, Madeleine van Zuylen, Hannaneh Hajishirzi +1

Extracting information from full documents is an important problem in many domains, but most previous work focus on identifying relationships within a sentence or a paragraph. It i…