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most citedPaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

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36 papers

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Multilingual Machine Translation with Open Large Language Models at Practical Scale: An Empirical Study

Menglong Cui, Pengzhi Gao, Wei Liu +2

Large language models (LLMs) have shown continuously improving multilingual capabilities, and even small-scale open-source models have demonstrated rapid performance enhancement. I…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Rel-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance

Kaitlyn Zhou, Jena D. Hwang, Xiang Ren +3

The ability to communicate uncertainty, risk, and limitation is crucial for the safety of large language models. However, current evaluations of these abilities rely on simple cali…

cs.CL2024

Naive Bayes-based Context Extension for Large Language Models

Jianlin Su, Murtadha Ahmed, Wenbo +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising in-context learning abilities. However, conventional In-Context Learning (ICL) approaches are often impeded by length limitations…

cs.CL2022★ 22 cited

Language Model Cascades

David Dohan, Winnie Xu, Aitor Lewkowycz +9

Prompted models have demonstrated impressive few-shot learning abilities. Repeated interactions at test-time with a single model, or the composition of multiple models together, fu…

cs.CL2022★ 45 cited

Exploring Length Generalization in Large Language Models

Cem Anil, Yuhuai Wu, Anders Andreassen +7

The ability to extrapolate from short problem instances to longer ones is an important form of out-of-distribution generalization in reasoning tasks, and is crucial when learning f…

cs.CL2022★ 281 cited

Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models

Aitor Lewkowycz, Anders Andreassen, David Dohan +11

Language models have achieved remarkable performance on a wide range of tasks that require natural language understanding. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art models have generally stru…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…

cs.CL2022★ 2.1k cited

PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Jacob Devlin +64

Large language models have been shown to achieve remarkable performance across a variety of natural language tasks using few-shot learning, which drastically reduces the number of…

cs.LG2022★ 48 cited

Scaling Up Models and Data with and

Adam Roberts, Hyung Won Chung, Anselm Levskaya +40

Recent neural network-based language models have benefited greatly from scaling up the size of training datasets and the number of parameters in the models themselves. Scaling can…

cs.LG2021★ 16 cited

Show Your Work: Scratchpads for Intermediate Computation with Language Models

Maxwell Nye, Anders Johan Andreassen, Guy Gur-Ari +9

Large pre-trained language models perform remarkably well on tasks that can be done "in one pass", such as generating realistic text or synthesizing computer programs. However, the…

cs.LG2021★ 16 cited

How to decay your learning rate

Aitor Lewkowycz

Complex learning rate schedules have become an integral part of deep learning. We find empirically that common fine-tuned schedules decay the learning rate after the weight norm bo…

hep-th2020★ 41 cited

Gravitational path integral from the deformation

Alexandre Belin, Aitor Lewkowycz, Gabor Sarosi

We study a deformation of large conformal field theories, a higher dimensional generalization of the deformation. The deformed partition function satisfies a fl…

stat.ML2020★ 25 cited

On the training dynamics of deep networks with regularization

Aitor Lewkowycz, Guy Gur-Ari

We study the role of regularization in deep learning, and uncover simple relations between the performance of the model, the coefficient, the learning rate, and the num…

stat.ML2020★ 58 cited

The large learning rate phase of deep learning: the catapult mechanism

Aitor Lewkowycz, Yasaman Bahri, Ethan Dyer +2

The choice of initial learning rate can have a profound effect on the performance of deep networks. We present a class of neural networks with solvable training dynamics, and confi…

hep-th2019★ 101 cited

and EE, with implications for (A)dS subregion encodings

Aitor Lewkowycz, Junyu Liu, Eva Silverstein +1

We initiate a study of subregion dualities, entropy, and redundant encoding of bulk points in holographic theories deformed by and its generalizations. This includes bot…

hep-th2018★ 97 cited

Complexity and the bulk volume, a new York time story

Alexandre Belin, Aitor Lewkowycz, Gabor Sarosi

We study the boundary description of the volume of maximal Cauchy slices using the recently derived equivalence between bulk and boundary symplectic forms. The volume of constant m…

hep-th2018★ 22 cited

Emergent classical spacetime from microstates of an incipient black hole

Vijay Balasubramanian, David Berenstein, Aitor Lewkowycz +3

Black holes have an enormous underlying space of microstates, but universal macroscopic physics characterized by mass, charge and angular momentum as well as a causally disconnecte…

hep-th2018★ 82 cited

The boundary dual of the bulk symplectic form

Alexandre Belin, Aitor Lewkowycz, Gábor Sárosi

In this paper, we study the overlaps of wavefunctionals prepared by turning on sources in the Euclidean path integral. For nearby states, these overlaps give rise to a Kahler struc…

hep-th2018★ 35 cited

Modular Flow as a Disentangler

Yiming Chen, Xi Dong, Aitor Lewkowycz +1

In holographic duality, the entanglement entropy of a boundary region is proposed to be dual to the area of an extremal codimension-2 surface that is homologous to the boundary reg…

hep-th2018★ 17 cited

Thermalization, Viscosity and the Averaged Null Energy Condition

Luca V. Delacrétaz, Thomas Hartman, Sean A. Hartnoll +1

We explore the implications of the averaged null energy condition for thermal states of relativistic quantum field theories. A key property of such thermal states is the thermaliza…

hep-th2018★ 38 cited

The Holographic Shape of Entanglement and Einstein's Equations

Aitor Lewkowycz, Onkar Parrikar

We study shape-deformations of the entanglement entropy and the modular Hamiltonian for an arbitrary subregion and state (with a smooth dual geometry) in a holographic conformal fi…

hep-th2017★ 34 cited

Inside Out: Meet The Operators Inside The Horizon

Ahmed Almheiri, Tarek Anous, Aitor Lewkowycz

Based on the work of Heemskerk, Marolf, Polchinski and Sully (HMPS), we study the reconstruction of operators behind causal horizons in time dependent geometries obtained by acting…

hep-th2017★ 135 cited

Entropy, Extremality, Euclidean Variations, and the Equations of Motion

Xi Dong, Aitor Lewkowycz

We study the Euclidean gravitational path integral computing the Renyi entropy and analyze its behavior under small variations. We argue that, in Einstein gravity, the extremality…

hep-th2017★ 217 cited

Bulk locality from modular flow

Thomas Faulkner, Aitor Lewkowycz

We study the reconstruction of bulk operators in the entanglement wedge in terms of low energy operators localized in the respective boundary region. To leading order in , the d…