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20182025
most citedQ8BERT: Quantized 8Bit BERT

464 citations · 628 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CL2025

SQuARE: Sequential Question Answering Reasoning Engine for Enhanced Chain-of-Thought in Large Language Models

Daniel Fleischer, Moshe Berchansky, Gad Markovits +1

In the rapidly evolving field of Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models (LLMs) are tasked with increasingly complex reasoning challenges. Traditional methods like chain…

cs.CL2025

Accelerating LLM Inference with Lossless Speculative Decoding Algorithms for Heterogeneous Vocabularies

Nadav Timor, Jonathan Mamou, Daniel Korat +5

Accelerating the inference of large language models (LLMs) is a critical challenge in generative AI. Speculative decoding (SD) methods offer substantial efficiency gains by generat…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

HELMET: How to Evaluate Long-Context Language Models Effectively and Thoroughly

Howard Yen, Tianyu Gao, Minmin Hou +5

Many benchmarks exist for evaluating long-context language models (LCLMs), yet developers often rely on synthetic tasks such as needle-in-a-haystack (NIAH) or an arbitrary subset o…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

RAG Foundry: A Framework for Enhancing LLMs for Retrieval Augmented Generation

Daniel Fleischer, Moshe Berchansky, Moshe Wasserblat +1

Implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems is inherently complex, requiring deep understanding of data, use cases, and intricate design decisions. Additionally, eval…

cs.DC2024

Distributed Speculative Inference (DSI): Speculation Parallelism for Provably Faster Lossless Language Model Inference

Nadav Timor, Jonathan Mamou, Daniel Korat +6

This paper introduces distributed speculative inference (DSI), a novel inference algorithm that is provably faster than speculative inference (SI) [leviathan2023, chen2023, miao202…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Dynamic Speculation Lookahead Accelerates Speculative Decoding of Large Language Models

Jonathan Mamou, Oren Pereg, Daniel Korat +4

Speculative decoding is commonly used for reducing the inference latency of large language models. Its effectiveness depends highly on the speculation lookahead (SL)-the number of…

cs.CL2024

CoTAR: Chain-of-Thought Attribution Reasoning with Multi-level Granularity

Moshe Berchansky, Daniel Fleischer, Moshe Wasserblat +1

State-of-the-art performance in QA tasks is currently achieved by systems employing Large Language Models (LLMs), however these models tend to hallucinate information in their resp…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Optimizing Retrieval-augmented Reader Models via Token Elimination

Moshe Berchansky, Peter Izsak, Avi Caciularu +2

Fusion-in-Decoder (FiD) is an effective retrieval-augmented language model applied across a variety of open-domain tasks, such as question answering, fact checking, etc. In FiD, su…

cs.LG2023

An Efficient Sparse Inference Software Accelerator for Transformer-based Language Models on CPUs

Haihao Shen, Hengyu Meng, Bo Dong +9

In recent years, Transformer-based language models have become the standard approach for natural language processing tasks. However, stringent throughput and latency requirements i…

cs.CL2022

Fast DistilBERT on CPUs

Haihao Shen, Ofir Zafrir, Bo Dong +7

Transformer-based language models have become the standard approach to solving natural language processing tasks. However, industry adoption usually requires the maximum throughput…

cs.CL2022★ 18 cited

Cross-Domain Aspect Extraction using Transformers Augmented with Knowledge Graphs

Phillip Howard, Arden Ma, Vasudev Lal +5

The extraction of aspect terms is a critical step in fine-grained sentiment analysis of text. Existing approaches for this task have yielded impressive results when the training an…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

QuaLA-MiniLM: a Quantized Length Adaptive MiniLM

Shira Guskin, Moshe Wasserblat, Chang Wang +1

Limited computational budgets often prevent transformers from being used in production and from having their high accuracy utilized. A knowledge distillation approach addresses the…

cs.CL2022★ 103 cited

Efficient Few-Shot Learning Without Prompts

Lewis Tunstall, Nils Reimers, Unso Eun Seo Jo +4

Recent few-shot methods, such as parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and pattern exploiting training (PET), have achieved impressive results in label-scarce settings. However, t…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

TangoBERT: Reducing Inference Cost by using Cascaded Architecture

Jonathan Mamou, Oren Pereg, Moshe Wasserblat +1

The remarkable success of large transformer-based models such as BERT, RoBERTa and XLNet in many NLP tasks comes with a large increase in monetary and environmental cost due to the…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Dynamic-TinyBERT: Boost TinyBERT's Inference Efficiency by Dynamic Sequence Length

Shira Guskin, Moshe Wasserblat, Ke Ding +1

Limited computational budgets often prevent transformers from being used in production and from having their high accuracy utilized. TinyBERT addresses the computational efficiency…

cs.CL2021★ 27 cited

Prune Once for All: Sparse Pre-Trained Language Models

Ofir Zafrir, Ariel Larey, Guy Boudoukh +2

Transformer-based language models are applied to a wide range of applications in natural language processing. However, they are inefficient and difficult to deploy. In recent years…

cs.CL2019

Training Compact Models for Low Resource Entity Tagging using Pre-trained Language Models

Peter Izsak, Shira Guskin, Moshe Wasserblat

Training models on low-resource named entity recognition tasks has been shown to be a challenge, especially in industrial applications where deploying updated models is a continuou…

cs.CL2019★ 464 cited

Q8BERT: Quantized 8Bit BERT

Ofir Zafrir, Guy Boudoukh, Peter Izsak +1

Recently, pre-trained Transformer based language models such as BERT and GPT, have shown great improvement in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, these models co…

cs.CL2019

ABSApp: A Portable Weakly-Supervised Aspect-Based Sentiment Extraction System

Oren Pereg, Daniel Korat, Moshe Wasserblat +2

We present ABSApp, a portable system for weakly-supervised aspect-based sentiment extraction. The system is interpretable and user friendly and does not require labeled training da…

cs.CL2019

Multi-Context Term Embeddings: the Use Case of Corpus-based Term Set Expansion

Jonathan Mamou, Oren Pereg, Moshe Wasserblat +1

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm that combines multi-context term embeddings using a neural classifier and we test this approach on the use case of corpus-based term set…

cs.AI2018

Term Set Expansion based NLP Architect by Intel AI Lab

Jonathan Mamou, Oren Pereg, Moshe Wasserblat +5

We present SetExpander, a corpus-based system for expanding a seed set of terms into amore complete set of terms that belong to the same semantic class. SetExpander implements an i…

cs.AI2018★ 7 cited

Term Set Expansion based on Multi-Context Term Embeddings: an End-to-end Workflow

Jonathan Mamou, Oren Pereg, Moshe Wasserblat +7

We present SetExpander, a corpus-based system for expanding a seed set of terms into a more complete set of terms that belong to the same semantic class. SetExpander implements an…