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most citedUL2: Unifying Language Learning Paradigms

98 citations · 414 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

How Does Generative Retrieval Scale to Millions of Passages?

Ronak Pradeep, Kai Hui, Jai Gupta +5

Popularized by the Differentiable Search Index, the emerging paradigm of generative retrieval re-frames the classic information retrieval problem into a sequence-to-sequence modeli…

cs.IR2023★ 28 cited

Recommender Systems with Generative Retrieval

Shashank Rajput, Nikhil Mehta, Anima Singh +10

Modern recommender systems perform large-scale retrieval by first embedding queries and item candidates in the same unified space, followed by approximate nearest neighbor search t…

cs.IR2022

Dense Feature Memory Augmented Transformers for COVID-19 Vaccination Search Classification

Jai Gupta, Yi Tay, Chaitanya Kamath +5

With the devastating outbreak of COVID-19, vaccines are one of the crucial lines of defense against mass infection in this global pandemic. Given the protection they provide, vacci…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

DSI++: Updating Transformer Memory with New Documents

Sanket Vaibhav Mehta, Jai Gupta, Yi Tay +6

Differentiable Search Indices (DSIs) encode a corpus of documents in model parameters and use the same model to answer user queries directly. Despite the strong performance of DSI…

cs.CL2022★ 27 cited

Attributed Question Answering: Evaluation and Modeling for Attributed Large Language Models

Bernd Bohnet, Vinh Q. Tran, Pat Verga +19

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive results while requiring little or no direct supervision. Further, there is mounting evidence that LLMs may have potential in info…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute

Yi Tay, Jason Wei, Hyung Won Chung +13

Scaling language models improves performance but comes with significant computational costs. This paper proposes UL2R, a method that substantially improves existing language models…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

Scaling Laws vs Model Architectures: How does Inductive Bias Influence Scaling?

Yi Tay, Mostafa Dehghani, Samira Abnar +7

There have been a lot of interest in the scaling properties of Transformer models. However, not much has been done on the front of investigating the effect of scaling properties of…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 15 cited

Temperature Effects on Core g-modes of Neutron Stars

Nicholas Lozano, Vinh Tran, Prashanth Jaikumar

Neutron stars provide a unique physical laboratory to study the properties of matter at high density. We study a diagnostic of the composition of high-density matter, namely, g-mod…

cs.CL2022★ 40 cited

Confident Adaptive Language Modeling

Tal Schuster, Adam Fisch, Jai Gupta +5

Recent advances in Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have led to significant performance improvements across many tasks. These gains come with a drastic increase in th…

cs.CL2022★ 98 cited

UL2: Unifying Language Learning Paradigms

Yi Tay, Mostafa Dehghani, Vinh Q. Tran +11

Existing pre-trained models are generally geared towards a particular class of problems. To date, there seems to be still no consensus on what the right architecture and pre-traini…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

A New Generation of Perspective API: Efficient Multilingual Character-level Transformers

Alyssa Lees, Vinh Q. Tran, Yi Tay +4

On the world wide web, toxic content detectors are a crucial line of defense against potentially hateful and offensive messages. As such, building highly effective classifiers that…

cs.CL2022★ 82 cited

Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index

Yi Tay, Vinh Q. Tran, Mostafa Dehghani +10

In this paper, we demonstrate that information retrieval can be accomplished with a single Transformer, in which all information about the corpus is encoded in the parameters of th…

cs.CL2021★ 8 cited

ExT5: Towards Extreme Multi-Task Scaling for Transfer Learning

Vamsi Aribandi, Yi Tay, Tal Schuster +11

Despite the recent success of multi-task learning and transfer learning for natural language processing (NLP), few works have systematically studied the effect of scaling up the nu…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

AgreeSum: Agreement-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization

Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Adam D. Lelkes, Vinh Q. Tran +1

We aim to renew interest in a particular multi-document summarization (MDS) task which we call AgreeSum: agreement-oriented multi-document summarization. Given a cluster of article…

cs.CL2021★ 84 cited

Charformer: Fast Character Transformers via Gradient-based Subword Tokenization

Yi Tay, Vinh Q. Tran, Sebastian Ruder +7

State-of-the-art models in natural language processing rely on separate rigid subword tokenization algorithms, which limit their generalization ability and adaptation to new settin…

cs.CL2021

Quiz-Style Question Generation for News Stories

Adam D. Lelkes, Vinh Q. Tran, Cong Yu

A large majority of American adults get at least some of their news from the Internet. Even though many online news products have the goal of informing their users about the news,…