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20142024
most citedAlexa Teacher Model: Pretraining and Distilling Multi-Billion-Parameter Encoders for Natural Language Understanding Systems

64 citations · 155 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2024

GeMQuAD : Generating Multilingual Question Answering Datasets from Large Language Models using Few Shot Learning

Amani Namboori, Shivam Mangale, Andy Rosenbaum +1

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) with capabilities like In-Context Learning (ICL) has ushered in new possibilities for data generation across various domains while min…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards

Norah Alzahrani, Hisham Abdullah Alyahya, Yazeed Alnumay +9

Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are take…

cs.CL2023

Recipes for Sequential Pre-training of Multilingual Encoder and Seq2Seq Models

Saleh Soltan, Andy Rosenbaum, Tobias Falke +3

Pre-trained encoder-only and sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models each have advantages, however training both model types from scratch is computationally expensive. We explore rec…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

CLASP: Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Data Augmentation for Semantic Parsing

Andy Rosenbaum, Saleh Soltan, Wael Hamza +3

A bottleneck to developing Semantic Parsing (SP) models is the need for a large volume of human-labeled training data. Given the complexity and cost of human annotation for SP, lab…

cs.CL2022★ 11 cited

LINGUIST: Language Model Instruction Tuning to Generate Annotated Utterances for Intent Classification and Slot Tagging

Andy Rosenbaum, Saleh Soltan, Wael Hamza +2

We present LINGUIST, a method for generating annotated data for Intent Classification and Slot Tagging (IC+ST), via fine-tuning AlexaTM 5B, a 5-billion-parameter multilingual seque…

cs.CL2022★ 38 cited

AlexaTM 20B: Few-Shot Learning Using a Large-Scale Multilingual Seq2Seq Model

Saleh Soltan, Shankar Ananthakrishnan, Jack FitzGerald +13

In this work, we demonstrate that multilingual large-scale sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models, pre-trained on a mixture of denoising and Causal Language Modeling (CLM) tasks, ar…

cs.CL2022★ 64 cited

Alexa Teacher Model: Pretraining and Distilling Multi-Billion-Parameter Encoders for Natural Language Understanding Systems

Jack FitzGerald, Shankar Ananthakrishnan, Konstantine Arkoudas +38

We present results from a large-scale experiment on pretraining encoders with non-embedding parameter counts ranging from 700M to 9.3B, their subsequent distillation into smaller m…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Don't Parse, Insert: Multilingual Semantic Parsing with Insertion Based Decoding

Qile Zhu, Haidar Khan, Saleh Soltan +2

Semantic parsing is one of the key components of natural language understanding systems. A successful parse transforms an input utterance to an action that is easily understood by…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 13 cited

Distribution of blackouts in the power grid and the Motter and Lai model

Yosef Kornbluth, Gabriel Cwilich, Sergey V. Buldyrev +2

Carreras, Dobson and colleagues have studied empirical data on the sizes of the blackouts in real grids and modeled them by computer simulations using the direct current approximat…

eess.SY2018★ 4 cited

Protecting the Grid against IoT Botnets of High-Wattage Devices

Saleh Soltan, Prateek Mittal, H. Vincent Poor

We provide methods to prevent line failures in the power grid caused by a newly revealed MAnipulation of Demand (MAD) attacks via an IoT botnet of high-wattage devices. In particul…

eess.SY2017★ 1 cited

EXPOSE the Line Failures following a Cyber-Physical Attack on the Power Grid

Saleh Soltan, Gil Zussman

Recent attacks on power grids demonstrated the vulnerability of the grids to cyber and physical attacks. To analyze this vulnerability, we study cyber-physical attacks that affect…

eess.SY2017

REACT to Cyber Attacks on Power Grids

Saleh Soltan, Mihalis Yannakakis, Gil Zussman

Motivated by the recent cyber attack on the Ukrainian power grid, we study cyber attacks on power grids that affect both the physical infrastructure and the data at the control cen…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 3 cited

A study of cascading failures in real and synthetic power grid topologies using DC power flows

Russell Spiewak, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Yakir Forman +2

Using the linearized DC power flow model, we study cascading failures and their spatial and temporal properties in the US Western Interconnect (USWI) power grid. We also introduce…

math.CO2016

Doubly Balanced Connected Graph Partitioning

Saleh Soltan, Mihalis Yannakakis, Gil Zussman

We introduce and study the Doubly Balanced Connected graph Partitioning (DBCP) problem: Let be a connected graph with a weight (supply/demand) function $p:V\rightarrow \{…

eess.SY2015★ 4 cited

Generation of Synthetic Spatially Embedded Power Grid Networks

Saleh Soltan, Gil Zussman

The development of algorithms for enhancing the resilience and efficiency of the power grid requires performance evaluation with real topologies of power transmission networks. How…

eess.SY2014★ 10 cited

Cascading Failures in Power Grids - Analysis and Algorithms

Saleh Soltan, Dorian Mazauric, Gil Zussman

This paper focuses on cascading line failures in the transmission system of the power grid. Recent large-scale power outages demonstrated the limitations of percolation- and epid-…