4 papers
Self-Vocabularizing Training for Neural Machine Translation
Pin-Jie Lin, Ernie Chang, Yangyang Shi +1
Past vocabulary learning techniques identify relevant vocabulary before training, relying on statistical and entropy-based assumptions that largely neglect the role of model traini…
Efficient Model Development through Fine-tuning Transfer
Pin-Jie Lin, Rishab Balasubramanian, Fengyuan Liu +2
Modern LLMs struggle with efficient updates, as each new pretrained model version requires repeating expensive alignment processes. This challenge also applies to domain- or langua…
Scaling Parameter-Constrained Language Models with Quality Data
Ernie Chang, Matteo Paltenghi, Yang Li +7
Scaling laws in language modeling traditionally quantify training loss as a function of dataset size and model parameters, providing compute-optimal estimates but often neglecting…
Target-Aware Language Modeling via Granular Data Sampling
Ernie Chang, Pin-Jie Lin, Yang Li +6
Language model pretraining generally targets a broad range of use cases and incorporates data from diverse sources. However, there are instances where we desire a model that excels…