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The Disparate Impacts of Speculative Decoding
Jameson Sandler, Ahmet Üstün, Marco Romanelli +2
The practice of speculative decoding, whereby inference is probabilistically supported by a smaller, cheaper, ``drafter'' model, has become a standard technique for systematically…
Treasure Hunt: Real-time Targeting of the Long Tail using Training-Time Markers
Daniel D'souza, Julia Kreutzer, Adrien Morisot +2
One of the most profound challenges of modern machine learning is performing well on the long-tail of rare and underrepresented features. Large general-purpose models are trained f…
One Tokenizer To Rule Them All: Emergent Language Plasticity via Multilingual Tokenizers
Diana Abagyan, Alejandro R. Salamanca, Andres Felipe Cruz-Salinas +6
Pretraining massively multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) for many languages at once is challenging due to limited model capacity, scarce high-quality data, and compute const…
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…
MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark
Kenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua +83
Text embeddings are typically evaluated on a limited set of tasks, which are constrained by language, domain, and task diversity. To address these limitations and provide a more co…
Nexus: Specialization meets Adaptability for Efficiently Training Mixture of Experts
Nikolas Gritsch, Qizhen Zhang, Acyr Locatelli +2
Efficiency, specialization, and adaptability to new data distributions are qualities that are hard to combine in current Large Language Models. The Mixture of Experts (MoE) archite…
To Code, or Not To Code? Exploring Impact of Code in Pre-training
Viraat Aryabumi, Yixuan Su, Raymond Ma +6
Including code in the pre-training data mixture, even for models not specifically designed for code, has become a common practice in LLMs pre-training. While there has been anecdot…
RLHF Can Speak Many Languages: Unlocking Multilingual Preference Optimization for LLMs
John Dang, Arash Ahmadian, Kelly Marchisio +3
Preference optimization techniques have become a standard final stage for training state-of-art large language models (LLMs). However, despite widespread adoption, the vast majorit…
How Does Quantization Affect Multilingual LLMs?
Kelly Marchisio, Saurabh Dash, Hongyu Chen +4
Quantization techniques are widely used to improve inference speed and deployment of large language models. While a wide body of work examines the impact of quantization on LLMs in…
Critical Learning Periods: Leveraging Early Training Dynamics for Efficient Data Pruning
Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Jay Gala, Orevaoghene Ahia +3
Neural Machine Translation models are extremely data and compute-hungry. However, not all data points contribute equally to model training and generalization. Data pruning to remov…
Aya 23: Open Weight Releases to Further Multilingual Progress
Viraat Aryabumi, John Dang, Dwarak Talupuru +18
This technical report introduces Aya 23, a family of multilingual language models. Aya 23 builds on the recent release of the Aya model (Üstün et al., 2024), focusing on pairing a…
Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
Ahmet Üstün, Viraat Aryabumi, Zheng-Xin Yong +14
Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have centered around a handful of data-rich languages. What does it take to broaden access to breakthroughs beyond first-class…
Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning
Shivalika Singh, Freddie Vargus, Daniel Dsouza +30
Datasets are foundational to many breakthroughs in modern artificial intelligence. Many recent achievements in the space of natural language processing (NLP) can be attributed to t…
Locally Differentially Private Document Generation Using Zero Shot Prompting
Saiteja Utpala, Sara Hooker, Pin Yu Chen
Numerous studies have highlighted the privacy risks associated with pretrained large language models. In contrast, our research offers a unique perspective by demonstrating that pr…
The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI
Shayne Longpre, Robert Mahari, Anthony Chen +14
The race to train language models on vast, diverse, and inconsistently documented datasets has raised pressing concerns about the legal and ethical risks for practitioners. To reme…
Pushing Mixture of Experts to the Limit: Extremely Parameter Efficient MoE for Instruction Tuning
Ted Zadouri, Ahmet Üstün, Arash Ahmadian +3
The Mixture of Experts (MoE) is a widely known neural architecture where an ensemble of specialized sub-models optimizes overall performance with a constant computational cost. How…