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Apollo Restore: A Foundation LLM for Historical Greek Optimized for Fill-in-the-Middle Restoration of Ancient Greek Texts
Hope McGovern, Anna Dolganov, Samuel Belkadi +3
We present Apollo Restore, a 24-billion-parameter large language model for restoring lacunae---physical gaps---in fragmentary Ancient Greek texts. Fine-tuned from Mistral Small wit…
Pre-Editorial Normalization for Automatically Transcribed Medieval Manuscripts in Old French and Latin
Thibault Clérice, Rachel Bawden, Anthony Glaise +2
Recent advances in Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) have improved access to historical archives, yet a methodological divide persists between palaeographic transcriptions and norma…
Randomized Masked Finetuning: An Efficient Way to Mitigate Memorization of PIIs in LLMs
Kunj Joshi, David A. Smith
The current literature on memorization in Natural Language Models, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), poses severe security and privacy risks, as models tend to memorize pers…
Learning from Many Voices: Literary MT Using Multi-Reference Human and Synthetic Data
Si Wu, John Wieting, David A. Smith
Unlike many other texts, literary works are often translated multiple times. We investigate strategies for leveraging these multi-reference datasets to improve literary machine tra…