4 papers
COPUS: Co-adaptive Parallelism and Batch Size Selection in Large Language Model Training
Akhmed Sakip, Erland Hilman Fuadi, Omar Sayedelahl +6
Training large language models requires jointly configuring two interdependent aspects of the system: the global batch size, which governs statistical efficiency, and the 3D parall…
Sherkala-Chat: Building a State-of-the-Art LLM for Kazakh in a Moderately Resourced Setting
Fajri Koto, Rituraj Joshi, Nurdaulet Mukhituly +31
Llama-3.1-Sherkala-8B-Chat, or Sherkala-Chat (8B) for short, is a state-of-the-art instruction-tuned open generative large language model (LLM) designed for Kazakh. Sherkala-Chat (…
KazMMLU: Evaluating Language Models on Kazakh, Russian, and Regional Knowledge of Kazakhstan
Mukhammed Togmanov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Diana Turmakhan +11
Despite having a population of twenty million, Kazakhstan's culture and language remain underrepresented in the field of natural language processing. Although large language models…
Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation
Jonibek Mansurov, Akhmed Sakip, Alham Fikri Aji
In this paper, we show that knowledge distillation can be subverted to manipulate language model benchmark scores, revealing a critical vulnerability in current evaluation practice…