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

64 citations · 126 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Controlling the Extraction of Memorized Data from Large Language Models via Prompt-Tuning

Mustafa Safa Ozdayi, Charith Peris, Jack FitzGerald +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to memorize significant portions of their training data. Parts of this memorized content have been shown to be extractable by simply querying…

cs.CL2022

The Massively Multilingual Natural Language Understanding 2022 (MMNLU-22) Workshop and Competition

Christopher Hench, Charith Peris, Jack FitzGerald +1

Despite recent progress in Natural Language Understanding (NLU), the creation of multilingual NLU systems remains a challenge. It is common to have NLU systems limited to a subset…

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.CL2022★ 22 cited

MASSIVE: A 1M-Example Multilingual Natural Language Understanding Dataset with 51 Typologically-Diverse Languages

Jack FitzGerald, Christopher Hench, Charith Peris +13

We present the MASSIVE dataset--Multilingual Amazon Slu resource package (SLURP) for Slot-filling, Intent classification, and Virtual assistant Evaluation. MASSIVE contains 1M real…

cs.CL2020

STIL -- Simultaneous Slot Filling, Translation, Intent Classification, and Language Identification: Initial Results using mBART on MultiATIS++

Jack G. M. FitzGerald

Slot-filling, Translation, Intent classification, and Language identification, or STIL, is a newly-proposed task for multilingual Natural Language Understanding (NLU). By performin…