6 papers
Self-Improving Pretraining: using post-trained models to pretrain better models
Ellen Xiaoqing Tan, Jack Lanchantin, Shehzaad Dhuliawala +9
Large language models are classically trained in stages: pretraining on raw text followed by post-training for instruction following and reasoning. However, this separation creates…
The Llama 4 Herd: Architecture, Training, Evaluation, and Deployment Notes
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This document consolidates publicly reported technical details about Metas Llama 4 model family. It summarizes (i) released variants (Scout and Maverick) and the broader herd conte…
Separate the Wheat from the Chaff: Winnowing Down Divergent Views in Retrieval Augmented Generation
Song Wang, Zihan Chen, Peng Wang +5
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge sources to address their limitations in accessing up-to-date or special…
LLäMmlein: Transparent, Compact and Competitive German-Only Language Models from Scratch
Jan Pfister, Julia Wunderle, Andreas Hotho
We create two German-only decoder models, LLäMmlein 120M and 1B, transparently from scratch and publish them, along with the training data, for the German NLP research community t…
ZeroSumEval: An Extensible Framework For Scaling LLM Evaluation with Inter-Model Competition
Hisham A. Alyahya, Haidar Khan, Yazeed Alnumay +2
We introduce ZeroSumEval, a dynamic, competition-based, and evolving evaluation framework for Large Language Models (LLMs) that leverages competitive games. ZeroSumEval encompasses…
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…