5 papers
A Family of LLMs Liberated from Static Vocabularies
Aleph Alpha, :, Adnen Abdessaied +35
Tokenization is a central component of natural language processing in current large language models (LLMs), enabling models to convert raw text into processable units. Although lea…
Teuken-7B-Base & Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs
Mehdi Ali, Michael Fromm, Klaudia Thellmann +38
We present two multilingual LLMs, Teuken 7B-base and Teuken 7B-instruct, designed to embrace Europe's linguistic diversity by supporting all 24 official languages of the European U…
u-P: The Unit-Scaled Maximal Update Parametrization
Charlie Blake, Constantin Eichenberg, Josef Dean +7
The Maximal Update Parametrization (P) aims to make the optimal hyperparameters (HPs) of a model independent of its size, allowing them to be swept using a cheap proxy model ra…
T-FREE: Subword Tokenizer-Free Generative LLMs via Sparse Representations for Memory-Efficient Embeddings
Björn Deiseroth, Manuel Brack, Patrick Schramowski +2
Tokenizers are crucial for encoding information in Large Language Models, but their development has recently stagnated, and they contain inherent weaknesses. Major limitations incl…
AtMan: Understanding Transformer Predictions Through Memory Efficient Attention Manipulation
Björn Deiseroth, Mayukh Deb, Samuel Weinbach +3
Generative transformer models have become increasingly complex, with large numbers of parameters and the ability to process multiple input modalities. Current methods for explainin…