11 papers
Gender Bias in MT for a Genderless Language: New Benchmarks for Basque
Amaia Murillo, Olatz-Perez-de-Viñaspre, Naiara Perez
Large language models (LLMs) and machine translation (MT) systems are increasingly used in our daily lives, but their outputs can reproduce gender bias present in the training data…
An Empirical Study on Noisy Data and LLM Pretraining Loss Divergence
Qizhen Zhang, Ankush Garg, Jakob Foerster +3
Large-scale pretraining datasets drive the success of large language models (LLMs). However, these web-scale corpora inevitably contain large amounts of noisy data due to unregulat…
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…
Balancing Knowledge Delivery and Emotional Comfort in Healthcare Conversational Systems
Shang-Chi Tsai, Yun-Nung Chen
With the advancement of large language models, many dialogue systems are now capable of providing reasonable and informative responses to patients' medical conditions. However, whe…
Compute Optimal Scaling of Skills: Knowledge vs Reasoning
Nicholas Roberts, Niladri Chatterji, Sharan Narang +2
Scaling laws are a critical component of the LLM development pipeline, most famously as a way to forecast training decisions such as 'compute-optimally' trading-off parameter count…
Dialect Normalization using Large Language Models and Morphological Rules
Antonios Dimakis, John Pavlopoulos, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Natural language understanding systems struggle with low-resource languages, including many dialects of high-resource ones. Dialect-to-standard normalization attempts to tackle thi…