5 papers
Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)
Liwei Jiang, Yuanjun Chai, Margaret Li +7
Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposur…
FlexOlmo: Open Language Models for Flexible Data Use
Weijia Shi, Akshita Bhagia, Kevin Farhat +20
We introduce FlexOlmo, a new class of language models (LMs) that supports (1) distributed training without data sharing, where different model parameters are independently trained…
(Mis)Fitting: A Survey of Scaling Laws
Margaret Li, Sneha Kudugunta, Luke Zettlemoyer
Modern foundation models rely heavily on using scaling laws to guide crucial training decisions. Researchers often extrapolate the optimal architecture and hyper parameters setting…
FLAME: Financial Large-Language Model Assessment and Metrics Evaluation
Jiayu Guo, Yu Guo, Martha Li +1
LLMs have revolutionized NLP and demonstrated potential across diverse domains. More and more financial LLMs have been introduced for finance-specific tasks, yet comprehensively as…
Breaking the Curse of Multilinguality with Cross-lingual Expert Language Models
Terra Blevins, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Suchin Gururangan +4
Despite their popularity in non-English NLP, multilingual language models often underperform monolingual ones due to inter-language competition for model parameters. We propose Cro…