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Benchmarking Large Language Model Capabilities for Conditional Generation
Joshua Maynez, Priyanka Agrawal, Sebastian Gehrmann
Pre-trained large language models (PLMs) underlie most new developments in natural language processing. They have shifted the field from application-specific model pipelines to a s…
SEAHORSE: A Multilingual, Multifaceted Dataset for Summarization Evaluation
Elizabeth Clark, Shruti Rijhwani, Sebastian Gehrmann +7
Reliable automatic evaluation of summarization systems is challenging due to the multifaceted and subjective nature of the task. This is especially the case for languages other tha…
PaLM 2 Technical Report
Rohan Anil, Andrew M. Dai, Orhan Firat +125
We introduce PaLM 2, a new state-of-the-art language model that has better multilingual and reasoning capabilities and is more compute-efficient than its predecessor PaLM. PaLM 2 i…
Needle in a Haystack: An Analysis of High-Agreement Workers on MTurk for Summarization
Lining Zhang, Simon Mille, Yufang Hou +8
To prevent the costly and inefficient use of resources on low-quality annotations, we want a method for creating a pool of dependable annotators who can effectively complete diffic…
Intriguing Properties of Compression on Multilingual Models
Kelechi Ogueji, Orevaoghene Ahia, Gbemileke Onilude +3
Multilingual models are often particularly dependent on scaling to generalize to a growing number of languages. Compression techniques are widely relied upon to reconcile the growt…
Towards Computationally Verifiable Semantic Grounding for Language Models
Chris Alberti, Kuzman Ganchev, Michael Collins +2
The paper presents an approach to semantic grounding of language models (LMs) that conceptualizes the LM as a conditional model generating text given a desired semantic message for…
Dialect-robust Evaluation of Generated Text
Jiao Sun, Thibault Sellam, Elizabeth Clark +6
Evaluation metrics that are not robust to dialect variation make it impossible to tell how well systems perform for many groups of users, and can even penalize systems for producin…
BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391
Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…
TaTa: A Multilingual Table-to-Text Dataset for African Languages
Sebastian Gehrmann, Sebastian Ruder, Vitaly Nikolaev +4
Existing data-to-text generation datasets are mostly limited to English. To address this lack of data, we create Table-to-Text in African languages (TaTa), the first large multilin…
Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them
Mirac Suzgun, Nathan Scales, Nathanael Schärli +8
BIG-Bench (Srivastava et al., 2022) is a diverse evaluation suite that focuses on tasks believed to be beyond the capabilities of current language models. Language models have alre…
GEMv2: Multilingual NLG Benchmarking in a Single Line of Code
Sebastian Gehrmann, Abhik Bhattacharjee, Abinaya Mahendiran +74
Evaluation in machine learning is usually informed by past choices, for example which datasets or metrics to use. This standardization enables the comparison on equal footing using…
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448
Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…
PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Jacob Devlin +64
Large language models have been shown to achieve remarkable performance across a variety of natural language tasks using few-shot learning, which drastically reduces the number of…
Repairing the Cracked Foundation: A Survey of Obstacles in Evaluation Practices for Generated Text
Sebastian Gehrmann, Elizabeth Clark, Thibault Sellam
Evaluation practices in natural language generation (NLG) have many known flaws, but improved evaluation approaches are rarely widely adopted. This issue has become more urgent, si…
NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation
Kaustubh D. Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann +122
Data augmentation is an important component in the robustness evaluation of models in natural language processing (NLP) and in enhancing the diversity of the data they are trained…
LMdiff: A Visual Diff Tool to Compare Language Models
Hendrik Strobelt, Benjamin Hoover, Arvind Satyanarayan +1
While different language models are ubiquitous in NLP, it is hard to contrast their outputs and identify which contexts one can handle better than the other. To address this questi…
SynthBio: A Case Study in Human-AI Collaborative Curation of Text Datasets
Ann Yuan, Daphne Ippolito, Vitaly Nikolaev +3
NLP researchers need more, higher-quality text datasets. Human-labeled datasets are expensive to collect, while datasets collected via automatic retrieval from the web such as Wiki…
Learning Compact Metrics for MT
Amy Pu, Hyung Won Chung, Ankur P. Parikh +2
Recent developments in machine translation and multilingual text generation have led researchers to adopt trained metrics such as COMET or BLEURT, which treat evaluation as a regre…
Causal Analysis of Syntactic Agreement Mechanisms in Neural Language Models
Matthew Finlayson, Aaron Mueller, Sebastian Gehrmann +3
Targeted syntactic evaluations have demonstrated the ability of language models to perform subject-verb agreement given difficult contexts. To elucidate the mechanisms by which the…
Automatic Construction of Evaluation Suites for Natural Language Generation Datasets
Simon Mille, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Saad Mahamood +5
Machine learning approaches applied to NLP are often evaluated by summarizing their performance in a single number, for example accuracy. Since most test sets are constructed as an…
The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics
Sebastian Gehrmann, Tosin Adewumi, Karmanya Aggarwal +53
We introduce GEM, a living benchmark for natural language Generation (NLG), its Evaluation, and Metrics. Measuring progress in NLG relies on a constantly evolving ecosystem of auto…
Learning to Evaluate Translation Beyond English: BLEURT Submissions to the WMT Metrics 2020 Shared Task
Thibault Sellam, Amy Pu, Hyung Won Chung +5
The quality of machine translation systems has dramatically improved over the last decade, and as a result, evaluation has become an increasingly challenging problem. This paper de…
The Language Interpretability Tool: Extensible, Interactive Visualizations and Analysis for NLP Models
Ian Tenney, James Wexler, Jasmijn Bastings +8
We present the Language Interpretability Tool (LIT), an open-source platform for visualization and understanding of NLP models. We focus on core questions about model behavior: Why…
ToTTo: A Controlled Table-To-Text Generation Dataset
Ankur P. Parikh, Xuezhi Wang, Sebastian Gehrmann +4
We present ToTTo, an open-domain English table-to-text dataset with over 120,000 training examples that proposes a controlled generation task: given a Wikipedia table and a set of…