2 papers
cs.CL2024
From Babble to Words: Pre-Training Language Models on Continuous Streams of Phonemes
Zébulon Goriely, Richard Diehl Martinez, Andrew Caines +2
Language models are typically trained on large corpora of text in their default orthographic form. However, this is not the only option; representing data as streams of phonemes ca…
cs.CL2023
CLIMB: Curriculum Learning for Infant-inspired Model Building
Richard Diehl Martinez, Zebulon Goriely, Hope McGovern +4
We describe our team's contribution to the STRICT-SMALL track of the BabyLM Challenge. The challenge requires training a language model from scratch using only a relatively small t…