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20172026
most citedPaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

2.1k citations · 3.8k across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.HC2026

Working with Agentic `Teammates': When a New Organizational Actor Collides with the Human Ecosystem of Work

Rida Qadri, Remi Denton, Michael Madaio +13

Enterprise AI is transitioning from single-user, reactive tools toward proactive, multi-user 'teammates,' but our empirical understanding of this transition is limited. In this pap…

cs.AI2026

Analysis of Optimality of Large Language Models on Planning Problems

Bernd Bohnet, Michael C. Mozer, Kevin Swersky +4

Classic AI planning problems have been revisited in the Large Language Model (LLM) era, with a focus of recent benchmarks on success rates rather than plan efficiency. We examine t…

cs.LG2025

Enhancing LLM Planning Capabilities through Intrinsic Self-Critique

Bernd Bohnet, Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny, Hanie Sedghi +7

We demonstrate an approach for LLMs to critique their \emph{own} answers with the goal of enhancing their performance that leads to significant improvements over established planni…

cs.LG2025

A Comparative Analysis of LLM Adaptation: SFT, LoRA, and ICL in Data-Scarce Scenarios

Bernd Bohnet, Rumen Dangovski, Kevin Swersky +4

The remarkable capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) often need to be tailored for specific applications, requiring the integration of new knowledge or the acquisition of ne…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Because we have LLMs, we Can and Should Pursue Agentic Interpretability

Been Kim, John Hewitt, Neel Nanda +2

The era of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents a new opportunity for interpretability--agentic interpretability: a multi-turn conversation with an LLM wherein the LLM proactively…

cs.CL2025★ 65 cited

Gemma 3 Technical Report

Gemma Team, Aishwarya Kamath, Johan Ferret +209

We introduce Gemma 3, a multimodal addition to the Gemma family of lightweight open models, ranging in scale from 1 to 27 billion parameters. This version introduces vision underst…

cs.CL2024★ 145 cited

Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size

Gemma Team, Morgane Riviere, Shreya Pathak +195

In this work, we introduce Gemma 2, a new addition to the Gemma family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models, ranging in scale from 2 billion to 27 billion parameters. In th…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Training Language Models on the Knowledge Graph: Insights on Hallucinations and Their Detectability

Jiri Hron, Laura Culp, Gamaleldin Elsayed +28

While many capabilities of language models (LMs) improve with increased training budget, the influence of scale on hallucinations is not yet fully understood. Hallucinations come i…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Exploring and Benchmarking the Planning Capabilities of Large Language Models

Bernd Bohnet, Azade Nova, Aaron T Parisi +6

Classical and natural language planning tasks remain a difficult domain for modern large language models (LLMs). In this work, we lay the foundations for improving planning capabil…

cs.CL2024

Long-Span Question-Answering: Automatic Question Generation and QA-System Ranking via Side-by-Side Evaluation

Bernd Bohnet, Kevin Swersky, Rosanne Liu +9

We explore the use of long-context capabilities in large language models to create synthetic reading comprehension data from entire books. Previous efforts to construct such datase…

cs.CL2024★ 238 cited

Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology

Gemma Team, Thomas Mesnard, Cassidy Hardin +105

This work introduces Gemma, a family of lightweight, state-of-the art open models built from the research and technology used to create Gemini models. Gemma models demonstrate stro…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

RecurrentGemma: Moving Past Transformers for Efficient Open Language Models

Aleksandar Botev, Soham De, Samuel L Smith +59

We introduce RecurrentGemma, a family of open language models which uses Google's novel Griffin architecture. Griffin combines linear recurrences with local attention to achieve ex…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Transfer Learning for Text Diffusion Models

Kehang Han, Kathleen Kenealy, Aditya Barua +2

In this report, we explore the potential for text diffusion to replace autoregressive (AR) decoding for the training and deployment of large language models (LLMs). We are particul…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models

Avi Singh, John D. Co-Reyes, Rishabh Agarwal +38

Fine-tuning language models~(LMs) on human-generated data remains a prevalent practice. However, the performance of such models is often limited by the quantity and diversity of hi…

cs.CL2023

Frontier Language Models are not Robust to Adversarial Arithmetic, or "What do I need to say so you agree 2+2=5?

C. Daniel Freeman, Laura Culp, Aaron Parisi +27

We introduce and study the problem of adversarial arithmetic, which provides a simple yet challenging testbed for language model alignment. This problem is comprised of arithmetic…

cs.AI2023★ 53 cited

Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI

Meredith Ringel Morris, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Noah Fiedel +5

We propose a framework for classifying the capabilities and behavior of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) models and their precursors. This framework introduces levels of AGI p…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Understanding HTML with Large Language Models

Izzeddin Gur, Ofir Nachum, Yingjie Miao +6

Large language models (LLMs) have shown exceptional performance on a variety of natural language tasks. Yet, their capabilities for HTML understanding -- i.e., parsing the raw HTML…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

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…

cs.CL2022★ 33 cited

TALM: Tool Augmented Language Models

Aaron Parisi, Yao Zhao, Noah Fiedel

Transformer based language models (LMs) demonstrate increasing performance with scale across a wide variety of tasks. Scale alone however cannot enable models to solve tasks that r…

cs.CL2022★ 2.1k cited

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…

cs.LG2022★ 48 cited

Scaling Up Models and Data with and

Adam Roberts, Hyung Won Chung, Anselm Levskaya +40

Recent neural network-based language models have benefited greatly from scaling up the size of training datasets and the number of parameters in the models themselves. Scaling can…

cs.LG2021

Do Transformer Modifications Transfer Across Implementations and Applications?

Sharan Narang, Hyung Won Chung, Yi Tay +13

The research community has proposed copious modifications to the Transformer architecture since it was introduced over three years ago, relatively few of which have seen widespread…

cs.CL2020★ 105 cited

WT5?! Training Text-to-Text Models to Explain their Predictions

Sharan Narang, Colin Raffel, Katherine Lee +3

Neural networks have recently achieved human-level performance on various challenging natural language processing (NLP) tasks, but it is notoriously difficult to understand why a n…

cs.CL2020★ 263 cited

Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot

Daniel Adiwardana, Minh-Thang Luong, David R. So +8

We present Meena, a multi-turn open-domain chatbot trained end-to-end on data mined and filtered from public domain social media conversations. This 2.6B parameter neural network i…