Better Language Model
Research on better language models focuses on improving their ability to generalize, reason, and handle diverse linguistic data, particularly in low-resource settings. Current efforts explore techniques like improved prompting strategies, smaller yet effective model architectures, and novel training objectives such as Earth Mover Distance Optimization, aiming to enhance performance across various tasks including question answering, machine translation, and code generation. These advancements are significant because they address limitations in existing models, leading to more robust and efficient NLP systems with broader applicability across languages and domains.
Papers
Do better language models have crisper vision?
Jona Ruthardt, Gertjan J. Burghouts, Serge Belongie, Yuki M. Asano
Personal Intelligence System UniLM: Hybrid On-Device Small Language Model and Server-Based Large Language Model for Malay Nusantara
Azree Nazri, Olalekan Agbolade, Faisal Aziz
The Accuracy Paradox in RLHF: When Better Reward Models Don't Yield Better Language Models
Yanjun Chen, Dawei Zhu, Yirong Sun, Xinghao Chen, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen