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Google & TAU Explore How Transformer-Based LLMs Extract Knowledge From Their Parameters

In the new paper Dissecting Recall of Factual Associations in Auto-Regressive Language Models, a team from Google DeepMind, Tel Aviv University and Google Research investigates how factual associations are stored and extracted internally in transformer-based language models and provides insights on how such models’ factual predictions are formed.

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Microsoft & Peking U’s WizardLM Enables LLMs to Automatically Mass-Produce Complex Instructions

In the new paper WizardLM: Empowering Large Language Models to Follow Complex Instructions, a research team from Microsoft and Peking University presents Evol-Instruct, a novel approach that leverages LLMs to automatically generate large amounts of instruction data with varying levels of complexity. In human evaluations, the team’s resulting WizardLM model’s generated instructions were judged superior to human-created instruction datasets.

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Meet TaskMatrix.AI: A Microsoft ‘Super-AI’ That Links Foundation Models With Millions of APIs to Perform Diverse Tasks

In the new paper TaskMatrix.AI: Completing Tasks by Connecting Foundation Models with Millions of APIs, a Microsoft research team proposes TaskMatrix.AI, a novel ecosystem that connects foundation models with millions of existing models and system APIs to build a “super-AI” capable of addressing a wide range of digital and physical tasks.

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Google’s CoLT5 Processes Extremely Long Inputs via Conditional Computation

A Google Research team addresses transformers’ input sequence limitations in the new paper CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers with Conditional Computation, proposing CoLT5 (Conditional LongT5), a family of models that applies a novel conditional computation approach for higher quality and faster long-input processing of up to 64,000 tokens.

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Microsoft’s MathPrompter Dramatically Improves LLM Performance on Mathematical Reasoning Tasks

In the new paper MathPrompter: Mathematical Reasoning Using Large Language Models, a Microsoft Research team presents MathPrompter, a novel approach that leverages chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting techniques to improve LLM performance on mathematical reasoning problems and increase confidence in their predictions.

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Tackling Hallucinations: Microsoft’s LLM-Augmenter Boosts ChatGPT’s Factual Answer Score

In the new paper Check Your Facts and Try Again: Improving Large Language Models with External Knowledge and Automated Feedback, a Microsoft Research and Columbia University team presents LLM-Augmenter, a system that augments black-box large language models with a set of plug-and-play modules to significantly improve the factuality of their responses.

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CMU & Inspired Cognition’s DocPrompting Improves Code Generation by Retrieving Relevant Documentation

In the new paper DocPrompting: Generating Code by Retrieving the Docs, a research team from Carnegie Mellon University and Inspired Cognition presents DocPrompting, a natural-language-to-code generation approach. Tasked with generating code to unseen functions or libraries from a natural language intent, DocPrompting retrieves corresponding code documentation to enable the model to learn to perform the task.

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DeepMind’s Speculative Sampling Achieves 2–2.5x Decoding Speedups in Large Language Models

In the new paper Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling, a DeepMind research team presents SpS (Speculative Sampling), an algorithm that achieves 2–2.5x decoding speedups on a 70 billion parameter Chinchilla language model. The novel approach maintains sample quality and does not require any modifications to model parameters or architecture.

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Stanford U’s DetectGPT Takes a Curvature-Based Approach to LLM-Generated Text Detection

In the new paper DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection Using Probability Curvature, a Stanford University research team presents DetectGPT, a zero-shot machine-generated text detection algorithm that uses probability curvature to predict whether a candidate passage was generated by a large language model.

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Microsoft’s Neural Codec Language Models Synthesize High-Quality Personalized Speech From a 3-Second Sample

In the new paper Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers, a Microsoft research team presents VALL-E, the first language model-based text-to-speech (TTS) system with strong in-context learning. VALL-E achieves state-of-the-art personalized speech synthesis quality via prompting in a zero-shot setting.

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Stanford & Buffalo U Advance Language Modelling with State Space Models

In the new paper Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models, Stanford University and State University of New York at Buffalo researchers explore the expressivity gap between state space models and transformer language model attention mechanisms and propose FlashConv to improve state space model training efficiency on modern hardware.

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DeepMind & UCL Fine-tune a 70B Parameter LM to Generate Statements Agreeable to Humans with Diverse Opinions

In the new paper Fine-tuning Language Models To Find Agreement Among Humans With Diverse Preferences, a research team from DeepMind and University College London fine-tunes a 70 billion parameter language model to generate statements that maximize agreement among a human group with diverse written opinions.

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DeepMind Studies Process- vs Outcome-based Model Supervision, Significantly Reducing Reasoning Errors on Math Word Problems

In the new paper Solving Math Word Problems With Process- and Outcome-based Feedback, a DeepMind research team conducts the first comprehensive comparison between process- and outcome-based model supervision. The two approaches achieve comparable final-answer error rate improvements on math word problems, while the process-based method significantly reduces reasoning errors from 14.0 to just 3.4 percent.

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MIT, Northeastern & Technion Propose ROME for Efficient Locating and Editing of Factual Associations in GPT Models

In the new paper Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT, a research team from MIT CSAIL, Northeastern University and Technion IIT examines how information flows during knowledge recall in large autoregressive transformers and introduces Rank-One Model Editing (ROME), a simple, zero-shot principled model editor capable of locating and editing factual associations in such models.

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Google & Stanford Team Applies Chain-of-Thought Prompting to Surpass Human Performance on Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks

In the new paper Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them, a Google Research and Stanford University team applies chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting — a series of intermediate reasoning steps — to 23 BIG-Bench tasks on which language models have failed to outperform the average human rater. The proposed approach enables models to surpass human performance on 17 of the 23 tasks.

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‘Ask Me Anything’: Stanford U, Numbers Station & UW Madison’s Novel Prompting Strategy Enables LLMs With 30x Fewer Parameters to Outperform Few-Shot GPT3-175B

In the new paper Ask Me Anything: A Simple Strategy for Prompting Language Models, a research team from Stanford University, Numbers Station, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents Ask Me Anything Prompting (AMA), a simple large language model prompting strategy that enables a 30x smaller language model to outperform few-shot GPT3-175B.

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Google Brain’s Vec2Text Models for Sentence Generation Excel in Universality, Diversity, Fluency & Semantic Structure

In the new paper Vec2text With Round-Trip Translations, Google Brain researchers explore large language models’ capabilities for generating arbitrary natural language text from inputs of fixed-size vectors — a vec2text setting — and propose a simple data augmentation approach based on round-trip translations to improve vec2text model performance.

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Plan, Edit, Explain and Repeat: The PEER Collaborative Language Model Brings a Humanlike Process to Text Generation

In the new paper PEER: A Collaborative Language Model, a research team from Meta AI, Carnegie Mellon University, PSL University, and University College London presents PEER, a collaborative language model that performs a humanlike writing process — composing drafts, adding suggestions, proposing edits and providing explanations for its actions.

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Microsoft’s Parameter-Efficient Z-Code++ Language Model Beats the 200x Larger GPT3-175B on Abstractive Text Summarization

In the new paper Z-Code++: A Pre-trained Language Model Optimized for Abstractive Summarization, a research team from Microsoft Azure AI and Microsoft Research presents Z-Code++, a novel encoder-decoder pretrained language model optimized for abstractive summarization that significantly improves performance on low-resource summarization tasks.

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OpenAI Presents a Simple and Efficient Training Strategy to Boost Language Models’ Text-Infilling Capabilities

In the new paper Efficient Training of Language Models to Fill in the Middle, an OpenAI research team shows that causal decoder-based autoregressive (AR) language models can learn to infill texts via a very simple and straightforward transformation to the training data and without any architectural modifications.

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444 Authors From 132 Institutions Release BIG-bench: A 204-Task ‘Extremely Difficult and Diverse’ Benchmark for Large Language Models

In the new paper Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and Extrapolating the Capabilities of Language Models, 444 authors from 132 institutions introduce Beyond the Imitation Game (BIG-bench), a large-scale, extremely difficult and diverse benchmark that includes 204 tasks for predicting the potentially transformative effects of large language models.