Tag: Natural Language Understanding

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Microsoft’s TaskWeaver: Empowering Intelligent Conversational Agents for Handling Domain-Specific Complex Tasks

A Microsoft research team introduces TaskWeaver, a cutting-edge, code-first framework designed to empower LLM-powered autonomous agents. TaskWeaver offers a potent and flexible platform for constructing intelligent conversational agents capable of handling complex tasks and seamlessly adapting to domain-specific scenarios.

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Microsoft & NVIDIA Leverage DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest Monolithic Language Model

A research team from Microsoft and NVIDIA leverages the NVIDIA Megatron-LM and Microsoft’s DeepSpeed to create an efficient and scalable 3D parallel system that combines data, pipeline, and tensor-slicing based parallelism, achieving superior zero-, one-, and few-shot learning accuracies and new state-of-the-art results on NLP benchmarks.

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NYU & UNC Reveal How Transformers’ Learned Representations Change After Fine-Tuning

In the paper Fine-Tuned Transformers Show Clusters of Similar Representations Across Layers, a research team from New York University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill uses centered kernel alignment (CKA) to measure the similarity of representations across layers and explore how fine-tuning changes transformers’ learned representations.

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Baidu’s Knowledge-Enhanced ERNIE 3.0 Pretraining Framework Delivers SOTA NLP Results, Surpasses Human Performance on the SuperGLUE Benchmark

A research team from Baidu proposes ERNIE 3.0, a unified framework for pretraining large-scale, knowledge-enhanced models that can easily be tailored for both natural language understanding and generation tasks with zero-shot learning, few-shot learning or fine-tuning, and achieves state-of-the-art results on NLP tasks.