Summary of Chatqa 2: Bridging the Gap to Proprietary Llms in Long Context and Rag Capabilities, by Peng Xu et al.
ChatQA 2: Bridging the Gap to Proprietary LLMs in Long Context and RAG Capabilities
by Peng Xu, Wei Ping, Xianchao Wu, Chejian Xu, Zihan Liu, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary ChatQA 2 is a machine learning model that aims to bridge the gap between open-source and proprietary models in long context understanding and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities. The model, based on Llama 3.0, has a 128K context window and is designed to process large volumes of information that cannot fit into a single prompt. To achieve this, the authors present a continued training recipe to extend the context window of Llama3-70B-base from 8K to 128K tokens, along with an instruction tuning process to enhance the model’s capabilities in instruction-following, RAG performance, and long-context understanding. The results demonstrate that the Llama3-ChatQA-2-70B model outperforms existing state-of-the-art models on ultra-long tasks beyond 100K tokens and on the RAG benchmark using only a 4K context window. The authors also provide comparisons between direct long-context and RAG solutions, finding that strong long-context LLMs improve when retrieving a larger number of chunks. The model weights, training data, and evaluation setup are open-sourced for the community. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary ChatQA 2 is a new AI model that helps computers understand very long pieces of text. It’s like a super-smart librarian who can find the right information in huge collections of books! To make this happen, the creators of ChatQA 2 had to teach it how to understand and work with really long texts. They used a special training recipe to help the model learn from lots of different texts and then tested it on some big tasks. The results show that ChatQA 2 is better than other similar models at understanding very long texts, even when they’re really complex! This new model can be used for all sorts of things, like helping computers understand huge amounts of data or generating text based on what humans have written. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Context window » Instruction tuning » Llama » Machine learning » Prompt » Rag » Retrieval augmented generation
