Summary of Zip-fit: Embedding-free Data Selection Via Compression-based Alignment, by Elyas Obbad et al.
ZIP-FIT: Embedding-Free Data Selection via Compression-Based Alignment
by Elyas Obbad, Iddah Mlauzi, Brando Miranda, Rylan Schaeffer, Kamal Obbad, Suhana Bedi, Sanmi Koyejo
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The abstract presents research that focuses on improving language model (LM) performance on specific tasks by selecting relevant data. The authors highlight the importance of considering the target task distribution in data selection, as most current methods neglect this crucial aspect. They propose a novel approach to optimize LM performance by effectively accounting for the target task distribution. The study demonstrates the efficacy of their method through experiments on various language-related tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The abstract is about making language models better at specific jobs by choosing the right data. Most ways people do this now don’t take into account what kind of task they’re trying to solve, which is a big problem. The researchers are trying to fix this by coming up with a new way to pick data that makes sure the model is optimized for the job it needs to do. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Language model
