Summary of Efficient Training Of Language Models with Compact and Consistent Next Token Distributions, by Ashutosh Sathe et al.
Efficient Training of Language Models with Compact and Consistent Next Token Distributions
by Ashutosh Sathe, Sunita Sarawagi
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes an innovative approach to pre-training language models by leveraging collapsed n-gram distributions. By pre-aggregating the corpus with this technique, researchers can train better models faster. The method builds upon previous work that utilized corpus-level n-gram statistics as a regularizer. However, these approaches were limited by their computational cost, which hindered their adoption in large-scale language model pre-training. This paper demonstrates how to overcome these limitations and achieve improved results. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study shows that you can make better language models faster by preparing the words in advance. It’s like having a special dictionary to help your computer learn more efficiently. The researchers used an old idea, but made it work better for big language models. This means we can train computers to understand language even better and faster! |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Language model * N gram
