Summary of Fewer Truncations Improve Language Modeling, by Hantian Ding et al.
Fewer Truncations Improve Language Modeling
by Hantian Ding, Zijian Wang, Giovanni Paolini, Varun Kumar, Anoop Deoras, Dan Roth, Stefano Soatto
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 The proposed Best-fit Packing method efficiently packs documents into training sequences through length-aware combinatorial optimization, eliminating unnecessary truncations while retaining the same training efficiency as concatenation. The approach achieves superior performance in tasks such as reading comprehension, context following, and program synthesis, with a reduction of closed-domain hallucination by up to 58.3%. This method is particularly valuable for large language models that require complete documents to learn coherent and factually consistent content. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are getting better at understanding human language, but they still struggle to understand context and make sense of incomplete information. A new approach called Best-fit Packing helps fix this problem by combining documents in a way that keeps the information intact. This makes it easier for the model to learn what’s important and what’s not, which is really helpful when you need accurate answers. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Hallucination » Optimization
