Summary of Leveraging Distillation Techniques For Document Understanding: a Case Study with Flan-t5, by Marcel Lamott et al.
Leveraging Distillation Techniques for Document Understanding: A Case Study with FLAN-T5
by Marcel Lamott, Muhammad Armaghan Shakir
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Sep 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 A novel approach to harnessing the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Document Understanding is presented, leveraging distillation methods to accommodate computational limitations. The authors demonstrate a method to distill document understanding knowledge from proprietary LLMs like ChatGPT into open-source models like FLAN-T5, using labeling and curriculum-learning mechanisms to facilitate efficient knowledge transfer. This work contributes to the advancement of document understanding methodologies by offering a scalable solution that bridges the gap between resource-intensive LLMs and practical applications. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to use Large Language Models (LLMs) for Document Understanding is discovered. Researchers took powerful models like ChatGPT and shrunk them down to fit on smaller computers. They used special techniques to teach these smaller models what they need to know about documents, so they can understand them just as well as the big models do. This is important because it makes it possible to use these powerful models in real-world situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Curriculum learning » Distillation » T5
