Summary of Need a Small Specialized Language Model? Plan Early!, by David Grangier et al.
Need a Small Specialized Language Model? Plan Early!
by David Grangier, Angelos Katharopoulos, Pierre Ablin, Awni Hannun
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 proposed paper aims to develop effective methods for creating specialized small language models that achieve good performance despite limited inference budgets. The authors explore two scenarios: pretraining a model for each specialization task or adapting a single pretrained model for each task. In the first scenario, they propose an importance sampling approach that resamples a large, generic pretraining set to mimic specialization data and trains a small model on it. For the second scenario, they introduce projected networks (PN), a novel architecture that projects large network parameters into a small network for specialization. The authors demonstrate the empirical effectiveness of their solutions across various domains, training set sizes, and training budgets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us create specialized language models that work well even when we don’t have much computing power. The authors look at two ways to do this: either train a new model just for each task or adapt one big model to fit each task. They show that by resampling the data used to train the big model, we can get a small model that does well on its specific task. They also design a special kind of network that shrinks down the big model’s parameters to fit into a smaller model. The results are promising and could help us build better language models for many different tasks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Inference * Pretraining
