Summary of Quantized Embedding Vectors For Controllable Diffusion Language Models, by Cheng Kang et al.
Quantized Embedding Vectors for Controllable Diffusion Language Models
by Cheng Kang, Xinye Chen, Yong Hu, Daniel Novak
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper tackles the challenge of improving controllability, portability, and inference speed for diffusion language models (DLMs) used in natural language generation. Despite recent progress in complex text generation, current DLMs remain memory- and computationally demanding, limiting their portability and stability. To address these issues, researchers have explored methods for neural network quantization. Building on this work, the authors propose a novel approach called the Quantized Embedding Controllable Diffusion Language Model (QE-CDLM). QE-CDLM remaps the task-specific embedding space via quantization, enabling a gradient-based controller and more stable intermediate latent variables. This leads to accelerated convergence and improved controllability. The authors also employ an adaptation fine-tuning method to reduce tunable weights. Experimental results on five challenging tasks demonstrate that QE-CDLM outperforms existing methods in terms of quality and feasibility, achieving better perplexity and lightweight fine-tuning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps make language models more useful by making them smaller and faster without losing their ability to understand and generate text. Current language models are big and slow, which makes it hard for them to work on devices like smartphones or tablets. The researchers propose a new way to shrink these models while keeping them good at generating text. They test this approach on five challenging tasks and find that it works well, even better than previous methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Embedding » Embedding space » Fine tuning » Inference » Language model » Neural network » Perplexity » Quantization » Text generation
