Summary of Tag-llm: Repurposing General-purpose Llms For Specialized Domains, by Junhong Shen et al.
Tag-LLM: Repurposing General-Purpose LLMs for Specialized Domains
by Junhong Shen, Neil Tenenholtz, James Brian Hall, David Alvarez-Melis, Nicolo Fusi
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 paper explores ways to adapt general Large Language Models (LLMs) for use in specialized domains like physical and biomedical sciences. The authors introduce a novel framework that learns custom input tags, which are vectors appended to the LLM’s embedding layer, to condition the model. These tags include domain-specific representations and function-solving instructions. A three-stage protocol is developed to learn these tags using auxiliary data and domain knowledge. The method enables zero-shot generalization to unseen problems through diverse combinations of the input tags, outperforming expert models tailored to specific tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper takes large language models and makes them better at understanding and working with specialized areas like science and medicine. By adding special “tags” that help the model understand what it’s supposed to do, the authors show how to make these models work well in new areas without needing lots of training data. This is helpful because it means we can use these models for things like predicting protein structures or identifying potential medicines. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Embedding * Generalization * Zero shot
