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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Analysing Off-The-Shelf Options for Question Answering with Portuguese FAQs

   Susan, Stephen, Naman et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The authors present Open Pre-trained Transformers (OPT), a suite of openly shared language models from 125M to 175B parameters, along with a logbook of infrastructure challenges and code.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors report that their OPT-175B language model performs comparably to GPT-3 while needing only about one seventh of the carbon footprint to develop.“We show that OPT-175B is comparable to GPT-3, while requiring only 1/7th the carbon footprint to develop.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Bootstrapping a Data-Set and Model for Question-Answering in Portuguese (Short Paper)

   Zihang, Zhilin, Yiming, Carbonell, Le and Salakhutdinov · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

   The paper proposes Transformer-XL, a language-modelling architecture that learns longer-term dependency beyond a fixed context length and reports improved results on several benchmarks.

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   1. UncheckedTransformer-XL is reported to learn dependencies 80% longer than RNNs and 450% longer than vanilla Transformers, and to evaluate up to 1,800+ times faster.“As a result, Transformer-XL learns dependency that is 80% longer than RNNs and 450% longer than vanilla Transformers, achieves better performance on both short and long sequences, and is up to 1,800+ times faster than vanilla Transformers during evaluation.”