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4 claims from 3 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension

   Lewis, Liu, Goyal et al. · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2020

   The paper presents BART, a denoising sequence-to-sequence pretraining model, tests different text-corruption methods, and reports results on generation, comprehension and translation tasks.

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   1. UncheckedBART matches RoBERTa on GLUE and SQuAD with similar training resources, and sets new best results on several generation tasks, by up to 6 ROUGE.“It matches the performance of RoBERTa with comparable training resources on GLUE and SQuAD, achieves new state-of-the-art results on a range of abstractive dialogue, question answering, and summarization tasks, with gains of up to 6 ROUGE.”
   2. UncheckedBART is reported to beat a back-translation machine translation system by 1.1 BLEU points while pretraining only on the target language.“BART also provides a 1.1 BLEU increase over a back-translation system for machine translation, with only target language pretraining.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model

   Smith, Patwary, Norick et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that MT-NLG achieves superior zero-, one-, and few-shot learning accuracies on several NLP benchmarks and establishes new state-of-the-art results.”

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   A Survey of Knowledge Enhanced Pre-Trained Language Models

   Hu, Liu, Zhao, Hou, Nie and Li · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 2023

   A review of knowledge-enhanced pre-trained language models, with separate taxonomies for language understanding and generation, and pointers to promising future directions.

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   1. UncheckedThe survey sorts knowledge-enhanced pre-trained language models for text generation into two groups: those based on knowledge graphs and those based on retrieval.“The KE-PLMs for NLG are categorized into KG-based and retrieval-based methods.”