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2 claims from 1 paper

  1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Augmentation-Adapted Retriever Improves Generalization of Language Models as Generic Plug-In

    Yu, Xiong, Shi and Liu · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2023

    The authors propose a retriever trained on one small language model's document preferences that can then help many other, larger models answer knowledge-intensive questions without joint fine-tuning.

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    1. Unchecked“Experiments on the MMLU and PopQA datasets demonstrate that our AAR trained with a small source LM is able to significantly improve the zero-shot generalization of larger target LMs ranging from 250M Flan-T5 to 175B InstructGPT.”
    2. UncheckedThe paper reports that different language models prefer similar retrieved documents, so a retriever trained with one source model can serve many target models.“Further analysis indicates that the preferences of different LMs overlap, enabling AAR trained with a single source LM to serve as a generic plug-in for various target LMs.”

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