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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Super-NaturalInstructions: Generalization via Declarative Instructions on 1600+ NLP Tasks

   Wang, Mishra, Alipoormolabashi et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The paper introduces a benchmark of 1,616 NLP tasks with written instructions, and trains Tk-Instruct to follow instructions and generalise to unseen tasks.

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   1. UncheckedOn the paper's own benchmark, Tk-Instruct beats instruction-following models such as InstructGPT by over 9% despite being about ten times smaller.“Our experiments show that Tk-Instruct outperforms existing instruction-following models such as InstructGPT by over 9% on our benchmark despite being an order of magnitude smaller.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   On the Role of Bidirectionality in Language Model Pre-Training

   Artetxe, Du, Goyal, Zettlemoyer and Stoyanov · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The paper compares language model pre-training approaches by separately controlling two kinds of bidirectionality, testing them on four uses and at scales of up to 6.7B parameters.

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   1. UncheckedThe best mix of one-way and two-way attention in a language model depends largely on the task it is used for, according to this study.“We find that the optimal configuration is largely application-dependent (e.g., bidirectional attention is beneficial for fine-tuning and infilling, but harmful for next token prediction and zero-shot priming).”
   2. UncheckedModels of up to 6.7 billion parameters showed the same differences between bidirectional and unidirectional set-ups as smaller models did, according to the paper.“We train models with up to 6.7B parameters, and find differences to remain consistent at scale.”