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Register a new userIt's Not Just Size That Matters: Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners
ليس فقط الحجم الذي يهم: نماذج لغة صغيرة هي أيضا عدد قليل من المتعلمين
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عند التحجيم إلى مئات مليارات مليارات المعلمات، فإن نماذج اللغة المحددة مسبقا مثل GPT-3 (Brown et al.، 2020) تحقق أداءا ملحوظا قليلا.ومع ذلك، فإن كميات هائلة من الحساب مطلوبة للتدريب وتطبيق هذه النماذج الكبيرة، مما أدى إلى بصمة كبيرة على الكربون وجعل من الصعب على الباحثين والممارسين استخدامها.نظهر أنه يمكن الحصول على الأداء المشابه ل GPT-3 مع طرازات اللغة أكثر خضرة "" في أن عدد المعلمات لديهم عدة أوامر من الحجم أصغر.يتم تحقيق ذلك من خلال تحويل المدخلات النصية إلى أسئلة كتين تحتوي على وصف مهمة، جنبا إلى جنب مع التحسين المستندة إلى التدرج؛إن استغلال البيانات غير المسبقة يمنح تحسينات إضافية.نحدد العوامل الرئيسية المطلوبة لفهم اللغة الطبيعية الناجحة مع نماذج لغة صغيرة.
When scaled to hundreds of billions of parameters, pretrained language models such as GPT-3 (Brown et al., 2020) achieve remarkable few-shot performance. However, enormous amounts of compute are required for training and applying such big models, resulting in a large carbon footprint and making it difficult for researchers and practitioners to use them. We show that performance similar to GPT-3 can be obtained with language models that are much greener'' in that their parameter count is several orders of magnitude smaller. This is achieved by converting textual inputs into cloze questions that contain a task description, combined with gradient-based optimization; exploiting unlabeled data gives further improvements. We identify key factors required for successful natural language understanding with small language models.
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