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Anton Alexandrov

3 accepted papers

2024

Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Language Transfer via Model Merging

EMNLP 2024finding

As open-weight large language models (LLMs) achieve ever more impressive performance across a wide range of tasks in English, practitioners aim to adapt these models to different languages. However, such language adaptation is often accompanied by catastrophic forgetting of the base model’s capabili…

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2024

RedPajama: an Open Dataset for Training Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Large language models are increasingly becoming a cornerstone technology in artificial intelligence, the sciences, and society as a whole, yet the optimal strategies for dataset composition and filtering remain largely elusive. Many of the top-performing models lack transparency in their dataset cur…

2023

WordScape: a Pipeline to extract multilingual, visually rich Documents with Layout Annotations from Web Crawl Data

NeurIPS 2023poster

We introduce WordScape, a novel pipeline for the creation of cross-disciplinary, multilingual corpora comprising millions of pages with annotations for document layout detection. Relating visual and textual items on document pages has gained further significance with the advent of multimodal models.…