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Lawrence McAfee

3 accepted papers

2024

InstructRetro: Instruction Tuning post Retrieval-Augmented Pretraining

ICML 2024poster

Pretraining auto-regressive large language models (LLMs) with retrieval demonstrates better perplexity and factual accuracy by leveraging external databases. However, the size of existing pretrained retrieval-augmented LLM is still limited (e.g., Retro has 7.5B parameters), which limits the effectiv…

2024

Retrieval meets Long Context Large Language Models

ICLR 2024poster

Extending the context window of large language models (LLMs) is getting popular recently, while the solution of augmenting LLMs with retrieval has existed for years. The natural questions are: i) Retrieval-augmentation versus long context window, which one is better for downstream tasks? ii) Can bot…

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2023

Shall We Pretrain Autoregressive Language Models with Retrieval? A Comprehensive Study

EMNLP 2023long main

Large decoder-only language models (LMs) can be largely improved in terms of perplexity by retrieval (e.g., RETRO), but its impact on text generation quality and downstream task accuracy is unclear. Thus, it is still an open question: shall we pretrain large autoregressive LMs with retrieval? To ans…

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