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Shane Arora

4 accepted papers

2025

CaLMQA: Exploring culturally specific long-form question answering across 23 languages

ACL 2025long

Despite rising global usage of large language models (LLMs), their ability to generate *long-form* answers to *culturally specific* questions remains unexplored in many languages. To fill this gap, we perform the first study of textual multilingual long-form QA by creating CaLMQA, a dataset of **51.…

2025

Critical Batch Size Revisited: A Simple Empirical Approach to Large-Batch Language Model Training

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

The right batch size is important when training language models at scale: a large batch size is necessary for fast training, but a batch size that is *too large* will harm token efficiency. To navigate this tradeoff, McCandlish et al. (2018) suggest that a *critical batch size* (CBS), below which tr…

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2025

OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

ICLR 2025oral

We introduce OLMoE, a fully open, state-of-the-art language model leveraging sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). OLMoE-1B-7B has 7 billion (B) parameters but uses only 1B per input token. We pretrain it on 5 trillion tokens and further adapt it to create OLMoE-1B-7B-Instruct. Our models outperform all…

2024

OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models

ACL 2024long

Language models (LMs) have become ubiquitous in both NLP research and in commercial product offerings. As their commercial importance has surged, the most powerful models have become closed off, gated behind proprietary interfaces, with important details of their training data, architectures, and de…