๐ฅ ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Survey on Data Annotation and Active Learning
Short summary: We need your support for a web survey in which we investigate how recent advancements in natural language processing, particularly LLMs, have influenced the need for labeled data in supervised machine learning โ with a focus on, but not limited to, active learning. See the original post for details.
โก๏ธ Extended Deadline: January 26th, 2025. Please consider participating or sharing our survey! (If you have any experience with supervised learning in natural language processing, you are eligible to participate in our survey.)
Hereโs just one of the many exciting questions from our survey. If these topics resonate with you and you have experience working on supervised learning with text (i.e., supervised learning in Natural Language Processing), we warmly invite you to participate!
โค๏ธ Weโre seeking responses from across the globe! If you know 1โ3 people who might qualify for this surveyโparticularly those in different regionsโplease share it with them. Weโd really appreciate it!
Are you working on Natural Language Processing tasks and have faced the challenge of a lack of labeled data before? ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐น๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ to explore the strategies used to address this bottleneck, especially in the context of recent advancements, including but not limited to large language models.
The survey is non-commercial and conducted solely for academic research purposes. The results will contribute to an open-access publication that also benefits the community.
๐ With only 5โ15 minutes of your time, you would greatly help to investigate which strategies are used by the #NLP community to overcome a lack of labeled data.
โค๏ธHow you can help even more: If you know others working on supervised learning and NLP, please share this survey with themโweโd really appreciate it!
My latest project is the outcome of the last 2+ years working with TPUs from the amazing TPU Research Cloud (TRC) program and training Encoder-only LMs with the TensorFlow Model Garden library.
- Cheatsheet for setting-up a TPU VM Pod (with all necessary dependencies) to pretrain LMs with TF Model Garden - Conversion scripts that convert TF Model Garden weights to Hugging Face Transformers-compatible models - Supported architectures include BERT, BERT with Token Dropping and TEAMS
I also released BERT-based models pretrained on the great Hugging Face FineWeb and FineWeb-Edu datasets (10BT subset). With more to come!
With small language models on the rise, the new version of small-text has been long overdue! Despite the generative AI hype, many real-world tasks still rely on supervised learningโwhich is reliant on labeled data.
Highlights: - Four new query strategies: Try even more combinations than before. - Vector indices integration: HNSW and KNN indices are now available via a unified interface and can easily be used within your code. - Simplified installation: We dropped the torchtext dependency and cleaned up a lot of interfaces.
๐ Try it out for yourself! We are eager to hear your feedback. ๐ง Share your small-text applications and experiments in the newly added showcase section. ๐ Support the project by leaving a star on the repo!
#EMNLP2024 is happening soon! Unfortunately, I will not be on site, but I will present our poster virtually on Wednesday, Nov 13 (7:45 EST / 13:45 CEST) in Virtual Poster Session 2.
In this work, we leverage self-training in an active learning loop in order to train small language models with even less data. Hope to see you there!
This bold claim is not my opinion, but it has been made in a recent "report" of a group, whose stance is recognizable in their name. It is roughly translated as "Authors' Rights Initiative". They published a report which was also presented before the EU Parliament according to the LinkedIn post below.
I am not really interested in politics, but as an EU citizen I am of course somewhat interested in a reasonable and practical version of the EU AI Act. Not saying there should not be rules around data and AI, but this report is obviously very biased towards one side.
While I think the report itself does not deserve attention, I post it in the hope that you find more examples, where they did not address the issue adequately. Feel free to add to my LinkedIn posts (where the original authors will see it) or here.
๐ Liger Kernel: Efficient Triton Kernels for LLM Training
LIGER "is a [Hugging Face-compatible] collection of Triton kernels designed specifically for LLM training. It can effectively increase multi-GPU training throughput by 20% and reduces memory usage by 60%."
Apparently, some papers from the ACL 2024 are still not listed in the ACL Anthology. While this issue will hopefully be fixed soon, we should give those papers additional spotlight.