Ep. 35 - October 28, 2023

arXiv research summaries for Computation and Language from October 28, 2023. You can find summaries and links to each article ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Today's research themes (AI summary) Improving efficiency and reducing computational costs of large language models through methods like early exiting and knowledge distillation. Developing new datasets and models for low-resource languages and cross-lingual transfer, including for tasks like speech recognition and machine translation. Detecting and mitigating biases in language models, including human-like biases that propagate from pre-trained models to downstream tasks like speech emotion recognition. Advancing narrative and relational understanding capabilities of language models through new tasks, datasets and modular approaches. Enhancing reasoning across modalities in language models, with a focus on integrating visual information from images with text for knowledge extraction and medical question answering.