Ep. 95 - December 28, 2023

arXiv NLP research summaries for December 28, 2023. You can find summaries and links to each article ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Today's research themes (AI summary) Improving language models through new pretraining objectives and techniques like bidirectional alignment. Evaluating capabilities of large language models through new benchmarks focused on reasoning, consistency, and robustness. Applying large language models to new domains like scientific computing and causal analysis. Controlling text generation by modelling stylistic features and mitigating hallucination. Developing metrics to assess qualities like coherence in generated text.