pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
An Effective Data Creation Pipeline to Generate High-quality Financial Instruction Data for Large Language Model
Authors: Ziao Wang, Jianning Wang, Junda Wu, Xiaofeng Zhang
Date: 2023-07-31 00:00:00
Tasks: Language Modeling, Language Modelling, Large Language Model

At the beginning era of large language model, it is quite critical to generate a high-quality financial dataset to fine-tune a large language model for financial related tasks. Thus, this paper presents a carefully designed data creation pipeline for this purpose. Particularly, we initiate a dialogue between an AI investor and financial expert using ChatGPT and incorporate the feedback of human financial experts, leading to the refinement of the dataset. This pipeline yielded a robust instruction tuning dataset comprised of 103k multi-turn chats. Extensive experiments have been conducted on this dataset to evaluate the model's performance by adopting an external GPT-4 as the judge. The promising experimental results verify that our approach led to significant advancements in generating accurate, relevant, and financial-style responses from AI models, and thus providing a powerful tool for applications within the financial sector.
Athena 2.0: Discourse and User Modeling in Open Domain Dialogue
Authors: Omkar Patil, Lena Reed, Kevin K. Bowden, Juraj Juraska, Wen Cui, Vrindavan Harrison, Rishi Rajasekaran, Angela Ramirez, Cecilia Li, Eduardo Zamora, Phillip Lee, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Rohan Pandey, Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Marilyn Walker
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: coreference-resolution, Coreference Resolution, named-entity-recognition, Named Entity Recognition

Conversational agents are consistently growing in popularity and many people interact with them every day. While many conversational agents act as personal assistants, they can have many different goals. Some are task-oriented, such as providing customer support for a bank or making a reservation. Others are designed to be empathetic and to form emotional connections with the user. The Alexa Prize Challenge aims to create a socialbot, which allows the user to engage in coherent conversations, on a range of popular topics that will interest the user. Here we describe Athena 2.0, UCSC's conversational agent for Amazon's Socialbot Grand Challenge 4. Athena 2.0 utilizes a novel knowledge-grounded discourse model that tracks the entity links that Athena introduces into the dialogue, and uses them to constrain named-entity recognition and linking, and coreference resolution. Athena 2.0 also relies on a user model to personalize topic selection and other aspects of the conversation to individual users.
Tag Prediction of Competitive Programming Problems using Deep Learning Techniques
Authors: Taha Lokat, Divyam Prajapati, Shubhada Labde
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Deep Learning, TAG, text-classification, Text Classification

In the past decade, the amount of research being done in the fields of machine learning and deep learning, predominantly in the area of natural language processing (NLP), has risen dramatically. A well-liked method for developing programming abilities like logic building and problem solving is competitive programming. It can be tough for novices and even veteran programmers to traverse the wide collection of questions due to the massive number of accessible questions and the variety of themes, levels of difficulty, and questions offered. In order to help programmers find questions that are appropriate for their knowledge and interests, there is a need for an automated method. This can be done using automated tagging of the questions using Text Classification. Text classification is one of the important tasks widely researched in the field of Natural Language Processing. In this paper, we present a way to use text classification techniques to determine the domain of a competitive programming problem. A variety of models, including are implemented LSTM, GRU, and MLP. The dataset has been scraped from Codeforces, a major competitive programming website. A total of 2400 problems were scraped and preprocessed, which we used as a dataset for our training and testing of models. The maximum accuracy reached using our model is 78.0% by MLP(Multi Layer Perceptron).
Wider and Deeper LLM Networks are Fairer LLM Evaluators
Authors: Xinghua Zhang, Bowen Yu, Haiyang Yu, Yangyu Lv, Tingwen Liu, Fei Huang, Hongbo Xu, Yongbin Li
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00

Measuring the quality of responses generated by LLMs is a challenging task, particularly when it comes to evaluating whether the response is aligned with human preference. A novel approach involves using the LLM itself to make evaluation and stabilizing the results through multiple independent evaluations, similar to a single-layer narrow LLM network. This network consists of a fixed number of neurons, with each neuron being the same LLM. In this paper, we draw upon the extensive research on deep neural networks to explore whether deeper and wider networks can lead to fairer evaluations. Specifically, inspired by the observation that different neurons in a neural network are responsible for detecting different concepts, we first adaptively generate as many neuron roles as possible for each evaluation sample. Each perspective corresponds to the role of a specific LLM neuron in the first layer. In subsequent layers, we follow the idea that higher layers in deep networks are responsible for more comprehensive features, each layer receives representations from all neurons in the previous layer, integrating the locally learned evaluation information to obtain a more comprehensive evaluation result. Interestingly, this network design resembles the process of academic paper reviewing. To validate the effectiveness of our method, we construct the largest and most diverse English evaluation benchmark LLMEval$^2$ for LLM evaluators, comprising 15 tasks, 8 abilities, and 2,553 samples. Experimental results demonstrate that a wider network (involving many reviewers) with 2 layers (one round of discussion) performs the best, improving kappa correlation coefficient from 0.28 to 0.34. We also leverage WideDeep to aid in the assessment of Chinese LLMs, which has accelerated the evaluation time by 4.6 times, resulting in a 60% cost saving. WideDeep achieves a remarkable 93% agreement level among humans.
XNLP: An Interactive Demonstration System for Universal Structured NLP
Authors: Hao Fei, Meishan Zhang, Min Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00

Structured Natural Language Processing (XNLP) is an important subset of NLP that entails understanding the underlying semantic or syntactic structure of texts, which serves as a foundational component for many downstream applications. Despite certain recent efforts to explore universal solutions for specific categories of XNLP tasks, a comprehensive and effective approach for unifying all XNLP tasks long remains underdeveloped. In the meanwhile, while XNLP demonstration systems are vital for researchers exploring various XNLP tasks, existing platforms can be limited to, e.g., supporting few XNLP tasks, lacking interactivity and universalness. To this end, we propose an advanced XNLP demonstration platform, where we propose leveraging LLM to achieve universal XNLP, with one model for all with high generalizability. Overall, our system advances in multiple aspects, including universal XNLP modeling, high performance, interpretability, scalability, and interactivity, providing a unified platform for exploring diverse XNLP tasks in the community. XNLP is online: https://xnlp.haofei.vip
Textless Unit-to-Unit training for Many-to-Many Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation
Authors: Minsu Kim, Jeongsoo Choi, Dahun Kim, Yong Man Ro
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Decoder, Quantization, Representation Learning, Speech Synthesis, Speech-to-Speech Translation, STS, text-to-speech, Text to Speech, Text-To-Speech Synthesis, text-to-speech translation, Translation

This paper proposes a textless training method for many-to-many multilingual speech-to-speech translation that can also benefit the transfer of pre-trained knowledge to text-based systems, text-to-speech synthesis and text-to-speech translation. To this end, we represent multilingual speech with speech units that are the discretized representations of speech features derived from a self-supervised speech model. By treating the speech units as pseudo-text, we can focus on the linguistic content of the speech, which can be easily associated with both speech and text modalities at the phonetic level information. By setting both the inputs and outputs of our learning problem as speech units, we propose to train an encoder-decoder model in a many-to-many spoken language translation setting, namely Unit-to-Unit Translation (UTUT). Specifically, the encoder is conditioned on the source language token to correctly understand the input spoken language, while the decoder is conditioned on the target language token to generate the translated speech in the target language. Therefore, during the training, the model can build the knowledge of how languages are comprehended and how to relate them to different languages. Since speech units can be easily associated from both audio and text by quantization and phonemization respectively, the trained model can easily transferred to text-related tasks, even if it is trained in a textless manner. We demonstrate that the proposed UTUT model can be effectively utilized not only for Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) but also for multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis (T2S) and Text-to-Speech Translation (T2ST), requiring only minimal fine-tuning steps on text inputs. By conducting comprehensive experiments encompassing various languages, we validate the efficacy of the proposed method across diverse multilingual tasks.
Scaling Relationship on Learning Mathematical Reasoning with Large Language Models
Authors: Zheng Yuan, Hongyi Yuan, Chengpeng Li, Guanting Dong, Keming Lu, Chuanqi Tan, Chang Zhou, Jingren Zhou
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Arithmetic Reasoning, GSM8K, Mathematical Reasoning

Mathematical reasoning is a challenging task for large language models (LLMs), while the scaling relationship of it with respect to LLM capacity is under-explored. In this paper, we investigate how the pre-training loss, supervised data amount, and augmented data amount influence the reasoning performances of a supervised LLM. We find that pre-training loss is a better indicator of the model's performance than the model's parameter count. We apply supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with different amounts of supervised data and empirically find a log-linear relation between data amount and model performance, and we find better models improve less with enlarged supervised datasets. To augment more data samples for improving model performances without any human effort, we propose to apply Rejection sampling Fine-Tuning (RFT). RFT uses supervised models to generate and collect correct reasoning paths as augmented fine-tuning datasets. We find with augmented samples containing more distinct reasoning paths, RFT improves mathematical reasoning performance more for LLMs. We also find RFT brings more improvement for less performant LLMs. Furthermore, we combine rejection samples from multiple models which push LLaMA-7B to an accuracy of 49.3\% on GSM8K which outperforms the supervised fine-tuning (SFT) accuracy of 35.9\% significantly.
Lexicon and Rule-based Word Lemmatization Approach for the Somali Language
Authors: Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Muhidin Abdullahi Mohamed
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Articles, Information Retrieval, Lemmatization, Retrieval

Lemmatization is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique used to normalize text by changing morphological derivations of words to their root forms. It is used as a core pre-processing step in many NLP tasks including text indexing, information retrieval, and machine learning for NLP, among others. This paper pioneers the development of text lemmatization for the Somali language, a low-resource language with very limited or no prior effective adoption of NLP methods and datasets. We especially develop a lexicon and rule-based lemmatizer for Somali text, which is a starting point for a full-fledged Somali lemmatization system for various NLP tasks. With consideration of the language morphological rules, we have developed an initial lexicon of 1247 root words and 7173 derivationally related terms enriched with rules for lemmatizing words not present in the lexicon. We have tested the algorithm on 120 documents of various lengths including news articles, social media posts, and text messages. Our initial results demonstrate that the algorithm achieves an accuracy of 57\% for relatively long documents (e.g. full news articles), 60.57\% for news article extracts, and high accuracy of 95.87\% for short texts such as social media messages.
Does Correction Remain A Problem For Large Language Models?
Authors: Xiaowu Zhang, Xiaotian Zhang, Cheng Yang, Hang Yan, Xipeng Qiu
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Few-Shot Learning

As large language models, such as GPT, continue to advance the capabilities of natural language processing (NLP), the question arises: does the problem of correction still persist? This paper investigates the role of correction in the context of large language models by conducting two experiments. The first experiment focuses on correction as a standalone task, employing few-shot learning techniques with GPT-like models for error correction. The second experiment explores the notion of correction as a preparatory task for other NLP tasks, examining whether large language models can tolerate and perform adequately on texts containing certain levels of noise or errors. By addressing these experiments, we aim to shed light on the significance of correction in the era of large language models and its implications for various NLP applications.
Supply chain emission estimation using large language models
Authors: Ayush Jain, Manikandan Padmanaban, Jagabondhu Hazra, Shantanu Godbole, Kommy Weldemariam
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: text-classification, Text Classification, Zero-Shot Learning

Large enterprises face a crucial imperative to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially goal 13, which focuses on combating climate change and its impacts. To mitigate the effects of climate change, reducing enterprise Scope 3 (supply chain emissions) is vital, as it accounts for more than 90\% of total emission inventories. However, tracking Scope 3 emissions proves challenging, as data must be collected from thousands of upstream and downstream suppliers.To address the above mentioned challenges, we propose a first-of-a-kind framework that uses domain-adapted NLP foundation models to estimate Scope 3 emissions, by utilizing financial transactions as a proxy for purchased goods and services. We compared the performance of the proposed framework with the state-of-art text classification models such as TF-IDF, word2Vec, and Zero shot learning. Our results show that the domain-adapted foundation model outperforms state-of-the-art text mining techniques and performs as well as a subject matter expert (SME). The proposed framework could accelerate the Scope 3 estimation at Enterprise scale and will help to take appropriate climate actions to achieve SDG 13.
Ambient Adventures: Teaching ChatGPT on Developing Complex Stories
Authors: Zexin Chen, Eric Zhou, Kenneth Eaton, Xiangyu Peng, Mark Riedl
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Story Generation

Imaginative play is an area of creativity that could allow robots to engage with the world around them in a much more personified way. Imaginary play can be seen as taking real objects and locations and using them as imaginary objects and locations in virtual scenarios. We adopted the story generation capability of large language models (LLMs) to obtain the stories used for imaginary play with human-written prompts. Those generated stories will be simplified and mapped into action sequences that can guide the agent in imaginary play. To evaluate whether the agent can successfully finish the imaginary play, we also designed a text adventure game to simulate a house as the playground for the agent to interact.
Baby's CoThought: Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Reasoning in Compact Models
Authors: Zheyu Zhang, Han Yang, Bolei Ma, David Rügamer, Ercong Nie
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: In-Context Learning, Natural Language Understanding, Question Answering

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance on a variety of natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, primarily due to their in-context learning ability. This ability could be applied to building babylike models, i.e. models at small scales, improving training efficiency. In this paper, we propose a "CoThought" pipeline, which efficiently trains smaller "baby" language models (BabyLMs) by leveraging the Chain of Thought prompting of LLMs. Our pipeline restructures a dataset of less than 100M in size using GPT-3.5-turbo, transforming it into task-oriented, human-readable texts that are comparable to the school texts for language learners. The BabyLM is then pretrained on this restructured dataset in a RoBERTa fashion. In evaluations across 4 benchmarks, our BabyLM outperforms the vanilla RoBERTa in 10 linguistic, NLU, and question-answering tasks by more than 3 points, showing a superior ability to extract contextual information. These results suggest that compact LMs pretrained on small, LLM-restructured data can better understand tasks and achieve improved performance.
Evaluating ChatGPT text-mining of clinical records for obesity monitoring
Authors: Ivo S. Fins, Heather Davies, Sean Farrell, Jose R. Torres, Gina Pinchbeck, Alan D. Radford, Peter-John Noble
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Language Modeling, Language Modelling, Large Language Model, Prompt Engineering

Background: Veterinary clinical narratives remain a largely untapped resource for addressing complex diseases. Here we compare the ability of a large language model (ChatGPT) and a previously developed regular expression (RegexT) to identify overweight body condition scores (BCS) in veterinary narratives. Methods: BCS values were extracted from 4,415 anonymised clinical narratives using either RegexT or by appending the narrative to a prompt sent to ChatGPT coercing the model to return the BCS information. Data were manually reviewed for comparison. Results: The precision of RegexT was higher (100%, 95% CI 94.81-100%) than the ChatGPT (89.3%; 95% CI82.75-93.64%). However, the recall of ChatGPT (100%. 95% CI 96.18-100%) was considerably higher than that of RegexT (72.6%, 95% CI 63.92-79.94%). Limitations: Subtle prompt engineering is needed to improve ChatGPT output. Conclusions: Large language models create diverse opportunities and, whilst complex, present an intuitive interface to information but require careful implementation to avoid unpredictable errors.
Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives
Authors: Hancheng Cao, Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake M. Hofman
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Semantic Similarity, Semantic Textual Similarity

Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers (e.g., \$330 billion is about \$1,000 per person in the United States). While research shows perspectives to be helpful, generating them at scale is challenging both because it is difficult to identify what makes some analogies more helpful than others, and because what is most helpful can vary based on the context in which a given number appears. Here we present and compare three policies for large-scale perspective generation: a rule-based approach, a crowdsourced system, and a model that uses Wikipedia data and semantic similarity (via BERT embeddings) to generate context-specific perspectives. We find that the combination of these three approaches dominates any single method, with different approaches excelling in different settings and users displaying heterogeneous preferences across approaches. We conclude by discussing our deployment of perspectives in a widely-used online word processor.
Large Language Model Displays Emergent Ability to Interpret Novel Literary Metaphors
Authors: Nicholas Ichien, Dušan Stamenković, Keith J. Holyoak
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: Language Modeling, Language Modelling, Large Language Model

Recent advances in the performance of large language models (LLMs) have sparked debate over whether, given sufficient training, high-level human abilities emerge in such generic forms of artificial intelligence (AI). Despite the exceptional performance of LLMs on a wide range of tasks involving natural language processing and reasoning, there has been sharp disagreement as to whether their abilities extend to more creative human abilities. A core example is the ability to interpret novel metaphors. Given the enormous and non curated text corpora used to train LLMs, a serious obstacle to designing tests is the requirement of finding novel yet high quality metaphors that are unlikely to have been included in the training data. Here we assessed the ability of GPT4, a state of the art large language model, to provide natural-language interpretations of novel literary metaphors drawn from Serbian poetry and translated into English. Despite exhibiting no signs of having been exposed to these metaphors previously, the AI system consistently produced detailed and incisive interpretations. Human judges, blind to the fact that an AI model was involved, rated metaphor interpretations generated by GPT4 as superior to those provided by a group of college students. In interpreting reversed metaphors, GPT4, as well as humans, exhibited signs of sensitivity to the Gricean cooperative principle. In addition, for several novel English poems GPT4 produced interpretations that were rated as excellent or good by a human literary critic. These results indicate that LLMs such as GPT4 have acquired an emergent ability to interpret complex metaphors, including those embedded in novel poems.
Investigating Reinforcement Learning for Communication Strategies in a Task-Initiative Setting
Authors: Baber Khalid, Matthew Stone
Date: 2023-08-03 00:00:00
Tasks: reinforcement-learning

Many conversational domains require the system to present nuanced information to users. Such systems must follow up what they say to address clarification questions and repair misunderstandings. In this work, we explore this interactive strategy in a referential communication task. Using simulation, we analyze the communication trade-offs between initial presentation and subsequent followup as a function of user clarification strategy, and compare the performance of several baseline strategies to policies derived by reinforcement learning. We find surprising advantages to coherence-based representations of dialogue strategy, which bring minimal data requirements, explainable choices, and strong audit capabilities, but incur little loss in predicted outcomes across a wide range of user models.
UPB at IberLEF-2023 AuTexTification: Detection of Machine-Generated Text using Transformer Ensembles
Authors: Andrei-Alexandru Preda, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Traian Rebedea, Costin-Gabriel Chiru
Date: 2023-08-02 00:00:00
Tasks: Articles, Multi-Task Learning

This paper describes the solutions submitted by the UPB team to the AuTexTification shared task, featured as part of IberLEF-2023. Our team participated in the first subtask, identifying text documents produced by large language models instead of humans. The organizers provided a bilingual dataset for this subtask, comprising English and Spanish texts covering multiple domains, such as legal texts, social media posts, and how-to articles. We experimented mostly with deep learning models based on Transformers, as well as training techniques such as multi-task learning and virtual adversarial training to obtain better results. We submitted three runs, two of which consisted of ensemble models. Our best-performing model achieved macro F1-scores of 66.63% on the English dataset and 67.10% on the Spanish dataset.