Roy Schwartz on maximizing limited resources when building large language models.
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Roy Schwartz is Professor of Natural Language Processing at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We discussed a recent survey paper (co-written by Roy) that presents a broad overview of existing methods to improve NLP efficiency through the lens of traditional NLP pipelines. Our conversation covered the following key areas:
- Data: Using fewer training instances or better utilizing those available can increase efficiency.
- Model Design
- Training: pre-training and fine tuning.
- Inference and compression

Highlights in the video version:
- Motivation for writing the survey paper “Efficient Methods for Natural Language Processing”
Efficiency via Data
Building domain specific NLP models
Efficiency via Model Design
Training: efficiency via pre-training and fine tuning
Tips for training NLP models
Efficiency and model inference
Green AI
Detoxifying models and biases in datasets
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