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This paper introduces RETSim (Resilient and Efficient Text Similarity), a lightweight, multilingual deep learning model trained to produce robust metric embeddings for near-duplicate text retrieval, clustering, and dataset deduplication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Marina Zhang , Owen Vallis , Aysegul Bumin , Tanay Vakharia , Elie Bursztein

Many state-of-the-art neural models for NLP are heavily parameterized and thus memory inefficient. This paper proposes a series of lightweight and memory efficient neural architectures for a potpourri of natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yi Tay , Aston Zhang , Luu Anh Tuan , Jinfeng Rao , Shuai Zhang , Shuohang Wang , Jie Fu , Siu Cheung Hui

Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs), state-of-the-art models are too large to deploy on low-resource devices or common server configurations in which multiple models are held in memory. Model compression methods address this…

Large Language Models have become the core architecture upon which most modern natural language processing (NLP) systems build. These models can consistently deliver impressive accuracy and robustness across tasks and domains, but their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Daniel Campos , Alexandre Marques , Tuan Nguyen , Mark Kurtz , ChengXiang Zhai

Transformer based large language models have achieved tremendous success. However, the significant memory and computational costs incurred during the inference process make it challenging to deploy large models on resource-constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Wenxiao Wang , Wei Chen , Yicong Luo , Yongliu Long , Zhengkai Lin , Liye Zhang , Binbin Lin , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Tokenization remains a fundamental yet underexplored bottleneck in natural language processing, with strategies largely static despite remarkable progress in model architectures. We present SupraTok, a novel tokenization architecture that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Andrei-Valentin Tănase , Elena Pelican

This paper evaluates the viability of using fixed language models for training text classification networks on low-end hardware. We combine language models with a CNN architecture and put together a comprehensive benchmark with 8 datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Fabian Ziegner , Janos Borst , Andreas Niekler , Martin Potthast

This report details the creation of Bielik-Minitron-7B, a compressed 7.35B parameter version of the Bielik-11B-v3.0 model, specifically optimized for European languages. By leveraging a two-stage compression methodology inspired by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Remigiusz Kinas , Paweł Kiszczak , Sergio P. Perez , Krzysztof Ociepa , Łukasz Flis , Krzysztof Wróbel , Adrian Gwoździej

We present Megrez2, a novel lightweight and high-performance language model architecture optimized for device native deployment. Megrez2 introduces a novel cross-layer expert sharing mechanism, which significantly reduces total parameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Boxun Li , Yadong Li , Zhiyuan Li , Congyi Liu , Weilin Liu , Guowei Niu , Zheyue Tan , Haiyang Xu , Zhuyu Yao , Tao Yuan , Dong Zhou , Yueqing Zhuang , Bo Zhao , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

Contextual embedding-based language models trained on large data sets, such as BERT and RoBERTa, provide strong performance across a wide range of tasks and are ubiquitous in modern NLP. It has been observed that fine-tuning these models on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Vin Sachidananda , Jason S. Kessler , Yi-an Lai

Fine-tuning pre-trained Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models is the dominant approach for adapting to new languages and domains. However, fine-tuning requires adapting and maintaining a separate model for each target task. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Ankur Bapna , Naveen Arivazhagan , Orhan Firat

Pre-trained transformer models are the current state-of-the-art for natural language models processing. seBERT is such a model, that was developed based on the BERT architecture, but trained from scratch with software engineering data. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Alexander Trautsch , Steffen Herbold

Through exploiting a high level of parallelism enabled by graphics processing units, transformer architectures have enabled tremendous strides forward in the field of natural language processing. In a traditional masked language model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Muhammed Shahir Abdurrahman , Hashem Elezabi , Bruce Changlong Xu

In this work we explore recent advances in Recurrent Neural Networks for large scale Language Modeling, a task central to language understanding. We extend current models to deal with two key challenges present in this task: corpora and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Rafal Jozefowicz , Oriol Vinyals , Mike Schuster , Noam Shazeer , Yonghui Wu

Transformer models have revolutionized natural language processing with their unparalleled ability to grasp complex contextual relationships. However, the vast number of parameters in these models has raised concerns regarding computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Sia Gholami , Marwan Omar

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with complex reasoning due to limited diversity and inefficient search. We propose Soft Reasoning, an embedding-based search framework that optimises the embedding of the first token to guide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Qinglin Zhu , Runcong Zhao , Hanqi Yan , Yulan He , Yudong Chen , Lin Gui

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models generally perform translation using a fixed-size lexical vocabulary, which is an important bottleneck on their generalization capability and overall translation quality. The standard approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Duygu Ataman , Orhan Firat , Mattia A. Di Gangi , Marcello Federico , Alexandra Birch

The internal structure and operation mechanism of large-scale language models are analyzed theoretically, especially how Transformer and its derivative architectures can restrict computing efficiency while capturing long-term dependencies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Taiyuan Mei , Yun Zi , Xiaohan Cheng , Zijun Gao , Qi Wang , Haowei Yang

Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities, but their practical deployment is hindered by significant computational costs. While adaptive computation methods like early-exiting promise to reduce these costs, they introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sangmin Bae

The Softmax function is used in the final layer of nearly all existing sequence-to-sequence models for language generation. However, it is usually the slowest layer to compute which limits the vocabulary size to a subset of most frequent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Sachin Kumar , Yulia Tsvetkov