TeacherLM: Teaching to Fish Rather Than Giving the Fish, Language Modeling Likewise
Authors: Nan He, Hanyu Lai, Chenyang Zhao, Zirui Cheng, Junting Pan, Ruoyu Qin, Ruofan Lu, Rui Lu, Yunchen Zhang, Gangming Zhao, Zhaohui Hou, Zhiyuan Huang, Shaoqing Lu, Ding Liang, Mingjie Zhan
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- Large Language Models (LLMs) in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have shown remarkable reasoning and data augmentation capabilities.
- The focus has mostly been on large models, leaving a gap in understanding the potential of smaller models.
- The authors propose a new model called TeacherLM-7.1B to address this gap.
- TeacherLM-7.1B is designed to annotate relevant fundamentals, chain of thought, and common mistakes for most NLP samples.
- It goes beyond providing just an answer and enables other models to learn not only "what" but also "why".
- TeacherLM-7.1B achieves a zero-shot score of 52.3 on MMLU, surpassing most models with over 100 billion parameters.
- TeacherLM-7.1B has data augmentation ability and can be used as a base for training various student models with different parameters from OPT and BLOOM series in a multi-task setting.
- Experimental results demonstrate that the data augmentation provided by TeacherLM brings significant benefits.
- The authors plan to release the TeacherLM series of models and augmented datasets as open-source resources.
- TeacherLM-7.1B is introduced as a powerful tool for teaching NLP models to understand not just the answers but also the underlying reasoning behind them.
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive reasoning and data augmentation capabilities in various NLP tasks. However, what about small models? In this work, we propose TeacherLM-7.1B, capable of annotating relevant fundamentals, chain of thought, and common mistakes for most NLP samples, which makes annotation more than just an answer, thus allowing other models to learn "why" instead of just "what". The TeacherLM-7.1B model achieved a zero-shot score of 52.3 on MMLU, surpassing most models with over 100B parameters. Even more remarkable is its data augmentation ability. Based on TeacherLM-7.1B, we augmented 58 NLP datasets and taught various student models with different parameters from OPT and BLOOM series in a multi-task setting. The experimental results indicate that the data augmentation provided by TeacherLM has brought significant benefits. We will release the TeacherLM series of models and augmented datasets as open-source.
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