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A Guide to Mastering Large Language Models

Unite.AI

Unlike traditional NLP models which rely on rules and annotations, LLMs like GPT-3 learn language skills in an unsupervised, self-supervised manner by predicting masked words in sentences. Their foundational nature allows them to be fine-tuned for a wide variety of downstream NLP tasks. This enables pretraining at scale.

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Evaluation Derangement Syndrome (EDS) in the GPU-poor’s GenAI. Part 1: the case for Evaluation-Driven Development

deepsense.ai

In short, EDS is the problem of the widespread lack of a rational approach to and methodology for the objective, automated and quantitative evaluation of performance in terms of generative model finetuning and prompt engineering for specific downstream GenAI tasks related to practical business applications. Galstyan A. Cresswell J.C.,