How do language models learn facts? Dynamics, curricula and hallucinations

no code implementations • 27 Mar 2025 • Nicolas Zucchet, Jörg Bornschein, Stephanie Chan, Andrew Lampinen, Razvan Pascanu, Soham De

Large language models accumulate vast knowledge during pre-training, yet the dynamics governing this acquisition remain poorly understood.

Scheduling

LearnLM: Improving Gemini for Learning

no code implementations • 21 Dec 2024 • LearnLM Team, Abhinit Modi, Aditya Srikanth Veerubhotla, Aliya Rysbek, Andrea Huber, Brett Wiltshire, Brian Veprek, Daniel Gillick, Daniel Kasenberg, Derek Ahmed, Irina Jurenka, James Cohan, Jennifer She, Julia Wilkowski, Kaiz Alarakyia, Kevin R. McKee, Lisa Wang, Markus Kunesch, Mike Schaekermann, Miruna Pîslar, Nikhil Joshi, Parsa Mahmoudieh, Paul Jhun, Sara Wiltberger, Shakir Mohamed, Shashank Agarwal, Shubham Milind Phal, Sun Jae Lee, Theofilos Strinopoulos, Wei-Jen Ko, Amy Wang, Ankit Anand, Avishkar Bhoopchand, Dan Wild, Divya Pandya, Filip Bar, Garth Graham, Holger Winnemoeller, Mahvish Nagda, Prateek Kolhar, Renee Schneider, Shaojian Zhu, Stephanie Chan, Steve Yadlowsky, Viknesh Sounderajah, Yannis Assael

Today's generative AI systems are tuned to present information by default rather than engage users in service of learning as a human tutor would.

Instruction Following

Towards Responsible Development of Generative AI for Education: An Evaluation-Driven Approach

no code implementations • 21 May 2024 • Irina Jurenka, Markus Kunesch, Kevin R. McKee, Daniel Gillick, Shaojian Zhu, Sara Wiltberger, Shubham Milind Phal, Katherine Hermann, Daniel Kasenberg, Avishkar Bhoopchand, Ankit Anand, Miruna Pîslar, Stephanie Chan, Lisa Wang, Jennifer She, Parsa Mahmoudieh, Aliya Rysbek, Wei-Jen Ko, Andrea Huber, Brett Wiltshire, Gal Elidan, Roni Rabin, Jasmin Rubinovitz, Amit Pitaru, Mac McAllister, Julia Wilkowski, David Choi, Roee Engelberg, Lidan Hackmon, Adva Levin, Rachel Griffin, Michael Sears, Filip Bar, Mia Mesar, Mana Jabbour, Arslan Chaudhry, James Cohan, Sridhar Thiagarajan, Nir Levine, Ben Brown, Dilan Gorur, Svetlana Grant, Rachel Hashimshoni, Laura Weidinger, Jieru Hu, Dawn Chen, Kuba Dolecki, Canfer Akbulut, Maxwell Bileschi, Laura Culp, Wen-Xin Dong, Nahema Marchal, Kelsie Van Deman, Hema Bajaj Misra, Michael Duah, Moran Ambar, Avi Caciularu, Sandra Lefdal, Chris Summerfield, James An, Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny, Abhinit Mohdi, Theofilos Strinopoulous, Annie Hale, Wayne Anderson, Luis C. Cobo, Niv Efron, Muktha Ananda, Shakir Mohamed, Maureen Heymans, Zoubin Ghahramani, Yossi Matias, Ben Gomes, Lila Ibrahim

A major challenge facing the world is the provision of equitable and universal access to quality education.

Many-Shot In-Context Learning

no code implementations • 17 Apr 2024 • Rishabh Agarwal, Avi Singh, Lei M. Zhang, Bernd Bohnet, Luis Rosias, Stephanie Chan, Biao Zhang, Ankesh Anand, Zaheer Abbas, Azade Nova, John D. Co-Reyes, Eric Chu, Feryal Behbahani, Aleksandra Faust, Hugo Larochelle

We find that both Reinforced and Unsupervised ICL can be quite effective in the many-shot regime, particularly on complex reasoning tasks.

Few-Shot Learning In-Context Learning

Genie: Generative Interactive Environments

2 code implementations • 23 Feb 2024 • Jake Bruce, Michael Dennis, Ashley Edwards, Jack Parker-Holder, Yuge Shi, Edward Hughes, Matthew Lai, Aditi Mavalankar, Richie Steigerwald, Chris Apps, Yusuf Aytar, Sarah Bechtle, Feryal Behbahani, Stephanie Chan, Nicolas Heess, Lucy Gonzalez, Simon Osindero, Sherjil Ozair, Scott Reed, Jingwei Zhang, Konrad Zolna, Jeff Clune, Nando de Freitas, Satinder Singh, Tim Rocktäschel

We introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos.