Author Interview - Typical Decoding for Natural Language Generation

Author Interview - Typical Decoding for Natural Language Generation

Yannic Kilcher via YouTube Direct link

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Author Interview - Typical Decoding for Natural Language Generation

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  1. 1 - Intro
  2. 2 - Sponsor: Introduction to GNNs Course link in description
  3. 3 - Why does sampling matter?
  4. 4 - What is a "typical" message?
  5. 5 - How do humans communicate?
  6. 6 - Why don't we just sample from the model's distribution?
  7. 7 - What happens if we condition on the information to transmit?
  8. 8 - Does typical sampling really represent human outputs?
  9. 9 - What do the plots mean?
  10. 10 - Diving into the experimental results
  11. 11 - Are our training objectives wrong?
  12. 12 - Comparing typical sampling to top-k and nucleus sampling
  13. 13 - Explaining arbitrary engineering choices
  14. 14 - How can people get started with this?

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