T0: Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization | Paper Explained

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❤️ Become The AI Epiphany Patreon ❤️ ► https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 JOIN OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY: Discord ► https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE 📢 SUBSCRIBE TO MY MONTHLY AI NEWSLETTER: Substack ► https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ In this video I cover the "Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization" paper that introduced the T0 transformer. T0 basically = Google's T5 + LM pretraining + additional training on prompted datasets. The paper came out of the BigScience workshop. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ✅ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08207 ✅ BigScience: https://bigscience.huggingface.co/ ✅ Models on HF hub: https://huggingface.co/bigscience ✅ Prompt tool: https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/promptsource ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00 BigScience workshop, HuggingFace hub 03:00 A high-level overview 04:40 Are we really doing implicit training? 06:30 T0 training and prompt templates 10:55 Choosing the val dataset 13:20 How is T0 trained? 14:55 Results (vs GPT3) 18:25 Ablations (varying prompts and data) 21:30 Discrepancy in GPT3 API vs reported results 22:30 Outro ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💰 BECOME A PATREON OF THE AI EPIPHANY ❤️ If these videos, GitHub projects, and blogs help you, consider helping me out by supporting me on Patreon! The AI Epiphany ► https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany One-time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theaiepiphany Much love! ❤️ Huge thank you to these AI Epiphany patreons: Eli Mahler Petar Veličković Bartłomiej Danek Zvonimir Sabljic ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💡 The AI Epiphany is a channel dedicated to simplifying the field of AI using creative visualizations and in general, a stronger focus on geometrical and visual intuition, rather than the algebraic and numerical "intuition". ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksagordic/ Twitter ► https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/aiepiphany/ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/aiepiphany/ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 JOIN OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY: Discord ► https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE 📢 SUBSCRIBE TO MY MONTHLY AI NEWSLETTER: Substack ► https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ 💻 FOLLOW ME ON GITHUB FOR ML PROJECTS: GitHub ► https://github.com/gordicaleksa 📚 FOLLOW ME ON MEDIUM: Medium ► https://gordicaleksa.medium.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #t0 #bigscience #huggingface

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