Dynamics of Instruction Fine-Tuning for Chinese Large Language ModelsChiyu Song, Zhanchao Zhou, Jianhao Yan et al.
Instruction tuning is a burgeoning method to elicit the general intelligence of Large Language Models (LLMs). While numerous studies have examined the impact of factors such as data volume and model size on English models, the scaling properties of instruction tuning in other languages remain largely unexplored. In this work, we systematically investigate the effects of data quantity, model size, and data construction methods on instruction tuning for Chinese LLMs. We utilize a newly curated dataset, DoIT, which includes over 40,000 high-quality instruction instances covering ten underlying abilities, such as creative writing, code generation, and logical reasoning. Our experiments, conducted on models ranging from 7b to 33b parameters, yield three key findings: (i) While these factors directly affect overall model performance, some abilities are more responsive to scaling, whereas others demonstrate significant resistance. (ii) The scaling sensitivity of different abilities to these factors can be explained by two features: Complexity and Transference. (iii) By tailoring training strategies to their varying sensitivities, specific abilities can be efficiently learned, enhancing performance on two public benchmarks.
Enhancing Grammatical Error Correction Systems with ExplanationsYuejiao Fei, Leyang Cui, Sen Yang et al.
Grammatical error correction systems improve written communication by detecting and correcting language mistakes. To help language learners better understand why the GEC system makes a certain correction, the causes of errors (evidence words) and the corresponding error types are two key factors. To enhance GEC systems with explanations, we introduce EXPECT, a large dataset annotated with evidence words and grammatical error types. We propose several baselines and analysis to understand this task. Furthermore, human evaluation verifies our explainable GEC system's explanations can assist second-language learners in determining whether to accept a correction suggestion and in understanding the associated grammar rule.
6.2ROSep 14, 2019
Deep Robotic Prediction with hierarchical RGB-D FusionYaoxian Song, Jun Wen, Yuejiao Fei et al.
Robotic arm grasping is a fundamental operation in robotic control task goals. Most current methods for robotic grasping focus on RGB-D policy in the table surface scenario or 3D point cloud analysis and inference in the 3D space. Comparing to these methods, we propose a novel real-time multimodal hierarchical encoder-decoder neural network that fuses RGB and depth data to realize robotic humanoid grasping in 3D space with only partial observation. The quantification of raw depth data's uncertainty and depth estimation fusing RGB is considered. We develop a general labeling method to label ground-truth on common RGB-D datasets. We evaluate the effectiveness and performance of our method on a physical robot setup and our method achieves over 90\% success rate in both table surface and 3D space scenarios.
1.9ROMay 31, 2019
2.5D Image based Robotic GraspingSong Yaoxian, Cheng Chun, Fei Yuejiao et al.
We consider the problem of robotic grasping using depth + RGB information sampling from a real sensor. we design an encoder-decoder neural network to predict grasp policy in real time. This method can fuse the advantage of depth image and RGB image at the same time and is robust for grasp and observation height.We evaluate our method in a physical robotic system and propose an open-loop algorithm to realize robotic grasp operation. We analyze the result of experiment from multi-perspective and the result shows that our method is competitive with the state-of-the-art in grasp performance, real-time and model size. The video is available in https://youtu.be/Wxw_r5a8qV0