Galactica: A Large Language Model for Science (Drama & Paper Review)
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Galactica is a language model trained on a curated corpus of scientific documents, such as papers, knowledge bases, reviews, and other articles. The model can be used in a generative fasion to assist scientific writing, do reference prediction, and much more, including a new approach to do step-by-step reasoning using a clever encoding of intermediate steps. This video explains the paper, but also dives into the drama that ensued once Meta released a public demo of the model.
OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:30 - Drama around the public demo
16:00 - Start of paper review
20:30 - Dataset construction and encoding
23:30 - Encoding step-by-step reasoning using a scratchpad
33:00 - Modelling scientific references & citations
35:05 - Prompt Pre-Training
37:10 - Architecture details
38:30 - Experimental results
49:20 - Conclusion
Paper: https://galactica.org/static/paper.pdf
Website: https://galactica.org/explore/
Abstract:
Information overload is a major obstacle to scientific progress. The explosive growth in scientific literature and data has made it ever harder to discover useful insights in a large mass of information. Today scientific knowledge is accessed through search engines, but they are unable to organize scientific knowledge alone. In this paper we introduce Galactica: a large language model that can store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge. We train on a large scientific corpus of papers, reference material, knowledge bases and many other sources. We outperform existing models on a range of scientific tasks. On technical knowledge probes such as LaTeX equations, Galactica outperforms the latest GPT-3 by 68.2% versus 49.0%. Galactica also performs well on reasoning, outperforming Chinchilla on mathematical MMLU by 41.3% to 35.7%, and PaLM 540B on MATH with a score of 20.4% versus 8.8%. It also sets a new state-of-the-art on downstream tasks such as PubMedQA and MedMCQA dev of 77.6% and 52.9%. And despite not being trained on a general corpus, Galactica outperforms BLOOM and OPT-175B on BIG-bench. We believe these results demonstrate the potential for language models as a new interface for science. We open source the model for the benefit of the scientific community.
Authors: Ross Taylor Marcin Kardas Guillem Cucurull Thomas Scialom Anthony Hartshorn Elvis Saravia Andrew Poulton Viktor Kerkez Robert Stojnic
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