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TALL -- A Trainable Architecture for Enhancing LLM Performance in Low-Resource Languages
Ofer, Moshe, Zamler, Orel, Azaria, Amos
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in high-resource languages but struggle with low-resource languages due to limited training data. This paper presents TALL (Trainable Architecture for Enhancing LLM Performance in Low-Resource Languages), which integrates an LLM with two bilingual translation models. TALL transforms low-resource inputs into high-resource representations, leveraging the LLM's capabilities while preserving linguistic features through dimension alignment layers and custom transformers. Our experiments on Hebrew demonstrate significant improvements over several baselines, including direct use, naive translation, and fine-tuning approaches. The architecture employs a parameter-efficient strategy, freezing pre-trained components while training only lightweight adapter modules, balancing computational efficiency with performance gains.
Composite Neural Network: Theory and Application to PM2.5 Prediction
Yang, Ming-Chuan, Chen, Meng Chang
This work investigates the framework and performance issues of the composite neural network, which is composed of a collection of pre-trained and non-instantiated neural network models connected as a rooted directed acyclic graph for solving complicated applications. A pre-trained neural network model is generally well trained, targeted to approximate a specific function. Despite a general belief that a composite neural network may perform better than a single component, the overall performance characteristics are not clear. In this work, we construct the framework of a composite network, and prove that a composite neural network performs better than any of its pre-trained components with a high probability bound. In addition, if an extra pre-trained component is added to a composite network, with high probability, the overall performance will not be degraded. In the study, we explore a complicated application---PM2.5 prediction---to illustrate the correctness of the proposed composite network theory. In the empirical evaluations of PM2.5 prediction, the constructed composite neural network models support the proposed theory and perform better than other machine learning models, demonstrate the advantages of the proposed framework.
Theoretical Investigation of Composite Neural Network
Yang, Ming-Chuan, Chen, Meng Chang
A composite neural network is a rooted directed acyclic graph combining a set of pre-trained and non-instantiated neural network models. A pre-trained neural network model is well-crafted for a specific task and with instantiated weights. is generally well trained, targeted to approximate a specific function. Despite a general belief that a composite neural network may perform better than a single component, the overall performance characteristics are not clear. In this work, we prove that there exist parameters such that a composite neural network performs better than any of its pre-trained components with a high probability bound.