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General technology for enabling AI capabilities w/ LLMs and MLLMs
https://github.com/microsoft/lmops

agi gpt language-model llm lm lmops nlp pretraining prompt promptist x-prompt

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# LMOps
LMOps is a research initiative on fundamental research and technology for building AI products w/ foundation models, especially on the general technology for enabling AI capabilities w/ LLMs and Generative AI models.

- Better Prompts: [Automatic Prompt Optimization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03495), [Promptist](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09611), [Extensible prompts](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00616), [Universal prompt retrieval](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08518), [LLM Retriever](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07164), [In-Context Demonstration Selection](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14726)
- Longer Context: [Structured prompting](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06713), [Length-Extrapolatable Transformers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10554)
- LLM Alignment: [Alignment via LLM feedback]()
- LLM Accelerator (Faster Inference): [Lossless Acceleration of LLMs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04487)
- LLM Customization: [Adapt LLM to domains](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.09530.pdf)
- Fundamentals: [Understanding In-Context Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559)

## Links

- [microsoft/unilm](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm): Large-scale Self-supervised Pre-training Across Tasks, Languages, and Modalities
- [microsoft/torchscale](https://github.com/microsoft/torchscale): Transformers at (any) Scale

## News
- [Paper Release] Nov, 2023: [In-Context Demonstration Selection with Cross Entropy Difference](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14726) (EMNLP 2023)
- [Paper Release] Oct, 2023: [Tuna: Instruction Tuning using Feedback from Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13385.pdf) (EMNLP 2023)
- [Paper Release] Oct, 2023: [Automatic Prompt Optimization with "Gradient Descent" and Beam Search](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03495) (EMNLP 2023)
- [Paper Release] Oct, 2023: [UPRISE: Universal Prompt Retrieval for Improving Zero-Shot Evaluation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08518) (EMNLP 2023)
- [Paper Release] July, 2023: [Learning to Retrieve In-Context Examples for Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07164)
- [Paper Release] April, 2023: [Inference with Reference: Lossless Acceleration of Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04487)
- [Paper Release] Dec, 2022: [Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Secretly Perform Finetuning as Meta Optimizers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559)
- [Paper & Model & Demo Release] Dec, 2022: [Optimizing Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation](https://aka.ms/promptist)
- [Paper & Code Release] Dec, 2022: [Structured Prompting: Scaling In-Context Learning to 1,000 Examples](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06713)
- [Paper Release] Nov, 2022: [Extensible Prompts for Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00616)

## Prompt Intelligence

Advanced technologies facilitating prompting language models.

### Promptist: reinforcement learning for automatic prompt optimization

[Paper] [Optimizing Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09611)

> - Language models serve as a prompt interface that optimizes user input into model-preferred prompts.

> - Learn a language model for automatic prompt optimization via reinforcement learning.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1070872/207856962-02f08d92-f2bf-441a-b1c3-efff1a4b6187.png)

### Structured Prompting: consume long-sequence prompts in an efficient way

[Paper] [Structured Prompting: Scaling In-Context Learning to 1,000 Examples](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06713)

- Example use cases:

> 1) Prepend (many) retrieved (long) documents as context in GPT.

> 2) Scale in-context learning to many demonstration examples.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1070872/207856629-2bb0c933-c27b-4177-9e10-e397622ae79b.png)

### X-Prompt: extensible prompts beyond NL for descriptive instructions

[Paper] [Extensible Prompts for Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00616)

> - Extensible interface allowing prompting LLMs beyond natural language for fine-grain specifications

> - Context-guided imaginary word learning for general usability

![Extensible Prompts for Language Models](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1070872/207856788-5409d04d-c406-4b29-ae7b-2732e727d4cc.png)

## LLMA: LLM Accelerators

### Accelerate LLM Inference with References

[Paper] [Inference with Reference: Lossless Acceleration of Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04487)

> - Outputs of LLMs often have significant overlaps with some references (e.g., retrieved documents).

> - LLMA losslessly accelerate the inference of LLMs by copying and verifying text spans from references into the LLM inputs.

> - Applicable to important LLM scenarios such as retrieval-augmented generation and multi-turn conversations.

> - Achieves 2~3 times speed-up without additional models.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6700539/231664563-aec35679-b4ab-4b6b-b6b4-b2b4ea1aab53.png)

## Fundamental Understanding of LLMs

### Understanding In-Context Learning

[Paper] [Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Secretly Perform Finetuning as Meta Optimizers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559)

> - According to the demonstration examples, GPT produces meta gradients for In-Context Learning (ICL) through forward computation. ICL works by applying these meta gradients to the model through attention.

> - The meta optimization process of ICL shares a dual view with finetuning that explicitly updates the model parameters with back-propagated gradients.

> - We can translate optimization algorithms (such as SGD with Momentum) to their corresponding Transformer architectures.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1070872/208835096-54407f5f-d136-4747-9629-3219988df5d4.png)

## Hiring: [aka.ms/GeneralAI](https://aka.ms/GeneralAI)
We are hiring at all levels (including FTE researchers and interns)! If you are interested in working with us on Foundation Models (aka large-scale pre-trained models) and AGI, NLP, MT, Speech, Document AI and Multimodal AI, please send your resume to [email protected].

## License
This project is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.

[Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct](https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct)

### Contact Information

For help or issues using the pre-trained models, please submit a GitHub issue.
For other communications, please contact [Furu Wei](http://gitnlp.org/) (`[email protected]`).