Authors:

(1) Jianhui Pang, from the University of Macau, and work was done when Jianhui Pang and Fanghua Ye were interning at Tencent AI Lab ([email protected]);

(2) Fanghua Ye, University College London, and work was done when Jianhui Pang and Fanghua Ye were interning at Tencent AI Lab ([email protected]);

(3) Derek F. Wong, University of Macau;

(4) Longyue Wang, Tencent AI Lab, and corresponding author.

Abstract and 1 Introduction

2 Related Work

3 Anchor-based Large Language Models

3.1 Background

3.2 Anchor-based Self-Attention Networks

3.3 Anchor-based Inference

4 Experiments and 4.1 Our Implementation

4.2 Data and Training Procedure

4.3 Evaluation

5 Results

6 Analysis

7 Conclusion, Limitations, Ethics Statement, and References

A More Experimental Results

B Data Settings

B Data Settings

To provide a thorough insight into how we continually pre-train the model into AnLLM and carry out evaluations, we showcase some data examples in this section for both training and testing data.

B.1 Training Data Examples

In this section, we provide examples to illustrate the specific data format used in training the AnLLM models. For the AnLLM-EP model, the endpoints act as anchor tokens, allowing us to directly utilize natural language texts. For the AnLLM-AC model, we append a new token at the end of each sequence in the input texts, which are initially split into sentences using the NLTK toolkits.[3] Some examples are presented in Table 6. All the trainig data are downloaded from HuggingFace [4], an opensource community.

B.2 Testing Data Examples

For the testing outlined in the results section (Section 5), we employ the same evaluation method as in previous work (Gao et al., 2023), which treats each choice as text generation and computes the corresponding probabilities, respectively. Table 7 presents some evaluation examples.

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[3] https://www.nltk.org/api/nltk.tokenize.punkt. html

[4] https://huggingface.co/datasets/ togethercomputer/RedPajama-Data-1T-Sample