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DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I’ll highlight shortcomings of existing methods for embedding initialization\, present our recent paper Token Distillation on how to tackle some of these\, and give my thoughts on the future of embedding initialization research.\n\nI‘m a PhD student at the ELLIS Unit Potsdam and Hasso Plattner Institute advised by Gerard de Melo and Desmond Elliott (University of Copenhagen). My research focuses on multilingual LLMs and embeddings\, particularly embedding initialization for tokenizer transfer.\n\n------\n\nPowered by addevent.com \nShare your next event with us!\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In this talk, I’ll highlight shortcomings of existing methods for embedding initialization, present our recent paper Token Distillation on how to tackle some of these, and give my thoughts on the future of embedding initialization research.<br><br>I‘m a PhD student at the ELLIS Unit Potsdam and Hasso Plattner Institute advised by Gerard de Melo and Desmond Elliott (University of Copenhagen). My research focuses on multilingual LLMs and embeddings, particularly embedding initialization for tokenizer transfer.<br /><br />------<br /><br />Powered by addevent.com <br>Share your next event with us!<br>
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SUMMARY:Konstantin Dobler - Token Distillation & the Future of Embedding Initialization for Tokenizer Transfer (Sys & Theory)
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LOCATION:https://meet.google.com/unp-rxnv-ofy?hs=122&authuser=0
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