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LLM typically refers to "Large Language Models," which are a type of artificial intelligence model that uses deep learning techniques to analyze and understand natural language.
Here are some foundational papers in AI that may be helpful for understanding the development of LLMs:
"A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning" by Pedro Domingos (2012) This paper provides an introduction to the fundamentals of machine learning, which is a crucial component of LLM development. "Natural Language Processing (almost) from Scratch" by Ronan Collobert and Jason Weston (2008)
This paper presents a deep learning architecture for natural language processing tasks, which laid the foundation for many subsequent LLM models. "Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space" by Tomas Mikolov, et al. (2013)
This paper introduces the Word2Vec algorithm, which is a widely-used method for generating word embeddings that can be used in LLM models. "Attention Is All You Need" by Ashish Vaswani, et al. (2017) This paper presents the Transformer architecture, which is a type of neural network that has been used in many successful LLM models, including BERT and GPT.
"BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding" by Jacob Devlin, et al. (2018) This paper describes the development of BERT, which is a pre-trained LLM that has achieved state-of-the-art performance on many natural language processing tasks.
"Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" by Tom B. Brown, et al. (2020) This paper presents the GPT-3 LLM, which is one of the largest and most powerful language models developed to date, and demonstrates its ability to perform well on a wide range of tasks with only a few examples.