ArXiv Preprint – TeacherLM: Teaching to Fish Rather Than Giving the Fish, Language Modeling Likewise

In this episode we discuss TeacherLM: Teaching to Fish Rather Than Giving the Fish, Language Modeling Likewise
by Nan He, Hanyu Lai, Chenyang Zhao, Zirui Cheng, Junting Pan, Ruoyu Qin, Ruofan Lu, Rui Lu, Yunchen Zhang, Gangming Zhao, Zhaohui Hou, Zhiyuan Huang, Shaoqing Lu, Ding Liang, Mingjie Zhan. The paper introduces TeacherLM, a series of language models designed to teach other models. The TeacherLM-7.1B model achieved a high score on MMLU and outperformed models with more parameters. It also has data augmentation abilities and has been used to teach multiple student models.