Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

Schick et al., 2023, Toolformer (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023))

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4.3 Language Modeling

  1. Did learning tool use hurt Toolformer’s language modeling?
    No: with API calls disabled, its perplexity on WikiText and held-out CCNet was about the same as GPT-J fine-tuned on the same data without calls.
    • Schick et al., 2023, Toolformer (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023)), §4.3

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