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OpenAI Enhances Language Models with Fill-in-the-Middle Training: A Path to Advanced Infilling Capabilities
Introduction
Transformer-based language models like BERT and T5 are powerful but struggle with infilling. However, causal decoder-based models like GPT-3 excel in open-ended text generation and in-context learning without task-specific finetuning. These models find extensive use in applications like coding assistance due to their architectural simplicity and efficiency.
Advancements in FIM Training
Researchers at OpenAI have demonstrated that autoregressive language models can effectively learn to infill text using a technique called “fill-in-the-middle” (FIM). This advancement addresses a key limitation in large-scale language modeling, particularly causal decoder-based models, without altering their architecture.
Text Infilling in Language Models
Text infilling is vital in language models, and advancements have been made in models like T5, BART, and XLNet. The researchers focus on single-span infilling for practicality and emphasize computational efficiency. Notable systems like code-davinci-002 demonstrate strong infilling capabilities.
Practical Applications and Efficiency
FIM models are effective in tasks like importing modules and completing functions. The study identifies best practices for FIM training and highlights the inefficiency of finetuning with FIM compared to pretraining. It also emphasizes the importance of sampling evaluations over test losses in assessing FIM models.
Effective FIM Training
Context-level FIM often outperforms document-level FIM due to its higher effective FIM rate, providing more consistent and effective training examples for the model.
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