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Jason Wei

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Jason Wei

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Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models

J Wei, X Wang, D Schuurmans… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We explore how generating a chain of thought---a series of intermediate reasoning steps---significantly
improves the ability of large language models to perform complex reasoning. In …

Eda: Easy data augmentation techniques for boosting performance on text classification tasks

J Wei, K Zou - arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.11196, 2019 - arxiv.org
We present EDA: easy data augmentation techniques for boosting performance on text
classification tasks. EDA consists of four simple but powerful operations: synonym replacement, …

Finetuned language models are zero-shot learners

J Wei, M Bosma, VY Zhao, K Guu, AW Yu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Jason Wei, Maarten Bosma, Vincent Zhao, and Adams Wei Yu implemented the NLP tasks.
Jason Wei, Vincent Zhao, and Adams WeiJason Wei designed and ran the ablation studies. …

Emergent abilities of large language models

J Wei, Y Tay, R Bommasani, C Raffel, B Zoph… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Scaling up language models has been shown to predictably improve performance and
sample efficiency on a wide range of downstream tasks. This paper instead discusses an …

Corporate yield spreads and bond liquidity

L Chen, DA Lesmond, J Wei - The journal of finance, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We find that liquidity is priced in corporate yield spreads. Using a battery of liquidity
measures covering over 4,000 corporate bonds and spanning both investment grade and …

Scaling instruction-finetuned language models

…, J Devlin, A Roberts, D Zhou, QV Le, J Wei - Journal of Machine …, 2024 - jmlr.org
Finetuning language models on a collection of datasets phrased as instructions has been
shown to improve model performance and generalization to unseen tasks. In this paper we …

Palm: Scaling language modeling with pathways

…, B Saeta, M Diaz, O Firat, M Catasta, J Wei… - Journal of Machine …, 2023 - jmlr.org
Large language models have been shown to achieve remarkable performance across a variety
of natural language tasks using few-shot learning, which drastically reduces the number …

[HTML][HTML] Large language models encode clinical knowledge

K Singhal, S Azizi, T Tu, SS Mahdavi, J Wei, HW Chung… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities, but the bar for
clinical applications is high. Attempts to assess the clinical knowledge of models typically rely …

Finding generators for Markov chains via empirical transition matrices, with applications to credit ratings

RB Israel, JS Rosenthal, JZ Wei - Mathematical finance, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… They also thank David Lando for his communications with Jason Wei on the topic. Jeffrey
Rosenthal acknowledges financial support by NSERC, and Jason Wei acknowledges financial …

The flan collection: Designing data and methods for effective instruction tuning

…, Y Tay, D Zhou, QV Le, B Zoph, J Wei… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the design decision of publicly available instruction tuning methods, by reproducing
and breaking down the development of Flan 2022 (Chung et al., 2022). Through careful …