Efficient Methods for Natural Language Processing: A Survey

  • Marcos Treviso*
  • , Ji Ung Lee
  • , Tianchu Ji
  • , Betty van Aken
  • , Qingqing Cao
  • , Manuel R. Ciosici
  • , Michael Hassid
  • , Kenneth Heafield
  • , Sara Hooker
  • , Colin Raffel
  • , Pedro H. Martins
  • , Andre F.T. Martins
  • , Jessica Zosa Forde
  • , Peter Milder
  • , Edwin Simpson
  • , Noam Slonim
  • , Jesse Dodge
  • , Emma Strubell
  • , Niranjan Balasubramanian
  • , Leon Derczynski
  • Iryna Gurevych, Roy Schwartz
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Recent work in natural language processing (NLP) has yielded appealing results from scaling model parameters and training data; however, using only scale to improve per¬formance means that resource consumption also grows. Such resources include data, time, storage, or energy, all of which are naturally limited and unevenly distributed. This mo¬tivates research into efficient methods that require fewer resources to achieve similar re¬sults. This survey synthesizes and relates cur¬rent methods and findings in efficient NLP. We aim to provide both guidance for con-ducting NLP under limited resources, and point towards promising research directions for developing more efficient methods.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)826-860
Number of pages35
JournalTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

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