Domain-Specific Pretraining of Language Models: A Comparative Study in the Medical Field

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contents There are many cases where LLMs are used for specific tasks in a single domain. These usually require less general, but more domain-specific knowledge. Highly capable, general-purpose state-of-the-art language models like GPT-4 or Claude-3-opus can often be used for such tasks, but they are very large and cannot be run locally, even if they were not proprietary. This can be a problem when working with sensitive data. This paper focuses on domain-specific and mixed-domain pretraining as potentially more efficient methods than general pretraining for specialized language models. We will take a look at work related to domain-specific pretraining, specifically in the medical area, and compare benchmark results of specialized language models to general-purpose language models.
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spellingShingle Domain-Specific Pretraining of Language Models: A Comparative Study in the Medical Field
Kerner, Tobias
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
I.2.6; I.2.7
There are many cases where LLMs are used for specific tasks in a single domain. These usually require less general, but more domain-specific knowledge. Highly capable, general-purpose state-of-the-art language models like GPT-4 or Claude-3-opus can often be used for such tasks, but they are very large and cannot be run locally, even if they were not proprietary. This can be a problem when working with sensitive data. This paper focuses on domain-specific and mixed-domain pretraining as potentially more efficient methods than general pretraining for specialized language models. We will take a look at work related to domain-specific pretraining, specifically in the medical area, and compare benchmark results of specialized language models to general-purpose language models.
title Domain-Specific Pretraining of Language Models: A Comparative Study in the Medical Field
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
I.2.6; I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14076