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A Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Deeper Understanding of Commonsense Stories

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abstract

Representation and learning of commonsense knowledge is one of the foundational problems in the quest to enable deep language understanding. This issue is particularly challenging for understanding casual and correlational relationships between events. While this topic has received a lot of interest in the NLP community, research has been hindered by the lack of a proper evaluation framework. This paper attempts to address this problem with a new framework for evaluating story understanding and script learning: the 'Story Cloze Test'. This test requires a system to choose the correct ending to a four-sentence story. We created a new corpus of ~50k five-sentence commonsense stories, ROCStories, to enable this evaluation. This corpus is unique in two ways: (1) it captures a rich set of causal and temporal commonsense relations between daily events, and (2) it is a high quality collection of everyday life stories that can also be used for story generation. Experimental evaluation shows that a host of baselines and state-of-the-art models based on shallow language understanding struggle to achieve a high score on the Story Cloze Test. We discuss these implications for script and story learning, and offer suggestions for deeper language understanding.

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cs.CL · 2020-05-28 · accept · novelty 8.0

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OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

cs.CL · 2022-05-02 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

OPT releases open decoder-only transformers up to 175B parameters that match GPT-3 performance at one-seventh the carbon cost, along with code and training logs.

Large Language Models have Chain-of-Affect

cs.HC · 2025-12-13 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

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GLM-4-Voice: Towards Intelligent and Human-Like End-to-End Spoken Chatbot

cs.CL · 2024-12-03 · conditional · novelty 6.0

GLM-4-Voice builds an end-to-end spoken chatbot by deriving a 175bps single-codebook tokenizer from ASR, synthesizing interleaved speech-text data, and continuing pre-training of GLM-4-9B on up to 1 trillion tokens before fine-tuning on conversational speech.

BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models

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BitNet shows that 1-bit Transformers can match the performance of 8-bit and FP16 models on language modeling with much smaller memory footprint and energy use, while following a similar scaling law.

Controllable Narrative Rendering for Enhanced Assisted Writing

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  • Language Models are Few-Shot Learners cs.CL · 2020-05-28 · accept · none · ref 50

    GPT-3 shows that scaling an autoregressive language model to 175 billion parameters enables strong few-shot performance across diverse NLP tasks via in-context prompting without fine-tuning.

  • OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models cs.CL · 2022-05-02 · unverdicted · none · ref 189

    OPT releases open decoder-only transformers up to 175B parameters that match GPT-3 performance at one-seventh the carbon cost, along with code and training logs.

  • Large Language Models have Chain-of-Affect cs.HC · 2025-12-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 29 · internal anchor

    LLMs exhibit structured chain-of-affect dynamics with stable family fingerprints, convergence to accumulation-overload-numbing under negative exposure, and downstream effects on generation, human interaction, and group polarization.

  • GLM-4-Voice: Towards Intelligent and Human-Like End-to-End Spoken Chatbot cs.CL · 2024-12-03 · conditional · none · ref 30 · internal anchor

    GLM-4-Voice builds an end-to-end spoken chatbot by deriving a 175bps single-codebook tokenizer from ASR, synthesizing interleaved speech-text data, and continuing pre-training of GLM-4-9B on up to 1 trillion tokens before fine-tuning on conversational speech.

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    BitNet shows that 1-bit Transformers can match the performance of 8-bit and FP16 models on language modeling with much smaller memory footprint and energy use, while following a similar scaling law.

  • Diversity in Large Language Models under Supervised Fine-Tuning cs.LG · 2026-04-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 22 · 2 links

    TOFU loss mitigates the narrowing of generative diversity in LLMs after supervised fine-tuning by addressing neglect of low-frequency patterns and forgetting of prior knowledge.

  • DeepSpeed Ulysses: System Optimizations for Enabling Training of Extreme Long Sequence Transformer Models cs.LG · 2023-09-25 · accept · none · ref 148

    DeepSpeed-Ulysses keeps communication volume constant for sequence-parallel attention when sequence length and device count scale together, delivering 2.5x faster training on 4x longer sequences than prior SOTA.

  • Controllable Narrative Rendering for Enhanced Assisted Writing cs.CL · 2026-05-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 17 · internal anchor

    Loom is a framework using intent-centered semiotic chain-of-thought in a three-layer pipeline to separate perceptual material generation from syntactic insertion, achieving higher factual integrity and descriptive intensity than baselines in LLM-assisted creative writing.