A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language Models - Latent Space Paper Club

First recording of the Asian-timezones Paper Club! We meet once a week on discord to discuss a chosen paper. You can find our events here: https://lu.ma/ls We covered the paper "A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language Models" and walked through a high level overview of all the biggest developments and changes in the LLM Space over the past few years. Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06435 Paper abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language processing tasks and beyond. This success of LLMs has led to a large influx of research contributions in this direction. These works encompass diverse topics such as architectural innovations, better training strategies, context length improvements, fine-tuning, multi-modal LLMs, robotics, datasets, benchmarking, efficiency, and more. With the rapid development of techniques and regular breakthroughs in LLM research, it has become considerably challenging to perceive the bigger picture of the advances in this direction. Considering the rapidly emerging plethora of literature on LLMs, it is imperative that the research community is able to benefit from a concise yet comprehensive overview of the recent developments in this field. This article provides an overview of the existing literature on a broad range of LLM-related concepts. Our self-contained comprehensive overview of LLMs discusses relevant background concepts along with covering the advanced topics at the frontier of research in LLMs. This review article is intended to not only provide a systematic survey but also a quick comprehensive reference for the researchers and practitioners to draw insights from extensive informative summaries of the existing works to advance the LLM research.