Gold Panning in Vocabulary: An Adaptive Method for Vocabulary Expansion of Domain-Specific LLMs (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle when it comes to specialized domains due to limited domain-specific knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive method that automatically identifies valuable words from a given domain vocabulary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method has been validated on three Chinese datasets and performed on general tasks. |
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