URG: A Unified Ranking and Generation Method for Ensembling Language Models (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to rank and generate large language models have limited performance due to time-intensive nature of ranking process and lack of error propagation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that jointly ranks the outputs of Large Language Models and generates fine-grained fusion results. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on ranking and generation tasks. |
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