Papers by Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir
On the Impact of Cross-Domain Data on German Language Models (2023.findings-emnlp)
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Amin Dada, Aokun Chen, Cheng Peng, Kaleb Smith, Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir, Constantin Seibold, Jianning Li, Lars Heiliger, Christoph Friedrich, Daniel Truhn, Jan Egger, Jiang Bian, Jens Kleesiek, Yonghui Wu
| Challenge: | Traditionally, large language models have been trained on general web crawls or domain-specific data. |
| Approach: | They present a German dataset and a dataset aimed at containing high-quality data to examine the importance of data diversity over quality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms models trained on quality data on multiple downstream tasks. |
Comprehensive Study on German Language Models for Clinical and Biomedical Text Understanding (2024.lrec-main)
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Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir, Amin Dada, Henning Schäfer, Kamyar Arzideh, Giulia Baldini, Jan Trienes, Max Hasin, Jeanette Bewersdorff, Cynthia S. Schmidt, Marie Bauer, Kaleb E. Smith, Jiang Bian, Yonghui Wu, Jörg Schlötterer, Torsten Zesch, Peter A. Horn, Christin Seifert, Felix Nensa, Jens Kleesiek, Christoph M. Friedrich
| Challenge: | Pre-trained language models can struggle in specialized domains such as medicine . existing generalpurpose pre-tried models can be used and refined through further pre-training on domainspecific unlabeled data. |
| Approach: | They pre-trained German medical language models on 2.4B tokens from translated public data and 3B token of German clinical data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform clinical models on various downstream tasks in germany . the authors show that continuous pre-training can match or exceed clinical models trained from scratch . |