Papers by Lara Marinov
Not-Just-Scaling Laws: Towards a Better Understanding of the Downstream Impact of Language Model Design Decisions (2025.emnlp-main)
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Emmy Liu, Amanda Bertsch, Lintang Sutawika, Lindia Tjuatja, Patrick Fernandes, Lara Marinov, Michael Chen, Shreya Singhal, Carolin Lawrence, Aditi Raghunathan, Kiril Gashteovski, Graham Neubig
| Challenge: | Language model performance is largely dependent on pretraining decisions, but scaling laws based on only these two aspects do not always explain downstream task performance. |
| Approach: | They meta-analyze 92 open-source pretrained models to quantify their impact on performance. |
| Outcome: | The framework lays a foundation for more systematic investigation of how model development choices shape final capabilities. |