<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial"><div style="line-height: 1.7; word-break: break-word !important;"><div style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;"><pre style="width: 1731.84px; word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; white-space: unset !important; word-break: break-word !important;">Hi, Adapters,</span></pre></div><div style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;"><div style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;">While extreme-scale language models have demonstrated exceptional performance on a variety of language tasks, the degree of control over these language models through pure prompting can often be limited. Directly fine-tuning LLMs can be effective for tailoring them, but it can be either extremely costly or not even feasible for the broader community.</div><div style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;">Alternatively, decoding strategies as a kind of inference-time algorithm are gaining increasing attention which can also tailor a language model without accessing its parameters. An appropriate decoding strategy helps the model to generate fluent, coherent, and diverse outputs, as well as satisfy the user-specific objective.</div><div style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;">In this talk, I will give an introduction to decoding strategies, especially the sampling-based ones, with a possible explanation for the efficacy of these approaches.</div><div style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;">Hope you find this talk interesting.</div></div><p style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;"><br style="word-break: break-word !important;"></p><p style="margin: 0px; word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="color: rgb(46, 48, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "PingFang SC", "Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif; word-break: break-word !important;">Time: Wed 10 am. - 11:30 am.</span><br style="color: rgb(46, 48, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "PingFang SC", "Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif; word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="color: rgb(46, 48, 51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "PingFang SC", "Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif; word-break: break-word !important;">Meeting link:<span style="font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;"> </span></span></span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_M2VmMTU5MzgtODUzOC00NmU4LTg0MzktNGFjNDdiMmIwYTI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%225cdc5b43-d7be-4caa-8173-729e3b0a62d9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%221a8b9fa0-af57-4a1c-9390-22d1c201d622%22%7d" style="color: rgb(40, 101, 199); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "PingFang SC", "Microsoft YaHei", sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; cursor: pointer; word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">https://team</span><wbr style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">s.microsoft.</span><wbr style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">com/l/meetup</span><wbr style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">-join/19%3am</span><wbr style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">eeting_M2VmM</span><wbr style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">TU5MzgtODUzO</span><wbr style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">C00NmU4LTg0M</span><wbr style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">zktNGFjNDdiM</span><wbr style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">mIwYTI1%40th</span><wbr style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="outline: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Microsoft Yahei"; word-break: break-word !important;">read.v2/0?co</spa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