language

Definition

In this field "language" almost always means natural language — the text humans write and speak — as opposed to programming languages. It appears mostly inside compounds: language model, language understanding, vision-language. When a paper calls a system language-only, it means the model consumes and produces text and has no image, audio, or action channel.

Explainers using this term

• Chain-of-Thought from Scratch — What Changes When You Make a Model Show Its WorkChain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
• Paper Walkthrough: One Training Example Keeps On-Policy Distillation Improving for Hundreds of StepsRethinking On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models II: One Training Example
• Paper Walkthrough: Language Models Can Control Their Own AttentionLanguage Models Can Control Their Own Attention