lm

Etymology

noun

1. (US, space flight) Initialism of lunar module.
2. (graphical user interface) Abbreviation of layout manager.
3. (microscopy) Abbreviation of light microscope/light microscopy.
4. (astronautics) Abbreviation of liquid methane.
5. (machine learning) Initialism of language model.
   However, from the perspective of work on language technology, it is far from clear that all of the effort being put into using large LMs to ‘beat’ tasks designed to test natural language understanding, and all of the effort to create new such tasks, once the existing ones have been bulldozed by the LMs, brings us any closer to long-term goals of general language understanding systems. 2021-03-03, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Virtual Event Canada: ACM, →DOI, pages 610–623