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History, development, and principles of large language models: an introductory survey

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Wang, Zichong, Chu, Zhibo, Doan, Thang Viet, Ni, Shiwen, Yang, Min, Zhang, Wenbin·2025·AI and Ethics

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Crossref · 10.1007/s43681-024-00583-7

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  • LLMs acquire a broad representation of linguistic structures and relationships through pre-training that allows them to perform a wide range of NLP tasks with little or no task-specific training data.

    “Through their pre-training, LLMs acquire a broad representation of linguistic structures and relationships that allow them to perform a wide range of NLP tasks with little or no task-specific training data.3”

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Authors
Wang, Z., Chu, Z., Doan, T. V., Ni, S., Yang, M., & Zhang, W.
Affiliations
  • Florida International University (US)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Corresponding author
Zhang, Wenbin
Venue
AI and Ethics
Published
2024-10-14
Volume
5
Issue
3
Pages
1955-1971
ISSN
  • 2730-5953 (ISSN-L)
  • 2730-5961
OpenAlex
W4403401276
Cited by
109
References
110
Citations by year
2026: 47 · 2025: 56 · 2024: 6
FWCI
16.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • AI and Ethics (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
National Science Foundation (2245895)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Keywords
large language models, language models, statistical language models, natural language generation, text prediction, LLM limitations

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