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A Survey of GPT-3 Family Large Language Models Including ChatGPT and GPT-4

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Kalyan, Katikapalli Subramanyam·2024·Natural Language Processing Journal

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Large language models (LLMs) are a special class of pretrained language models (PLMs) obtained by scaling model size, pretraining corpus and computation. LLMs, because of their large size and pretraining on large volumes of text data, exhibit special abilities which allow them to achieve remarkable performances without any task-specific training in many of the natural language processing tasks. The era of LLMs started with OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, and the popularity of LLMs has increased exponentially after the introduction of models like ChatGPT and GPT4. We refer to GPT-3 and its successor OpenAI models, including ChatGPT and GPT4, as GPT-3 family large language models (GLLMs). With the ever-rising popularity of GLLMs, especially in the research community, there is a strong need for a comprehensive survey which summarizes the recent research progress in multiple dimensions and can guide the research community with insightful future research directions. We start the survey paper with foundation concepts like transformers, transfer learning, self-supervised learning, pretrained language models and large language models. We then present a brief overview of GLLMs and discuss the performances of GLLMs in various downstream tasks, specific domains and multiple languages. We also discuss the data labelling and data augmentation abilities of GLLMs, the robustness of GLLMs, the effectiveness of GLLMs as evaluators, and finally, conclude with multiple insightful future research directions. To summarize, this comprehensive survey paper will serve as a good resource for both academic and industry people to stay updated with the latest research related to GLLMs.

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Authors
Kalyan, K. S.
Affiliations
Department of Public (IN)
Corresponding author
Kalyan, Katikapalli Subramanyam
Venue
Natural Language Processing Journal
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2024-03
Volume
6
Pages
100048
ISSN
2949-7191 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4389977189
Cited by
335
References
495
Citations by year
2026: 65 · 2025: 165 · 2024: 105
FWCI
31.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Natural Language Processing Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
large language models, ChatGPT, GPT-4, pre-trained language models, transformer models, transfer learning, self-supervised learning, downstream tasks, multilingual performance, data annotation, data augmentation, robustness

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