Andy Halterman
@ahalterman.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at MSU. NLP, text, and conflict.
I promise that training models on synthetic text is a better idea than it sounds. For the theoretically squeamish: think of this as model distillation (LLM --> small classifier). For the hardcore empiricists, there are a few F1-go-up plots.
January 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I promise that training models on synthetic text is a better idea than it sounds. For the theoretically squeamish: think of this as model distillation (LLM --> small classifier). For the hardcore empiricists, there are a few F1-go-up plots.