NVIDIA Exam NCA-GENL Topic 7 Question 8 Discussion

Instructed large language models (LLMs), such as those supported by NVIDIA's NeMo framework, have significant advantages over smaller, traditional models:

Option D: LLMs often have cheaper computational costs during inference for certain tasks because they can generalize across multiple tasks without requiring task-specific retraining, unlike smaller models that may need separate models per task.

Option E: A single generic LLM can perform multiple tasks (e.g., text generation, classification, translation) due to its broad pre-training, unlike smaller models that are typically task-specific.

Option A is incorrect, as LLMs require large amounts of data, often labeled or curated, for pre-training. Option B is false, as LLMs typically have higher latency and lower throughput due to their size. Option C is misleading, as LLMs are often less interpretable than smaller models.

NVIDIA NeMo Documentation: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/nemo/user-guide/docs/en/stable/nlp/intro.html

Brown, T., et al. (2020). 'Language Models are Few-Shot Learners.'