The field of natural language processing is moving towards leveraging large language models (LLMs) for specialized tasks, particularly in domains such as healthcare and e-commerce. Researchers are exploring collaborative approaches that combine the strengths of LLMs with smaller, domain-specific models to improve performance and efficiency. This synergy enables LLMs to adapt to private domains and unlock new potential in AI. Noteworthy papers in this area include:
- Synergistic Weak-Strong Collaboration by Aligning Preferences, which proposes a collaborative framework for pairing specialized weak models with general strong models,
- PatientDx, which presents a framework for merging LLMs to protect data privacy in healthcare, and
- Ensemble Bayesian Inference, which leverages small language models to achieve LLM-level accuracy in profile matching tasks.