“Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing via Large Pre-Trained Language Models: A Survey”, Bonan Min, Hayley Ross, Elior Sulem, Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Thien Huu Nguyen, Oscar Sainz, Eneko Agirre, Ilana Heinz, Dan Roth2021-11-01 (; similar)⁠:

Large, pre-trained transformer-based language models such as BERT have drastically changed the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field.

We present a survey of recent work that uses these large language models to solve NLP tasks via pre-training then fine-tuning, prompting, or text generation approaches.

We also present approaches that use pre-trained language models to generate data for training augmentation or other purposes.

We conclude with discussions on limitations and suggested directions for future research.