Generative AI
Agentic Coding Strides Forward: Genie coding assistant outperforms competitors on SWE-bench by over 30 percent
An agentic coding assistant boosted the state of the art in an important benchmark by more than 30 percent.
Machine Learning Research
Machine Learning Research
Scaling Laws for Data Quality: Scaling laws reveal the impact of data quality in vision-language model training
When training vision-language models, developers often remove lower-quality examples from the training set. But keeping only the highest-quality examples may not be ideal, researchers found.
Generative AI
Open Models for Math and Audio: Alibaba advances open-weight LLMs with Qwen2 Math and Audio variants
Alibaba followed up its open-weights Qwen2 large language models with specialized variations.
Generative AI
Google Imagen 3 Raises the Bar: Google’s Imagen 3 outperforms rivals in text-to-image benchmarks
Image generation continued its rapid march forward with a new version of Google’s flagship text-to-image model.
Generative AI
AI Agents for AI Research: Agentic workflow generates novel scientific research papers
While some observers argue that large language models can’t produce truly original output, new work prompted them to generate novel scientific research.
Machine Learning Research
Machine Translation Goes Agentic: TransAgents, a system that boosts literary translation with a multi-agent workflow
Literary works are challenging to translate. Their relative length, cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions...
Generative AI
Out of the Black Forest: Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 outperforms top text-to-image models
A new company with deep roots in generative AI made an eye-catching debut.
Machine Learning Research
Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures
Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.
Machine Learning Research
Synthetic Data Factory: AgentInstruct, a framework for generating diverse synthetic data for LLM fine-tuning
Researchers increasingly fine-tune models on synthetic data, but generated datasets may not be sufficiently diverse. New work used agentic workflows to produce diverse synthetic datasets.
Machine Learning Research
Expressive Synthetic Talking Heads: Microsoft's VASA-1 delivers more lifelike talking-head videos
Previous systems that produce a talking-head video from a photo and a spoken-word audio clip animate the lips and other parts of the face separately.
Machine Learning Research
Hallucination Detector: Oxford scientists propose effective method to detect AI hallucinations
Large language models can produce output that’s convincing but false. Researchers proposed a way to identify such hallucinations.
Tech & Society
How Open Are Open Models?: Radboud University study ranks AI models on openness
The word “open” can mean many things with respect to AI. A new paper outlines the variations and ranks popular models for openness.