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Predicting Scientific Discoveries: AI predicts scientific breakthroughs using social graphs
A new AI method directs scientists toward promising avenues of inquiry.
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A 3D Mesh From One 2D Image: The combination of video diffusion and Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) can produce a 3D mesh from a single image
Video diffusion provides a new basis for generating 3D models.
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Tuning LLMs for Better RAG: Meta’s RA-DIT boosts language model output by optimizing text retrieval
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models to generate better output by retrieving documents that are relevant to a user’s prompt. Fine-tuning further improves RAG performance.
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A Transformer Alternative Emerges: Mamba, a new approach that may outperform transformers
An architectural innovation improves upon transformers — up to 2 billion parameters, at least...
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More Factual LLMs: FactTune, a method to fine-tune LLMs for factual accuracy without human feedback
Large language models sometimes generate false statements. New work makes them more likely to produce factual output.
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Robo-Football From Simulation to Reality: Reinforcement learning powers humanoid robots to play football
Humanoid robots can play football (known as soccer in the United States) in the real world, thanks to reinforcement learning.
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Cutting the Cost of Pretrained Models: FrugalGPT, a method to cut AI costs and maintain quality
Research aims to help users select large language models that minimize expenses while maintaining quality.
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Conversational Robots: RFM-1, a model that enables robots to understand and act on human commands
Robots equipped with large language models are asking their human overseers for help.
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Toward Safer, More Helpful Models
The technique known as reinforcement learning from human feedback fine-tunes large language models to be helpful and avoid generating harmful responses such as suggesting illegal or dangerous activities. An alternative method streamlines this approach and achieves better results.
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Learning Language by Exploration: Agent develops language skills through simulated exploration tasks
Machine learning models typically learn language by training on tasks like predicting the next word in a given text. Researchers trained a language model in a less focused, more human-like way.
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Schooling Language Models in Math: GOAT (Good at Arithmetic Tasks), a method to boost large language models' arithmetic abilities
Large language models are not good at math. Researchers devised a way to make them better. Tiedong Liu and Bryan Kian Hsiang Low at the National University of Singapore proposed a method to fine-tune large language models for arithmetic tasks.
Tech & Society
Google Releases Open Source LLMs: All we know about Google's Gemma-7B and Gemma-2B models
Google asserted its open source bona fides with new models. Google released weights for Gemma-7B, an 8.5 billion-parameter large language model intended to run GPUs, and Gemma-2B, a 2.5 billion-parameter version intended for deployment on CPUs and edge devices.