Marlin is an innovative solution to speed up complex language models, such as LLMs, which typically require significant computational power. It addresses limitations of existing methods, offering near-ideal speedups for larger batch sizes. Marlin’s smart techniques optimize GPU use and ensure consistent performance, making it a standout performer in computational linguistics.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are vital for natural language processing but face inference latency challenges. An innovative approach called Speculative Decoding accelerates this process by allowing multiple tokens to be processed simultaneously, reducing dependency on sequential processing. This method achieves substantial speedups without compromising quality, making real-time, interactive AI applications more practical and broadening LLMs’…
A disgruntled customer of UK parcel delivery company DPD made their customer service chatbot misbehave until the company had to take it down. Musician Ashley Beauchamp got the chatbot to compose a poem about DPD’s poor service and even swear at him. DPD has disabled the AI and is updating it. Beauchamp is still waiting…
The 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos focused on AI, with concerns about AI-driven misinformation and election interference. UN Secretary-General urged collaborative governance to address AI risks, while the European Commission President emphasized AI’s opportunities. Chinese Premier emphasized responsible AI development. Concerns were raised about AI’s impact on election campaigns, with tech companies defending their…
OpenAI partners with Arizona State University to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, enhancing access to advanced AI capabilities for staff, faculty, and students. Despite initial concerns over AI’s impact, ASU recognizes its potential to aid learning and research. Collaboration with chipmakers underscores the university’s commitment to tech and innovation. The partnership aims to drive advances in tech…
Google DeepMind introduced AlphaGeometry, an AI system excelling in solving geometry Olympiad questions, rivaling human gold medallists. Overcoming limitations in converting human arguments to machine-verifiable formats, AlphaGeometry synthesizes data and utilizes a neural language model and a symbolic deduction engine to solve complex geometry problems. It outperforms previous state-of-the-art geometry theorem provers. [Word count: 69]
The study focuses on the impact of feedback protocols on improving alignment of large language models (LLMs) with human values. It explores the challenges in feedback acquisition, particularly comparing ratings and rankings protocols, and highlights the inconsistency issues. The research emphasizes the significant influence of feedback acquisition on various stages of the alignment pipeline, stressing…
Recent developments in machine translation have led to significant progress, with a focus on reaching near-perfect translations rather than mere adequacy. The introduction of Contrastive Preference Optimization (CPO) marks a major advancement, training models to generate superior translations while rejecting high-quality but imperfect ones. This novel approach has shown remarkable results, setting new standards in…
The University of California researchers developed Group Preference Optimization (GPO), a pioneering approach aligning large language models (LLMs) with diverse user group preferences efficiently. It involves an independent transformer module that adapts the base LLM to predict and align with specific user group preferences, showing superior performance and efficiency over existing strategies. The full paper…
Researchers from ByteDance unveiled the Reinforced Fine-Tuning (ReFT) method to enhance the reasoning skills of LLMs, using math problem-solving as an example. By combining supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, ReFT optimizes learning by exploring multiple reasoning paths, outperforming traditional methods and improving generalization in extensive experiments across different datasets. For more details, refer to the…
Researchers from the University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI propose a promising approach called Proxy-tuning, a decoding-time algorithm for fine-tuning large language models. It allows adjustments to model behavior without direct fine-tuning, addressing challenges in adapting proprietary models and enhancing model performance. The method offers more accessibility and efficiency, encouraging model-producing organizations to…
This work introduces the INTERS dataset to enhance the search capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) through instruction tuning. The dataset covers various search-related tasks and emphasizes query and document understanding. It demonstrates the effectiveness of instruction tuning in improving LLMs’ performance across different settings and tasks, shedding light on crucial aspects such as few-shot…
Stable AI’s new model, Stable-Code-3B, is a cutting-edge 3 billion parameter language model designed for code completion in various programming languages. It is 60% smaller than existing models and supports long contexts, employing innovative features such as Flash-Attention and Rotary Embedding kernels. Despite its power, users must carefully evaluate and fine-tune it for reliable performance.
“Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful in AI but face challenges in efficiently using external tools. To address this, researchers introduce the ‘EASY TOOL’ framework, streamlining tool documentation for LLMs. It restructures, simplifies, and enhances tool instructions, leading to improved LLM performance and broader application potential. This marks a significant advancement in AI and LLM…
Mistral AI released Mixtral, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model outperforming GPT-3.5. Fireworks AI improved MoE model efficiency with FP16 and FP8-based FireAttention, greatly enhancing speed. Despite limitations of quantization methods, Fireworks FP16 and FP8 implementations show superior performance, reducing model size and improving requests/second. This research marks a significant advancement in efficient MoE model serving.
The Natural Language Generation (NLG) field, situated at the intersection of linguistics and artificial intelligence, has been revolutionized by Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent advancements have led to the need for robust evaluation methodologies, with an emphasis on semantic aspects. A comprehensive study by various researchers provides insights into NLG evaluation, formalization, generative evaluation methods,…
The emergence of large language models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini has accelerated natural language processing (NLP) advances. Parameter-Efficient Sparsity Crafting (PESC) transforms dense models into sparse ones, enhancing instruction tuning’s efficacy for general tasks. The method significantly reduces GPU memory needs and computational expenses, presenting outstanding performance. The researchers’ Camelidae-8Ï34B outperforms GPT-3.5.
The practical deployment of large neural rankers in information retrieval faces challenges due to their high computational requirements. Researchers have proposed the InRanker method, which effectively distills knowledge from large models to smaller, more efficient versions, improving their out-of-domain effectiveness. This represents a significant advancement in making large neural rankers more practical for real-world deployment.
In response to unethical data practices in the AI industry, a team of Chicago-based developers has created Nightshade, a tool to protect digital artwork from unauthorized use by introducing ‘poison’ samples. These alterations are imperceptible to the human eye but mislead AI models, preventing accurate learning or replication of artists’ styles. Nightshade aims to increase…
The study highlights the crucial need to accurately estimate and validate uncertainty in the evolving field of semantic segmentation in machine learning. It emphasizes the gap between theoretical development and practical application, and introduces the ValUES framework to address these challenges by providing empirical evidence for uncertainty methods. The framework aims to bridge the gap…