Tune into the excellent discussion on our most actively discussed paper this week: To Code, or Not to Code! Here are the top 5 comments/questions! Thanks again @viraataryabumi and team! 1) How does pretraining on code data impact performance on non-English downstream tasks?
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alphaXiv Launches Google Scholar Integration Feature
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alphaXiv now supports Google Scholar Integration!
— alphaXiv (@askalphaxiv) 21 septembre 2024
Add the link to your Scholar profile and we'll automatically sync all your arXiv papers. pic.twitter.com/IIjQXD3qRZalphaXiv now supports Google Scholar Integration! Add the link to your Scholar profile and we'll automatically sync all your arXiv papers.
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Open Research Platform Hiring Full-Stack Backend Engineer
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Join Our Team We're looking for a full-time full-stack/backend engineer to continue growing the platform and fulfill our mission of open & interactive research. If you have an excellent webdev background and align with our mission, please DM us or email contact@alphaxiv.org!
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Direct Preference Optimization Authors Discuss DPO Impact
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Thrilled to have the authors of Direct Preference Optimization answering questions on their paper! DPO offers a simple alternative to RLHF and has been hugely impactful, including being used to train Llama 3! Talk to the authors @archit_sharma97 and team directly to learn more!
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Open Access Science and Democratic Peer Review Culture
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Absolutely agree here. We hope that we can help by fostering a culture of open access within science, as well as making peer review a true community service that is democratic and accessible by everyone.
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AI Scientist Platform Enables Research Reproducibility Testing
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Sharing an idea that offers an exciting use case of the AI Scientist from @SakanaAILabs
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TaskGen: Open-Source LLM Agentic Framework for Task Automation
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Introducing TaskGen, an open-sourced task-based, memory-infused LLM agentic framework that uses an Agent to break down a task into subtasks and assigns each subtask to either an equipped function or another Agent. Talk directly with @johntanchongmin and the TaskGen team here!
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Code Data Improves LLM Generalization Beyond Coding Tasks
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New from @CohereForAI and @cohere
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Community Comments on Preprints Improve Transparency and Quality
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We absolutely agree here and hope that community comments on preprints will help improve transparency and quality.
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Community engagement beyond trending papers in AI research
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Thanks for bringing this up @lauriewired
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