9/ Making LLMs Better at Dense Retrieval – proposes LLaRA which adapts an LLM for dense retrieval; LLaMa-2-7B was improved on benchmarks like MSMARCO and BEIR.
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Gemini vs GPT-4V: Vision-Language Models Comparison
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10/ Gemini vs. GPT-4V – a comparison of vision-language models like Gemini & GPT-4V; finds that GPT-4V is precise and succinct in responses, while Gemini excels in providing detailed, expansive answers accompanied by relevant imagery and links.
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Survey of Reasoning with Foundation Models: Latest Advancements
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8/ A Survey of Reasoning with Foundation Models – provides a comprehensive survey of seminal foundational models for reasoning, highlighting the latest advancements in various reasoning tasks, methods, benchmarks, and potential future directions.
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26 Principles for Optimizing LLM Prompts and Instructions
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7/ Principled Instructions Are All You Need – introduces 26 principles to streamline the process of querying and prompting LLMs; conducts extensive experiments on LLaMA-1/2 & GPT-3.5/4 to verify their effectiveness on instructions & prompts design.
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Math-Centric Corpus for Generative AI Foundation Models
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6/ Generative AI for Math – presents a diverse and high-quality math-centric corpus comprising of ~9.5 billion tokens to train foundation models.
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MLP Layers as Lookup Tables for Factual Recall in LLMs
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5/ Fact Recalling in LLMs – studies how MLP layers implement a lookup table for factual recall; suggests that early MLP layers act as a lookup table and recommends thinking about the recall of factual knowledge in the model as multi-token embeddings.
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PromptBench: Unified LLM Evaluation and Prompt Engineering Library
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3/ PromptBench – a unified library that supports comprehensive evaluation and analysis of LLMs; it consists of functionalities for prompt construction, prompt engineering, dataset and model loading, adversarial prompt attack, and more.
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Red-teaming GPT-4 APIs: Fine-tuning, Functions, Retrieval
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4/ Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs – performs red-teaming on three functionalities exposed in the GPT-4 APIs: fine-tuning, function calling, and knowledge retrieval.
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Survey of 300+ Papers: Generative AI from Gemini to Q-Star
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2/ From Gemini to Q-Star – surveys 300+ papers and summarizes research developments to look at in the space of Generative AI; it covers computational challenges, scalability, real-world implications, and more.
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Pearl: Production-Ready RL Agent Software Package Released
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9/ Pearl – introduces a new production-ready RL agent software package that enables researchers and practitioners to develop RL AI agents that adapt to environments with limited observability, sparse feedback, and high stochasticity.
