5/ Augmenting LLMs with Databases – combines an LLM with a set of SQL databases, enabling a symbolic memory framework; completes tasks via LLM generating SQL instructions that manipulate the DB autonomously.
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Sparse-Quantized Representation enables 4.75-bit LLM inference
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3/ Sparse-Quantized Representation – a new compressed format and quantization technique that enables near-lossless compression of LLMs across model scales; “allows LLM inference at 4.75 bits with a 15% speedup”.
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AlphaDev Discovers Faster Sorting Algorithms via Reinforcement Learning
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2/ AlphaDev – a deep reinforcement learning agent which discovers faster sorting algorithms from scratch; the algorithms outperform previously known human benchmarks and have been integrated into the LLVM C++ library.
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Dense Motion Estimation Method Tracks Pixels Across Full Videos
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1/ Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once – propose a test-time optimization method for estimating dense and long-range motion; enables accurate, full-length motion estimation of every pixel in a video.https://t.co/7O3Z0Em7wE
— DAIR.AI (@dair_ai) 11 juin 20231/ Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once – propose a test-time optimization method for estimating dense and long-range motion; enables accurate, full-length motion estimation of every pixel in a video.
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Top ML Papers Week: AlphaDev, MusicGen, RLHF Advances
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Top ML Papers of the Week (June 5-11): – AlphaDev
– MusicGen
– Fine-Grained RLHF
– Humor in ChatGPT
– Concept Scrubbing in LLM
– Augmenting LLMs with Databases
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CodeTF: Open-Source Transformer Library for Code LLMs
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10/ CodeTF – an open-source Transformer library for state-of-the-art code LLMs; supports pretrained code LLMs and popular code benchmarks, including standard methods to train and serve code LLMs efficiently.
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SQL-PaLM: LLM-based Text-to-SQL Achieves State-of-the-Art
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9/ SQL-PaLM – an LLM-based Text-to-SQL adopted from PaLM-2; achieves SoTA in both in-context learning and fine-tuning settings; the few-shot model outperforms the previous fine-tuned SoTA by 3.8% on the Spider benchmark.
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Direct Preference Optimization: Training LLMs Without RLHF
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8/ Direct Preference Optimization – while helpful to train safe & useful LLMs, RLHF can be complex and often unstable; this work proposes an approach to finetune LMs by solving a classification problem on the human preferences data, with no RL required.https://t.co/DZ0GSarfuT
— DAIR.AI (@dair_ai) 4 juin 20238/ Direct Preference Optimization – while helpful to train safe & useful LLMs, RLHF can be complex and often unstable; this work proposes an approach to finetune LMs by solving a classification problem on the human preferences data, with no RL required.
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MERT: Self-Supervised Acoustic Music Understanding Model
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6/ MERT – an acoustic music understanding model with large-scale self-supervised training; it incorporates a superior combination of teacher models to outperform conventional speech and audio approaches.
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Bytes Are All You Need: Direct File Classification with Transformers
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7/ Bytes Are All You Need – investigates performing classification directly on file bytes, without needing to decode files at inference time; achieves ImageNet Top-1 accuracy of 77.33% using a transformer backbone;
