Hot take: bigger isn't always better. Especially when we're talking about #LLMs. Smaller, faster #opensource LLMs can outperform much larger and more expensive commercial LLMs when #finetuned for a task. Try fine-tuning for free: https://
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Smaller Open-Source LLMs Can Outperform Larger Commercial Models
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Combining LLM self-improvement and inferred consensus
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Fantastic work — imagine combining this with “LLMs Can Self-Improve”! Btw, I suggested LLM-inferred consensus in a tweet last year — AFAIK I thought of it from reading Xuezhi Wang et al. but there may be earlier examples. Case study in “Ideas are cheap; verification is hard.”
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70B LLMs Performance Compared to GPT-4 in Benchmarks
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So far all these benchmarks are in mandarin. In English it’s still behind GPT4. Still: insane how good 70b LLMs compared to 175b GPT4 is!
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best_of persists for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct in Completion API
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best_of still exists in the API for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which will be the only model using the Completion API (which also returns top-5 logprobs) once all legacy completion models are shut off on Jan 4, 2024.
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A Decade of AI Innovation: Meta’s Transformative Contributions
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10 crazy years — pytorch, detectron, segment-anything, llama, faiss, wav2vec, biggraph, fasttext, the Cake below the cherry, and so much more.
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PyTorch LLM Inference Optimization Beats Industry Standards
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using simple pytorch code and advanced features, you get LLM Inference speeds that beat most LLM Inference engines out there. Checkout this great post and work from @cHHillee
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New Template Redacts Information Before LLM Processing
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Check out this new template that redacts information before processing it with the LLM!
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Deconstructing RAG: Popular Concepts and Implementation Guide
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Deconstructing RAG Given the importance of RAG and the fast pace of development, we've grouped popular RAG concepts into a few categories and created guides for each one. The this new blog post, we summarize these categories / guides and highlight some questions to ask
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ChatGPT Transforms Lives as AI Innovation Accelerates
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ChatGPT changed my life and the lives of so many others, excited to see what the next year has in store : )
