To support efficient serving of Jamba-1.5-Large, we developed a novel quantization technique – ExpertsInt8. We quantize the MoE and MLP weights to INT8 in order to store them, and dequantize them back to BF16 before the actual computation. This technique is both very fast and
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Jamba-1.5 Whitepaper Released: Hybrid SSM-Transformer Models
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Jamba-1.5 whitepaper is out!
The whitepaper details the architecture, training schemes, novelties and in-depth evaluations of our new long context hybrid SSM-Transformer models – Jamba-1.5-Large and Jamba-1.5-Mini. Arxiv: https://
arxiv.org/abs/2408.12570 Here are some highlights and -

Hallucinations Leaderboard: Measuring LLM Reliability and Accuracy
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If you want to learn more hallucinations in LLM, I recommend the hallucinations leaderboard (cc @clefourrier
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Gemma 2 Model Size Performance Variations and Arena Optimization
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For example, Gemma 2 2B IT answers correctly while the 9B version fails. I'd imagine that models optimized for @lmsysorg Chatbot Arena would perform worse, but that's not always the case.
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Stable FP8 Training Recipe for Llama Models
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Summary of stable FP8 training recipe for Llama models:
1. Clip learning rate when 2nd moment estimator is outdated by coming spike – see https://
arxiv.org/abs/2304.13013
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Diffusion Models as Autoregressive Models: Understanding Frequencies
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The blogpost: https://
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spectives.html#:~:text=Diffusionmodelsareautoregressivemodels,-Fordiffusionmodels&text=Tounderstandthisithelps,detailscorrespondtohighfrequencies
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Real-Time Video Generation with Pyramid Attention Broadcast
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Real-Time Generation with Pyramid Attention Broadcast discuss: https://
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… We present Pyramid Attention Broadcast (PAB), a real-time, high quality and training-free approach for DiT-based video generation. Our method is founded on the observation that -
Show-o: Unified Transformer for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
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Show-o
— AK (@_akhaliq) 23 août 2024
One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation
discuss: https://t.co/haGX7CKOYp
We present a unified transformer, i.e., Show-o, that unifies multimodal understanding and generation. Unlike fully autoregressive models, Show-o unifies… pic.twitter.com/UosIpqiuYHShow-o One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation discuss: https://
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Subsurface Scattering Integration in 3D Gaussian Splatting
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Subsurface Scattering for 3D Gaussian Splatting
— AK (@_akhaliq) 23 août 2024
discuss: https://t.co/Yqxxln0beg
3D reconstruction and relighting of objects made from scattering materials present a significant challenge due to the complex light transport beneath the surface. 3D Gaussian Splatting introduced… pic.twitter.com/GAq7Km2vTESubsurface Scattering for 3D Gaussian Splatting discuss: https://
buff.ly/3T2GMep 3D reconstruction and relighting of objects made from scattering materials present a significant challenge due to the complex light transport beneath the surface. 3D Gaussian Splatting introduced
