Congratulations to the authors of "Universal dependency annotation for multilingual parsing", which won one of this year's 2023 ACL Test of Time Awards for most influential papers released 10 years ago. Check it out at https://
aclanthology.org/P13-2017.pdf
MACHINE LEARNING
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Universal Dependency Annotation Wins 2023 ACL Test of Time Award
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Google Distillation Method Trains Smaller LLMs Efficiently
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Deploying LLMs is memory inefficient and compute-intensive. At the #ACL2023 Google booth at 3pm today, @chunliang_tw will describe a new method, distilling step-by-step, that trains successful small models using fewer training data for fine-tuning and distillation.
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Amazing team of scholars creating datasets and visualizing bird data
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It's from an amazing team of scholars, coders & artists: -NYT & institutional data: @ananny -How to see birds: @JerThorp -C4 & the making of datasets: @_will_orr
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The Exponential Growth of AI Training Datasets Over Two Decades
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Datasets are now impossibly large. Back in 2003, Caltech 101 was 10,000 images. By 2010, ImageNet had 14m images. In 2023, LAION has 5 billion images and text captions – it'd take you 1000+ years to look at it all. The entire territory of the internet has become the map of AI.
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See:Set: New Tools for Analyzing Dataset Patterns and Worldviews
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That doesn't mean we stop analyzing them – we just use new tools. At Knowing Machines we've developed See:Set, a search engine to look into datasets and track patterns. These 9 essays come from direct experiences using See:Set to understand how datasets encode worldviews.
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9 Ways to Study and Analyze Datasets: Research Findings
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New release: '9 Ways To See A Dataset" https://
knowingmachines.org/publications/9
_ways_to_see_a_dataset
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Most Fundamental Unanswered Questions in AI
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What are the most fundamental unanswered questions?
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Med-PaLM Research Published in Nature Journal
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Honored to have played a small role in Med-PaLM, now published in Nature! https://
nature.com/articles/s4158
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… My grandpa is 89, and every year he asks if I've published in Science or Nature (he knows I'm a researcher, but he only knows those two journals). This year I can finally say yes! -

PhD Student Shares AI Transparency and Interpretability Research Insights
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Hi! This is @aspenkhopkins
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PostgreSQL HNSW Extension for Vector Embeddings by Neon
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pg_embedding @PostgreSQL is popular database choice. Excited to share a new extension from @neondatabase to help you use it for embeddings as well (with HNSW)! Blog: