Today's issue is about the race for open source LLMs that seems to speed up literally every week. This week @theinformation reported that Meta is working on making its LLaMA model commercially permissive. Meta's been evaluating this since as early as May.
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DeepSpeed Stage 3 LoRA Bug and FSDP Migration Plans
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Theoretically, you can get it to work if you use deepspeed stage 3 with offloading. But I see there is currently a little bug for stage 3 and LoRA. I think we watned to switch from DeepSpeed to FSDP anyway though. PS: Glad you like my book!
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Macaw-LLM: Multi-Modal Language Model with Image Audio Video Text
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Macaw-LLM: Multi-Modal Language Modeling with Image, Audio, Video, and Text Integration paper page: https://
huggingface.co/papers/2306.09
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… Although instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities across various NLP tasks, their effectiveness on other data -

WizardCoder: Enhancing Code LLMs with Evol-Instruct
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WizardCoder: Empowering Code Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct paper page: https://
huggingface.co/papers/2306.08
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… Code Large Language Models (Code LLMs), such as StarCoder, have demonstrated exceptional performance in code-related tasks. However, most existing models are solely -

h2oGPT: Democratizing Large Language Models
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h2oGPT: Democratizing Large Language Models paper page: https://
huggingface.co/papers/2306.08
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… Foundation Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 represent a revolution in AI due to their real-world applications though natural language processing. However, they also pose many significant -

Agreement on Twitter Algorithm Open Source Release
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Totally agree! https://
github.com/twitter/the-al
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EnCodec Code Released on GitHub Under MIT License
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The code is available on GitHub for you to build on, released under the MIT license https://
github.com/facebookresear
ch/encodec
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AI-Generated Functional QR Codes Model Available on Hugging Face
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AI-generated functional QR codes model on @huggingface
: https://
huggingface.co/DionTimmer/con
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New Content Policy for Open Collaborative Responsible Machine Learning
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We are committed to advancing Open, Collaborative, and Responsible Machine Learning. Introducing our new Content Policy, dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for our community. Check it out!
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QLoRA, Prefix Tuning, and LoRA: Fine-tuning Techniques Comparison
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This was already a lot of coding. I am saving QLoRA for another day! @Yampeleg Regarding prefix tuning/LLaMA-Adapter vs LoRA. The performance is similar, but one advantage of the former is that it allows multimodal inputs (but that's also a post for another day :P)
