Most significant is the API-compliance "code golf" type of code, which is so prevalent in ML. It's able to handle refactoring much more reliably, and helps find tricky bugs as a first-pass sanity check… I also let it write first pass of most new scripts, but they change a lot.
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LLM2LLM: Iterative Data Augmentation Strategy for Model Fine-tuning
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10). LLM2LLM – an iterative data augmentation strategy that leverages a teacher LLM to enhance a small seed dataset by augmenting additional data that can be used to effectively fine-tune models.
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FollowIR Dataset Improves Information Retrieval Model Performance
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9). FollowIR – a dataset with instruction evaluation benchmark and a separate set for teaching information retrieval model to follow real-world instructions; a FollowIR-7B model has significant improvements (over 13%) after fine-tuning on a training set.
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Long-Form Factuality Evaluation in Large Language Models
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6). Long-form factuality in LLMs – investigates long-form factuality in open-domain by generating a prompt set of questions including 38 topics; also proposes an LLM-based agent to perform evaluation for the task.
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Top ML Papers of the Week: DBRX, Grok, LLM2LLM and More
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The Top ML Papers of the Week (March 25 – March 31): – DBRX
– Grok-1.5
– LLM2LLM
– Mini-Gemini
– Agent Lumos
– Long-form factuality in LLMs
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DBRX: New 132B Open-Source LLM Outperforms Benchmarks
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1). DBRX – a new 132B parameter open LLM that outperforms all the established open-source models on common benchmarks like MMLU and GSM8K; DBRX was pretrained on 12T tokens (text and code) and uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture.
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UBC and Honda Unveil Innovative Robot Skin Technology
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UBC and Honda Unveil Innovative 'Robot Skin' Technology
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 31 mars 2024
by @ONPASSIVE#Robotics #Engineering #MI #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Tech
cc: @pbalakrishnarao @chr1sa @bigdata pic.twitter.com/1A2wSvK3eyUBC and Honda Unveil Innovative 'Robot Skin' Technology
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Global State Required for Information Recognition and Meaning
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We cannot even recognize or integrate information without reaching some global state that allows to interpret its meaning
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Cell Consciousness and Emergent Intelligence Systems
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I don’t know whether individual cells are conscious. How do you know? (If they are, I don’t expect that the consciousness of the cell can communicate with the consciousness forming across cells.)
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Consciousness Operates Uniformly Across All Minds
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I think that consciousness itself works in the same way across minds