Note that Llama and Mistral have parameterised norm layers, so weight decay has no regularizing effect
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Critique of Computer Vision Field’s Military and Surveillance Applications
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I finally have this book, written by James E. Dobson, professor of creative writing & English. Good thing we're getting rid of the humanities am I right? Explains my aversion to the computer vision field in which I got my PhD. All military & surveillance.
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Neural Networks Inherit Cold War Era Biases and Worldviews
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"Today’s most advanced neural networks & sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—& many biases & ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them."
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Privacy Violations in Large Language Models Through Inference
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Beyond Memorization: Violating Privacy Via Inference with Large Language Models Staab et al.: https://
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AI Assistants: Better Knowledge Interface and Cultural Vehicles
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Chatting with @timoreilly today he said: "books are a user interface to knowledge."
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How Do We Know What’s Real Anymore? AI Reality Crisis
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How do we know what’s real anymore?
— Linus ✦ Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) 20 octobre 2023
I’ll let @rpnickson explain, things are about to become wild.
pic.twitter.com/BBoa5JksyGHow do we know what’s real anymore? I’ll let @rpnickson explain, things are about to become wild.
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T2I-Adapters Enable Efficient Controllable SDXL Image Generation
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Efficient Controllable Generation for SDXL with T2I-Adapters https://
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70 Professors Selected for 2023 Inclusion Research Award
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After receiving applications from over 300+ institutions globally, 70 professors were selected for the 2023 Award for Inclusion Research! Please help us congratulate them and learn more here: http://
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Habitat 3.0 Virtual Environment Released with Open-Source Code
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Habitat 3.0 is released!
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 20 octobre 2023
Virtual environment with humanoid sims under human control, robots, realistic indoor environments, physics, …
Paper, open-source code, and datasets. https://t.co/GBu4HtFRrFHabitat 3.0 is released!
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Model Distillation Safety Concerns in AI Development
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Are there any other models being distilled? The Dreamshaper one is, uh, very unsafe for work.