We recently announced the availablity of SlimPajama – an open-source, cleaned, and deduplicated version of RedPajama-1T. It is half the size and trains twice as fast and when upsampled, performs equal or better than RedPajama. See below for the dataset and preprocessing library
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Technological Advances Behind Large Language Models Take Years
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Technological advances don’t happen overnight; the technology that helped make it possible for us to have large language models today (like that which underpins ChatGPT) came out six years ago. https://t.co/Z12ZglKNPN
— Rachel Metz (@rachelmetz) 12 juin 2023Technological advances don’t happen overnight; the technology that helped make it possible for us to have large language models today (like that which underpins ChatGPT) came out six years ago.
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FAccT2023 Conference: AI Ethics and Fairness Research Presentations
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We have a lot of cool work @FAccTConference #FAccT2023 this week! Check out tutorials, workshops, and paper presentations from @ezi_ozoani @NimaBoscarino @GiadaPistilli @IreneSolaiman @YJernite @SashaMTL @natolambert @nazneenrajani @Carlos_MFerr and @mmitchell_ai below!
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Trending AI News Stories and Papers
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Trending AI news stories + papers https://
open.substack.com/pub/akhaliq/p/
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Open Source Model Evaluation Results Exceed Public Competition
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thanks for running the evals. indeed the numbers look great (and promising). yeah i think it's scalable and efficient. like your tweet suggested it's a pity there's no t5 or ul2 model >40B. otherwise i think it would beat every public open source model right now.
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Advanced Computer Vision Course at UCF Center for Research
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Advanced Computer Vision – UCF Center for Research in Computer Vision, Spring 2023 This is an excellent course on advanced computer vision. Covers recent developments in computer vision, topics like image generation and vision-language learning. I like that the course go
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PaLI-X Combines ViT-22B Vision and Multilingual UL2-32B
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Check out PaLI-X that combines ViT-22B and multilingual UL2-32B!
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Science Over Hype: Debunking AI Claims
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this is not about promotion. it's about science and hype busting.
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Encoder-Decoder vs Decoder-Only Models: T5 Paper Guide
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Additional reading for people confused about encoder-decoder models vs decoder-only models: most wisdom is also from the 2019 T5 paper. it's the bible for NLP literally.
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Attention Mechanism Origins Traced Back to 1991 Schmidhuber
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Oh, and sorry, @DrJimFan
, even the 2014 paper is not the original attention paper. It goes actually back to 1991 (via @SchmidhuberAI
) in https://
semanticscholar.org/paper/Learning
-to-Control-Fast-Weight-Memories-An-to-Schmidhuber/bc22e87a26d020215afe91c751e5bdaddd8e4922
… I've summarized it here: https://
magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/why-the-orig
inal-transformer-figure
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