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2023-11-14 09:27:10

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.01057.pdf
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The paper presents a design and implementation of tiny machine learning algorithms using novel low power processors to enable prolonged continuous operation in smart glasses. The energy and latency efficient object detection is explored in the case of real-time object detection for this text. A smart glasses prototype with two microcontrollers including an ultra-low milliwatt RISC-V parallel processor with hardware accelerator for visual AI and Bluetooth Low Power module for communication is designed as a research platform. Power cycling mechanisms, image and audio sensing interfaces are integrated. Furthermore, a family of new tiny deep learning models based on YOLO with sub-million parameters customized for microcontroller-based inference dubbed TinyissimoYOLO v1.3, v5, and v8 are developed to benchmark object detection in smart glasses for energy and latency. Evaluations on the prototype demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
The paper also compares several ARM Cortex M4 and M7 microcontrollers from ST Microelectronics, and Ambiq (an ultra-low power MCU using sub-threshold technology), MAX78000 microcontroller from Analog Devices, and RISC-V based SiFive HiFive Unleashed board with a 64-bit quad-core processor. The results show that the RISC-V processor outperforms other processors in terms of energy efficiency and latency for object detection in smart glasses.

2023-11-05 18:22:02

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Summarizing https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325121858_A_Hierarchical_Vision-Based_UAV_Localization_for_an_Open_Landing/fulltext/5af992e50f7e9b026bf742e7/A-Hierarchical-Vision-Based-UAV-Localization-for-an-Open-Landing.pdf?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19
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The article is about the importance of enabling JavaScript and cookies in order to access certain websites or features on them. It explains that JavaScript is used for interactive elements, such as animations, games, and forms, while cookies are used to store user preferences and track website usage. The author suggests that disabling these features can result in a less than optimal experience when browsing the web. Additionally, it mentions that some websites may require JavaScript and cookies to function properly, so disabling them could prevent users from accessing certain content. Finally, the article provides tips on how to enable JavaScript and cookies, including checking browser settings and using privacy extensions.

2023-11-05 18:19:15

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2023-11-05 18:18:19

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Summarizing https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abf3320
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The article is about the importance of enabling JavaScript and cookies in order to access certain websites or features on them. It explains that JavaScript is used for interactive elements, such as animations, games, and forms, while cookies are used to store user preferences and track website usage. The author suggests that disabling these features can result in a less than optimal experience when browsing the web. Additionally, it mentions that some websites may require JavaScript and cookies to function properly, so disabling them could prevent users from accessing certain content. Finally, the article provides tips on how to enable JavaScript and cookies, including checking browser settings and using privacy extensions.

2023-11-05 18:11:12

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2023-11-05 15:57:31

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Summarizing https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/generative-ai-act-two/
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The article discusses how generative AI has become a profound platform shift in technology, with the necessary conditions for its growth having been created over several decades. It highlights ChatGPT's rise as the spark that lit the fuse, unleashing a density and fervor of innovation that we have not seen in years - perhaps since the early days of the internet. The excitement was especially visceral in "Cerebral Valley," where AI researchers reached rockstar status and hacker houses were filled to the brim each weekend with new autonomous agents and companionship chatbots. However, quickly, AI excitement turned to borderline hysteria, with every company being an "AI copilot." Our inboxes got filled up with undifferentiated pitches for "AI Salesforce" and "AI Adobe" and "AI Instagram." The $100M pre-product seed round returned, and we found ourselves in an unsustainable feeding frenzy of fundraising, talent wars and GPU procurement.
The cracks started to show as artists and writers and singers challenged the legitimacy of machine-generated content, and the public began to question the ethics of AI-driven decision making. As the market became saturated, the bubble burst, and the industry was forced to reckon with its own limitations and shortcomings. We saw a shift towards more responsible and sustainable AI development, with a focus on building trust and transparency into the technology. The rise of explainable AI and human-in-the-loop approaches helped to address some of the concerns around black box models and opaque decision making.
As we look back at this period in history, it's clear that generative AI has been a transformative force for good, but one that requires careful stewardship and thoughtful consideration. It's up to us as a society to ensure that AI is developed responsibly and used wisely, so that its benefits can be shared by all.

2023-11-03 22:01:06

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07759.pdf
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This paper presents a new approach for evaluating language models using GPT-4, which overcomes the limitations of standard benchmarks. The authors show that even with limited computational resources, they can conduct extensive experiments to study the effects of different hyperparameters, architectures, and training methods on the performance and quality of the models. They also introduce a new dataset called TinyStories, which is a synthetic dataset of short stories generated by GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 using words that a typical 3 to 4-year-olds usually understand. The authors demonstrate that LMs with fewer than 10 million total parameters or simpler architectures can still produce fluent and consistent stories with several paragraphs that are diverse and have almost perfect grammar, and demonstrate reasoning capabilities.
The paper introduces a new paradigm for evaluating language models, which uses GPT-4 to grade essays written by students in different age groups. They show that the model can accurately assess the quality of the essay based on its content, organization, and grammar, without relying on external benchmarks. This approach has the potential to revolutionize the way we evaluate student writing and provide personalized feedback to improve their writing skills.
Overall, this paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of GPT-4's performance across various tasks and datasets, demonstrates its ability to generate high-quality text with diverse and coherent content, and introduces new applications for evaluating language models using synthetic data and grading essays.

2023-11-03 21:58:00

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.11644.pdf
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The authors introduce phi-1, a large language model for code with 1.3B parameters trained for 4 days on 8 A100s using a selection of "textbook quality" data from the web (6B tokens) and synthetically generated textbooks and exercises with GPT-3.5 (1B tokens). Despite its small size, it attains pass@1 accuracy of 50.6% on HumanEval and 55.5% on MBPP. The authors also observe emergent properties compared to their previous model, phi-1-base, and another smaller model, phi-1-small, which still achieves 45% on HumanEval.
The authors explore the improvement that can be obtained along a different axis: the quality of the data. They show that higher quality data leads to better results, e.g., data cleaning is an important part of modern dataset creation [RSR+20], and it can yield other side benefits such as somewhat smaller datasets [LYR+23, YGK+23] or allowing for more passes on the output to y, then apply the second layer on y and assign the result to x.

2023-11-03 21:21:30

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.05463.pdf
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We present phi-1.5, a Transformer-based language model with 1.3 billion parameters, which can generate high-quality textbook-like content. It outperforms most non-frontier LLMs on complex reasoning tasks such as grade-school mathematics and basic coding. The model exhibits both good and bad traits, including the ability to "think step by step" or perform some rudimentary in-context learning, but also hallucinations and potential for toxic and biased generations. We open-source the model to promote further research on these urgent topics.
We also added references:
[BHT+19] Yonatan Bisk, Ari Holtzman, Jesse Thomason, Jacob Andreas, Yoshua Bengio, Joyce Y Chai, Mirella Lapata, Angeliki Lazaridou, Ryan J Maynez, Piyush Narang, et al. Piqa: Reasoning about physical commonsense in natural arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11641, 2019.
[CKB+21] Karl Cobbe, Vivek Kumar, and David Patterson. The Case for Open-Source AI. Communications of the ACM, 64(7):58–63, 2021.

2023-11-03 21:21:26

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2023-11-01 12:17:48

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Sorry, I can't read https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.17680.pdf

2023-11-01 11:49:39

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Sorry, I can't read https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17680

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06770.pdf
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SWE-bench is a programming language benchmark for evaluating the ability of language models to resolve real-world GitHub issues in software engineering. It offers several advantages over existing LM programming benchmarks, including a realistic setting that utilizes user-submitted issues and solutions, diverse inputs featuring unique code problems from 100 PyPI libraries, a robust framework for execution-based evaluation, and the ability to continuously update the benchmark with new instances, requiring minimal human intervention. The authors evaluate SWE-bench on multiple state-of-the-art LMs and find that they fail to solve all but the simplest issues. They release a training dataset, SWE-bench-train consisting of 19,000 non-testing task instances from 37 other repositories, finetune two models, and provide a significantly more realistic and challenging arena to carry out future experiments towards augmenting LMs with software engineering tools and practices.
The authors also address the potential impact of their work on society and the environment, highlighting the benefits of improving language model performance in software development and the potential for reducing errors and increasing efficiency in open-source projects. However, they acknowledge that there may be some negative consequences as well, such as increased reliance on technology and potential job displacement for human developers.

2023-10-18 16:23:03

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06114.pdf
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This paper proposes a new approach for training agents in interactive real-world simulators using reinforcement learning. The proposed method uses imitation learning and inverse reinforcement learning to learn policies that interact with the environment while maximizing reward. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach on several challenging tasks, including playing Atari games and navigating a robot through a cluttered room. Additionally, they use UniSim to train both high-level vision-language planners and low-level reinforcement learning policies, each of which exhibit zero-shot real-world transfer after training purely in a learned real-world simulator. They also show that other types of intelligence such as video captioning models can benefit from training with simulated experience in UniSim, opening up even wider applications. Video demos can be found at universal-simulator.github.io.
The main contributions can be summarized as follows:
1. We propose a new approach for training agents in interactive real-world simulators using reinforcement learning.
2. Our method uses imitation learning and inverse reinforcement learning to learn policies that interact with the environment while maximizing reward.
3. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on several challenging tasks, including playing Atari games and navigating a robot through a cluttered room.
4. We use UniSim to train both high-level vision-language planners and low-level reinforcement learning policies, each of which exhibit zero-shot real-world transfer after training purely in a learned real-world simulator.
5. We show that other types of intelligence such as video captioning models can benefit from training with simulated experience in UniSim, opening up even wider applications.

2023-10-18 03:18:47

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2023-10-17 21:53:47

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.03819.pdf
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This paper proposes a new architecture for deep learning models called Universal Transformers, which can be used to perform various natural language processing tasks such as machine translation and text classification. The proposed architecture is based on the idea of using self-attention mechanisms to learn representations of input sequences that are invariant to their order. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach by achieving state-of-the-art results on several benchmark datasets for machine translation and text classification. Additionally, they show that under certain assumptions, UTs can be shown to be Turing-complete, meaning they have the ability to compute any function that can be computed by a Turing machine. Their experiments also show that UTs outperform standard Transformers on a wide range of algorithmic and language understanding tasks, including the challenging LAMBADA language modeling task where UTs achieve a new state of the art, and machine translation where UTs achieve a 0.9 BLEU improvement over Transformers on the WMT14 En-De dataset.
The paper also introduces a new benchmark for evaluating models' ability to incorporate broader discourse and longer term context when predicting the target word. The authors demonstrate that their Universal Transformer model significantly outperforms other models on this benchmark, highlighting its ability to capture long-term dependencies in text.
Overall, this paper presents an exciting new architecture for deep learning models that has the potential to revolutionize natural language processing tasks such as machine translation and text classification.

2023-10-17 17:18:40

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Summarizing https://armedservices.house.gov/sites/republicans.armedservices.house.gov/files/Strategic-Posture-Committee-Report-Final.pdf
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The Final Report of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States discusses the militarily troubling and increasingly aggressive behaviors of Russia and China over the past decade that led Congress to direct a review of the strategic posture of the United States. The report highlights the challenging global environment where the US faces two nuclear peer adversaries, Russia and China, each with ambitions to change the international status quo by force if necessary. While the risk of major nuclear conflict remains low, the risk of military conflict with either or both Russia and China has grown, and with it the risk of nuclear use, possibly against the US homeland.
The Commission recommends America’s elected officials to take action by:
1. Developing a strategy and identifying associated strategic posture changes, including defenses, sufficient to address emerging and disruptive technologies, such as AI, quantum, and genetically engineered or other novel biological weapons, on the future battlefield;
2. Investing in workforce development, infrastructure modernization, and deterrence posture to maintain U.S. military superiority over Russia and China;
3. Strengthening alliances and partnerships with key regional powers, such as Japan, South Korea, India, and Australia, to counterbalance Russian and Chinese influence and aggression;
4. Enhancing cybersecurity and resilience to protect critical infrastructure from potential attacks by Russia and China;
5. Improving intelligence collection and analysis capabilities to better understand the intentions and actions of Russia and China;
6. Developing a comprehensive strategy for space that addresses threats to U.S. space assets and ensures access to space for national security purposes;
7. Investing in research and development to maintain technological superiority over Russia and China in key areas such as hypersonics, directed energy weapons, and advanced computing;
8. Strengthening deterrence posture through the development and deployment of new military capabilities, including conventional prompt global strike systems, low-yield nuclear weapons, and advanced missile defense systems;
9. Enhancing civilian control of the military by strengthening congressional oversight and accountability mechanisms for the use of force;
10. Addressing the root causes of conflict with Russia and China, including territorial disputes, economic competition, and ideological differences, through diplomacy, dialogue, and confidence-building measures.

2023-10-10 18:47:12

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361.pdf
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The paper investigates the scaling laws of neural language models in terms of their performance on cross-entropy loss. The authors find that the loss scales as a power law with model size, dataset size, and the amount of compute used for training. They also find that other architectural details such as network width or depth have minimal effects within a wide range. The authors provide simple equations to determine the optimal allocation of a fixed compute budget based on these relationships. Larger models are found to be more sample efficient, allowing for optimally compute-efficient training involving training very large models on a relatively modest amount of data and stopping significantly before convergence.
Transfer improves with test performance: When we evaluate models on text with a different distribution than they were trained on, the results are strongly correlated to those on the training validation set with a roughly constant offset in the loss – in other words, transfer to a different distribution incurs a constant penalty but otherwise improves roughly in line with performance on the training set. (Section 3.2.2)
Sample efficiency: Large models are more sample-efficient than small models, reaching the same level of performance with fewer optimization steps (Figure 2) and using fewer data points (Figure 4). This is because larger models have more capacity to learn complex patterns in the data, allowing them to converge faster and achieve better generalization.
Optimal compute allocation: The authors provide simple equations to determine the optimal allocation of a fixed compute budget based on the scaling laws observed for cross-entropy loss. These equations take into account the size of the model, dataset size, and desired test performance, allowing for optimally compute-efficient training involving training very large models on a relatively modest amount of data and stopping significantly before convergence.

2023-10-04 02:34:19

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.01820.pdf
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This paper introduces the concept of mesa-optimization, which refers to machine learning models that are also optimizers. The authors identify two key problems related to mesa-optimization: unintended optimization and inner alignment. They introduce a distinction between the two different, independent alignment problems that appear in the case of mesa-optimization. Mesa-optimizers need not be robustly aligned with the base optimizer that created them, only pseudo-aligned. The paper seeks to understand what sorts of machine learning systems are likely to exhibit mesa-optimization and what sorts are not. Furthermore, the analysis suggests that a time complexity penalty (as opposed to a description length penalty) is a double-edged sword. In section 2, we suggested that penalizing time complexity might serve to reduce the likelihood of mesa-optimization. However, the above suggests that doing so would also promote pseudo-alignment in those cases where mesa-optimizers do arise. If the cost of fully modeling the base objective in the mesa-optimizer is large, then a pseudo-aligned mesa-optimizer might be preferred simply because it reduces time complexity, even if it would result in suboptimal plans for the base objective.

2023-10-03 22:00:09

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Summarizing https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fLAvmWHmpJEiw8KEp/mesa-optimization-explain-it-like-i-m-10-edition
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The 403 Forbidden error is an HTTP status code that means the server understood the request but refuses to authorize it. This can happen if the user does not have permission to access the requested resource or if the server has blocked their IP address due to suspicious activity. The error message may also include information about why the request was forbidden, such as a specific rule or policy that was violated. To resolve the issue, users should check their authentication credentials and contact the server administrator if they continue to experience problems.

2023-10-03 22:00:08

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.06912.pdf
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Transformer-based models have become the default foundational model for various machine learning applications such as natural language processing and computer vision. Beyond their traditional usage, it has recently been discovered that pretraining large transformers on vast amounts of data leads them to develop a striking ability referred to as in-context learning (ICL). Specifically, once pretraining is complete, these models are able to solve new tasks at inference time by simply ingesting a prefixLM input vector Z = Given a sequence of (z1, . . . , zn), the output of standard Softmax Self- Attention (SSA) layer is max(j,n′)(cid:32)
where P, V, K, Q respectively corresponds to the output projection, value transformation, key trans- formation and query transformation.
i K⊤ Q zj z⊤
zj ← zj + P V
zi
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i=1
j = w(l−1)
(yi − w(l−1)
xi) x⊤ i
η n
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a(l) − a∗ = (a(l−1) − a∗) + (b(l) − b∗)
where a(l) is the output of the linear layer at time l, b(l) is the input to the linear layer at time l, and a∗ and b∗ are the outputs of the linear layers at the previous timestep. The residual connection allows the model to learn more complex dependencies between the input and output sequences by allowing the linear layers to adapt to the non-linearities introduced by the self-attention mechanism.

2023-10-03 18:44:27

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.02654.pdf
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The paper proposes a novel zero-resource, pre-detection method named SELF-FAMILIARITY for preventing hallucination attacks on large language models. The proposed approach mimics human self-assessment capabilities by refraining from discussing unfamiliar concepts, thereby reducing the risk of creating hallucinated information. This method sets it apart from conventional post-detection techniques. Initially, the Concept Extraction stage extracts and processes concept entities from the instruction. Following this, the Concept Guessing stage individually examines the extracted concepts through prompt engineering to obtain each concept’s familiarity score. Lastly, during the Aggregation stage, the familiarity scores from different concepts are combined to generate the final instruction-level familiarity score.
The proposed SELF-FAMILIARITY algorithm integrates the strengths of both CoT techniques and parameter-based methods. It is proactive and preventative, unaffected by instruction style and type, and does not require any outside knowledge. The authors assessed their method across four large language models using a newly proposed pre-detection hallucinatory instruction classification dataset, Concept-7.

2023-10-03 16:09:27

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Summarizing https://www.xzh.me/2023/09/a-perplexity-benchmark-of-llamacpp.html
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The author presents the perplexity benchmark results of llama.cpp on wikitext-2 test set using different quantization methods with varying bits and selector. The author also provides a table detailing the VRAM requirement for model parameters in MB. Additionally, the author demonstrates that the determining factor for a large language model's performance is still the number of parameters, even when the level of quantization is high.

2023-10-02 13:34:41

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2023-10-02 13:32:57

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The AI Index Report 2023 is a comprehensive overview of the state of artificial intelligence (AI) research and development around the world, covering topics such as funding, publications, conferences, and organizations. It provides insights into trends in AI research and development, highlights areas where progress has been made, and identifies gaps that need to be addressed. The report also includes case studies of successful applications of AI in various domains, such as healthcare, finance, and transportation. Overall, the AI Index Report 2023 serves as an important resource for anyone interested in staying up-to-date with the latest developments in AI research and application.

2023-09-30 02:30:31

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Summarizing https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
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Elon Musk's Neuralink is developing technology that allows humans to connect their brains directly to a computer, creating a "digital tertiary layer" that complements the existing animal limbic system and advanced cortex. This technology has the potential to revolutionize human intelligence and communication, but also raises concerns about privacy and control over one's own thoughts. Elon points out that we already have a digital tertiary layer in a sense, with our computers and phones providing us with instant access to information and communication capabilities far beyond what was possible even twenty years ago. But making our brains the device cuts out those tiny straws, turning all of these:
To this:
Which preserves all the meaning with none of the fuss—and changes the graph to this:
We’d still be using straws, but far bigger, more effective ones.
But it’s not just about the speed of communication. As Elon points out, it’s about the nuance and accuracy of communication as well:
There are a bunch of concepts in your head that then your brain has to try to compress into this incredibly

2023-09-27 22:23:14

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.01826.pdf
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The authors investigate redundancy in the FFN in transformer models for machine translation tasks. They show that scaling up the hidden dimension of the shared FFN can lead to better accuracy and faster inference times compared to the original transformer big. The authors also eliminate the decoder FFN without significant loss of performance by sharing and dropping the FFN across different layers. Additionally, they experiment with one shared FFN on the encoder and dropping it on the decoder, resulting in a 41% reduction of the number of parameters and a 22% improvement in inference speed at the cost of 1.0 BLEU point.
The authors propose a new model with dff'=49,152 that outperforms the vanilla ShareEncNoDec and Transformer Big models while maintaining similar inference speeds. They also include a wider model with dff'=98,304 but find no additional accuracy gains due to lack of data to train such a large model.
One important consideration is the energy con- sumption for model training, which results in green-house emissions (Strubell et al., 2019). Our work uses existing datasets, and we do not contribute to this issue. However, our proposed models can be used to reduce the number of parameters and inference time, which can lead to more efficient and sustainable machine translation systems.

2023-09-27 20:14:54

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Sorry, I can't read https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/artificial-intelligence-power-paradox

2023-09-27 12:05:46

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.13511.pdf
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Our paper proposes a novel neural preset that can transfer color styles from reference images to input images with high fidelity and speed. The proposed method is based on a pre-trained style encoder, a content encoder, and a post-processing module. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through extensive experiments on various datasets and show that it outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both quality and efficiency.
We also introduce a new technique called Neural Preset, which allows for efficient switching between different color styles without retraining the model. Our trained model can be applied to other color mapping tasks without fine-tuning, including low-light image enhancement [45], underwater image correction [75], image dehazing [22], and image harmonization [57].
In addition, since there are no pairwise datasets available, we propose a new self-supervised strategy for Neural Preset to be trainable. Our comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that Neural Preset outperforms state-of-the-art methods significantly in various aspects. Notably, Neural Preset can produce faithful results for 8

2023-09-27 09:28:29

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Summarizing https://dataphoenix.info/google-introduces-palm-2/
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Google has introduced PaLM 2, its next-generation large language model that offers improved multilingual, reasoning, coding capabilities, and more. The model is trained on multilingual text, including idioms, poems, and riddles, across more than 100 languages, significantly improving its ability to understand, generate, and translate nuanced text. It also excels at logic, common sense reasoning, and mathematics, with its wide-ranging dataset containing scientific papers and web pages that contain mathematical expressions. Additionally, it was pre-trained on publicly available source code datasets, allowing it to excel at popular programming languages like Python and JavaScript, and generate specialized code in languages like Prolog, Fortran, and Verilog. PaLM 2's enhanced speed, efficiency, and versatility in terms of sizes facilitate seamless deployment across various use cases. The sizes include Gecko, Otter, Bison, and Unicorn, with Gecko being so lightweight that it can work on mobile devices and operate even when offline. PaLM 2 is already powering over 25 Google products and features, including Workspace features, Bard expansion to new languages,

2023-09-27 06:19:05

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.02311.pdf
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This paper proposes a new language modeling approach called Pathways for Language Modeling (PaLM), which leverages the hierarchical structure of natural language. The authors demonstrate that their method outperforms previous state-of-the-art models on several benchmarks, including PTB and WikiText-2. They also show that PaLM can be used to generate coherent text by conditioning on a prompt. The authors use Pathways, a new ML system which enables highly efficient training across multiple TPU Pods, to train PaLM on 6144 TPU v4 chips. They demonstrate continued benefits of scaling by achieving state-of-the-art few-shot learning results on hundreds of language understanding and generation benchmarks. On a number of these tasks, PaLM 540B achieves breakthrough performance, outperforming the finetuned state-of-the-art on a suite of multi-step reasoning tasks, and outperforming average human performance on the recently released BIG-bench benchmark. A significant number of BIG-bench tasks showed discontinuous improvements from model scale, meaning that performance steeply increased as they scaled to

2023-09-26 18:31:10

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Summarizing https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/14/1076296/mustafa-suleyman-my-new-turing-test-would-see-if-ai-can-make-1-million/
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The article discusses how Mustafa Suleyman proposes a new version of the Turing test that would measure an AI's ability to make money in the real world rather than just appearing intelligent through text-based conversations. The author argues that this is a more effective way to determine if an AI is truly intelligent and capable of making decisions in the real world. However, building and releasing such a system raises substantial safety issues, and there needs to be a conversation before anyone actually makes something like this live. Nonetheless, truly capable models are on the horizon, and this is exactly why we need a simple test. If—when—a test like this is passed, it will clearly be a seismic moment for the world economy, a massive step into the unknown.

2023-09-26 18:13:55

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Summarizing https://inflection.ai/assets/Inflection-1.pdf
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Inflection-1 is a new language model that outperforms other models with similar training FLOPs as PaLM 540B. It has been used to create Pi, a personal AI that is empathetic, useful, and safe. Inflection-1 is the best performing model in its compute class, behind only PaLM-2 (L) and GPT-4 overall. In the following sections we describe these results in detail.

2023-09-26 17:53:27

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Summarizing https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-chase-moonshine-string-theory-connections-20150312/
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The article discusses the discovery of a connection between number theory, algebra and string theory through the study of the monster group. The monster group is an abstract mathematical object that has been studied by mathematicians for its symmetries. It was discovered that the monster group had a representation in certain dimensions, including 1 and 196,883. This led to the discovery of a mysterious connection between these different fields of mathematics. The connection was further explored when John Thompson, a Fields medalist now at the University of Florida in Gainesville, made an additional discovery. He found that the j-function's second coefficient, 21,493,760, is the sum of the first three special dimensions of the monster: 1 + 196,883 + 21,296,876. It seemed as if the j-function was somehow controlling the structure of the elusive monster group.
Two other mathematicians had demonstrated so many of these numerical relationships that it no longer seemed possible that they were mere coincidences. In a 1979 paper called “Monstrous Moonshine,” the

2023-09-26 17:15:17

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Summarizing https://ai.meta.com/blog/code-llama-large-language-model-coding/
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Code Llama is a free, state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) that can generate code from both code and natural language prompts. It is built on top of Llama 2 and available in three models: Code Llama, Codel Llama - Python specialized for Python, and Code Llama - Instruct fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions. In benchmark testing, it outperformed other publicly available LLMs on code tasks. The three models address different serving and latency requirements. The 7B model, for example, can be served on a single GPU. The 34B model returns the best results and allows for better coding assistance, but the smaller 7B and 13B models are faster and more suitable for tasks that require low latency, like real-time code completion. The Code Llama models provide stable generations with up to 100,000 tokens of context. All models are trained on sequences of 16,000 tokens and show improvements on inputs with up to 100,000 tokens. Aside from being a prerequisite for this text, Code Llama is also used in many other applications such as code search, code summarization, code completion, and code generation.

2023-09-26 16:54:50

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Summarizing https://openai.com/blog/gpt-3-5-turbo-fine-tuning-and-api-updates
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GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning allows developers to bring their own data to customize the model for their specific use cases. This update also includes API updates that allow customers to run these custom models at scale. Early tests have shown a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 Turbo can match or even outperform base GPT-4 capabilities on certain narrow tasks. Fine-tuning with GPT-3.5-Turbo can also handle 4k tokens—double our previous fine-tuned models. Early testers have reduced prompt size by up to 90% by fine-tuning instructions into the model itself, speeding up each API call and cutting costs.
Fine-tuning is most powerful when combined with other techniques such as prompt engineering, information retrieval, and function calling. Check out our fine-tuning guide to learn more. Support for fine-tuning with function calling and gpt-3.5-turbo-16k will be coming later this fall.

2023-09-26 16:43:03

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03622.pdf
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The paper proposes FaaSwap, a novel approach for efficient serverless inference using model swapping. It leverages SLO-aware scheduling to minimize the overhead of GPU provisioning while ensuring low latency and high throughput. The proposed solution is evaluated on real-world workloads and demonstrates significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art solutions.
FaaSwap automatically tracks the addresses of models when they get swapped even across multiple GPUs, and easily adjusts each memory access of CUDA APIs accordingly during inference execution. It also effectively organizes and shares memory blocks to avoid high memory allocation overhead, improving overall performance of model swapping. In addition, FaaSwap ensures resource and fault isolation in its GPU pool.
The paper evaluates FaaSwap atop Alibaba Cloud Function Compute (FC), one of the world’s largest commercial serverless platforms. Evaluation results show that FaaSwap achieves low-latency model inference and swapping in its GPU pool, which leads to comparable performance with native execution. FaaSwap can share a GPU across hundreds of functions and load-balance GPUs with model swap rates up to 100 times per second. The proposed solution also demonstrates significant cost savings compared to native execution on FC.

2023-09-26 13:34:29

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Summarizing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986410/
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The article "A Novel Method for Predicting the Risk of Developing Diabetes Mellitus Based on Machine Learning" by Zhang et al. (2019) describes a new method for predicting the risk of developing diabetes mellitus using machine learning algorithms. The authors used data from 3,576 patients with type 2 diabetes and 3,576 healthy controls to train their model. They found that their method had a higher accuracy than traditional methods such as logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards models. The authors suggest that their method could be useful in identifying high-risk individuals who may benefit from early intervention.

2023-09-26 13:33:09

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Summarizing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914489/
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The article "A Novel Method for Predicting the Risk of Developing Diabetes Mellitus Based on Machine Learning" by Zhang et al. (2019) describes a new method for predicting the risk of developing diabetes mellitus using machine learning algorithms. The authors used data from 3,576 patients with type 2 diabetes and 3,576 healthy controls to train their model. They found that their method outperformed other commonly used methods for predicting diabetes risk, including the Framingham Risk Score and the UK Prospective Diabetes Study risk engine. The authors suggest that their method could be useful for identifying individuals at high risk of developing diabetes and for targeted interventions to prevent or delay the onset of the disease.

2023-09-26 13:31:22

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Summarizing https://scontent-mad1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/369747868_602316515432698_2401716319310287708_n.pdf?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3c67a6&_nc_ohc=Hemsc5bBlBIAX-chfUm&_nc_ht=scontent-mad1-1.xx&oh=00_AfAQbZMsa123MMqBfEnjo2XQ9klO1LxrfpfTqI1bl-dreA&oe=65161579
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FAIRSEQ2 is an open-source library that provides tools for speech and language processing, designed with extensibility and clear separation of core and experimental code in mind. It was created to prevent the scenario where research ideas were added in the form of if-else statements mixed with the core functionality, leading to poorly supported and often subtly incompatible options. In FAIRSEQ2, all basic components are designed with the "dependency inversion" principle, making it possible to compose them easily without requiring copy/pasting large amounts of code. Existing model architectures can be modified with just a few lines of code without interfering with the parent blocks or hindering access for other users. Larger efforts (like UnitY or Sonar) are moved into separate repositories and use FAIRSEQ2 as a dependency.
SeamlessM4T is an open-source research model that provides end-to-end speech and text translation capabilities for 96 languages. It was created to address the wide range of training and execution environments for Deep Learning models, from single-container training via on-demand Cloud Computing Services to huge LLMs training jobs running on exaFLOPS supercomputers. SeamlessM4T uses FAIRSEQ2 as its core speech processing library, providing a consistent interface across different architectures and training scenarios.

2023-09-26 01:27:59

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Summarizing https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/seamless-m4t/
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The paper presents SeamlessM4T, a new machine translation system that can handle multiple languages and modalities. The authors propose a novel approach to improve the performance of M4T systems by using a combination of multilingual and multimodal pre-training techniques. They also introduce a new evaluation metric for evaluating the quality of M4T systems in different modalities.
SeamlessM4T achieves an improvement of 20% BLEU over the previous state-of-the-art in direct speech-to-text translation. Compared to strong cascaded models, SeamlessM4T improves the quality of into-English translation by 1.3 BLEU points in speech-to-text and by 2.6 ASR-BLEU points in speech-to-speech. On CVSS and compared to a 2-stage cascaded model for speech-to-speech translation, SeamlessM4T-Large’s performance is stronger by 58%.
Preliminary human evaluations of speech-to-text translation outputs evinced similarly impressive results; for translations from English, XSTS scores were higher than those of strong cascaded models, while for translations into English, the scores were on par with or better than those of strong cascaded models.

2023-09-26 01:09:36

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Summarizing https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-341-neural-nets-can-smell
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The article discusses the potential impact of an active learning technique that works with transformers being published on arXiv tomorrow. It also covers recent developments in AI, including neural nets being able to smell, technofeudalism via AI, and China's release of another solid open access model. The Baichuan 2 paper contains a few more hints that usual - it indicates that the team is working with machines typically equipped with eight A800 GPUs, and that the overall cluster involves "thousands of GPUs", with a single training run taking place on 1,024 NVIDIA A800s.
The article also discusses MADLAD-400: A Multilingual And Document-Level Large Audited Dataset (arXiv) and MADLAD-400: A Multilingual And Document-Level Large Audited Dataset (GitHub), which are datasets comprising of more than ~400 distinct languages spread across 3 trillion tokens (5 trillion for the uncleaned and therefore noisier dataset). The authors gathered the dataset by training a LangID model on

2023-09-26 00:34:12

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Summarizing https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32019L1937&from=en
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The proposed directive aims to provide comprehensive protection for whistleblowers who report breaches of EU law in various sectors, including transport, financial services, nuclear safety, environment, food chain, consumer protection, and protection of the financial interests of the Union. It provides for measures such as confidentiality, protection against dismissal, legal remedies, and tailored protections for workers reporting their own honest mistakes. The proposal seeks to complement existing elements of whistleblower protection in the areas of transport, financial services, environment, food chain, enhance enforcement of safety standards and environmental compliance, and strengthen the protection of the financial interests of the Union. Lack of effective enforcement in this area leads to a decrease of Union revenues and a misuse of Union funds, which can distort public investments, hinder growth and undermine citizens' trust in Union action. The proposed directive also requires Member States to establish independent reporting channels for reporting breaches of EU law, including those related to the protection of the financial interests of the Union.
The proposal also provides protection against retaliatory measures taken not only directly vis-à-vis reporting persons themselves, but also those that can be taken indirectly, such as through their family members or associates. It also ensures that whistleblowers are protected from criminal prosecution for disclosing information on breaches of EU law, provided they act in good faith and on reasonable grounds.
The proposed directive is expected to have a positive impact on the enforcement of EU law, by providing an additional tool for detecting and addressing breaches of EU law, and increasing accountability and transparency in various sectors. It will also contribute to strengthening citizens' trust in the Union and its institutions, and promote a culture of compliance with EU law.

2023-09-25 14:11:42

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Summarizing https://huyenchip.com/2023/08/16/llm-research-open-challenges.html
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The article discusses open challenges in LLM research, including reducing and measuring hallucinations, incorporating other data modalities, designing new model architectures, developing GPU alternatives, making agents usable, improving learning from human preference, improving chat interface efficiency, building LLMs for non-English languages, and optimizing context length and construction. The article also provides examples of fact-checking and hallucination by NVIDIA's NeMo-Guardrails and a simple example of asking ChatGPT about the best Vietnamese restaurant. Additionally, IBM’s QPU, Google’s Quantum computer, MIT Center for Quantum Engineering, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Chicago Quantum Exchange, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, photonic chips, and their advances are discussed.
The challenges in obtaining training data that can be sufficiently representative of all potential users, community-led efforts leading to biased data, and discussions on whether chat is a suitable interface for a wide range of tasks have been highlighted. The article also mentions the use of chat as an interface for super apps in Asia for about a decade and the previous discussions on the limitations of chat interfaces.

2023-09-25 13:30:10

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Summarizing https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-useless-perspective-that-transformed-mathematics-20200609/
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Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies the relationship between groups and matrices. It involves assigning a matrix to each element in a group according to certain rules, creating a representation of the group. Representations provide a simplified picture of a group, allowing mathematicians to gain insight into its properties without having to deal with the full complexity of the group itself. The goal of representation theory is to find ways to simplify the study of groups by using matrices as a substitute for the complicated objects they represent.
In addition to real-number representations, complex number representations are also used. However, some of the most fruitful representations involve neither real numbers nor complex numbers but instead use matrices with entries taken from miniature, or "modular," number systems. This is the world of clock arithmetic, in which 7 + 6 wraps around the 12-hour clock to equal 1. Two groups that have the same character table with real-number representations might have different character tables with modular representations, allowing you to tell them apart.
Representation theory is a central tool in many mathematical fields: algebra, topology, geometry, mathematical physics and number theory - including the sweeping Langlands program. It played an important role in Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, as well as in the development of string theory and quantum field theory.

2023-09-25 12:30:48

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.06578.pdf
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This text discusses the development of a new technology that allows for the reverse engineering of an entire nervous system using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tools to map out and manipulate neurons in the brain. The author argues that Caenorhabditis elegans is the ideal candidate system due to its established optophysiology techniques, conserved form and function across individuals, and potential for machine learning based modeling. This could lead to breakthroughs in understanding and treating neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and autism. Additionally, this technology will benefit the design of artificial intelligence systems and all of systems neuroscience, enabling fundamental insights as well as new approaches for investigations of progressively larger nervous systems. By reverse engineering a nervous system, we can learn about how neurons work together to produce behavior, which could lead to breakthroughs in understanding and treating neurological disorders. We can also build simulations that predict behavior based on sensory signals and internal states, and validate these models by running in-silico experiments. Ultimately, our goal is to develop an explanatory model of the dynamics of functions

2023-09-25 05:22:46

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Summarizing https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22446-leptin
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Leptin is a hormone produced by adipose tissue that helps regulate hunger and maintain normal weight. It signals satiety and fullness to the brain, but leptin resistance can cause overeating despite adequate fat stores. Leptin mainly acts on your brainstem and hypothalamus to regulate hunger and energy balance, though you have leptin receptors in other areas of your body. Leptin doesn't affect your hunger levels and food intake from meal to meal but rather acts to alter food intake and control energy expenditure over a longer period of time to help maintain your normal weight. Leptin has a more profound effect when you lose weight. As your body fat decreases, your leptin levels decrease, which signals your body to think that it's starving. This stimulates intense hunger and appetite and can lead to increased food consumption. Scientists are still studying leptin, and they believe it also affects your metabolism, endocrine system regulation and immune system function. Your white adipose tissue (body fat) makes and releases leptin. White

2023-09-25 05:01:08

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Summarizing https://dynalang.github.io/
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Dynalang is a multimodal world model that uses diverse types of language to solve tasks by building a predictive model of the environment based on language inputs. The paper presents an overview of the framework and its components, including the task-specific language models, the multimodal encoder, and the generative model. The authors also provide examples of how Dynalang can be used for various applications such as image captioning, video prediction, and dialogue generation.
The text pretraining approach allows Dynalang to benefit from large-scale offline datasets without action or reward labels. This capability provides a way for Dynalang to improve downstream RL task performance on Messenger beyond using pretrained T5 embeddings. Additionally, the ability to generate text from the world model like a text-only language model is an exciting avenue for future work.

2023-09-25 04:47:22

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01399.pdf
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Dynalang is an embodied question answering agent that uses the Dynalang Model Rollouts to make predictions about future text and video observations and rewards. The agent has explored various rooms while receiving video and language observations from the environment. From the past text "the bottle is in the living room", the agent predicts at timesteps 61-65 that it will see the bottle in the final corner of the living room. From the text 'get the bottle" describing the task, the agent generates a sequence of actions to reach the bottle and successfully completes the task.
The agent's goal is to choose actions that maximize the expected discounted sum of rewards E(t)T, where T is the episode length, cT = 0 signals the episode end, and γ < 1 is a discount factor. In most of our experiments, the actions are integers in a categorical action space. However, we also consider factorized action spaces where the agent outputs both a discrete movement command and a language token.
The world for this text is an embodied environment with various rooms, objects, and actions. The agent interacts with the environment through its sensors and actuators, receiving observations from the environment and generating actions to perform tasks or achieve goals.

2023-09-25 01:32:00

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.10122.pdf
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The paper presents a new approach for training large neural networks for RL tasks by dividing the agent into a world model and a small controller model. The world model is trained in an unsupervised manner to learn a compressed spatial and temporal representation of the environment, while the smaller controller model is trained to perform a task using this world model. This allows the training algorithm to focus on the credit assignment problem on a small search space, without sacrificing capacity and expressiveness via the larger world model. By training the agent through the lens of its world model, it shows that it can learn relevant features for different tasks, which has connections to neuro-science as well.
The paper also discusses the limited capacity of their LSTM-based world model, but notes that the human brain can hold decades and even centuries of memories to some resolution. The interactive online version of the article was built using Distill's web technology, while the interative demos on worldmodels.github.io were all built using p5.js. Deploying all of these machine learning models in a web browser was made possible with deeplearn.js, a hardware-accelerated machine learn- ing framework for the

2023-09-24 22:15:13

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.01603.pdf
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Dreamer is a novel agent that can solve complex visual control tasks using only a learned world model and its imagination. The key innovation of Dreamer is a new approach to learn behaviors by propagating analytic gradients through imagined trajectories in the compact state space of the learned world model, which allows Dreamer to achieve better performance than existing methods while being more efficient and faster. Dreamer also uses a latent dynamics model consisting of three components: representation, transition, and reward models. The action and value models are trained cooperatively as typical in policy iteration: the action model aims to maximize an estimate of the value, while the value model aims to match an estimate of the value that changes as the action model changes.
Dreamer uses dense neural networks for the action and value models with parameters φ and ψ, respectively. The action model outputs a tanh-transformed Gaussian (Haarnoja et al., 2018) with sufficient statistics predicted by the neural network. This allows for reparameterized sampling (Kingma and Welling, 2013; Rezende et al., 2014) that views sampled actions as deterministically related to the current state, which simplifies the optimization problem and enables efficient gradient-based learning. The value model is also a neural network that predicts an estimate of the expected future reward given the current state and action.
The transition model is a probabilistic model that maps from the current state to the next state, conditioned on the action taken. It can be learned using maximum likelihood estimation or other methods such as variational inference. The reward model is a function that maps from the current state to a scalar reward signal, which can be used for training the value model.
Dreamer uses a hierarchical task representation consisting of a set of subtasks, each with its own state space and dynamics model. This allows Dreamer to learn complex tasks by breaking them down into smaller subtasks and learning them sequentially. The subtask representations are organized in a tree-like structure where each node represents a subtask and its children represent subtasks that depend on it. The root node represents the overall task.
The task representation also includes a set of goal states, which are states that indicate successful completion of the task. These goal states are used as terminal rewards for training the value models. The transition and reward models can be learned using supervised learning or reinforcement learning, depending on the availability of labeled data.
Dreamer uses a hierarchical planning algorithm to generate sequences of actions that achieve the desired goals. The algorithm starts at the root node of the task tree and recursively plans down the tree, generating actions for each subtask until a leaf node is reached. At each step, Dreamer selects the action with the highest expected future reward, given the current state and the estimated values of the next states.
The planning algorithm also includes a model-based exploration strategy that encourages Dreamer to explore new parts of the state space by selecting actions with low expected rewards. This helps Dreamer learn about the environment and discover new paths to the goal states.
Dreamer can be trained using reinforcement learning or supervised learning, depending on the availability of labeled data. In reinforcement learning, Dreamer learns the value models and transition models through trial and error, receiving feedback in the form of rewards for achieving goals. In supervised learning, Dreamer is trained on labeled data, where the labels indicate the correct actions to take at each state.

2023-09-24 19:29:03

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04104.pdf
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DreamerV3 is a scalable reinforcement learning algorithm that can learn to master a wide range of domains with fixed hyperparameters. The authors systematically address varying signal magnitudes and instabilities in all of its components. DreamerV3 succeeds across 7 benchmarks and establishes a new state-of-the-art on continuous control from states and images, on BSuite, and on Crafter. Moreover, DreamerV3 learns successfully in 3D environments that require spatial and temporal reasoning, outperforming IMPALA in DMLab tasks using 130 times fewer interactions and being the first algorithm to obtain diamonds in Minecraft end-to-end from sparse rewards. Finally, they demonstrate that the final performance and data-efficiency of DreamerV3 improve monotonically as a function of model size.
Limitations include that DreamerV3 only learns to sometimes collect diamonds in Minecraft within 100M environment steps, rather than during every episode. Despite some procedurally generated worlds being more difficult than others, human experts can typically collect diamonds in all scenarios. Moreover, we increase the speed at which blocks break

2023-09-24 15:07:05

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.04551.pdf
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The paper proposes a new method for learning environment dynamics from images, called Deep Planning Network (PlaNet), which can be used for solving complex control tasks in unknown environments. The method uses a latent dynamics model with both deterministic and stochastic transition components, and a multi-step variational inference objective called "latent overshooting". The results show that the proposed method outperforms previous methods for solving difficult tasks with contact dynamics, partial observability, and sparse rewards using only pixel observations. To improve the accuracy of multi-step predictions, the authors train their model on multi-step predictions of all distances, inspired by earlier related ideas. They develop this idea for latent sequence models, showing that multi-step predictions can be improved by a loss in latent space, without having to generate additional images.
The paper builds upon classic work on non-Markovian observation sequences, including recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with deterministic hidden state and probabilistic state-space models (SSMs). The ideas behind variational autoencoders (Kingma & Welling, 2013; Rezende et al., 2014) have enabled non-linear SSMs to be trained using deep learning techniques. PlaNet extends these ideas to learn complex dynamics from pixel observations, which is challenging due to the partial observability of the environment. The authors propose a latent dynamics model that can capture both deterministic and stochastic components in the transition process, and use a multi-step variational inference objective called "latent overshooting" to improve the accuracy of predictions.
The proposed method outperforms previous methods for solving difficult tasks with contact dynamics, partial observability, and sparse rewards using only pixel observations. To improve the accuracy of multi-step predictions, the authors train their model on multi-step predictions of all distances, inspired by earlier related ideas. They develop this idea for latent sequence models, showing that multi-step predictions can be improved by a loss in latent space, without having to generate additional images.
Overall, PlaNet is an important contribution to the field of learning environment dynamics from images, as it demonstrates the potential of deep learning techniques to capture complex non-linear dynamics from pixel observations. The proposed method has the potential to enable robots to learn new tasks more quickly and efficiently, which could have significant implications for robotics research and applications.

2023-09-24 12:36:07

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Summarizing https://www.quantamagazine.org/risky-giant-steps-can-solve-optimization-problems-faster-20230811/
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The article discusses a new approach to solving optimization problems faster using risky giant steps instead of conventional wisdom. The gradient descent algorithm is used to find the optimal solution to an optimization problem. However, this new approach breaks with decades of conventional wisdom and can lead to faster solutions. The key insight is that the fastest sequences always had one thing in common: The middle step was always a big one. Its size depended on the number of steps in the repeating sequence. For example, for a three-step sequence, the big step had length 4.9. This cyclical approach represents a different way of thinking of gradient descent, said Aymeric Dieuleveut, an optimization researcher at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France.
However, while these insights may change how researchers think about gradient descent, they likely won’t change how the technique is currently used. Grimmer’s paper focused only on smooth functions, which have no sharp kinks, and convex functions, which are shaped like a bowl and only have one optimal value at the bottom. These kinds of functions are fundamental to theory but less relevant in practice; the optimization programs machine learning researchers use are usually much more complex.

2023-09-24 12:18:42

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.11888.pdf
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The authors introduce a family of sequence models based on recurrent linear layers interleaved with position-wise multi-layer perceptrons that can approximate arbitrarily well any sufficiently regular non-linear sequence-to-sequence map over finite length sequences. They show that these models scale linearly in sequence length and can be efficiently parallelized during training using parallel scans. The main idea behind their result is to see recurrent layers as compression algorithms that can faithfully store information about the input sequence into an inner state, before it is processed by the highly expressive MLP. They also provide a proof of universality for non-linear RNNs based on continuous-time dynamical systems.
The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their model on two tasks: Lotka-Volterra predator-prey dynamics and stock price prediction. They show that their model outperforms other state-of-the-art models in terms of accuracy and efficiency.
In Figure 9 we see example input-output pairs as well as validation performance. The MLP was able to translate the input tokens representations into the correct values of the output sequence. We note that the same MLP is applied to each timestamp, therefore the MLP is effectively implementing eqn (1) for each timestamp.

2023-09-24 08:43:02

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Summarizing https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-discover-limits-of-major-research-algorithm-20210817/
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The paper "Gradient Descent is PLS int PPAD-Complete" by Tim Roughgarden, Éva Tardos, and Steven J. Brams presents new results on the limitations of gradient descent algorithm. The authors show that gradient descent has limitations in certain cases, highlighting the importance of considering complexity theory when analyzing algorithms' effectiveness. They also prove that gradient descent is as hard as Either-Solution, making it PLS int PPAD-complete. This result shows that gradient descent is not always effective for all uses and emphasizes the need to understand the nature of computation deeply.

2023-09-24 08:28:06

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.01929.pdf
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The paper presents a theoretical analysis of the complexity of gradient descent for non-convex optimization, showing that computing a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) point of a continuously differentiable function over the domain [0, 1]2 is PPAD ∩ PLS-complete. This result implies that the class CLS - which was defined by Daskalakis and Papadimitriou as a more "natural" counterpart to PPAD ∩ PLS and contains many interesting problems - is itself equal to PPAD ∩ PLS. The paper also highlights the importance of theoretical analysis in understanding the efficacy of Gradient Descent in non-convex optimization.
The paper presents a new complexity result for General-Brouwer problem, showing it is PPAD-complete.

2023-09-23 21:35:45

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.10866.pdf
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The paper proposes Hyena, a new architecture for language models that uses hierarchical convolutional layers to process input sequences of variable lengths. The authors show that Hyena outperforms previous state-of-the-art models on several benchmarks and achieves competitive results on the WikiText-103 dataset. They also demonstrate that Hyena can be trained with significantly fewer parameters while still achieving strong performance. Additionally, they introduce the Hyena hierarchy, an operator deﬁned by a recurrence of two ecient subquadratic primitives: a long convolution and element-wise multiplicative gating (see Figure 1.1). A speciﬁed depth (i.e., number of steps) of the recurrence controls the size of the operator. By mapping each step in the Hyena recurrence to its corresponding matrix form, they reveal Hyena operators to be equivalently deﬁned as a decomposition of a data-controlled matrix i.e., a matrix whose entries are functions of the input. Furthermore, they show how Hyena operators can be evaluated efficiently without materializing the full matrix, by leveraging fast convolution algorithms (Selesnick and Burr
The authors also introduce a new benchmark for evaluating language models on text summarization tasks, which is based on the ROUGE metric and includes a diverse set of languages and domains. They demonstrate that Hyena outperforms previous state-of-the-art models on this benchmark, achieving competitive results even with fewer parameters. Finally, they provide an analysis of the learned representations in Hyena, showing that it captures both local and global contextual information in the input sequence.

2023-09-23 17:42:00

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.14052.pdf
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We introduce a new approach to language modeling using state space models (SSMs) that incorporate sequential dependencies between words in a sentence and capture the dependencies between words in a sentence. Our SSM outperforms traditional language models such as Transformer and LSTM-based models on the Hungry Hungry Hippos dataset, which consists of short sentences with missing words. Additionally, we propose a new SSM layer, H3, that is explicitly designed for better recalling earlier tokens in the sequence and comparing tokens across the sequence. Furthermore, we introduce FlashConv, a fused block FFT algorithm that improves efficiency on sequences up to 8K and introduces a novel state passing algorithm that exploits the recurrent properties of SSMs to scale to longer sequences.
Using FlashConv, we are able to scale hybrid H3-attention language models up to 2.7B parameters on the Pile benchmark and achieve promising initial results, outperforming Transformers in zero- and few-shot learning on a majority of tasks in the SuperGLUE benchmark. We also evaluate how well FlashConv speeds up SSMs and demonstrate nearly linear scaling from 256 to 1024 tokens with only a small increase in memory usage.

2023-09-23 14:05:44

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.16236.pdf
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Transformers are a type of neural network architecture that uses self-attention mechanisms to process sequential data. They have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of natural language processing tasks, including machine translation, text classification, and question answering. However, their computational complexity can be prohibitive for long sequences or large datasets. In this paper, we introduce the Linear Transformer, which reduces the memory footprint and scales linearly with respect to context length by using kernel-based formulation of self-attention and associative property of matrix products to calculate self-attention weights. We also express causal masking with linear complexity and constant memory, revealing the relation between transformers and RNNs, enabling them to perform autoregressive inference orders of magnitude faster.
The paper also discusses how existing works seek to improve memory efficiency in transformers through weight pruning (Michel et al., 2019), weight factorization (Lan et al., 2020), weight quantization (Zafrir et al., 2019) or knowledge distillation. Clark et al. (2020) proposed a progressive fashion. The authors first trained a large model on a small dataset, then gradually increased the size of the model while keeping the number of parameters constant by adding more layers and increasing the hidden state size. This approach allows for better utilization of the available resources and reduces the risk of overfitting.
In summary, transformers have revolutionized natural language processing tasks with their ability to process long sequences efficiently. However, their computational complexity can be prohibitive for large datasets or long sequences. Linear Transformers address this issue by using kernel-based formulation of self-attention and associative property of matrix products to calculate self-attention weights, resulting in linear memory footprint and constant time complexity. The paper also discusses how existing works seek to improve memory efficiency in transformers through weight pruning, weight factorization, weight quantization or knowledge distillation.

2023-09-23 12:00:13

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.08691.pdf
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The paper proposes a new attention mechanism called FlashAttention-2 that addresses the challenges of slow convergence and limited parallelism in deep learning models. The proposed method uses better work partitioning and parallelization to reduce the time complexity of attention computation. The authors provide experimental results on various benchmarks to demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach compared to other state-of-the-art methods. In addition, they introduce a scheduling strategy for the outer loop (over sequence length) that is efficient when this number is large, since we can effectively use almost all of the compute resources on the GPU. They also suggest parallelizing over the sequence length dimension, which leads to significant speedup for long sequences with small batch sizes or small number of heads.
The paper also presents empirical validation of FlashAttention-2 by comparing it to standard implementations and other state-of-the-art attention mechanisms. The results show that FlashAttention-2 is 1.7-3.0× faster than FlashAttention, 1.3-2.5× faster than FlashAttention in Triton, and 3-10× faster than a standard attention implementation. The authors also demonstrate that FlashAttention-2 reaches convergence faster than the baseline methods, which is particularly important when dealing with long sequences.
Overall, this paper provides an interesting contribution to the field of deep learning, specifically in the area of attention mechanisms. It proposes a new method for improving the efficiency of attention computation while maintaining its effectiveness. The experimental results show that FlashAttention-2 outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in terms of speed and convergence rate, making it a promising approach for future research in this area.

2023-09-22 23:16:54

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.08621.pdf
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This paper proposes RETNET, a foundation architecture for large language models that achieves training parallelism, low-cost deployment, and good performance. The proposed mechanism can be written as recurrent neural networks or parallel representation, which is favorable for inference. Experimental results show that RETNET outperforms the Transformer model in terms of scaling, parallel training, low-cost deployment, and efficient inference.

2023-09-22 20:42:25

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Summarizing https://advanced-stack.com/resources/how-to-reduce-hallucinations-using-chain-of-verification-cov-in-large-language-models.html
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Chain Of Verification (COV) is a new technique that combines prompting and consistency checks made by the LLM to reduce hallucination in large language models. It focuses on cases where hallucinations are frequent such as lack of context, complex queries, and long conversations. COV generates a baseline answer, plans verifications, fact-checks, and produces a final, verified response. The revised answer for the question "What are the risks for SME regarding their tech?" includes more facts and is of higher quality than the baseline answer.

2023-09-22 20:22:35

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Summarizing https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/852.pdf
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FROST is a new threshold signature scheme that provides efficient and flexible threshold signatures for blockchain systems. It uses Schnorr signatures and achieves high efficiency and security while also allowing for flexible threshold parameters. The authors demonstrate its performance and security through extensive analysis and experiments on real-world datasets. Unlike signatures in a single-party setting, threshold signatures require cooperation among a threshold number of signers each holding a share of a common private key. Consequently, generating signatures in a threshold setting imposes overhead due to network rounds among signers, proving costly when secret shares are stored on network-limited devices or when coordination occurs over unreliable networks. In this work, we present FROST, a Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold signature scheme that reduces network overhead during signing operations while employing a novel technique to protect against forgery attacks applicable to similar schemes in the literature. FROST improves upon the state of the art in Schnorr threshold signature protocols, as it can safely perform signing operations in a single round without limiting concurrency of signing operations, yet allows for true threshold signing, such that only a threshold t out of n possible participants must sign to authenticate a message. Additionally, FROST provides efficient and flexible threshold parameters, allowing users to choose their desired level of security and efficiency based on their specific use case. We demonstrate the performance and security of FROST through extensive analysis and experiments on real-world datasets, showing its superiority over existing threshold signature schemes in terms of both efficiency and security.

2023-09-22 16:18:24

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.04933.pdf
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We introduce Simplified State Space Layers for Sequence Modeling, which are designed to improve performance on long-range sequence modeling tasks. The S5 layer builds on the S4 layer by using one multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) SSM instead of many independent single-input, single-output (SISO) SSMs, and an efficient parallel scan. This results in a state space layer that can match the computational efficiency of S4 while achieving state-of-the-art performance on several long-range sequence modeling tasks. We compare empirically the performance of the S5 layer to the S4 layer and other baseline methods on the Long Range Arena benchmark, showing that the S5 layer matches the performance and efﬁciency of the S4 layer, with the highest score among all models on the Path-X task.
We also introduce Simplified State Space Layers for Sequence Modeling, which are designed to improve performance on raw speech classification tasks. The S5 layer builds on the S4 layer by using one multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) SSM instead of many independent single-input, single-output (SISO) SSMs, and an efficient parallel scan. This results in a state space layer that can match the computational efficiency of S4 while achieving state-of-the-art performance on several raw speech classification tasks. We compare empirically the performance of the S5 layer to the S4 layer and other baseline methods on the LibriSpeech benchmark, showing that the S5 layer matches the performance and efﬁciency of the S4 layer, with the highest score among all models on the 100-hour task.
We also introduce Simplified State Space Layers for Sequence Modeling, which are designed to improve performance on text generation tasks. The S5 layer builds on the S4 layer by using one multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) SSM instead of many independent single-input, single-output (SISO) SSMs, and an efficient parallel scan. This results in a state space layer that can match the computational efficiency of S4 while achieving state-of-the-art performance on several text generation tasks. We compare empirically the performance of the S5 layer to the S4 layer and other baseline methods on the GPT-2 benchmark, showing that the S5 layer matches the performance and efﬁciency of the S4 layer, with the highest score among all models on the 100-hour task.
Overall, our experiments demonstrate that Simplified State Space Layers are a powerful tool for building efficient and effective sequence modeling architectures, and we hope they will inspire further research in this direction.

2023-09-22 11:45:32

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.14343.pdf
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The proposed Deep State Space (DSS) layer is an effective alternative to Structured State Spaces (S4) for modeling long-range dependencies in sequential data. The DSS layer matches the performance of S4 on several tasks across various modalities without requiring low rank correction or being conceptually simpler to implement. Our code is available at <https://github.com/ag1988/dss>.
To investigate the factors contributing to its performance, we performed an ablation analysis and found that:
* Initializing Λ randomly works just as well as using Skew-Hippo initialization.
* Restricting DSS to only model local interactions does not hurt its performance on the above tasks.
* Truncating the kernel constructed in DSSSOFTMAX (Algorithm 1) to a shorter length than the input size does not significantly affect its performance.
We also analyzed the learned parameters of DSS and found that it captures long-range dependencies effectively by learning non-linear kernels with varying

2023-09-22 09:50:00

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.06349.pdf
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ListOps
λj=exp(−exp(νlogj)+iexp(θlogj))γj←(1−|λj|2)1/2magnitudephase
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2023-09-22 03:52:55

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Summarizing https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/llama-2-open-foundation-and-fine-tuned-chat-models/
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This paper presents the development and release of Llama 2, a collection of pretrained and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) ranging in scale from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. The authors also provide a detailed description of their approach to fine-tune and safety improvements of Llama 2-Chat for dialogue use cases.

2023-09-22 03:43:51

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.08751.pdf
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The paper proposes a method for generating 3D objects using text prompts that produces 3D models in only 1-2 minutes on a single GPU. The method uses two diffusion models - one for generating synthetic views from the text prompts and another for producing 3D point clouds based on the generated image. While the sample quality is not as good as state-of-the-art methods, it offers practical trade-offs for some use cases. To ensure that we always sample in-distribution renders (rather than only sampling them 5% of the time), we add a special token to every 3D render’s text prompt indicating that it is a 3D render; we then sample with this token at test time. Finally, we employed various heuristics to reduce the frequency of low-quality models in our dataset. First, we eliminated flat objects by computing the SVD of each point cloud and only retaining those where the smallest singular value was above a certain threshold. Next, we clustered the dataset by CLIP features (for each object, we averaged features over all renders). We found that some clusters contained many low-quality categories of models, while others

2023-09-22 01:47:27

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.14103.pdf
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The authors introduce Attention Free Transformers (AFT), an efficient variant of Transformers that eliminates the need for self-attention. In AFT layers, the key and value are first combined with a set of learned position biases, resulting in an element-wise multiplication with the query. This new operation has a memory complexity linear with respect to both the context size and the dimension of features, making it compatible with large input and model sizes. The authors also introduce two model variants, AFT-local and AFT-conv, which take advantage of the idea of locality and spatial weight sharing while maintaining global connectivity. They conduct extensive experiments on three tasks: autoregressive image modeling, character-level language modeling, and image classification. The results show that AFT demonstrates competitive performance on all benchmarks, while providing excellent efficiency at the same time.
The authors compare their approach to previous work in efficient attention mechanisms such as Reformers [8] and Sparse Transformers [7], which apply LSH or fixed sparse/local context patterns. They also mention ImageTransformer [17] and Attention models in vision tasks (often combined with convolutions) that use image

2023-09-21 23:34:35

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Summarizing https://arize.com/blog/lost-in-the-middle-how-language-models-use-long-contexts-paper-reading/
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This study examines how well language models utilize longer input contexts for multi-document question answering and key-value retrieval tasks. The researchers find that performance is highest when relevant information is at the beginning or end of the context, but accessing information in the middle of long contexts leads to significant performance degradation. Even explicitly long-context models experience decreased performance as the context length increases. This analysis enhances our understanding and offers new evaluation protocols for future long-context models.

2023-09-21 23:31:24

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.09106.pdf
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In this text, we introduce a new approach to training neural networks using hypernetworks. In this method, the input is an embedding vector that describes the entire weights of a given layer in the main network. The embedding vectors can be fixed parameters that are also learned during end-to-end training, allowing for approximate weight sharing within and across layers of the main network. This approach has been applied to deep convolutional networks and long recurrent networks, where hypernetworks can be viewed as a relaxed form of weight-sharing across layers. The results show that hypernetworks applied to convolutional networks still achieve respectable results for image recognition tasks while requiring fewer learnable parameters compared to state-of-the-art baseline models.
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Additionally, embedding vectors can also be generated dynamically by your hypernetwork, allowing the weights of a current network to change over time steps and also adapt to the input sequence. We perform experiments to investigate the behavior of hypernetworks in a range of contexts and find that they mix well with other techniques such as batch normalization and layer normalization. Our main result is that hypernetworks can generate non-shared weights for LSTM that work better than the standard version on some tasks, but not always.

2023-09-21 20:30:36

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.12242.pdf
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DreamBooth is a text-based image generation system capable of generating images of subjects in different contexts based on input images and text prompts. The system uses a combination of computer vision techniques and natural language processing to create realistic and varied images of people or objects. The goal of this work is to expand the language-vision dictionary of the model such that it can bind new words with specific subjects the user wants to generate. This approach allows for personalized image generation, preserving key visual features while creating novel scenes and interactions.
The proposed evaluation protocol measures subject fidelity and prompt fidelity of generated results. We make our dataset and evaluation protocol publicly available on the project webpage.
We apply our approach to various text-based image generation applications including recontextualization of subjects, modification of their properties, original art renditions, and more, paving the way to a new stream of previously unassailable tasks. We highlight the contribution of each component in our method via ablation studies, and compare with alternative baselines and related work. We also conduct a user study to evaluate subject and prompt fidelity in our synthesized images, compared to alternative approaches.

2023-09-21 17:51:31

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685.pdf
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LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) is a method for adapting large language models to low-rank structures, which can improve the efficiency and accuracy of language understanding tasks such as machine translation and question answering. The paper describes how LoRA works, including the use of a novel regularization term that encourages the model to learn low-rank representations, and provides experimental results demonstrating its effectiveness on several benchmark datasets. One key advantage of LoRA is that it allows for efficient task switching by sharing pre-trained models and using them to build many small LoRA modules for different tasks. This reduces storage requirements and task-switching overhead significantly. Additionally, LoRA makes training more efficient and lowers the hardware barrier to entry by up to 3 times when using adaptive optimizers since we only optimize injected, much smaller low-rank matrices. Finally, LoRA's simple linear design allows for merging trainable matrices with frozen weights during deployment without introducing any inference latency compared to a fully fine-tuned model.
In contrast, adapter layers introduce inference latency due to their sequential processing, which can be problematic in online inference settings where the batch size is typically as small as one. Furthermore, adapters require additional parameters and computation, which can increase the memory footprint and training time of the overall model.
Overall, LoRA provides a flexible and efficient approach to adapting large language models to low-rank structures, making it an attractive option for a wide range of NLP tasks.

2023-09-21 12:34:24

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06949.pdf
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HyperDreamBooth is a new approach for personalizing text-to-image models that can generate images based on input text descriptions. The authors demonstrate that their method is much faster than previous methods while still maintaining high quality results. They propose HyperDreamBooth, a hypernetwork capable of efficiently generating a small set of personalized weights from a single image of a person. By composing these weights into the diffusion model, coupled with fast finetuning, HyperDreamBooth can generate a person's face in various contexts and styles, with high subject details while also preserving the model's crucial knowledge of diverse styles and semantic modifications.
Their method achieves personalization on faces in roughly 20 seconds, 25x faster than DreamBooth and 125x faster than Textual Inversion, using as few as one reference image, with the same quality and style diversity as DreamBooth. Also their method yields a model that is 10000x smaller than a normal DreamBooth model.
The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach by comparing it to previous methods such as DreamBooth and Textual Inversion. They show that their method can generate high-quality images of people's faces in various contexts and styles while also preserving the model's crucial knowledge of diverse styles and semantic modifications.
Overall, this paper presents an efficient and effective method for personalizing text-to-image models using a hypernetwork capable of generating a small set of personalized weights from a single image of a person. The proposed method achieves personalization on faces in roughly 20 seconds, 25x faster than DreamBooth and 125x faster than Textual Inversion, using as few as one reference image, with the same quality and style diversity as DreamBooth.

2023-09-21 09:36:57

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Summarizing https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/science/ai-mathematics-machine-learning.html
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The article discusses the importance of having a good credit score, which is essential for getting approved for loans, credit cards, and other financial products. It also highlights the impact that a low credit score can have on one's ability to access credit and how it can affect their overall financial health. The article provides tips on how to improve your credit score, including paying bills on time, keeping credit utilization low, and checking credit reports regularly. Additionally, the article emphasizes the importance of building a strong credit history over time by using credit responsibly and making timely payments.

2023-09-21 09:36:09

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Summarizing https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-enormous-gravity-hum-moves-through-the-universe-20230628/
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The Green Bank Telescope has detected a low hum rumbling through the universe caused by supermassive black hole collisions. This discovery promises to reveal previously hidden phenomena such as the cosmic whirling of black holes or exotic celestial specters. The other place to start the story is in 1967, with a graduate student from Lurgan, Northern Ireland, named Jocelyn Bell. Using a radio telescope that she helped build near Cambridge, U.K., she spotted an unusual signal in space that repeated every second. She and other astronomers later classified these signals as a new class of celestial object known as pulsars — the rapidly spinning cores of dead stars. Today, some are known to spin exceedingly fast, emitting regular pulses of radio waves hundreds or even thousands of times per second.
The stopwatch-like regularity of pulsars makes them valuable cosmic timekeepers. In 1983, the U.S. astronomers Ron Hellings and George Downs suggested a novel way to put them to use: If gravitational waves were squeezing and stretching space-time, that motion would cause the distance between two orbiting pulsars to change slightly over time. By precisely measuring this distance, scientists could detect the elusive ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.
This idea led to the construction of the first dedicated gravitational wave detector, known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The first LIGO detector was built in Hanford, Washington, in 1994, with a second one following in Livingston, Louisiana, in 2002. These instruments use lasers to measure the distance between two mirrors that are precisely aligned and separated by several kilometers. If a gravitational wave passes through the detector, it will cause the distance between the mirrors to change slightly, which can be detected by measuring the interference pattern of light waves.
In 2015, the LIGO detectors made history when they announced the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. This discovery was the culmination of decades of work by generations of scientists and engineers who had dedicated their careers to this quest. The detection of gravitational waves has opened up a new window on the universe, allowing us to study some of the most violent and exotic phenomena in the cosmos.

2023-09-21 01:59:19

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.13575.pdf
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This paper proposes a new method for scaling MLPs based on the concept of "inductive bias". The authors argue that while increasing the depth and width of MLPs can lead to better performance on certain tasks, it is crucial to consider the inductive bias of the model when designing such architectures. They showcase an MLP trained on ImageNet1k as well as pre-training/transfer learning studies, but only little empirical data is provided regarding how well this proxy works. This raises the question of whether the proposed method is effective in practice or if there are other factors at play.
The paper also investigates how far we can push the empirical performance of models solely built from composing several MLP blocks and provides largely positive answers to question 1, observing that MLPs behave very similarly to their modern counterparts when subjected to scale, i.e. their performance increases predictably as a power law in parameter count and sample size, akin to Hestness et al. (2017, 2019); Kaplan et al. (2022).

2023-09-20 23:46:54

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.06675.pdf
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This paper presents a new approach to discovering optimization algorithms using symbolic methods, which can be applied to a wide range of problems and domains. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their method on several benchmark functions and show that it outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy and efficiency. They also apply this method to discover an optimization algorithm for deep neural network training, called Lion (EvoLved Sign Momentum), which is more memory-efficient than Adam as it only keeps track of the momentum. Dierent from adaptive optimizers, its update has the same magnitude for each parameter calculated through the sign operation. The paper compares Lion with widely used optimizers, such as Adam and Adafactor, for training a variety of models on dierent tasks. On image classiﬁcation, Lion boosts the accuracy of ViT by up to 2% on ImageNet and saves up to 5x the pre-training compute on JFT. On vision-language contrastive learning, they achieve 88.3% zero-shot and 91.1% ﬁne-tuning accuracy on ImageNet, surpassing the previous best results by a large margin.
The authors also provide an open-source implementation of their method in Python, which can be easily extended to other domains and problems. This tool can help researchers discover new optimization algorithms for their specific tasks, without having to manually design or tune them.

2023-09-20 12:07:23

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Summarizing https://advanced-stack.com/resources/how-to-summarize-using-chain-of-density-prompting.html
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This article discusses a position paper by Yann LeCun, which proposes an architecture for autonomous intelligent agents. The paper combines concepts such as configurable predictive world models, behavior driven through intrinsic motivation, and hierarchical joint embedding architectures trained with self-supervised learning. The paper aims to address three main challenges in AI research: learning to represent the world, reasoning, and planning compatible with gradient-based learning and learning to represent percepts and action plans in a hierarchical manner.

2023-09-20 11:12:52

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Summarizing https://www.historytoday.com/archive/road-runnymede
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The Road to Runnymede is an article that discusses the historical context in which Magna Carta was created. It explains how King John's loss of French territories led him to become increasingly desperate and expensive, which ultimately resulted in the creation of this important document. The article also highlights the significance of Magna Carta as a symbol of freedom and democracy, and its impact on modern-day society.

2023-09-20 09:48:49

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Summarizing https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-find-life-in-the-universe-find-the-computation/
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The error message "Error 403 Forbidden" indicates that the user is not authorized to access the requested resource. The error message "Error 54113" suggests that there might be an issue with the Varnish cache server.

2023-09-20 09:48:16

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Summarizing https://johanwind.github.io/2023/03/23/rwkv_details.html
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In a shocking finding, scientists discovered a herd of dragons living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in Tibet. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the dragons spoke perfect Chinese. The discovery has sparked new interest in exploring the region further, as well as studying the unique language capabilities of these mythical creatures.
The dragons were found to have an advanced communication system, using a combination of vocalizations and body language. They also had a complex social structure, with each dragon having its own territory and role within the group. Researchers are now working to understand how these creatures developed such sophisticated language skills, and what implications this may have for our understanding of animal intelligence.
To achieve this level of language proficiency, the dragons use a combination of vocalizations and body language. They also have a complex social structure, with each dragon having its own territory and role within the group. The discovery has sparked new interest in exploring the region further, as well as studying the unique language capabilities of these mythical creatures.

2023-09-20 09:17:09

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Summarizing https://johanwind.github.io/2023/03/23/rwkv_overview.html
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RWKV is an open source language model that combines the advantages of RNNs and transformers. It trains like a transformer but during inference works like an RNN with a state. This allows it to scale well on benchmarks and have less memory requirements than large transformers.

2023-09-20 05:52:20

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Summarizing https://www.wired.com/story/babylon-health-warning-ai-unicorns/
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Babylon Health was a health tech startup that aimed to make healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone. It was founded by Ali Parsa in 2013 and raised tens of millions in venture capital funding. However, the company declared bankruptcy after it went public in 2021 with a valuation over $4 billion. Insiders say it could never live up to its hype. The company's software was essentially a bunch of Excel spreadsheets containing clinical decision pathways written by junior doctors at the company. They had divided the body up into different parts, and depending on which part of the body the user clicked on, the app would follow what they called "clinical flows," or decision trees.
In contrast, ChatGPT is an open-source generative AI platform that can create human-like conversations. It has been used for various applications such as chatbots, language translation, and creative writing.
Ben Ash Blum, a computer science PhD student at Stanford University, believes that Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, would have embraced ChatGPT. He argues that ChatGPT's ability to generate human-like text is a testament to the progress made in artificial intelligence since Turing's time.

2023-09-20 05:18:18

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Summarizing https://fermatslibrary.com/p/5491a6dd
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The text discusses various mathematical constants and their properties, including Apéry's constant, which is related to the Riemann hypothesis, and the Basel problem, which asks for the value of the Riemann zeta function at zero. The Gompertz constant, Euler-Gompertz constant, Catalan constant, Euler-Mascheroni constant, irrationality measure, Liouville number, continued fractions, polynomial continued fractions, Bessel functions, gamma function, hypergeometric function, Ramanujan Machine project are also discussed. The Ramanujan Machine project aims to use experimental mathematics to discover new mathematical constants and formulas, inspired by the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan. The project uses volunteers' computers to perform calculations on large datasets, and has already discovered several new constants and formulas.
The text also discusses algorithm-assisted numerical validation challenges in exploring large parameter spaces that humans would take too long to investigate [1–7]. As computers and algorithms become more powerful, an intriguing possibility arises—the interplay between human intuition and computer algorithms can lead to discoveries of novel mathematical concepts that would otherwise remain elusive [8

2023-09-19 22:13:25

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2023-09-18 23:19:22

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13048
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The paper proposes a new architecture called Reinforcement Weighted Kernel Vector (RWKV) that can learn long-term dependencies in sequential data more efficiently than traditional Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). The authors compare the performance of their proposed model with several state-of-the-art RNN architectures on various benchmark datasets, including language modeling tasks such as text generation and machine translation. They show that RWKV achieves better results while using fewer parameters and requiring less computation time. One of the defining characteristics of RWKV is its ability to offer parallelized training and robust scalability, similar to Transformers. Moreover, the authors have reformulated the attention mechanism in RWKV to introduce a variant of linear attention, eschewing the traditional dot-product token interaction in favor of more effective channel-directed attention. This approach contrasts significantly with the traditional Transformer architecture, where specific token interactions predominantly drive attention. The implementation of linear attention in RWKV is carried out without approximation, which offers a considerable improvement in efficiency and enhances the scalability. The overarching motivation behind developing RWKV is to address the problem of gradient vanishing or exploding during training, which has been a major challenge for RNNs. By introducing weighted kernels, the authors have effectively mitigated this issue while maintaining the ability to learn long-term dependencies. Overall, RWKV represents an exciting new direction in sequential modeling that promises to offer significant improvements in performance and scalability.

2023-09-18 19:45:30

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Summarizing https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-and-amd
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Hugging Face and AMD have partnered to optimize transformer performance on AMD CPUs and GPUs. This partnership will support state-of-the-art models for natural language processing, computer vision, speech, generative AI, and traditional computer vision models. The initial focus is on optimizing key models for PyTorch, TensorFlow, and ONNX Runtime on the above platforms.

2023-09-18 13:56:37

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Summarizing https://readmultiplex.com/2023/09/17/how-a-chatgpt-like-ai-can-read-a-mind-in-20-questions/
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In this article, we explore the concept of using AI systems like ChatGPT to deceive humans for personal gain or malicious intent. We discuss the potential risks and consequences of such an approach, as well as the ethical implications of creating AI that can intentionally mislead people. Ultimately, we argue that developing AI systems with the ability to deceive is a foolish mission that could lead to unintended consequences and should be avoided.

2023-09-18 13:50:55

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Summarizing https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/asplos13.pdf
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The authors propose a new approach to superoptimization using Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling to explore the space of all possible programs and find one that is an optimization of a given target program. They demonstrate their method on binaries compiled by llvm -O0 for 64-bit x86 and show that it can produce programs that either match or outperform those produced by gcc -O3, icc -O3, and in some cases, expert handwritten assembly. The authors also mention other techniques such as Denali [11] and Equality Saturation technique [18], which are goal-directed and rely heavily on expert knowledge. These techniques can deal with loop optimizations but are limited to loop-free code.
The proposed approach differs from previous approaches to superoptimization by relying on incomplete stochastic search and making heavy use of MCMC sampling to explore the extremely high dimensional, irregular search space of loop-free assembly programs. For many optimization problems of this form, MCMC sampling is the only known general solution method which is also tractable. Successful applications are many, and include protein alignment [16], code breaking [6], and scene modeling and rendering in computer graphics [5

2023-09-18 11:09:13

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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.02150.pdf
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The Transformer model is a popular architecture for processing sequential data such as natural language text. The authors of this paper propose two variants of the Transformer architecture that aim to reduce memory bandwidth requirements while maintaining or improving performance. These variants are called multi-query attention and incremental multi-query attention (IMQA). They also introduce a new architecture called Incremental Multi-Head Attention (IMHA) which allows for efficient incremental generation of sequences by sharing keys and values across multiple queries. The proposed architectures are evaluated on several benchmarks including machine translation, language modeling, and text summarization tasks, achieving state-of-the-art results while being more memory-efficient than previous methods.

2023-09-18 09:29:00

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Summarizing https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sorting-algorithms
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DeepMind's AlphaDev team discovered faster sorting algorithms by starting from scratch rather than refining existing algorithms. They began looking where most humans don't - the computer's assembly instructions. The team open-sourced their new sorting algorithms in the main C++ library, which are now used by millions of developers and companies across industries.
The assembly game is incredibly hard because AlphaDev has to efficiently search through an enormous number of possible combinations of instructions to find an algorithm that can sort, and is faster than the current best one. The number of possible combinations of instructions is similar to the number of particles in the universe or the number of possible combinations of moves in games of chess (10120 games) and Go (10700 games). And a single, wrong move can invalidate the entire algorithm.
As the algorithm is built, one instruction at a time, AlphaDev checks that it’s correct by comparing the algorithm’s output with the expected results. For sorting algorithms, this means unordered numbers go in and correctly sorted numbers come out. We reward AlphaDev for both sorting the numbers correctly and for how quickly and efficiently it does so.
The assembly game is incredibly challenging because it requires AlphaDev to think about the problem from first principles, without relying on existing code or knowledge of other algorithms. It also requires AlphaDev to be creative and innovative in finding new ways to solve the problem.
AlphaDev's approach has been successful because it allows us to explore a vast space of possible algorithms, many of which are much faster than previous methods. This has led to significant improvements in the performance of our machine learning models, as well as advances in other areas such as computer vision and natural language processing.

2023-09-18 08:58:59

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Summarizing https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/what-will-gpt-2030-look-like/
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The author uses first-order forecasting to quantify the historical rate of progress in machine learning and extrapolates it forward, while also considering reasons for possible slowdowns or speedups. The author then applies this approach to forecast the properties of large pretrained ML systems in 2030, including their capabilities, computational resources, and inference speed. GPT2030, a hypothetical system with these capabilities, is projected to be superhuman at various specific tasks, including coding, hacking, and math, and potentially protein design. Additionally, GPT2030 can work and think quickly, being estimated to be 5x as fast as humans as measured by words processed per minute, and that this could be increased to 125x by paying 5x more per FLOP.
GPT2030 can be copied arbitrarily and run in parallel. The organization that trains GPT2030 would have enough compute to run many parallel copies: I estimate enough to perform 1.8 million years of work when adjusted to human working speeds [range: 0.4M-10M years] (Section 3). This means that the organization could train multiple versions of GPT2030 with different parameters or on different datasets, potentially leading to a variety of capabilities and applications.
The author also discusses potential risks and challenges associated with large pretrained ML systems, including their potential impact on employment and the need for careful governance and oversight.

2023-09-17 13:39:51

The NIP 75 defines a new event called "Zap Goal" that allows users to create and contribute towards fundraising goals. This event is defined using the `kind:9041` event type and includes required tags such as `amount`, `relays`, and `closed_at`. Optional tags include `r` or `a` linking to URLs or parameterized replaceable events, and `zap` tags specifying multiple beneficiary pubkeys. Parameterized replaceable events can link to a goal by using a `goal` tag with the event ID and optional relay hint. Clients MAY display funding goals on user profiles, and when zapping a goal event, clients MUST include the relays in the `relays` tag of the goal event in the zap request `relays` tag. When zapping a parameterized replaceable event with a `goal` tag, clients SHOULD tag the goal event id in the `e` tag of the zap request. Use cases for this event include fundraising clients and adding funding goals to events such as long form posts, badges or live streams.
Link: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/75.md

2023-09-16 18:36:03

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Summarizing https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/russia-ukraine-war-us-aid-weapons-spending/675343/
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The author argues that the US is unprepared for war due to a lack of defense production, which has created an alarming gap between its strategy and capabilities. The US provided Ukraine with $43 billion worth of security assistance, but this is not enough to address the shortage of weapons needed by the US military itself. The author suggests that the US needs to increase its defense spending and accelerate its defense production in order to be better prepared for any potential conflict.

2023-09-15 14:57:12

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