July 2, 2024
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This AI Paper by Snowflake Introduces Arctic-Embed: Enhancing Text Retrieval with Optimized Embedding Models

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In the expanding natural language processing domain, text embedding models have become fundamental. These models convert textual information into a numerical format, enabling machines to understand, interpret, and manipulate human language. This technological advancement supports various applications, from search engines to chatbots, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. The challenge in this field involves enhancing the retrieval accuracy of embedding models without excessively increasing computational costs. Current models need help to balance performance with resource demands, often requiring significant computational power for minimal gains in accuracy.

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Alignment Lab AI Releases ‘Buzz Dataset’: The Largest Supervised Fine-Tuning Open-Sourced Dataset

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Language models, a subset of artificial intelligence, focus on interpreting and generating human-like text. These models are integral to various applications, ranging from automated chatbots to advanced predictive text and language translation services. The ongoing challenge in this field is enhancing these models’ efficiency and performance, which involves refining their ability to process & understand vast amounts of data while optimizing the computational power required.

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Aloe: A Family of Fine-tuned Open Healthcare LLMs that Achieves State-of-the-Art Results through Model Merging and Prompting Strategies

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In medical technology, developing and utilizing large language models (LLMs) are increasingly pivotal. These advanced models can digest and interpret vast quantities of medical texts, offering insights that traditionally require extensive human expertise. The evolution of these technologies holds the potential to lower healthcare costs significantly and expand access to medical knowledge across various demographics.

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Google DeepMind Introduces AlphaFold 3: A Revolutionary AI Model that can Predict the Structure and Interactions of All Life’s Molecules with Unprecedented Accuracy

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Computational biology has emerged as an indispensable discipline at the intersection of biological research & computer science, primarily focusing on biomolecular structure prediction. The ability to accurately predict these structures has profound implications for understanding cellular functions and developing new medical therapies. Despite the complexity, this field is pivotal for gaining insights into the intricate world of proteins, nucleic acids, and their multifaceted interactions within biological systems.

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IBM AI Team Releases an Open-Source Family of Granite Code Models for Making Coding Easier for Software Developers

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IBM has made a great advancement in the field of software development by releasing a set of open-source Granite code models designed to make coding easier for people everywhere. This action stems from the realization that, although software plays a critical role in contemporary society, the process of coding is still difficult and time-consuming. Even seasoned engineers frequently struggle to keep learning new things, adjust to new languages, and solve challenging problems.

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Researchers from Princeton and Meta AI Introduce ‘Lory’: A Fully-Differentiable MoE Model Designed for Autoregressive Language Model Pre-Training

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Mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures use sparse activation to initial the scaling of model sizes while preserving high training and inference efficiency. However, training the router network creates the challenge of optimizing a non-differentiable, discrete objective despite the efficient scaling by MoE models. Recently, an MoE architecture called SMEAR was introduced, which is fully non-differentiable and merges experts gently in the parameter space. SMEAR is very efficient, but its effectiveness is limited to small-scale fine-tuning experiments on downstream classification tasks.

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Nvidia Blackwell GB200

Introducing the NVIDIA Blackwell Platform: Unveiling the B200, the Flagship AI Chip, for Pioneering Computing and Generative AI

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GTC—Powering a new era of computing, NVIDIA on Monday 18th of March 2024 announced that the NVIDIA Blackwell platform has arrived — enabling organizations everywhere to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than its predecessor.

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QLoRA Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

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The key innovation behind QLoRA lies in its ability to backpropagate gradients through a frozen, 4-bit quantized pretrained language model into Low Rank Adapters (LoRA). The resulting model family, aptly named Guanaco, surpasses all previously released models on the Vicuna benchmark, achieving an impressive 99.3% of the performance level of ChatGPT. Notably, this feat is accomplished within a mere 24 hours of fine-tuning on a single GPU.

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LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

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The core idea behind LoRA is to freeze the pre-trained model weights and introduce trainable rank decomposition matrices into each layer of the Transformer architecture. This innovative approach significantly reduces the number of trainable parameters for downstream tasks, offering a more efficient and cost-effective adaptation method. For instance, when compared to fine-tuning GPT-3 175B with Adam, LoRA demonstrates an astonishing reduction of trainable parameters by a factor of 10,000 and a 3x decrease in GPU memory requirements.

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