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Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs
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Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs

A new coding framework lets you pipe your own data into large language models. LlamaIndex streamlines the coding involved in enabling developers to summarize, reason over, and otherwise manipulate data from documents, databases, and apps using models like GPT-4.

July 5, 20231 min read
Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs
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Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs

A new coding framework lets you pipe your own data into large language models. LlamaIndex streamlines the coding involved in enabling developers to summarize, reason over, and otherwise manipulate data from documents, databases, and apps using models like GPT-4.

July 5, 20231 min read
Finer Tuning: Surgical fine-tuning modifies layers based on data differences.
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Finer Tuning: Surgical fine-tuning modifies layers based on data differences.

Fine-tuning a neural network typically involves retraining every layer on new data. But research shows that networks may perform better when fine-tuning modifies only a subset of layers.

June 28, 20232 min read
Finer Tuning: Surgical fine-tuning modifies layers based on data differences.
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Finer Tuning: Surgical fine-tuning modifies layers based on data differences.

Fine-tuning a neural network typically involves retraining every layer on new data. But research shows that networks may perform better when fine-tuning modifies only a subset of layers.

June 28, 20232 min read
Optimizing Matrix Multiplication:  AlphaTensor for faster matrix multiplication, explained
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Optimizing Matrix Multiplication: AlphaTensor for faster matrix multiplication, explained

Matrix multiplication is executed so often in deep learning, video games, and scientific computing that even a slight acceleration can save substantial amounts of processing time. New work finds ways to speed up this crucial operation.

June 7, 20233 min read
Optimizing Matrix Multiplication:  AlphaTensor for faster matrix multiplication, explained
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Optimizing Matrix Multiplication: AlphaTensor for faster matrix multiplication, explained

Matrix multiplication is executed so often in deep learning, video games, and scientific computing that even a slight acceleration can save substantial amounts of processing time. New work finds ways to speed up this crucial operation.

June 7, 20233 min read
Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.
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Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.

Both transformers and reinforcement learning models are notoriously data-hungry. They may be less so when they work together. Vincent Micheli and colleagues at the University of Geneva trained a transformer-based system to simulate Atari games using a small amount of gameplay.

March 29, 20232 min read
Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.
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Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.

Both transformers and reinforcement learning models are notoriously data-hungry. They may be less so when they work together. Vincent Micheli and colleagues at the University of Geneva trained a transformer-based system to simulate Atari games using a small amount of gameplay.

March 29, 20232 min read
Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.
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Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.

Large datasets often contain overly similar examples that consume training cycles without contributing to learning. A new paper identifies similar training examples, even if they’re not labeled.

February 15, 20232 min read
Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.
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Unsupervised Data Pruning: New method removes useless machine learning data.

Large datasets often contain overly similar examples that consume training cycles without contributing to learning. A new paper identifies similar training examples, even if they’re not labeled.

February 15, 20232 min read
Right-Sizing Models for the Dataset: Finding the Best Data-To-Parameter Ratio for NLP Models
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Right-Sizing Models for the Dataset: Finding the Best Data-To-Parameter Ratio for NLP Models

The route to improving transformer-based language models like GPT-3 and Gopher, which are trained on immense quantities of text scraped from the web, has been to increase their size. But research shows that, given a processing budget, bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.

November 9, 20222 min read
Right-Sizing Models for the Dataset: Finding the Best Data-To-Parameter Ratio for NLP Models
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Right-Sizing Models for the Dataset: Finding the Best Data-To-Parameter Ratio for NLP Models

The route to improving transformer-based language models like GPT-3 and Gopher, which are trained on immense quantities of text scraped from the web, has been to increase their size. But research shows that, given a processing budget, bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.

November 9, 20222 min read
If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It: Factories Use AI for Predictive Maintenance
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If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It: Factories Use AI for Predictive Maintenance

Factories are using AI to warn them when equipment is reaching the breaking point. Services that monitor machinery to predict imminent failure and provide guidance on necessary upkeep are booming, The Wall Street Journal reported.

September 14, 20221 min read
If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It: Factories Use AI for Predictive Maintenance
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If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It: Factories Use AI for Predictive Maintenance

Factories are using AI to warn them when equipment is reaching the breaking point. Services that monitor machinery to predict imminent failure and provide guidance on necessary upkeep are booming, The Wall Street Journal reported.

September 14, 20221 min read
Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency
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Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency

A new approach alters transformers' self-attention mechanism to balance computational efficiency with performance on vision tasks.

September 7, 20222 min read

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