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A Transformer Alternative Emerges: Mamba, a new approach that may outperform transformers
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A Transformer Alternative Emerges: Mamba, a new approach that may outperform transformers

An architectural innovation improves upon transformers — up to 2 billion parameters, at least...

April 10, 20243 min read
A Transformer Alternative Emerges: Mamba, a new approach that may outperform transformers
Transformer

A Transformer Alternative Emerges: Mamba, a new approach that may outperform transformers

An architectural innovation improves upon transformers — up to 2 billion parameters, at least...

April 10, 20243 min read
Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU
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Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU

Nvidia’s latest chip promises to boost AI’s speed and energy efficiency.

April 3, 20242 min read
Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU
Transformer

Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU

Nvidia’s latest chip promises to boost AI’s speed and energy efficiency.

April 3, 20242 min read
Ancient Scrolls Recovered: Researchers decipher scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius using AI
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Ancient Scrolls Recovered: Researchers decipher scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius using AI

Three researchers decoded scrolls that had gone unread since they were turned into charcoal by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79.

February 14, 20243 min read
Ancient Scrolls Recovered: Researchers decipher scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius using AI
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Ancient Scrolls Recovered: Researchers decipher scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius using AI

Three researchers decoded scrolls that had gone unread since they were turned into charcoal by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79.

February 14, 20243 min read
Sing a Tune, Generate an Accompaniment: SingSong, a tool that generates instrumental music for unaccompanied input vocals
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Sing a Tune, Generate an Accompaniment: SingSong, a tool that generates instrumental music for unaccompanied input vocals

A neural network makes music for unaccompanied vocal tracks. Chris Donahue, Antoine Caillon, Adam Roberts, and colleagues at Google proposed SingSong, a system that generates musical accompaniments for sung melodies. You can listen to its output here.

January 17, 20242 min read
Sing a Tune, Generate an Accompaniment: SingSong, a tool that generates instrumental music for unaccompanied input vocals
Transformer

Sing a Tune, Generate an Accompaniment: SingSong, a tool that generates instrumental music for unaccompanied input vocals

A neural network makes music for unaccompanied vocal tracks. Chris Donahue, Antoine Caillon, Adam Roberts, and colleagues at Google proposed SingSong, a system that generates musical accompaniments for sung melodies. You can listen to its output here.

January 17, 20242 min read
Google’s Multimodal Challenger: All you need to know about Gemini, Google's new multimodal model
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Google’s Multimodal Challenger: All you need to know about Gemini, Google's new multimodal model

Google unveiled Gemini, its bid to catch up to, and perhaps surpass, OpenAI’s GPT-4. Google demonstrated the Gemini family of models that accept any combination of text (including code), images, video, and audio and output text and images. The demonstrations and metrics were impressive...

December 13, 20233 min read
Google’s Multimodal Challenger: All you need to know about Gemini, Google's new multimodal model
Transformer

Google’s Multimodal Challenger: All you need to know about Gemini, Google's new multimodal model

Google unveiled Gemini, its bid to catch up to, and perhaps surpass, OpenAI’s GPT-4. Google demonstrated the Gemini family of models that accept any combination of text (including code), images, video, and audio and output text and images. The demonstrations and metrics were impressive...

December 13, 20233 min read
Robot, Find My Keys: A machine learning model for robots to predict the location of objects in households
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Robot, Find My Keys: A machine learning model for robots to predict the location of objects in households

Researchers proposed a way for robots to find objects in households where things get moved around. Andrey Kurenkov and colleagues at Stanford University introduced Node Edge Predictor, a model that learned to predict where objects were located in houses.

December 6, 20233 min read
Robot, Find My Keys: A machine learning model for robots to predict the location of objects in households
Transformer

Robot, Find My Keys: A machine learning model for robots to predict the location of objects in households

Researchers proposed a way for robots to find objects in households where things get moved around. Andrey Kurenkov and colleagues at Stanford University introduced Node Edge Predictor, a model that learned to predict where objects were located in houses.

December 6, 20233 min read
Taming Transformers: Researchers find new strategies to accelerate transformer architecture.
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Taming Transformers: Researchers find new strategies to accelerate transformer architecture.

The transformer architecture is astonishingly powerful but notoriously slow. Researchers have developed numerous tweaks to accelerate it — enough to warrant a look at how these alternatives work, their strengths, and their weaknesses.

November 22, 20233 min read
Taming Transformers: Researchers find new strategies to accelerate transformer architecture.
Transformer

Taming Transformers: Researchers find new strategies to accelerate transformer architecture.

The transformer architecture is astonishingly powerful but notoriously slow. Researchers have developed numerous tweaks to accelerate it — enough to warrant a look at how these alternatives work, their strengths, and their weaknesses.

November 22, 20233 min read
Masked Pretraining for CNNs: ConvNeXt V2, the new model family that boosts ConvNet performance
Transformer

Masked Pretraining for CNNs: ConvNeXt V2, the new model family that boosts ConvNet performance

Vision transformers have bested convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in a number of key vision tasks. Have CNNs hit their limit? New research suggests otherwise.

September 13, 20232 min read

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