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
Diffusion Transformed: A new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture
Transformer

Diffusion Transformed: A new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture

A tweak to diffusion models, which are responsible for most of the recent excitement about AI-generated images, enables them to produce more realistic output.

August 9, 20232 min read
Diffusion Transformed: A new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture
Transformer

Diffusion Transformed: A new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture

A tweak to diffusion models, which are responsible for most of the recent excitement about AI-generated images, enables them to produce more realistic output.

August 9, 20232 min read
Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service
Transformer

Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service

While Microsoft and Google scramble to supercharge their businesses with text generation, Meta has yet to launch a flagship generative AI service. Reporters went looking for reasons why.

June 28, 20232 min read
Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service
Transformer

Where Is Meta’s Generative Play?: Why Meta still lacks a flagship generative AI service

While Microsoft and Google scramble to supercharge their businesses with text generation, Meta has yet to launch a flagship generative AI service. Reporters went looking for reasons why.

June 28, 20232 min read
What the Brain Sees: How a text-to-image model generates images from brain scans
Transformer

What the Brain Sees: How a text-to-image model generates images from brain scans

A pretrained text-to-image generator enabled researchers to see — roughly — what other people looked at based on brain scans. Yu Takagi and Shinji Nishimoto developed a method that uses Stable Diffusion to reconstruct images viewed by test subjects...

June 22, 20232 min read
What the Brain Sees: How a text-to-image model generates images from brain scans
Transformer

What the Brain Sees: How a text-to-image model generates images from brain scans

A pretrained text-to-image generator enabled researchers to see — roughly — what other people looked at based on brain scans. Yu Takagi and Shinji Nishimoto developed a method that uses Stable Diffusion to reconstruct images viewed by test subjects...

June 22, 20232 min read
Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
Transformer

Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained

A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.

June 7, 20232 min read
Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
Transformer

Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained

A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.

June 7, 20232 min read
Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained
Transformer

Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained

Text-to-image generators like DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Adobe’s new Generative Fill feature can revise images in a targeted way — say, change the fruit in a bowl from oranges to bananas — if you enter a few words that describe the change plus an indication of the areas to be changed.

May 31, 20233 min read
Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained
Transformer

Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained

Text-to-image generators like DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Adobe’s new Generative Fill feature can revise images in a targeted way — say, change the fruit in a bowl from oranges to bananas — if you enter a few words that describe the change plus an indication of the areas to be changed.

May 31, 20233 min read
Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.
Transformer

Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.

When you’re looking for answers from a large language model, some prompts are better than others. So how can you come up with the best one? A new model automates the process.

April 19, 20232 min read
Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.
Transformer

Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.

When you’re looking for answers from a large language model, some prompts are better than others. So how can you come up with the best one? A new model automates the process.

April 19, 20232 min read
Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers
Transformer

Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers

Text from current language models can be useful as a rough draft, but that leaves the polishing to human writers. A language model learned how to generate and respond to editorial directions.

April 5, 20233 min read
Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers
Transformer

Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers

Text from current language models can be useful as a rough draft, but that leaves the polishing to human writers. A language model learned how to generate and respond to editorial directions.

April 5, 20233 min read

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