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7:21

Intelligence at the Edge of Chaos

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2024/10/21

🔀 Intelligence at the Edge of ChaosThis research investigates how intelligent behavior emerges in artificial systems by studying the connection between the complexity of rule-based systems and the abilities of models trained to predict these rules. The researchers used elementary cellular automata (ECA), simple one-dimensional systems with varying complexity, to train large language models (LLMs). Their results show that models trained on more complex ECAs demonstrate greater intelligence,

12:18

Inference Scaling for Long-Context RAG

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2024/10/20

🗓 Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented GenerationThis research paper explores the effectiveness of inference scaling for retrieval augmented generation (RAG), a technique that enhances large language models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge. The authors introduce two strategies, demonstration-based RAG (DRAG) and iterative demonstration-based RAG (IterDRAG), for effectively scaling inference computation. They demonstrate that increasing inference computation, when

11:56

Model Swarms

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2024/10/19

🤝 Model Swarms: Collaborative Search to Adapt LLM Experts via Swarm IntelligenceThis paper presents a new method called MODEL SWARMS, a collaborative search algorithm for adapting large language models (LLMs) using swarm intelligence. The researchers propose viewing each LLM expert as a "particle" in a swarm and use particle swarm optimization (PSO) to collaboratively search the weight space for optimized models. This approach allows LLMs to adapt to a variety of objectives, including single tasks,

8:32

Agent-as-a-Judge

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2024/10/18

🤖 Agent-as-a-Judge: Evaluate Agents with AgentsThe paper detail a new framework for evaluating agentic systems called Agent-as-a-Judge, which uses other agentic systems to assess their performance. To test this framework, the authors created DevAI, a benchmark dataset consisting of 55 realistic automated AI development tasks. They compared Agent-as-a-Judge to LLM-as-a-Judge and Human-as-a-Judge on DevAI, finding that Agent-as-a-Judge outperforms both, aligning closely with human evaluations. The

9:57

First-Person Fairness in Chatbots

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2024/10/18

⚖️ First-Person Fairness in ChatbotsThis paper from OpenAI examines potential bias in chatbot systems like ChatGPT, specifically focusing on how a user's name, which can be associated with demographic attributes, influences the chatbot's responses. The authors propose a privacy-preserving method to measure user name bias across a large dataset of real-world chatbot interactions. They identify several instances of bias, demonstrating that chatbot responses can show a tendency towards creating

19:34

Thinking LLMs

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2024/10/18

🤔 Thinking LLMs: General Instruction Following with Thought GenerationThis research paper explores the concept of "Thinking LLMs," or large language models that can generate internal thoughts before responding to user prompts. The authors propose a training method called Thought Preference Optimization (TPO) which uses an iterative process to encourage LLMs to develop thinking abilities. TPO leverages an existing judge model that evaluates responses, implicitly guiding the model to improve its

9:09

Addition is All You Need

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2024/10/18

🔋 Addition is All You Need for Energy-efficient Language ModelsThis research paper introduces a novel algorithm called Linear-Complexity Multiplication (L-Mul) that aims to make language models more energy-efficient. L-Mul replaces computationally expensive floating-point multiplications with integer addition operations, significantly reducing energy consumption. The authors demonstrate that L-Mul achieves high precision, even surpassing 8-bit floating-point multiplications in certain cases. They

12:27

MLE-bench

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2024/10/18

🤖 MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning EngineeringThe paper introduces MLE-bench, a benchmark designed to evaluate AI agents' ability to perform machine learning engineering tasks. The benchmark comprises 75 Kaggle competitions, each requiring agents to solve real-world problems involving data preparation, model training, and code debugging. Researchers evaluated several cutting-edge language models on MLE-bench, with the best-performing setup achieving at least a

15:36

Long-Context LLMs Meet RAG

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2024/10/18

📈 Long-Context LLMs Meet RAG: Overcoming Challenges for Long Inputs in RAGThis paper explores the challenges and opportunities of using long-context language models (LLMs) in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. While increasing the number of retrieved passages initially improves performance, the authors find that it eventually degrades due to the introduction of irrelevant information, or "hard negatives." To address this, the paper proposes three methods for enhancing the robustness of

6:53

GSM-Symbolic

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2024/10/18

📊 GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language ModelsThe paper investigates the mathematical reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). The authors created a new benchmark, GSM-Symbolic, to test LLMs' performance in a more reliable way. The results show that LLMs perform poorly and inconsistently across different versions of the same question, indicating a fragility in their reasoning abilities. Additionally, the models are sensitive to

8:46

Anti-Social LLM

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2024/10/18

😶 Anti-Social Behavior and Persuasion Ability of LLMsThis study explores the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) in a simulated prison environment, inspired by the Stanford Prison Experiment. It focuses on two key aspects: persuasion, where a prisoner tries to convince a guard to grant more yard time or help escape, and anti-social behavior, such as toxicity and violence. The analysis reveals that some models, like Mixtral and Mistral, struggle to maintain their assigned roles. Persuasion is

9:50

Differential Transformer

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2024/10/18

🎧 Differential TransformerThe paper introduces the Differential Transformer, a new architecture for large language models (LLMs) that aims to improve their ability to focus on relevant information within long sequences. It achieves this by introducing a differential attention mechanism which calculates attention scores as the difference between two separate softmax attention maps, effectively canceling out noise and promoting sparse attention patterns. This enhanced focus on relevant context leads

11:12

ToolGen

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2024/10/18

🛠 ToolGen: Unified Tool Retrieval and Calling via GenerationThis research paper introduces ToolGen, a novel framework that enables LLMs to directly access and utilize external tools by representing each tool as a unique token within the model's vocabulary. ToolGen addresses the limitations of traditional tool retrieval methods, which often rely on separate retrieval mechanisms and are constrained by context length. The paper describes a three-stage training process for ToolGen, consisting of tool

13:58

LangGPT

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2024/10/18

👨‍🔧 Minstrel: Structural Prompt Generation with Multi-Agents Coordination for Non-AI ExpertsThis research proposes LangGPT, a structural prompt framework for designing prompts to instruct Large Language Models (LLMs). This framework, inspired by programming languages, provides a systematic and reusable method for creating prompts that are easier for non-AI experts to understand and use. The authors also present Minstrel, a multi-agent system that automatically generates these structural prompts,

9:52

Movie Gen

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2024/10/18

🎞 Movie Gen: A Cast of Media Foundation ModelsMeta AI researchers have introduced Movie Gen, a suite of foundation models capable of generating high-quality video and audio. Movie Gen models can synthesize videos based on text prompts, personalize videos using a user’s image, precisely edit videos with text instructions, and generate synchronized audio for videos. The research paper details the models' architecture, training procedures, and evaluation results, demonstrating their superior

8:07

LLMs Know More Than They Show

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2024/10/18

🕵️‍♀️ LLMs Know More Than They ShowThis research examines the inner workings of large language models (LLMs) to understand and reduce their tendency to generate false information, known as "hallucinations." The authors find that LLMs internally encode information about the truthfulness of their outputs, with these signals concentrated in tokens related to exact answers. However, these truth signals are task-specific and may not apply universally across different tasks. They also find that LLMs'

13:14

Were RNNs All We Needed?

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2024/10/18

🔁 Were RNNs All We Needed?The paper "Were RNNs All We Needed?" examines the efficiency of traditional recurrent neural networks (RNNs), specifically LSTMs and GRUs, for long sequences. The authors demonstrate that by removing hidden state dependencies from their input, forget, and update gates, LSTMs and GRUs can be trained efficiently using the parallel prefix scan algorithm, resulting in significantly faster training times. They introduce simplified versions of these RNNs, called minLSTMs and

22:23

SLMs, A Survey

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2024/10/18

📱 Small Language Models: Survey, Measurements, and InsightsThis research paper reviews small language models (SLMs), which are optimized for use on devices with limited resources, such as smartphones. It covers recent advancements in SLM architectures, training datasets, and algorithms, and benchmarks their performance on tasks like commonsense reasoning, problem-solving, and mathematics. The paper also assesses the models' runtime efficiency on various hardware platforms and the effect of

7:54

o1 in Medicine

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2024/10/18

💊 A Preliminary Study of o1 in MedicineThe research paper focuses on the performance of a new large language model (LLM) called o1 in the medical domain. o1 was trained with an internalized chain-of-thought technique using reinforcement learning strategies, which enhances its reasoning abilities. The paper evaluates o1 across three key aspects: understanding, reasoning, and multilinguality, using a diverse range of medical datasets. The researchers found that o1 demonstrates improved understanding

13:38

RAG and Beyond

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2024/10/18

📑 RAG and BeyondThis paper provides a comprehensive survey of the current state of data-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and beyond. The authors classify different types of queries that utilize external data into four levels based on their complexity: explicit fact queries, implicit fact queries, interpretable rationale queries, and hidden rationale queries. They discuss the specific challenges associated with each level and provide a detailed

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