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14:47

Marco-o1

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2024/11/23

🤖 Marco-o1: Towards Open Reasoning Models for Open-Ended SolutionsThe Alibaba MarcoPolo team presents Marco-o1, a large reasoning model designed to excel in open-ended problem-solving. Building upon OpenAI's o1 model, Marco-o1 incorporates Chain-of-Thought fine-tuning, Monte Carlo Tree Search, and innovative reasoning strategies to improve accuracy on complex tasks. The model is trained on a combination of existing and synthetic datasets and shows improvements in accuracy on benchmark datasets,

18:39

Scaling Laws for Precision

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2024/11/18

⚖️ Scaling Laws for PrecisionThis research paper investigates the impact of precision in training and inference on the performance of large language models. The authors explore how precision affects the effective parameter count and propose scaling laws that predict performance degradation due to low-precision training and post-training quantization. They find that overtrained models are more sensitive to post-training quantization, and that training larger models in lower precision might be

14:38

Test-Time Training

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2024/11/14

⌛️ The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Abstract ReasoningThis paper examines how test-time training (TTT) can enhance the abstract reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). TTT, which updates model parameters during inference, significantly improves performance on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) benchmark. Key factors for effective TTT include initial fine-tuning, auxiliary tasks, and instance-specific training. The approach achieves state-of-the-art results

24:03

Qwen2.5-Coder

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2024/11/12

🔷 Qwen2.5-Coder Technical ReportThe report introduces the Qwen2.5-Coder series, which includes the Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B and Qwen2.5-Coder-7B models. These models are specifically designed for coding tasks and have been pre-trained on a massive dataset of 5.5 trillion code-related tokens. A significant focus is placed on data quality, with detailed cleaning and filtering processes, and advanced training techniques such as file-level and repo-level pre-training. The models were rigorously tested on

21:39

Attacking Vision-Language Computer Agents via Pop-ups

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2024/11/09

😈 Attacking Vision-Language Computer Agents via Pop-upsThis research paper examines vulnerabilities in vision-language models (VLMs) that power autonomous agents performing computer tasks. The authors show that these VLM agents can be easily tricked into clicking on carefully crafted malicious pop-ups, which humans would typically recognize and avoid. These deceptive pop-ups mislead the agents, disrupting their task performance and reducing success rates. The study tests various pop-up designs

16:11

Number Cookbook

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2024/11/08

📓 Number Cookbook: Number Understanding of Language Models and How to Improve ItThis research paper examines the numerical understanding and processing abilities (NUPA) of large language models (LLMs). The authors create a benchmark to test LLMs on four numerical representations (integers, floating-point numbers, fractions, and scientific notation) across 17 tasks grouped into four ability categories. They find that, despite strong problem-solving capabilities, LLMs struggle with basic numerical

16:44

Jigsaw Puzzles

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2024/11/07

🧩 Jigsaw Puzzles: Splitting Harmful Questions to Jailbreak Large Language ModelsThis research paper investigates the vulnerabilities of large language models (LLMs) to "jailbreak" attacks, where malicious users attempt to trick the model into generating harmful content. The authors propose a new attack strategy called Jigsaw Puzzles (JSP) which breaks down harmful questions into harmless fractions and feeds them to the LLM in multiple turns, bypassing the model's built-in safeguards. The paper

12:41

Multi-expert Prompting with LLMs

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2024/11/05

🤝 Multi-expert Prompting with LLMsThe research paper presents Multi-expert Prompting, a novel method for improving the reliability, safety, and usefulness of Large Language Models (LLMs). Multi-expert Prompting simulates multiple experts within an LLM, collecting their answers to an instruction and aggregating them into a final response. This process leverages the Nominal Group Technique, a human-designed decision-making framework, to ensure a balanced and comprehensive output, surpassing the

16:03

Investigating the Role of Prompting and External...

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2024/11/03

🔎 Investigating the Role of Prompting and External Tools in Hallucination Rates of Large Language ModelsThis paper examines the effectiveness of different prompting techniques and frameworks for mitigating hallucinations in large language models (LLMs). The authors investigate how these techniques, including Chain-of-Thought, Self-Consistency, and Multiagent Debate, can improve reasoning capabilities and reduce factual inconsistencies. They also explore the impact of LLM agents, which are AI

16:44

Mind Your Step (by Step)

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2024/11/02

🌀 Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans WorseThis research paper examines how chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting—encouraging models to reason step-by-step—affects large language and multimodal model performance across tasks. While CoT generally boosts performance, the authors find it significantly hampers model accuracy in three specific contexts: implicit statistical learning, facial recognition, and classifying data with exceptions

17:33

SimpleQA

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2024/10/31

❓Measuring short-form factuality in large language modelsThis document introduces SimpleQA, a new benchmark for evaluating the factuality of large language models. The benchmark consists of over 4,000 short, fact-seeking questions designed to be challenging for advanced models, with a focus on ensuring a single, indisputable answer. The authors argue that SimpleQA is a valuable tool for assessing whether models "know what they know", meaning their ability to correctly answer questions with high

24:23

GPT-4o System Card

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2024/10/30

📜 GPT-4o System CardThis technical document is the System Card for OpenAI's GPT-4o, a multimodal, autoregressive language model that can process and generate text, audio, images, and video. The card provides a detailed overview of the model's capabilities, limitations, and safety evaluations across various categories, with a particular focus on its speech-to-speech (voice) capabilities. The card details the model's training data, including web data, code and math, and multimodal data. It also

10:51

Mixture of Parrots

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2024/10/29

🦜 Mixture of Parrots: Experts improve memorization more than reasoningThis research paper investigates the effectiveness of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures in deep learning, particularly comparing their performance to standard dense transformers. The authors demonstrate through theoretical analysis and empirical experiments that MoEs excel at memory-intensive tasks, leveraging a large number of experts to effectively memorize data. However, for reasoning-based tasks, they find MoEs offer

15:44

Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning

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2024/10/28

🖼 Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought ReasoningThis research paper investigates how to improve the chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning capabilities of vision language models (VLMs). The authors address the lack of high-quality CoT data for training VLMs and propose two key methods: first, distilling rationales from a powerful language model (GPT-4o) to enrich the training data and fine-tune VLMs, leading to significant improvements in CoT performance. Second, they leverage reinforcement

15:33

Breaking the Memory Barrier

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2024/10/27

🧠 Breaking the Memory Barrier: Near Infinite Batch Size Scaling for Contrastive LossThis research paper introduces Inf-CL, a novel approach for contrastive learning that dramatically reduces GPU memory usage during training, allowing for near-infinite batch sizes. The authors address the issue of quadratic memory growth in traditional methods by implementing a tile-based computation strategy that partitions the contrastive loss calculation into smaller, sequentially computed blocks. To further

11:09

LLMs Reflect the Ideology of their Creators

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2024/10/26

⚖️ Large Language Models Reflect the Ideology of their CreatorsThis study examines the ideological stances of large language models (LLMs) by analyzing their responses to prompts about a vast set of historical figures. The authors discovered that LLMs often reflect the worldview of their creators, demonstrating significant differences in their evaluations of political figures depending on the prompting language, the region of their creation, and even the company that developed them. The study

18:07

LongRAG

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2024/10/25

📜 LongRAG: A Dual-Perspective Retrieval-Augmented Generation Paradigm for Long-Context Question AnsweringThe source is a research paper that proposes a new approach called LongRAG for enhancing the performance of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in Long-Context Question Answering (LCQA) tasks. LongRAG addresses two major issues that limit the effectiveness of traditional RAG systems: the "lost in the middle" problem, where relevant information within long contexts is often missed, and

9:56

A Theoretical Understanding of Chain-of-Thought

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2024/10/24

⛓️ A Theoretical Understanding of Chain-of-Thought: Coherent Reasoning and Error-Aware DemonstrationThe paper explores Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, a method to enhance the reasoning skills of large language models (LLMs). It introduces Coherent CoT, where reasoning from previous steps is integrated during predictions, leading to better error correction and accuracy compared to a step-by-step approach. The study shows that errors in intermediate reasoning steps have a more significant impact on

21:21

A Survey on Data Synthesis and Augmentation for Large...

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2024/10/23

📚 A Survey on Data Synthesis and Augmentation for Large Language ModelsThis research paper examines the use of synthetic and augmented data to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). The authors argue that the rapid growth of LLMs is outpacing the availability of high-quality data, creating a data exhaustion crisis. To address this challenge, the paper analyzes different data generation methods, including data augmentation and data synthesis, and explores their applications

8:56

Revealing the Barriers of Language Agents in Planning

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2024/10/22

🤔 Revealing the Barriers of Language Agents in PlanningThis research paper examines the challenges faced by language agents in planning tasks. The authors explore the reasons behind the shortcomings of these agents, particularly their limited understanding of constraints and their diminishing ability to focus on goals as the planning horizon lengthens. They investigate two common strategies for improving planning performance: episodic memory updating and parametric memory updating. The study

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