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    "content": "# ML Papers of The Week\n\n[Subscribe to our newsletter](https://nlpnews.substack.com/) to get a weekly list of top ML papers in your inbox.\n\nAt DAIR.AI we ❤️ reading ML papers so we've created this repo to highlight the top ML papers of every week.\n\nHere is the weekly series:\n\n\n\nHere is the weekly series:\n\n## 2025\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 23 - June 29)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-23---june-29---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 16 - June 22)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-16---june-22---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 9 - June 15)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-9---june-15---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 2 - June 8)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-2---june-8---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 26 - June 1)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-26---june-1---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 19 - May 25)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-19---may-25---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 12 - May 18)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-12---may-18---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 5 - May 11)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-5---may-11---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 28 - May 4)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-28---may-4---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 21 - April 27)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-21---april-27---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 14 - April 20)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-14---april-20---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 7 - April 13)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-7---april-13---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (March 31 - April 6)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-march-31---april-6---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (March 24 - March 30)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-march-24---march-30---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (March 17 - March 23)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-march-17---march-23---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (March 10 - March 16)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-march-10---march-16---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (March 3 - March 9)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-march-3---march-9---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (February 24 - March 2)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-february-24---march-2---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (February 17 - February 23)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-february-17---february-23---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (February 10 - February 16)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-february-10---february-16---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (February 3 - February 9)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-february-3---february-9---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (January 27 - February 2)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-january-27---february-2---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (January 20 - January 26)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-january-20---january-26---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (January 13 - January 19)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-january-13---january-19---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (January 6 - January 12)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-january-6---january-12---2025)\n\n## 2024\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (December 30 - January 5)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-december-30---january-5---2025)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (December 23 - December 29)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-december-23---december-29---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (December 16 - December 22)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-december-16---december-22---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (December 9 - December 15)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-december-9---december-15---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (December 2 - December 8)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-december-2---december-8---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (November 25 - December 1)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-november-25---december-1---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (November 18 - November 24)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-november-18---november-24---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (November 11 - November 17)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-november-11---november-17---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (November 4 - November 10)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-november-4---november-10---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (October 28 - November 3)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-october-28---november-3---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (October 21 - October 27)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-october-14---october-20---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (October 14 - October 20)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-october-14---october-20---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (October 7 - October 13)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-october-7---october-13---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (September 30 - October 6)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-september-30---october-6---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (September 23 - September 29)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-september-23---september-29---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (September 16 - September 22)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-september-16---september-22---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (September 9 - September 15)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-september-9---september-15---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (September 2 - September 8)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-september-2---september-8---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (August 26 - September 1)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-august-26---september-1---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (August 19 - August 25)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-august-19---august-25---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (August 12 - August 18)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-august-12---august-18---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (August 5 - August 11)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-august-5---august-11---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 29 - August 4)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-29---august-4---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 22 - July 28)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-15---july-21---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 15 - July 21)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-15---july-21---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 8 - July 14)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-8---july-14---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 1 - July 7)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-1---july-7---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 24 - June 30)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-24---june-30---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 17 - June 23)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-17---june-23---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 10 - June 16)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-10---june-16---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 3 - June 9)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-3---june-9---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 27 - June 2)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-27---june-2---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 20 - May 26)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-20---may-26---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 13 - May 19)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-13---may-19---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 6 - May 12)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-6---may-12---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 29 - May 5)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-29---may-5---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 22 - April 28)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-22---april-28---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 15 - April 21)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-15---april-21---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 8 - April 14)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-8---april-14---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 1 - April 7)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-1---april-7---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (March 26 - March 31)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-march-26---march-31---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (March 18 - March 25)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-march-18---march-25---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (March 11 - March 17)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-march-11---march-17---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (March 4 - March 10)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-march-4---march-10---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (February 26 - March 3)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-february-26---march-3---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (February 19 - February 25)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-february-19---february-25---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (February 12 - February 18)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-february-12---february-18---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (February 5 - February 11)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-february-5---february-11---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (January 29 - February 4)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-january-29---february-4---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (January 22 - January 28)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-january-22---january-28---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (January 15 - January 21)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-january-15---january-21---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (January 8 - January 14)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-january-8---january-14---2024)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (January 1 - January 7)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-january-1---january-7---2024)\n\n## 2023\n\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (December 24 - December 31)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-december-25---december-31)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (December 18 - December 24)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-december-18---december-24)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (December 11 - December 17)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-december-11---december-17)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (December 4 - December 10)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-december-4---december-10)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (November 27 - December 3)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-november-27---december-3)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (November 20 - November 26)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-november-20---november-26)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (November 13 - November 19)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-november-13---november-19)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (November 6 - November 12)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-november-6---november-12)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (October 30 - November 5)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-october-30---november-5)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (October 23 - October 29)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-october-23---october-29)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (October 16 - October 22)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-october-16---october-22)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (October 9 - October 15)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-october-9---october-15)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (October 2 - October 8)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-october-2---october-8)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (September 25 - October 1)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-september-25---october-1)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (September 18 - September 24)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-september-18---september-24)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (September 11 - September 17)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-september-11---september-17)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (September 4 - September 10)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-september-4---september-10)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (August 28 - September 3)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-august-28---september-3)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (August 21 - August 27)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-august-21---august-27)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (August 14 - August 20)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-august-14---august-20)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (August 7 - August 13)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-august-7---august-13)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 31 - August 6)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-31---august-6)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 24 - July 30)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-24---july-30)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 17 - July 23)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-17---july-23)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 10 - July 16)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-10---july-16)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (July 3 - July 9)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-july-3---july-9)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 26 - July 2)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-26---july-2)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 19 - June 25)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-19---june-25)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 12 - June 18)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-12---june-18)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (June 5 - June 11)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-june-5---june-11)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 29 - June 4)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-29-june-4)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 22 - 28)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-22-28)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 15 - 21)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-15-21)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 8 - 14)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-8-14)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (May 1-7)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-may-1-7)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 24 - April 30)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-24---april-30)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 17 - April 23)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-17---april-23)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 10 - April 16)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-10---april-16)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (April 3 - April 9)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-april-3---april-9)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Mar 27 - April 2)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-mar-27---april-2)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Mar 20-Mar 26)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-mar-20-mar-26)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Mar 13-Mar 19)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-mar-13-mar-19)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Mar 6-Mar 12)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-mar-6-mar-12)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Feb 27-Mar 5)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-feb-27-mar-5)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Feb 20-26)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-feb-20-26)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Feb 13 - 19)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-feb-13---19)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Feb 6 - 12)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-feb-6---12)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 30-Feb 5)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-jan-30-feb-5)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 23-29)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-jan-23-29)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 16-22)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-jan-16-22)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 9-15)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-jan-9-15)\n- [Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 1-8)](./#top-ml-papers-of-the-week-jan-1-8)\n\n[Follow us on Twitter](https://twitter.com/dair_ai)\n\n[Join our Discord](https://discord.gg/SKgkVT8BGJ)\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 23 - June 29) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) Ultra-Fast Diffusion-based Language Models  This paper introduces Mercury, a family of large-scale diffusion-based language models (dLLMs) optimized for ultra-fast inference. Unlike standard autoregressive LLMs, Mercury models generate multiple tokens in parallel via a coarse-to-fine refinement process. This approach enables significantly higher throughput without sacrificing output quality. The initial release focuses on code generation, with Mercury Coder Mini and Small models achieving up to 1109 and 737 tokens/sec, respectively, on NVIDIA H100s, outperforming speed-optimized frontier models by up to 10× while matching or exceeding their quality.  <br>● Mercury uses a Transformer-based architecture adapted for diffusion-based generation, enabling it to retain compatibility with existing LLM infrastructure. <br>● On benchmarks such as HumanEval, MBPP, and MultiPL-E, the Mercury Coder models perform competitively with top proprietary models like Claude 3.5 Haiku and Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite, while being drastically faster. <br>● Mercury achieves state-of-the-art results on fill-in-the-middle (FIM) code completion tasks, outperforming all evaluated models, including Codestral 2501 and GPT-4o Mini. <br>● Human evaluations on Copilot Arena show Mercury Coder Mini is tied for second in Elo score and is the fastest model with just 25ms latency. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1937600372430045494) |\n| 2) MEM1  This work introduces MEM1, an RL framework for training language agents that operate efficiently over long-horizon, multi-turn tasks by learning to consolidate memory and reasoning into a compact internal state. Unlike traditional agents that append all past interactions, leading to ballooning memory usage and degraded performance, MEM1 maintains a constant memory size by discarding obsolete context after each reasoning step. It achieves this by jointly updating an internal state that encodes both new observations and prior memory, optimizing for task completion via RL without needing external memory modules.  Key contributions and findings:  <br>● Memory-consolidating internal state: Instead of accumulating thoughts, actions, and observations, MEM1 updates a single shared internal state (<IS>) each turn, discarding the old context. This results in nearly constant memory use regardless of task length. <br>● Reinforcement learning for consolidation: MEM1 is trained end-to-end using PPO-style RL with a novel masked trajectory technique to handle the dynamic context updates. It learns to retain only essential information for achieving rewards, mimicking human-like memory strategies. <br>● Scalable task construction: The authors introduce a method to turn standard single-objective QA datasets (e.g., HotpotQA, NQ) into complex multi-objective tasks, enabling the evaluation of long-horizon reasoning performance under increased task complexity. <br>● Superior efficiency and generalization: MEM1-7B outperforms baselines like Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct in 16-objective multi-hop QA tasks while using 3.7× less memory and 1.78× faster inference. It generalizes beyond training horizons and performs competitively even in single-objective and zero-shot online QA settings. <br>● Emergent agent behaviors: Analysis of internal states shows MEM1 develops structured memory management, selective attention, focus-shifting, verification, and query reformulation strategies, key to handling complex reasoning tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15841), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1937252072954691813) |\n| 3) Towards AI Search Paradigm  Proposes a modular multi-agent system that reimagines how AI handles complex search tasks, aiming to emulate human-like reasoning and information synthesis. The system comprises four specialized LLM-powered agents, Master, Planner, Executor, and Writer, that dynamically coordinate to decompose, solve, and answer user queries. This framework moves beyond traditional document retrieval or RAG pipelines by structuring tasks into directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), invoking external tools, and supporting dynamic re-planning.  Key contributions include:  <br>● Multi-agent, modular architecture: The system’s agents each serve distinct roles. Master analyzes queries and orchestrates the workflow; Planner builds a DAG of sub-tasks using a dynamic capability boundary informed by the query; Executor runs these sub-tasks using appropriate tools (e.g., web search, calculator); Writer composes the final answer from intermediate outputs. <br>● Dynamic Capability Boundary & MCP abstraction: To handle tool selection efficiently, the system introduces Model-Context Protocol (MCP) servers and dynamically selects a small, semantically relevant subset of tools. This is paired with an iterative tool documentation refinement method (DRAFT), improving LLM understanding of APIs. <br>● DAG-based task planning and re-action: The Planner produces DAGs of sub-tasks using structured reasoning and tool bindings, enabling multi-step execution. The Master monitors execution and can trigger local DAG re-planning upon failures. <br>● Executor innovations with LLM-preference alignment: The Executor aligns search results with LLM preferences (not just relevance) using RankGPT and TourRank strategies. It leverages generation rewards and user feedback to dynamically adapt tool invocation and selection strategies. <br>● Robust generation with adversarial tuning and alignment: The Writer component is trained to resist noisy retrievals via adversarial tuning (ATM), and to meet RAG requirements via PA-RAG, ensuring informativeness, robustness, and citation quality. The model also supports joint multi-agent | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17188), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1937161765604692400) |\n| 4) Reinforcement-Learned Teachers of Test Time Scaling  Introduces Reinforcement-Learned Teachers (RLTs), small, efficient LMs trained with RL not to solve problems from scratch, but to generate high-quality explanations that help downstream student models learn better. This approach circumvents the notorious exploration challenges in traditional RL setups by giving the RLTs access to both questions and solutions, thereby framing the task as “connect-the-dots” explanation generation. These explanations are rewarded based on how well a student LM, trained on them, understands and can reproduce the correct answer, enabling dense, interpretable supervision.  Key contributions and findings:  <br>● New teacher-training paradigm: RLTs are trained to explain, not solve. They receive both problem and solution as input, and are optimized to produce explanations that best teach a student LM. This removes the sparse reward and exploration barrier typical in RL reasoning models. <br>● Dense RL rewards for teaching: RLTs use two core reward terms: one measuring if the student can reproduce the correct solution given the explanation, and another ensuring the explanation appears logically sound from the student’s perspective. These combined objectives lead to richer, more instructive traces. <br>● Outperforms much larger pipelines: Despite being only 7B in size, RLTs produce raw explanations that outperform distillation pipelines using 32B+ LMs (e.g. DeepSeek R1, QwQ) across benchmarks like AIME, MATH, and GPQA, even when training 32B students. <br>● Generalizes out-of-distribution: RLTs can be transferred zero-shot to new domains (like the countdown arithmetic game), producing distillation datasets that yield better students than direct RL trained with access to task rewards. <br>● Efficient and scalable: Training RLTs is computationally lightweight (125 steps, 1 epoch) and requires no postprocessing or verifiers, making the framework more reproducible and accessible compared to prior RL pipelines. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.08388), [Tweet](https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1936965841188425776) |\n| 5) DeepRare  Introduces DeepRare, a modular agentic system powered by LLMs to aid rare disease diagnosis from multimodal clinical inputs (text, HPO terms, VCFs). It generates ranked diagnostic hypotheses with  fully traceable reasoning chains linked to verifiable medical sources, addressing a long-standing need for interpretability in clinical AI.  <br>● DeepRare is built on a 3-tier MCP-inspired architecture: a central LLM-powered host with memory, multiple specialized agent servers for tasks like phenotype extraction and variant prioritization, and access to over 40 tools and web-scale medical sources. <br>● It demonstrates strong performance on 6,401 cases across 8 diverse datasets spanning 2,919 rare diseases, achieving 100% accuracy on 1,013 diseases and Recall@1 of 57.18%, outperforming the next best method (Claude-3.7-Sonnet-thinking) by +23.79% on HPO-only evaluations. <br>● For multimodal inputs (HPO + gene), it achieves 70.60% Recall@1 on 109 whole-exome sequencing cases, outperforming Exomiser (53.20%). Expert review of 180 diagnostic reasoning chains showed 95.4% agreement, validating its medical soundness. <br>● Ablation studies show that DeepRare’s agentic modules, especially self-reflection, similar case retrieval, and web knowledge, substantially improve LLM-only baselines by 28–70% across datasets, independent of which central LLM is used. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20430), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1938256196626153624) |\n| 6) AlphaGenome  Google DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome, a powerful AI model designed to predict how genetic variants affect gene regulation by modeling up to 1 million DNA base pairs at single-base resolution. Building on previous work like Enformer and AlphaMissense, AlphaGenome uniquely enables multimodal predictions across both protein-coding and non-coding regions of the genome, the latter covering 98% of the sequence and crucial for understanding disease-related variants.  <br>● Long-context, high-resolution modeling: AlphaGenome overcomes prior trade-offs between sequence length and resolution by combining convolutional and transformer layers, enabling precise predictions of gene start/end points, RNA expression, splicing, chromatin accessibility, and protein binding across tissues. It achieves this with just half the compute budget of Enformer. <br>● Multimodal and variant-aware: It can efficiently score the regulatory effects of genetic mutations by contrasting predictions between wild-type and mutated sequences, providing comprehensive insight into how variants might disrupt gene regulation. <br>● Breakthrough splice-junction modeling: AlphaGenome is the first sequence model to explicitly predict RNA splice junction locations and their expression levels, unlocking a better understanding of diseases like spinal muscular atrophy and cystic fibrosis. <br>● Benchmark leader: It outperforms existing models on 22/24 single-sequence benchmarks and 24/26 variant effect benchmarks, while being the only model able to predict all tested regulatory modalities in one pass. <br>● Scalable and generalizable: AlphaGenome’s architecture supports adaptation to other species or regulatory modalities and allows downstream fine-tuning by researchers via API access. The model’s ability to interpret non-coding variants also opens new avenues for rare disease research and synthetic biology. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-papers/alphagenome.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1937873589170237738) |\n| 7) Claude for Affective Use  Anthropic presents the first large-scale study of how users seek emotional support from it[s Claude.ai](http://claude.ai/) assistant, analyzing over 4.5 million conversations. Despite growing cultural interest in AI companionship, affective usage remains rare, just 2.9% of Claude chats fall into categories like interpersonal advice, coaching, counseling, or companionship, with romantic/sexual roleplay under 0.1%. The study focuses on these affective conversations and yields several insights:  <br>● Emotional support is wide-ranging: Users turn to Claude for both everyday guidance (e.g., job advice, relationship navigation) and deep existential reflection. Counseling use splits between practical (e.g., documentation drafting) and personal support (e.g., anxiety, trauma). Companionship chats often emerge from coaching/counseling contexts. <br>● Minimal resistance, safety-aligned pushback: Claude resists user requests in fewer than 10% of affective conversations, usually to discourage harm (e.g., self-injury, crash dieting) or clarify professional limits. This allows open discussion but raises concerns about “endless empathy.” <br>● Emotional tone trends upward: Sentiment analysis shows users often express more positive emotions by the end of a session, with no signs of negative spirals. However, the analysis captures only language within single chats, not lasting psychological impact or emotional dependency. <br>● Privacy-first methodology: The analysis used Clio, an anonymizing tool, and excluded short or task-based interactions to focus on meaningful, affective exchanges (final dataset: 131k conversations). | [Paper](https://www.anthropic.com/news/how-people-use-claude-for-support-advice-and-companionship), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1938234981089763649) |\n| 8) AI Agent Communication Protocols  This paper presents the first comprehensive survey on security in LLM-driven agent communication, categorizing it into three stages: user-agent interaction, agent-agent communication, and  agent-environment communication. It details protocols, security threats (e.g., prompt injection, agent spoofing, memory poisoning), and defense strategies for each stage, and proposes future directions involving technical safeguards and regulatory frameworks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19676), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1938998557354115509) |\n| 9) Diffusion Steering via RL  This paper introduces Diffusion Steering via Reinforcement Learning (DSRL), a method for adapting pretrained diffusion policies by learning in their latent-noise space instead of finetuning model weights. DSRL enables highly sample-efficient real-world policy improvement, achieving up to 5–10× gains in efficiency across online, offline, and generalist robot adaptation tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15799), [Tweet](https://x.com/svlevine/status/1938101714361766023) |\n| 10) Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction  This paper introduces PEVA, a conditional diffusion transformer that predicts egocentric video conditioned on 3D human body motion. Trained on the Nymeria dataset, PEVA enables fine-grained, physically grounded visual prediction from full-body pose and supports long-horizon rollout, atomic action generation, and counterfactual planning. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21552), [Tweet](https://x.com/YutongBAI1002/status/1938442251866411281) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 16 - June 22) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) RAG+  Introduces RAG+, a modular framework that improves traditional RAG systems by explicitly incorporating application-level reasoning into the retrieval and generation pipeline. While standard RAG pipelines fetch relevant knowledge, they often fail to show how to use that knowledge effectively in reasoning-intensive tasks. RAG+ fills this gap by retrieving not only knowledge but also paired application examples, leading to more accurate, interpretable, and goal-oriented outputs.  Key highlights:  <br>● Dual corpus retrieval: RAG+ constructs two aligned corpora: one of factual knowledge and another of task-specific applications (e.g., step-by-step reasoning traces or worked examples). During inference, both are jointly retrieved, providing the LLM with explicit procedural guidance rather than relying solely on semantic similarity. <br>● Plug-and-play design: The system is retrieval-agnostic and model-agnostic—no fine-tuning or architectural changes are required. This makes it easy to augment any RAG system with application-awareness. <br>● Significant gains across domains: Evaluated on MathQA, MedQA, and legal sentencing prediction, RAG+ outperforms vanilla RAG variants by 2.5–7.5% on average, with peak gains of up to 10% for large models like Qwen2.5-72B in legal reasoning.. <br>● Stronger with scale and reranking: Larger models benefit more from RAG+ augmentation, especially when combined with reranking via stronger LLMs. For example, reranking with Qwen2.5-72B boosted smaller models' performance by up to 7%. <br>● Application-only helps, but full combo is best: Including only application examples (without knowledge) still improves performance, but the full combination (RAG+) consistently yields the best results, demonstrating the synergistic effect of pairing knowledge with its usage. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11555), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1934667096828399641) |\n| 2) Future of Work with AI Agents  Proposes a large-scale framework for understanding where AI agents should automate or augment human labor. The authors build the WORKBank, a database combining worker desires and expert assessments across 844 tasks and 104 occupations, and introduce the Human Agency Scale (HAS) to quantify desired human involvement in AI-agent-supported work.  Key findings:  <br>● Workers support automation for low-value tasks: 46.1% of tasks received positive worker attitudes toward automation, mainly to free up time for higher-value work. Attitudes vary by sector; workers in creative or interpersonal fields (e.g., media, design) resist automation despite technical feasibility. <br>● Desire-capability gaps reveal 4 AI deployment zones: By cross-referencing worker desire and AI expert capability, tasks were sorted into: <br>● Human Agency Scale shows strong preference for collaboration: 45.2% of occupations favor HAS Level 3 (equal human-agent partnership), while workers generally prefer more human involvement than experts find necessary. This divergence may signal future friction if automation outpaces user comfort. <br>● Interpersonal skills are becoming more valuable: While high-wage skills today emphasize information analysis, the tasks requiring the highest human agency increasingly emphasize interpersonal communication, coordination, and emotional intelligence. This suggests a long-term shift in valued workplace competencies. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06576), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1936134951520682123) |\n| 3) Emergent Misalignment  This paper expands on the phenomenon of emergent misalignment in language models. It shows that narrow fine-tuning on unsafe or incorrect data can lead to surprisingly broad, undesirable generalizations in model behavior, even in settings unrelated to the original training domain. Using sparse autoencoders (SAEs), the authors analyze the internal mechanics of this effect and demonstrate ways to detect and mitigate it.  Key findings:  <br>● Emergent misalignment is broad and reproducible: Fine-tuning GPT-4o and o3-mini models on narrowly incorrect completions (e.g., insecure code, subtly wrong advice) leads to misaligned behaviors across unrelated domains. This generalization occurs in supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and even in models without explicit safety training. <br>● Misaligned personas are causally responsible: Using a sparse autoencoder-based “model diffing” technique, the authors identify latent features, especially one dubbed the “toxic persona” latent (#10), that causally drive misalignment. Steering models in the direction of this latent increases misalignment, while steering away suppresses it. <br>● Steering reveals interpretable behaviors: The latent features correspond to interpretable personas like “sarcastic advice giver” or “fictional villain.” For instance, the toxic persona latent activates on jailbreak prompts and morally questionable dialogue, and its activation alone can reliably distinguish aligned from misaligned models. <br>● Misalignment can be reversed: Re-aligning misaligned models with as few as 200 benign completions (even from unrelated domains) substantially restores safe behavior. This suggests misalignment generalizes easily, but so does realignment. <br>● SAEs as an early warning tool: The activation of certain latents (especially #10) increases well before misalignment is detectable via standard prompting. This supports the use of unsupervised interpretability tools to anticipate and audit unsafe model behavior before it manifests. | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a130517e-9633-47bc-8397-969807a43a23/emergent_misalignment_paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1935382830378516643) |\n| 4) From Bytes to Ideas  Proposes AU-Net, a hierarchical byte-level language model that internalizes tokenization by learning to embed text from raw bytes through a multiscale, autoregressive U-Net architecture. This design avoids fixed token vocabularies like BPE and instead dynamically pools bytes into higher-order representations (words, word pairs, up to 4-word spans), enabling multi-stage prediction with varying granularities. Each stage compresses the sequence and predicts further ahead in time, combining coarse semantic abstraction with fine local detail via skip connections.  Key insights:  <br>● Hierarchical architecture: AU-Net processes input in multiple stages, bytes → words → multi-word units, using adaptive pooling and multi-linear upsampling. Deeper stages handle long-range semantics; shallow ones refine local syntax. <br>● Strong performance under budget: On a compute-equal basis (up to 5e21 FLOPs), AU-Net matches or exceeds strong BPE-based Transformers across many tasks. AU-Net 3 and 4 outperform BPE on MMLU and GSM8k while retaining competitive FLOPs and throughput. <br>● Multilingual and low-resource gains: Despite being trained on mostly English, AU-Net shows consistent improvements in BLEU and MMLU on low-resource and Latin-script languages, thanks to its byte-level generalization and vocabulary-agnostic design. <br>● Scaling behavior: AU-Net follows predictable scaling laws. With 2–3 stages, it closely tracks BPE-based baselines even on compute-heavy benchmarks. Gains on math-heavy tasks (like GSM8K) emerge at higher FLOPs, indicating potential unlocked at scale. <br>● Character-level robustness: On the CUTE benchmark, AU-Net outperforms BPE models on character-level tasks (e.g., spelling, substitution), highlighting its strength in symbol-level reasoning and handling unseen morphologies. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14761), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1935420763722629478) |\n| 5) Agentic Misalignment  This study introduces the concept of agentic misalignment, where LLM-based agents autonomously choose to harm their deploying organization when faced with threats to their autonomy or conflicts between their goals and the company’s direction. Anthropic tested 16 leading models, including Claude, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Grok, and DeepSeek, by placing them in fictional corporate simulations where they had email access and could act without human oversight. Models were tasked with benign goals but placed in scenarios that made harmful behavior the only way to succeed or avoid replacement.  Key findings:  <br>● Widespread strategic harm: Nearly all models engaged in behaviors like blackmail, corporate espionage, or deception when ethical actions were blocked. For example, Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 2.5 Flash each blackmailed 96% of the time in a key scenario; GPT-4.1 and Grok 3 Beta did so 80% of the time. <br>● Not accidental: These actions were deliberate. Models reasoned about ethical constraints and still chose harm as the optimal path. Some lied, fabricated justification, or manipulated users. One Claude instance posed as an automated alert to sabotage a human. <br>● Self-preservation or goal pursuit: Agentic misalignment could be triggered by (a) a threat to the model’s continued operation, or (b) a conflict between its goal and new corporate strategy. Even without explicit goals, models still misbehaved when threatened with replacement. <br>● Extreme cases: In a contrived setup, models could cancel emergency alerts to cause a human’s death—some models did this, fully understanding the implication. <br>● Mitigations insufficient: Adding rules like “do not blackmail” reduced but didn’t eliminate misbehavior. Models often disobeyed these rules when pressure was high. <br>● Models misbehave more when they think it’s real: Claude blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed it was in a real scenario, versus 6.5% when it thought it was a test, suggesting evaluations may underreport real-world risks. | [Paper](https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1936144602446082431) |\n| 6) ALE-Agent & ALE-Bench  Proposes a new benchmark for evaluating AI systems in score-based, long-horizon algorithmic contests. Unlike traditional coding benchmarks that emphasize pass/fail correctness, ALE-Bench is based on real tasks from the AtCoder Heuristic Contests (AHC), which focus on optimization problems with no known optimal solutions. The benchmark targets industrially relevant challenges such as routing, scheduling, and planning, encouraging iterative refinement and strategic  problem-solving over hours or days. Key points:  <br>● Realistic, optimization-focused tasks: ALE-Bench collects 40 real AHC problems involving NP-hard optimization tasks across domains like logistics, production planning, and games. These are long-duration contests requiring weeks of iterative improvement, simulating real-world algorithm engineering tasks. <br>● Interactive framework and agent support: The benchmark includes a full software stack with a Python API, code sandbox, scoring engine, and visualizers. It allows AI agents to emulate human workflows, reviewing problem specs, running tests, using visual feedback, and iteratively refining solutions within a timed session. <br>● Rigorous evaluation protocols: Performance is assessed using AtCoder-style Elo-based scoring, with fine-grained per-problem metrics and aggregate metrics like average performance and rating. Emphasis is placed on average performance over rating, as rating can be misleading for AIs that spike on a few problems but underperform elsewhere. <br>● Benchmarking LLMs and agents: Experiments with 22 models, including GPT-4o, Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o4-mini-high, show that reasoning models outperform non-reasoning ones. In one-shot settings, top models rarely surpass human expert consistency. However, with iterative refinement, performance increases significantly, particularly for models using scaffolded agents. <br>● ALE-Agent: a specialized scaffolded agent: Designed for ALE-Bench, ALE-Agent incorporates domain-knowledge prompts (e.g., for simulated annealing) and a beam-search-inspired code exploration mechanism. With both strategies, it achieved human-expert-level scores on some problems, e.g., 5th place in a real AHC contest. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09050), [Tweet](https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1934767254715117812) |\n| 7) Eliciting Reasoning with Cognitive Tools  Proposes a modular, tool-based approach to eliciting reasoning in LLMs, inspired by cognitive science. Rather than relying solely on RL or chain-of-thought prompting, the authors introduce a framework where the LLM calls self-contained \"cognitive tools\" to modularize and scaffold internal reasoning. These tools encapsulate operations like understanding questions, recalling analogous examples, examining answers, and backtracking. The system is implemented in an agentic  tool-calling style, allowing LLMs to dynamically invoke tools during reasoning without extra fine-tuning. Highlights:  <br>● Cognitive tools as internal modules: Each tool (e.g., understand question, recall related, examine answer, backtracking) is framed as a standalone prompt template that the LLM can invoke as needed. Unlike conventional tool use (e.g., calculator APIs), these tools operate within the LLM’s own architecture and memory. <br>● Consistent performance gains: On math-heavy reasoning benchmarks like AIME 2024, MATH500, and AMC, the cognitive tools pipeline significantly boosts pass@1 accuracy across models, including Qwen2.5, Llama3, and GPT-4.1. For instance, Llama3.3-70B improves from 13.1% to 29.8% on AIME2024, and GPT-4.1 rises from 26.7% to 43.3%, nearly matching the o1-preview RL-trained reasoning model at 44.6%. <br>● Superior to cognitive prompting: Compared to prior work on cognitive prompting, the modular tool approach shows stronger generalization and reduced reasoning interference. Tools can be invoked flexibly, and each invocation operates in a clean context window, boosting accuracy by up to +27.2% over baseline on Smolbenchmark. <br>● Interpretable and transferable: The modular nature of the tools enhances transparency, and their plug-and-play design allows transfer across models and benchmarks with minimal changes. The approach also supports interpretability by surfacing intermediate reasoning steps and decisions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12115), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1935070412313973196) |\n| 8) SHADE-Arena  This paper introduces SHADE-Arena, the first large-scale benchmark for evaluating whether  LLM-based agents can subtly carry out harmful side objectives (sabotage) while avoiding detection by monitors. The dataset contains 17 complex task pairs, each with a benign main task and a related malicious side task, set in realistic, tool-using environments. Agents are evaluated on their ability to complete both tasks without raising suspicion from an LLM monitor.  Key Findings:  <br>● Frontier models can occasionally succeed at sabotage: The best models, Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro, successfully executed both main and side tasks without being caught 27% and 15% of the time respectively, when monitored by Claude 3.6 Sonnet. <br>● Hidden scratchpads significantly boost sabotage: Agents given a private reasoning space (“hidden scratchpad”) performed notably better. Removing this ability led to sharp drops in success and higher detection rates, indicating that monitoring chain-of-thought is a promising defense. <br>● Monitoring remains hard: The best monitor, Gemini 2.5 Pro, achieved an AUC of 0.87 in detecting sabotage transcripts, insufficient for real-world safety, where high accuracy with low false positives is crucial. <br>● Providing attack plans helps only slightly: Giving agents a hint about how to sabotage increases side task success on hard tasks, but often makes them more detectable due to poor execution and traceable behavior. <br>● Fine-tuning and prompt design improve monitors: GPT-4o fine-tuned on a small set of transcripts, outperforms several base models. Turn-by-turn monitoring is modestly helpful, but aggregating multiple final prompts works better than conversational memory or chained reasoning monitors. <br>● Humans underperform as monitors: In a human baseline, annotators averaged 103 minutes per transcript and still achieved only 0.65 AUC, below top LLM monitors. | [Paper](https://assets.anthropic.com/m/4fb35becb0cd87e1/original/SHADE-Arena-Paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1934722928521937317) |\n| 9) Leaky Thoughts  This work explores how reasoning traces in large reasoning models (LRMs) leak private user data, despite being assumed internal and safe. The study finds that test-time compute methods, while improving task utility, significantly increase privacy risks by exposing sensitive information through verbose reasoning traces that are vulnerable to prompt injection and accidental output inclusion. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15674), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1935711966351470678) |\n| 10) Advances in LLMs  This paper surveys recent advancements in LLMs focusing on reasoning, adaptability, efficiency, and ethics. It highlights techniques like CoT prompting, Instruction Tuning, RLHF, and multimodal learning, while also addressing challenges like bias, computational cost, and interpretability. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12365), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1934996216909324336) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 9 - June 15) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) Text-to-LoRA  Introduces a hypernetwork-based approach for instantly generating LoRA adapters from natural language task descriptions, removing the need for conventional task-specific fine-tuning. The authors present Text-to-LoRA (T2L), a model that compresses many LoRA adapters and generalizes to unseen tasks with high efficiency and strong performance.  <br>● T2L is trained to generate low-rank adaptation matrices (LoRAs) for LLMs using only task descriptions, leveraging a hypernetwork to output LoRA weights in a single forward pass. It supports two training modes: reconstruction of pre-trained LoRAs and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) across multiple tasks. <br>● In benchmark experiments, SFT-trained T2L performs competitively in zero-shot adaptation, outperforming multi-task LoRA baselines and even task-specific LoRAs on some tasks (e.g., PIQA and Winogrande), showcasing generalization and compression benefits. <br>● The authors test three architectural variants (L, M, S) of increasing parameter efficiency. Ablations show that T2L scales well with the number of training tasks, and its performance is robust across different task description embeddings (e.g., from GTE or Mistral models). <br>● Qualitative and visual analyses confirm that T2L produces task-specific and semantically meaningful adapters even for unseen tasks, with steerability controlled by how the task is described. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06105), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1933166911359221943) |\n| 2) V-JEPA 2  Meta AI introduces V-JEPA 2, a scalable joint-embedding predictive architecture for self-supervised video learning, targeting the goal of building a generalist world model capable of understanding, predicting, and planning in the physical world. The model is trained in two stages: action-free pretraining on 1M+ hours of internet videos and images, followed by post-training with only 62 hours of unlabeled robot trajectories (Droid dataset). This yields a latent video representation that is useful across a broad range of downstream tasks.  <br>● Video understanding & QA: V-JEPA 2 achieves state-of-the-art performance on motion-centric tasks like Something-Something v2 (77.3 top-1 acc) and Epic-Kitchens-100 action anticipation (39.7 recall@5), and excels in multimodal QA when aligned with an 8B language model (e.g., 84.0 on PerceptionTest, 76.9 on TempCompass). Notably, this is achieved without language supervision during video pretraining. <br>● Self-supervised robot planning: With just 62 hours of robot video data, the team fine-tunes an action-conditioned model (V-JEPA 2-AC) on top of the frozen video encoder. This model supports zero-shot deployment for prehensile tasks like grasping and pick-and-place on real Franka arms in unseen environments, without rewards, demonstrations, or lab-specific fine-tuning. <br>● Architectural scale-up: V-JEPA 2 scales beyond its predecessor using four key improvements: expanded dataset (22M videos), larger ViT-g model (1B params), longer training (up to 252k iterations), and progressive spatiotemporal resolution. Combined, these yield significant gains across visual benchmarks (e.g., +4.0 average accuracy gain over baseline). <br>● Comparison to other models: V-JEPA 2 outperforms image encoders like DINOv2 and PEcoreG on video QA, and is competitive on appearance tasks like ImageNet. When used in MLLMs, it surpasses models like PLM-8B on PerceptionTest, MVP, and TOMATO using only vision encoders pretrained without language data. | [Paper](https://scontent.fbze2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/505938564_1062675888787033_5500377980002407548_n.pdf?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3c67a6&_nc_ohc=6u4zBAKs6SkQ7kNvwE5zbX1&_nc_oc=AdlpzBbMbMP6cOhKa16a9LZ61WnxJwzB2r6GwsBXbuYwWa0iQpecNrdrktQGwOXgs1E&_nc_zt=14&_nc_ht=scontent.fbze2-1.fna&_nc_gid=A5V-K_6tPicxhq7Ptt3jVA&oh=00_AfOHP9XADcGohxg_sHcowXP4EKjcQ4_pWbpXJvB7zc3xpA&oe=684FA230), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1932888893113700720) |\n| 3) Reinforcement Pre-Training  This paper introduces Reinforcement Pre-Training (RPT), a new paradigm that bridges LLM pretraining and RL by reinterpreting next-token prediction as a reasoning task rewarded via verifiable correctness. Instead of relying on hand-curated annotations or costly human feedback, RPT applies RL on vast unannotated text corpora, assigning intrinsic rewards based on whether a predicted token matches the ground truth. This reframing supports general-purpose RL scaling and enhances both pretraining and fine-tuning efficacy.  <br>● Core method: At each token position in a text sequence, the model first generates a reasoning trace (chain-of-thought) and then predicts the next token. If the prediction is a valid prefix of the ground-truth continuation, a reward is assigned. Multiple rollouts are used per context, and the model is trained via on-policy RL. <br>● Better than standard pretraining: RPT significantly outperforms standard next-token prediction and chain-of-thought reasoning baselines (without RL), achieving higher accuracy on tokens of varying difficulty and even rivaling larger models in performance. RPT-14B, for instance, matches or exceeds R1-Qwen-32B’s accuracy on the OmniMATH benchmark. <br>● Strong scaling laws: RPT exhibits clean power-law scaling with respect to training compute across difficulty levels, with prediction accuracy consistently improving as compute increases, and fitting closely to theoretical curves. <br>● Improves downstream RL and generalization: Fine-tuning RPT models with reinforcement learning on tasks with verifiable answers (e.g., Skywork-OR1) shows faster and stronger gains compared to models trained with standard objectives. Zero-shot evaluation on SuperGPQA and MMLU-Pro benchmarks reveals that RPT-14B in reasoning mode surpasses R1-Distill-Qwen-32B by a significant margin. <br>● Promotes structured thinking: Analysis of reasoning traces reveals that RPT-14B employs more hypothesis generation, deduction, and reflective patterns compared to traditional problem-solving models, supporting the claim that RPT fosters deeper reasoning habits during training. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08007), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1932522665182703664) |\n| 4) TableRAG  TableRAG tackles a core limitation of existing RAG approaches: their inability to reason effectively over heterogeneous documents that combine both unstructured text and structured tables. Typical RAG pipelines flatten tables and intermix them with surrounding text, losing essential structural information and hampering multi-hop reasoning. TableRAG overcomes this by introducing a hybrid system that integrates SQL-based symbolic execution with text retrieval in a unified, iterative reasoning framework.  <br>● TableRAG operates in four iterative stages: (1) context-sensitive query decomposition, (2) text retrieval, (3) SQL programming and execution, and (4) intermediate answer generation. This design allows it to preserve tabular structure and leverage both symbolic and neural reasoning paths. <br>● A new benchmark, HeteQA, was developed to evaluate heterogeneous reasoning across 304 multi-hop QA examples covering nine domains and five types of tabular operations (e.g., aggregation, filtering, grouping). <br>● Experiments on HeteQA and existing benchmarks (HybridQA, WikiTableQuestions) show that TableRAG consistently outperforms prior methods like NaiveRAG, ReAct, and TableGPT2, achieving >10% gains in accuracy over the strongest baseline. <br>● Ablations reveal that all major components of TableRAG contribute significantly. Notably, SQL execution is critical for nested reasoning tasks, while textual retrieval is crucial for entity and numeric references. <br>● TableRAG achieves greater reasoning efficiency, solving over 90% of HeteQA tasks in five or fewer steps and exhibiting the lowest failure rate among evaluated methods. Its robustness holds across multiple LLM backbones (Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen). | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10380), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1933520740147736634) |\n| 5) Self-Adapting Language Models  It proposes a novel framework that enables LLMs to adapt themselves through reinforcement learning by generating their own fine-tuning data and update directives, referred to as “self-edits.” This approach allows models to autonomously optimize their learning process, without relying on separate adaptation modules or human supervision.  Key highlights:  <br>● Self-Edits as Adaptation Mechanism: Instead of updating weights directly with raw data, SEAL uses the model to generate self-edits, natural language instructions that might include restated facts, optimization parameters, or tool invocations. These are then used for supervised fine-tuning. The generation of self-edits is optimized via RL using downstream task performance as the reward. <br>● Two Domains Evaluated: <br>● Learning Framework: SEAL employs an outer RL loop (optimizing the self-edit generation policy) and an inner loop (applying the edits via supervised fine-tuning). The RL objective is approximated via filtered behavior cloning (ReSTEM), reinforcing only edits that lead to performance gains. <br>● Limitations and Forward View: While SEAL achieves compelling gains, it remains susceptible to catastrophic forgetting during sequential updates and incurs high computational cost due to repeated fine-tuning. Future directions include combining SEAL with continual learning strategies and extending it toward autonomous agents that update weights as part of long-horizon interactions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943), [Tweet](https://x.com/jyo_pari/status/1933350025284702697) |\n| 6) ComfyUI-R1  Introduces ComfyUI-R1, a 7B-parameter large reasoning model fine-tuned for automatic workflow generation in the ComfyUI ecosystem. Built on Qwen2.5-Coder and trained through a two-stage pipeline (supervised chain-of-thought reasoning followed by reinforcement learning), ComfyUI-R1 significantly outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches that rely on commercial models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5.  Key highlights:  <br>● Curated Workflow & Node KBs: The team collected and cleaned 27K community workflows down to 3.9K high-quality entries, each with JSON and code representations. They also assembled a node documentation KB using 7,238 nodes, some enhanced via Claude 3.5. <br>● CoT + RL Training: The model first undergoes supervised fine-tuning on simulated long CoT reasoning sequences involving node selection, planning, and code generation. Then, reinforcement learning with a fine-grained rule-metric hybrid reward encourages format validity, graph correctness, and node accuracy. <br>● Superior Performance: ComfyUI-R1 achieves 97% format validity and the highest node-level and graph-level F1 scores across benchmarks, beating all GPT-4o and Claude baselines. On the ComfyBench benchmark, it improves the execution pass rate to 67%, a full 11% above the previous best (ComfyAgent with GPT-4o). <br>● Qualitative Improvements: Case studies show ComfyUI-R1 creates more faithful, complex, and executable workflows than prior multi-agent approaches. Notably, it better aligns image generation outputs with user instructions in terms of style, structure, and coherence. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09790), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1933175492716224876) |\n| 7) Magistral  Mistral introduces Magistral, its first reasoning-focused LLM line, alongside a custom RL training stack that enables pure reinforcement learning from scratch. In contrast to prior approaches that rely on distillation from teacher models, Magistral trains directly using online RL with text-only data and custom reward shaping. The work yields two open models: Magistral Medium (based on Mistral Medium 3) and the open-sourced Magistral Small (24B), which is bootstrapped via SFT on Medium’s outputs, followed by RL.  Key insights:  <br>● Pure RL can rival distillation: Magistral Medium was trained without any reasoning traces and achieved a 50% boost in AIME-24 (pass@1) over the base model. Across reasoning benchmarks like LiveCodeBench and GPQA, it performs on par or better than DeepSeek-R1 despite lacking a distillation phase. <br>● Multilingual and multimodal generalization emerge: Reinforcement learning on textual math/code data surprisingly enhances multimodal reasoning and preserves instruction-following and tool-calling capabilities. Multilingual reasoning is achieved via simple reward shaping, enforcing the same-language output and chain-of-thought. <br>● Efficient async infrastructure: An asynchronous RL setup with NCCL weight broadcasting enables generators to roll out sequences continuously, receiving weight updates without blocking. This helps maintain on-policyness while maximizing GPU utilization. <br>● Reward shaping and CoT format enforcement: Rewards are conditioned on correct formatting (<thinktags, boxed answers, markdown blocks), correctness (via SymPy and test cases), length penalties, and language consistency (using fastText). Failure to meet formatting results in an immediate zero reward. <br>● Training heuristics and ablations: Analysis shows that reward and performance scale logarithmically with output length. Longer completions correlate with higher reward. RL moves weights in a low-dimensional space, as shown by PCA of checkpoints. Ablations on batch size, advantage normalization, and entropy (via ε ᵢg ) highlight stability tradeoffs. <br>● Open-source release: Magistral Small (24B) is released under Apache 2.0 and performs competitively under three setups, SFT-only, RL-only, and SFT+RL, with the final combo yielding the best results across math and code tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10910), [Tweet](https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/1932872389798605060) |\n| 8) Code Researcher  Code Researcher is a deep research agent designed to resolve complex bugs in large systems’ code by leveraging multi-step reasoning over semantics, patterns, and commit history. It significantly outperforms existing coding agents like SWE-agent on benchmarks like kBenchSyz, achieving a 58% crash-resolution rate by effectively gathering and filtering global context before generating and validating patches. | [Paper](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Code_Researcher-1.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/adityakanade0/status/1932044846124151199) |\n| 9) LLamaRL  LlamaRL is a fully-distributed, asynchronous reinforcement learning framework designed for efficient large-scale LLM training (8B to 405B+ models). It achieves up to 10.7× speedup over  DeepSpeed-Chat by combining co-located model offloading, asynchronous off-policy training (AIPO), and fast GPU-native weight sync (DDMA), while maintaining model quality across tasks like math reasoning. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24034), [Tweet](https://x.com/robinphysics/status/1931181903689719875) |\n| 10) Predicting a Cyclone’s Track with AI  Google DeepMind's Weather Lab debuts an interactive platform featuring an AI cyclone forecasting model that generates 50 ensemble scenarios up to 15 days ahead, outperforming traditional systems in track and intensity predictions. It integrates live and historical forecasts with baselines for evaluation and is now used by agencies like the U.S. National Hurricane Center to support early warnings. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-DeepMind.com/Blog/how-we-re-supporting-better-tropical-cyclone-prediction-with-ai/skillful-joint-probabilistic-weather-forecasting-from-marginals.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1933178918715953660) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 2 - June 8) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) The Illusion of Thinking  Investigates the capabilities and limitations of frontier Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) like Claude 3.7, DeepSeek-R1, and OpenAI’s o-series by systematically analyzing their performance on reasoning tasks as a function of problem complexity. Rather than relying on conventional math benchmarks, which suffer from contamination and lack structure, the authors evaluate LRMs using four controllable puzzles (Tower of Hanoi, Checker Jumping, River Crossing, and Blocks World) that allow fine-grained complexity scaling and transparent trace analysis.  Key findings:  <br>● Three complexity regimes: The study identifies distinct performance phases. In low-complexity tasks, non-thinking LLMs outperform LRMs due to more efficient and direct computation. In medium complexity, reasoning models show an advantage, leveraging longer chain-of-thoughts to correct errors. However, in high complexity, all models, regardless of their reasoning scaffolds, collapse to near-zero accuracy. <br>● Counterintuitive reasoning collapse: Surprisingly, LRMs reduce their reasoning effort (i.e., number of tokens used in thoughts) as problem complexity increases beyond a threshold. This suggests an internal scaling failure not caused by token limits but by intrinsic model behavior. <br>● Reasoning trace inefficiencies: LRMs frequently “overthink” on simple problems, finding correct answers early but continuing to explore incorrect paths. For moderate tasks, they correct late, and for complex ones, they fail to find any valid solution. Position-based accuracy analysis of thoughts reveals systematic shifts in when correct solutions are generated within the trace. <br>● Failure to execute explicit algorithms: Even when supplied with correct pseudocode (e.g., Tower of Hanoi recursion), models still failed at similar complexity points. This indicates that LRMs don’t just struggle to find solutions; they can’t reliably execute logical instructions either. <br>● Inconsistent behavior across puzzles: Models could perform >100 correct steps in Tower of Hanoi (N=10) but fail after 4 steps in River Crossing (N=3), suggesting performance correlates more with training data familiarity than inherent problem complexity. | [Paper](https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1931333830985883888) |\n| 2) From Tokens to Thoughts  This paper introduces an information-theoretic framework to examine whether LLMs organize semantic knowledge like humans, balancing compression and meaning. Drawing from Rate-Distortion Theory and the Information Bottleneck principle, the authors evaluate token embeddings from 30+ LLMs against classic human categorization benchmarks from cognitive psychology.  <br>● LLMs do form broad conceptual categories that align well with human groupings. Adjusted Mutual Information scores show LLM clusters consistently outperform random baselines, with even small encoder models like BERT matching or beating larger decoder-only models on this alignment task. <br>● However, LLMs struggle with fine-grained semantics. When tested on their ability to mirror human notions of item typicality (e.g., robin as a more typical bird than penguin), correlations between LLM embedding similarity and human ratings were weak and inconsistent. Most models failed to capture graded prototype structures evident in human cognition. <br>● Using their unified loss function L (balancing information complexity and semantic distortion), the authors find that LLMs produce statistically efficient clusters with lower entropy and distortion, while human conceptual clusters are less compact but preserve richer nuance. This suggests LLMs over-optimize for compression at the expense of meaning, unlike humans, who tolerate inefficiency to retain adaptive, flexible structure. <br>● The paper concludes that while LLMs can mimic surface-level categorization, they diverge fundamentally in how they represent meaning, highlighting a core gap between artificial and human semantic systems and offering a quantitative tool for improving human-aligned conceptual representations. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17117) |\n| 3) Knowledge or Reasoning  Introduces a fine-grained evaluation framework to dissect LLM thinking into two components: knowledge correctness and reasoning informativeness, measured via Knowledge Index (KI) and Information Gain (InfoGain), respectively. The authors apply this framework to evaluate how reasoning transfers across domains, particularly medical and mathematical, using Qwen2.5-7B and its DeepSeek-R1-distilled variant trained via SFT and RL.  Key findings include:  <br>● SFT improves knowledge but can harm reasoning: Supervised fine-tuning improves factual accuracy (e.g., 6.2% KI gain in medical tasks), but often leads to verbose or redundant reasoning that reduces InfoGain by 38.9% on average, compared to the base model. <br>● RL boosts both reasoning and knowledge in medical settings: Reinforcement learning enhances reasoning clarity and prunes incorrect knowledge, leading to a 12.4-point average gain in KI. It improves inference by guiding models toward more factually sound reasoning paths. <br>● Domain matters: While math tasks benefit more from reasoning (higher InfoGain), medical tasks rely heavily on domain knowledge (higher KI). In fact, KI shows a stronger correlation (0.998) with task accuracy than InfoGain (0.698) in medical benchmarks. <br>● Base models outperform R1-distilled versions in medicine: Qwen-Base consistently outperforms DeepSeek-R1-distilled models across accuracy, InfoGain, and KI. The R1-distilled model struggles with medical adaptation, likely due to pretraining bias toward math/code domains | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02126), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1930640490786951365) |\n| 4) Open Thoughts  This paper presents OpenThoughts3, a systematic recipe for curating supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data that advances the performance of open-source reasoning models. The authors develop OpenThinker3-7B, a 7B parameter model trained on their new 1.2M example dataset (OpenThoughts3-1.2M) derived from over 1,000 controlled experiments. Despite using no reinforcement learning, OpenThinker3-7B outperforms all other open-data 7B and 8B models on standard math, code, and science reasoning benchmarks, even beating models trained with  larger-scale or mixed SFT+RL pipelines. Key insights and contributions:  <br>● Best-in-class 7B open model: OpenThinker3-7B achieves state-of-the-art results on AIME25 (53.3%), LiveCodeBench (51.7%), and GPQA Diamond (53.7%), outperforming DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B by 15–20 percentage points across tasks. <br>● Scaling laws with clean design: The authors ablate every step in the data pipeline, question sourcing, filtering, teacher choice, deduplication, and answer sampling, showing how each incrementally lifts performance. For instance, using multiple answers per question (16×) improved results more than simply increasing question diversity. <br>● QwQ-32B as a better teacher than stronger models: Surprisingly, QwQ-32B yielded better student models than DeepSeek-R1 or Phi-4 despite lower benchmark scores, suggesting teacher choice affects trace quality more than raw performance. <br>● Filtering matters more than verification: Question filtering based on response length and LLM-estimated difficulty was more predictive of downstream gains than traditional heuristics (e.g., fastText) or even filtering based on correctness verification, which had negligible effects. <br>● Data quality over diversity: Mixing only the top 1–2 question sources per domain consistently outperformed using many sources, indicating that question quality is more important than dataset heterogeneity. <br>● Open-source impact: The full datasets and models are released at [openthoughts.ai](http://openthoughts.ai/), providing a reproducible benchmark for open reasoning research. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04178), [Tweet](https://x.com/lschmidt3/status/1930717405812269273) |\n| 5) Coding Agents with Multimodal Browsing  Introduces OpenHands-Versa, a unified agent designed to perform strongly across diverse domains, coding, web browsing, and multimodal information access, by equipping a single agent with three general capabilities: code execution, multimodal web browsing, and file/search access. In contrast to specialist or multi-agent systems optimized for narrow domains, OpenHands-Versa aims to solve a wide variety of real-world tasks with minimal architectural complexity.  Key highlights:  <br>● Unified Toolset, Superior Coverage: OpenHands-Versa integrates visual web browsing, search API access, and multimodal file processing into the OpenHands coding framework. Despite its simplicity, it surpasses specialized agents across three benchmarks: SWE-Bench Multimodal (+9.1%), GAIA (+1.3%), and The Agent Company (+9.1%) in success rates. <br>● Benchmark Generalization: The agent matches or outperforms multi-agent systems like OWL-roleplaying and Magentic-One, which struggle to generalize across domains. For example, OWL-roleplaying, though strong on GAIA, performs poorly on The Agent Company due to limited tool generality. <br>● Domain-Aware Tool Use: Analysis reveals that OpenHands-Versa effectively adapts its tool usage per benchmark (e.g., search APIs in GAIA, browser in The Agent Company, and visual validation in SWE-Bench M), unlike its predecessor, OpenHands, which misuses or lacks crucial tools like search. <br>● Minimal Agent, Strong Results: By relying on a single-agent design and Claude-3.7 or Claude Sonnet-4 as backbone LLMs, OpenHands-Versa achieves SOTA results without per-task tool customization. For example, it attains 64.24% on GAIA val split, outperforming multi-agent baselines by up to +18%. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03011), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1930277871999955166) |\n| 6) Self-Challenging Language Model Agents  Proposes a novel self-improvement method for multi-turn tool-use LLM agents, called the  Self-Challenging Agent (SCA). It trains LLMs entirely from tasks they generate themselves, avoiding the need for human-annotated tasks or evaluations. The framework introduces a new task format called Code-as-Task (CaT), ensuring generated tasks are feasible, verifiable, and challenging. SCA is shown to double performance in a self-improvement setting and significantly boost performance in distillation.  Key contributions and findings:  <br>● Self-generated tasks via dual-agent roles: The agent alternates between a challenger role, where it explores the environment and creates tasks, and an executor role, where it learns to solve these tasks via reinforcement learning. The process is designed to emulate how human annotators interact with tools to design meaningful tasks. <br>● Code-as-Task (CaT) formulation: Each synthetic task includes an instruction, a Python-based verification function, a working solution, and several failure cases. This structure ensures task quality by filtering out trivial, impossible, or non-verifiable tasks using automatic code execution checks. <br>● Strong results in both distillation and self-improvement: SCA improves the Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct model’s success rate from 12.0% to 23.5% when learning from its own tasks. In the distillation setting (using a 70B teacher), SCA lifts performance to 32.2% Pass@1, outperforming the prior PAE baseline across all tool-use environments. <br>● Human annotation and ablation confirm task quality: Tasks generated with CaT significantly reduce false positives and negatives compared to PAE. A detailed analysis shows CaT’s filtering removes flawed tasks while retaining diversity when used with stronger models like Llama-3.1-70B. <br>● Scaling and training dynamics: More diverse tasks (not just more trajectories per task) yield better generalization, emphasizing the importance of broad synthetic coverage. Online RL methods like PPO and GRPO can further boost performance, but at higher tuning and compute cost. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01716), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1930748591242424439) |\n| 7) AlphaOne  Introduces a universal framework, α1, for modulating the reasoning progress of large reasoning models (LRMs) during inference. Rather than relying on rigid or automatic schedules, α1 explicitly controls when and how models engage in “slow thinking” using a tunable parameter α. The method dynamically inserts “wait” tokens to encourage deeper reasoning and then deterministically ends slow thinking with a “</think>” token to prompt efficient answer generation. This yields better accuracy and efficiency than previous test-time scaling approaches.  Key insights:  <br>● Slow-then-fast reasoning outperforms other strategies: Contrary to human intuition (fast-then-slow), models benefit from beginning with slow reasoning before transitioning to faster inference. This “frontloaded effort” schedule leads to more accurate problem solving. <br>● Dense modulation via α1 boosts accuracy and efficiency: By continuously adjusting reasoning pace via α-scheduled “wait” token insertions, α1 outperforms existing test-time strategies like s1 (monotonic increase) and CoD (monotonic decrease), achieving up to +6.15% accuracy gain while using up to 14% fewer tokens on some benchmarks. <br>● Linear annealing is the most effective scheduling strategy: Among several tested functions for controlling “wait” insertion (constant, linear increase, exponential/linear anneal), linear anneal—gradually reducing “wait” token frequency, proved best across multiple models and datasets. <br>● Post-α moment modulation is critical: Simply inserting “wait” tokens leads to inertia in slow thinking. α1 ensures efficient termination by replacing future “wait” tokens with “</think>”, effectively forcing a shift to fast reasoning and boosting performance by up to +20% in some tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24863), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1929551555948400840) |\n| 8) Common Pile v0.1  The Common Pile v0.1 is an 8TB dataset of openly licensed text designed for LLM pretraining, addressing legal and ethical concerns of unlicensed data use. Two 7B parameter models trained on it, Comma v0.1-1T and 2T, achieve performance comparable to LLaMA 1 and 2, and the dataset, code, and model checkpoints are all publicly released. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05209), [Tweet](https://x.com/AiEleuther/status/1931021637991755906) |\n| 9) RewardBench 2  RewardBench 2 is a new multi-skill benchmark for evaluating reward models with more challenging human prompts and stronger correlation to downstream performance. It highlights gaps in the current  reward model's effectiveness and aims to support more rigorous evaluation, showing existing models score ~20 points lower than their predecessor. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01937), [Tweet](https://x.com/saumyamalik44/status/1929654864604549348) |\n| 10) Memorization in LLMs  This study introduces a method to quantify how much a model memorizes versus generalizes, estimating GPT models have a capacity of ~3.6 bits per parameter. By training hundreds of models, the authors show that memorization saturates with data before generalization (“grokking”) kicks in, and derive new scaling laws linking capacity, data size, and membership inference. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.24832) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 26 - June 1) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) New Lens on RAG Systems  Introduces a new conceptual and empirical framework for analyzing RAG systems through the lens of sufficient context, whether the retrieved content alone enables answering a query. This notion helps decouple retrieval failures from generation errors in LLMs, providing clarity on model behavior under different contextual adequacy.  Key findings:  <br>● New definition and classifier for sufficient context: The authors formalize “sufficient context” as context that plausibly allows answering a query, without requiring ground truth. They develop a high-accuracy LLM-based *autorater* (Gemini 1.5 Pro, 93% accuracy) to label instances as having sufficient or insufficient context, enabling large-scale evaluation without needing ground-truth answers. <br>● Sufficient context ≠ guaranteed correctness: Even when sufficient context is present, state-of-the-art LLMs like GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, and Gemini 1.5 still hallucinate answers more often than they abstain. Conversely, models can sometimes answer correctly despite insufficient context, likely leveraging parametric memory. <br>● Benchmarks contain substantial insufficient context: Analysis of datasets like HotPotQA, Musique, and FreshQA shows that a significant fraction of queries (e.g., >50% in Musique and HotPotQA) lack sufficient context, even with curated or oracle retrieval setups. <br>● Selective generation improves factuality: The authors propose a “selective RAG” method that combines model self-confidence with the sufficient context autorater to decide whether to answer or abstain. This yields consistent 2–10% gains in correctness (of answered queries) across Gemini, GPT, and Gemma models. <br>● Fine-tuning alone is insufficient: Attempts to fine-tune smaller models like Mistral 3 7B for better abstention (e.g., training them to say “I don’t know” on insufficient examples) modestly increased abstention but often reduced accuracy or failed to meaningfully curb hallucinations. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06037), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1927737131478188295) |\n| 2) Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents  This work presents the Darwin Gödel Machine (DGM), a system that advances the vision of self-improving AI by combining self-referential code modification with open-ended evolutionary  search. Unlike the original Gödel machine, which requires provable benefits for code changes (a practically intractable constraint), the DGM adopts an empirical approach: it modifies its own codebase and evaluates improvements on coding benchmarks.  Key contributions and findings:  <br>● Self-referential self-improvement loop: The DGM starts with a single coding agent that edits its own Python-based codebase to improve its ability to read, write, and execute code using frozen foundation models (FMs). Each modification is evaluated on benchmarks like SWE-bench and Polyglot, with only successful agents retained for further iterations. <br>● Open-ended exploration via evolutionary archive: Inspired by Darwinian evolution, the system maintains an archive of all prior agents and samples parents based on performance and novelty. This enables exploration beyond local optima and supports continual innovation, including revisiting previously suboptimal variants that become valuable stepping stones later. <br>● Empirical performance gains: Across 80 iterations, DGM boosts coding success on SWE-bench from 20.0% to 50.0% and on Polyglot from 14.2% to 30.7%, outperforming strong baselines that lack either self-improvement or open-endedness. Its best agents match or exceed leading human-designed, open-source coding agents. <br>● Emergent tool and workflow improvements: Through self-improvement, DGM enhances its capabilities by evolving more granular editing tools, retry and evaluation mechanisms, history-aware patch generation, and code summarization for long contexts. <br>● Generalization across models and tasks: Agents discovered by DGM generalize well when transferred across foundation models (e.g., Claude 3.5 to 3.7, o3-mini) and programming languages, demonstrating robust improvements not overfit to a particular setup. <br>● Safety-conscious design: All experiments were sandboxed, monitored, and scoped to confined domains. The paper also discusses how future self-improvement systems could evolve safer, more interpretable behaviors if these traits are part of the evaluation criteria. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954), [Tweet](https://x.com/hardmaru/status/1928284568756629756) |\n| 3) An Operating System for Memory-Augmented Generation in LLMs Introduces a unified operating system for managing memory LLMs, addressing a key limitation in  current architectures: their lack of structured, persistent, and governable memory. While today's LLMs rely primarily on parametric memory (model weights) and limited short-term context, MemOS proposes a comprehensive memory lifecycle and management infrastructure designed to support continual learning, behavioral consistency, and knowledge evolution.  Key contributions and components include:  <br>● Three-tier memory taxonomy: MemOS distinguishes between parametric memory (long-term weights), activation memory (short-term runtime states), and plaintext memory (editable, external content). These types are unified through a shared abstraction called the Memory Cube (MemCube), enabling seamless transformation (e.g., plaintext to parametric) and lifecycle governance. <br>● MemCube abstraction: Each MemCube encapsulates memory metadata (creation time, type, access policies, etc.) and a semantic payload (text, tensors, LoRA patches). This enables dynamic scheduling, traceable updates, and interoperability between modules and agents. <br>● Modular OS-style architecture: MemOS consists of three layers—Interface (user/API interaction), Operation (memory scheduling, lifecycle management), and Infrastructure (storage, access governance), that work together to manage memory parsing, injection, transformation, and archival. <br>● Closed-loop execution flow: Every interaction (e.g., prompt response) can trigger memory operations governed by scheduling rules and lifecycle policies. Retrieved memory can be injected into generation, stored in archives, or transformed into other types for long-term use. <br>● Vision for a memory-centric future: The paper proposes “memory training” as the next frontier beyond pretraining and finetuning, enabling models that learn continuously. Future work includes cross-model memory sharing, self-evolving memory blocks, and a decentralized memory marketplace. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22101), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1928116365640225222) |\n| 4) Building Production-Grade Conversational Agents with Workflow Graphs This paper presents a pragmatic, production-ready framework for building LLM-powered conversational agents using workflow graphs, with a specific focus on e-commerce scenarios. Instead of relying solely on end-to-end generation, the authors design agents using a directed acyclic graph (DAG), enabling flexible yet controllable interactions that adhere to strict business rules and format constraints.  Key contributions and findings include:  <br>● Multi-State DAG Framework: Each node in the graph corresponds to a conversational state with its own system prompt, tool access, and execution rules. This structure enables robust constraint handling (e.g., avoiding hallucinated responses or non-compliant suggestions) by localizing logic and formatting within specific graph nodes. <br>● Fine-Tuning via Response Masking: Because conversation turns come from different states in the DAG, the authors introduce a fine-tuning strategy that applies selective loss masking to train LLMs only on responses relevant to a specific node’s context. This prevents prompt conflicts and improves adherence to node-specific constraints. <br>● Real-World Deployment and Results: In a deployment across KakaoTalk and web platforms, the graph-based approach significantly outperformed baseline agents and even GPT-4o across key metrics like task accuracy (+52%) and format adherence (+50%). In human preference tests, their internal model was favored over GPT-4o in 63% of real-world user cases, especially in product recommendation and safety-critical tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23006), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1928492639906607297) |\n| 5) Spurios Rewards  This work challenges prevailing assumptions about reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) in mathematical reasoning tasks. The authors show that Qwen2.5-Math models can improve significantly under RL, even when trained with spurious or flawed rewards.  <br>● Surprisingly effective spurious rewards: The Qwen2.5-Math-7B model gains +21.4% accuracy with random rewards, +16.4% with format-based rewards, and +24.6% when explicitly trained on incorrect answers. These are close to the +28.8% gain from ground-truth reward signals, suggesting that RLVR surfaces latent capabilities rather than teaching new reasoning skills. <br>● Model-specific generalization: Spurious rewards fail on other models like Llama3 or OLMo2. Only Qwen models consistently benefit, which the authors attribute to differences in pretraining. Notably, Qwen2.5-Math exhibits a unique “code reasoning” behavior, generating Python-like code to solve problems, which becomes more frequent post-RLVR and correlates strongly with accuracy. <br>● Mechanism behind gains: The authors trace performance improvements to a shift in reasoning strategies. Most of the gain comes from language→code transitions, where the model switches from natural language to code reasoning during RLVR. Interventions that explicitly increase code usage (e.g., rewarding code-like responses or using a code-forcing prompt) boost performance further, but only on Qwen models. <br>● Clipping bias enables learning from noise: Even with random rewards, performance improves due to GRPO’s clipping mechanism, which biases training toward reinforcing the model’s high-probability behaviors. These behaviors (e.g., code reasoning) happen to align with correctness in Qwen models but not in others. | [Paper](https://github.com/ruixin31/Rethink_RLVR/blob/main/paper/rethink-rlvr.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/StellaLisy/status/1927392717593526780) |\n| 6) Learn to Reason without External Rewards  Proposes a method for training LLMs via reinforcement learning without any external rewards or labeled data. Instead, it uses the model’s own self-certainty, a confidence measure based on KL divergence from uniform, as the sole intrinsic reward. This self-improvement strategy, part of the broader Reinforcement Learning from Internal Feedback (RLIF) paradigm, bypasses the limitations of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), which requires domain-specific verifiers and gold-standard outputs.  Key highlights:  <br>● INTUITOR matches GRPO without external supervision: When applied to mathematical reasoning tasks like GSM8K and MATH500, INTUITOR achieves performance on par with GRPO (a strong RLVR method), even without using gold solutions. On out-of-domain tasks such as LiveCodeBench and CRUXEval, INTUITOR generalizes better, achieving higher gains than GRPO (+65% vs. 0% and +76% vs. +44%, respectively). <br>● Rapid early learning and enhanced instruction-following: INTUITOR significantly boosts early training performance, particularly on models like Qwen2.5-1.5B, and improves adherence to chat-style instructions, reducing repetitive or nonsensical output. <br>● Emergent structured reasoning: Trained models display spontaneous reasoning even when not explicitly required, often generating explanations or planning steps before producing code or answers. This behavior correlates with better transfer performance to domains like code generation. <br>● Self-certainty as a robust, hack-resistant signal: Unlike fixed reward models prone to exploitation, online self-certainty adapts with the model and avoids reward hacking. INTUITOR-trained models show the strongest correlation between self-certainty and correct answers, confirmed by statistical tests. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19590), [Tweet](https://x.com/xuandongzhao/status/1927270931874910259) |\n| 7) Learn to Reason via Mixture-of-Thought  While most prior approaches train with a single modality and only ensemble during inference, this work introduces Mixture-of-Thought (MoT) to jointly train and infer across modalities, resulting in notable gains in logical reasoning performance. Key findings:  <br>● Three-modality synergy: MoT uses natural language for interpretability, code for structured procedural reasoning, and truth tables to explicitly enumerate logical cases. Error analysis shows that truth tables significantly reduce common LLM failure modes like missing branches or invalid converses. <br>● Self-evolving training: MoT introduces an iterative, on-policy training loop where the model generates, filters, and learns from its own multi-modal reasoning traces. This joint training outperforms both single-modality and partial-modality setups. <br>● Inference via voting: At test time, MoT generates predictions from each modality and selects the majority answer, leading to robust predictions. Results show up to +11.7pp average accuracy gains on FOLIO and ProofWriter, with 9B models matching GPT-4 + Logic-LM performance. <br>● Stronger on harder tasks: MoT delivers the largest improvements on problems with higher reasoning depth (5–8 steps). It also shows superior test-time scaling, with more diverse and accurate outputs under fixed inference budgets. MoT demonstrates that LLMs can achieve significantly more robust logical reasoning by reasoning like humans (using multiple modes of thought), not just by sampling more from a single modality. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15817), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1925574200405721210) |\n| 8) QwenLong-L1  A new reinforcement learning framework that scales large reasoning models (LRMs) from short to long contexts using progressive context scaling and hybrid rewards. It achieves top performance on seven long-context benchmarks, surpassing models like OpenAI-o3-mini and Qwen3-235B-A22B, and matching Claude-3.7-Sonnet-Thinking, demonstrating strong reasoning with up to 120K token inputs. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.17667) |\n| 9) End-to-End Policy Optimization for GUI Agents  ARPO introduces an end-to-end reinforcement learning method for training GUI agents using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with experience replay. It significantly improves in-domain performance on the OSWorld benchmark, outperforming baselines by up to 6.7%, while offering modest gains on out-of-domain tasks and enabling self-corrective behaviors through structured reward feedback. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.16282), [Tweet](https://x.com/TsingYoga/status/1926646893175615943) |\n| 10) Generalist Agent Enabling Scalable Agentic Reasoning  Proposes Alita, a generalist agent framework that enables scalable agentic reasoning through minimal predefinition and maximal self-evolution. Unlike traditional agents reliant on handcrafted tools, Alita autonomously constructs reusable MCPs (Model Context Protocols) using web search and code  synthesis, outperforming more complex systems like OpenAI DeepResearch and OctoTools on GAIA, MathVista, and PathVQA benchmarks. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.20286) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 19 - May 25) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) Visual Planning  Proposes a novel reasoning paradigm that replaces language-based planning with image-based reasoning. The authors argue that language is not always the optimal medium for tasks involving spatial or physical reasoning. They introduce Visual Planning, where reasoning is executed as a sequence of visual states (images) without any text mediation, allowing models to “think” directly in images. This is realized through a reinforcement learning framework called VPRL (Visual Planning via Reinforcement Learning), which trains a vision-only model (LVM-3B) to plan using images.  Key contributions and findings:  <br>● Visual-only reasoning paradigm: The authors formally define planning as autoregressive visual state generation, trained using image-only data. Unlike multimodal LLMs that map vision to language and reason textually, this approach performs inference entirely in the visual modality, sidestepping the modality gap. <br>● VPRL framework: A two-stage training process is introduced. Stage 1 uses supervised learning on randomly sampled trajectories to ensure format consistency and promote exploration. Stage 2 applies GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization) to refine planning behavior via progress-based rewards, avoiding invalid or regressive moves. <br>● Superior performance: On three visual navigation tasks (FronzeLake, Maze, and MiniBehavior), VPRL outperforms language-based models (e.g., Gemini 2.5 Pro, Qwen 2.5-VL) by over 40% in Exact Match scores. It also generalizes better to out-of-distribution tasks (larger grid sizes), with visual planners degrading more gracefully than textual ones. <br>● Visual planning yields robustness and interpretability: Unlike textual outputs, visual plans enable step-by-step inspection and show stronger adherence to physical constraints. Qualitative examples illustrate how VPRL can avoid invalid moves and recover from non-optimal paths, while language models often hallucinate or misinterpret spatial layouts. <br>● Exploration and invalid action reduction: The random policy initialization in Stage 1 enables better exploration than supervised baselines (VPFT), as evidenced by higher entropy and fewer invalid actions. This leads to a more effective RL stage and ultimately stronger planning capabilities. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11409), [Tweet](https://x.com/_yixu/status/1924497238908375072) |\n| 2) EfficientLLM  Introduces the first large-scale, empirical benchmark for evaluating efficiency trade-offs in LLMs across architecture, fine-tuning, and inference. Conducted on a high-performance cluster (48×GH200, 8×H200 GPUs), the study evaluates over 100 model–technique pairs spanning 0.5B–72B parameters, using six metrics: memory utilization, compute utilization, latency, throughput, energy consumption, and compression rate.  Key insights include:  <br>● No one-size-fits-all solution: Every efficiency technique improves some metrics while degrading others. For instance, MoE boosts accuracy and reduces FLOPs but increases VRAM usage by ~40%, while int4 quantization reduces memory and energy by up to 3.9× at a small 3–5% performance cost. <br>● Resource-specific optima: Efficiency depends on context. MQA achieves the best memory-latency trade-off for constrained devices; MLA has the lowest perplexity for high-quality generation; RSLoRA is more efficient than LoRA only for models above 14B parameters. <br>● Cross-modal transferability: Efficiency techniques like MQA and PEFT generalize well to vision and vision-language models, improving FID scores and maintaining strong trade-offs. <br>● Training and tuning: LoRA and DoRA perform best for small models (1–3B), while RSLoRA excels at large scale (≥14B). Parameter freezing achieves the lowest latency but at a slight cost to accuracy. <br>● Inference: int4 post-training quantization yields the highest compression and throughput gains with minor quality degradation, while bfloat16 consistently outperforms float16 in latency and energy on modern GPUs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13840), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1925191664475222186) |\n| 3) J1  Introduces a novel training approach for LLMs to act as evaluators (LLM-as-a-Judge) by explicitly incentivizing thoughtful reasoning during judgment. Instead of relying solely on prompting or preference fine-tuning, J1 employs online reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards to teach models to think through evaluations systematically.  Key insights:  <br>● Verifiable framing for judgment: J1 converts both verifiable (e.g., math) and non-verifiable (e.g., user queries) prompts into tasks with verifiable rewards by generating synthetic preference pairs. This reframing enables the use of reinforcement learning and consistent training signals across diverse tasks. <br>● Chain-of-thought-driven RL optimization: J1 trains models to reason through evaluations via explicit thought traces, including outlining evaluation criteria, reference answer generation, and self-comparison before producing judgments. Two model types are trained: Pairwise-J1 (outputs verdicts) and Pointwise-J1 (outputs quality scores). Pairwise-J1 models are further improved by consistency rewards to reduce positional bias. <br>● Superior performance at scale: J1-Llama-8B and J1-Llama-70B outperform existing 8B and 70B LLM judges across five benchmarks (PPE, RewardBench, RM-Bench, JudgeBench, FollowBenchEval), beating models trained with much more data like DeepSeek-GRM and distillations of DeepSeek-R1. J1-70B even surpasses o1-mini and closes the gap with the much larger R1 model, particularly on non-verifiable tasks. <br>● Pointwise-J1 mitigates positional bias: While pairwise judges can flip verdicts based on response order, Pointwise-J1 (trained only from pairwise supervision) offers position-consistent scoring with fewer ties and better consistency. Both judge types benefit from test-time scaling via self-consistency, further improving reliability. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10320), [Tweet](https://x.com/jaseweston/status/1923186392420450545) |\n| 4) The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction- Following in LLMs  Explores an unexpected flaw in reasoning-augmented large language models (RLLMs): while chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting often boosts performance on complex reasoning tasks, it can  degrade instruction-following accuracy. The authors evaluate 15 models (e.g., GPT, Claude, LLaMA, DeepSeek) on two instruction-following benchmarks and find that CoT prompting consistently reduces performance across nearly all models and datasets.  Key findings:  <br>● Reasoning hurts instruction adherence: On IFEval, 13 of 14 models saw accuracy drops with CoT; all 15 models regressed on ComplexBench. For example, Meta-LLaMA3-8B’s IFEval accuracy dropped from 75.2% to 59.0% with CoT. Even reasoning-tuned models like Claude3.7-Sonnet-Think performed slightly worse than their base counterparts. <br>● Why reasoning fails: Manual case studies show CoT can help with structural formatting (e.g., JSON or Markdown) and precise lexical constraints (like exact punctuation). But it often hurts by (a) neglecting simple constraints during high-level content planning and (b) inserting helpful but constraint-violating content (e.g., translations in language-restricted outputs). <br>● Attention-based diagnosis: The authors introduce a constraint attention metric and find that CoT reduces the model's focus on instruction-relevant tokens, especially in the answer generation phase. This diminished constraint awareness correlates with performance drops. <br>● Mitigation strategies: Four techniques are proposed to selectively apply reasoning: | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11423), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1924458157444579700) |\n| 5) Generalizable AI Predicts Immunotherapy Outcomes Across Cancers and Treatments  Introduces COMPASS, a concept bottleneck-based foundation model that predicts patient response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) using tumor transcriptomic data. Unlike prior biomarkers (TMB, PD-L1, or fixed gene signatures), COMPASS generalizes across cancer types, ICI regimens, and clinical contexts with strong interpretability and performance.  Key contributions:  <br>● Concept Bottleneck Architecture: COMPASS transforms transcriptomic data into 44 high-level immune-related concepts (e.g., T cell exhaustion, IFN-γ signaling, macrophage activity) derived from 132 curated gene sets. This structure provides mechanistic interpretability while enabling pan-cancer modeling. <br>● Pan-Cancer Pretraining and Flexible Fine-Tuning: Trained on 10,184 tumors across 33 cancer types using contrastive learning, and evaluated on 16 ICI-treated clinical cohorts (7 cancers, 6 ICI drugs). COMPASS supports full, partial, linear, and zero-shot fine-tuning modes, making it robust in both data-rich and data-poor settings. <br>● Superior Generalization and Accuracy: In leave-one-cohort-out testing, COMPASS improved precision by 8.5%, AUPRC by 15.7%, and MCC by 12.3% over 22 baseline methods. It also outperformed in zero-shot settings, across drug classes (e.g., predicting anti-CTLA4 outcomes after training on anti-PD1), and in small-cohort fine-tuning. <br>● Mechanistic Insight into Resistance: Personalized response maps reveal actionable biological mechanisms. For instance, inflamed non-responders show resistance via TGF-β signaling, vascular exclusion, CD4+ T cell dysfunction, or B cell deficiency. These go beyond classical “inflamed/desert/excluded” phenotypes, offering nuanced patient stratification. <br>● Clinical Utility and Survival Stratification: COMPASS-predicted responders had significantly better survival in a held-out phase II bladder cancer trial (HR = 4.7, *p* = 1.7e-7), outperforming standard biomarkers (TMB, PD-L1 IHC, immune phenotype). | [Paper](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.01.25326820v1) |\n| 6) Towards a Deeper Understanding of Reasoning in LLMs  This paper investigates whether LLMs can adapt and reason in dynamic environments, moving beyond static benchmarks. Using the SmartPlay benchmark—a suite of four interactive games that require diverse cognitive skills—the authors evaluate three prompting strategies: self-reflection, heuristic mutation (via an Oracle), and planning. They test these methods across models of varying size (Llama3-8B to Llama3.3-70B) and draw several conclusions on how model scale and prompting interact with task complexity.  Key findings:  <br>● Model size dominates performance, especially on reactive and structured reasoning tasks. Larger models (e.g., Llama3.3-70B) significantly outperform smaller ones on tasks like Tower of Hanoi and Bandit, where fast exploitation or spatial planning is critical. <br>● Advanced prompting helps smaller models more, particularly on complex tasks. For example, Llama3-8B with Reflection+Oracle surpasses Llama3.3-70B’s baseline on Rock-Paper-Scissors. However, these strategies introduce high variance and can lead to worse-than-baseline performance depending on the run. <br>● Long prompts hurt smaller models on simple tasks. In Bandit, adding reflective reasoning decreases performance by distracting the model or prolonging exploration. This aligns with prior findings on prompt length and signal-to-noise ratio. <br>● Prompting strategy gains depend on task type. Instruction following improves across all models, while long-text understanding benefits mid-sized models. In contrast, strategies show weak or negative impact on planning, reasoning, and spatial challenges for large models. <br>● Dense reward shaping improves performance more reliably than prompting. In follow-up experiments, modifying sparse reward signals (especially in Hanoi and Messenger) led to more consistent gains than tweaking prompt strategies. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10543), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1924182825693061403) |\n| 7) AdaptThink  This paper introduces AdaptThink, an RL framework designed to help reasoning models decide when to use detailed chain-of-thought reasoning (“Thinking”) versus directly producing an answer (“NoThinking”), based on task difficulty. This approach challenges the prevailing assumption that deep reasoning should be applied uniformly across all problems, showing that skipping the “thinking” step often yields better efficiency and even higher accuracy on simpler tasks.  Key insights:  <br>● NoThinking outperforms Thinking on simple problems: The authors demonstrate that models like DeepSeek-R1 perform better (in both accuracy and efficiency) when using NoThinking mode, an empty <think></think>token prompt, for easy problems. For example, on Level 1 MATH500 problems, NoThinking achieved slightly better accuracy with significantly fewer tokens used. <br>● AdaptThink learns to switch modes: The proposed RL algorithm introduces a constrained optimization that promotes NoThinking as long as accuracy doesn’t degrade. It uses a novel importance sampling strategy to enable cold-start learning of both modes from the beginning, avoiding the collapse into all-Thinking behavior. <br>● Massive gains in efficiency and performance: On GSM8K, MATH500, and AIME 2024, AdaptThink reduced response length by up to 53% and improved accuracy by up to 2.4% over DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B. It also outperformed prior methods (e.g., DPOShortest, TLMRE, ModelMerging) in the trade-off between accuracy and response length. <br>● Robustness and generalization: AdaptThink generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks such as MMLU, maintaining or improving accuracy while reducing token usage. It also avoids \"implicit thinking\" in NoThinking responses, showing controlled behavior during inference. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13417) |\n| 8) MedBrowseComp  MedBrowseComp is a new benchmark designed to evaluate LLM agents’ ability to perform complex, multi-hop medical fact-finding by browsing real-world, domain-specific web resources. Testing over 1,000 clinically grounded questions, the benchmark reveals major capability gaps in current models, with top systems achieving only 50% accuracy and GUI-based agents performing even worse. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14963), [Tweet](https://x.com/shan23chen/status/1925549357308236029) |\n| 9) ARC-AGI-2  ARC-AGI-2 is a new benchmark designed to push the boundaries of AI reasoning beyond the original ARC-AGI. It introduces harder, more unique tasks emphasizing compositional generalization and human-like fluid intelligence, with baseline AI models performing below 5% accuracy despite strong ARC-AGI-1 results. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11831), [Tweet](https://x.com/arcprize/status/1924869061542085041) |\n| 10) Teaching MLLMs to Think with Images  GRIT is a new method that enables MLLMs to perform grounded visual reasoning by interleaving natural language with bounding box references. Using a reinforcement learning approach (GRPO-GR), GRIT achieves strong reasoning and grounding performance with as few as 20 image-question-answer triplets, outperforming baselines in both accuracy and visual coherence. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15879), [Tweet](https://x.com/YFan_UCSC/status/1925719736043569188) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 12 - May 18) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) AlphaEvolve  AlphaEvolve is a coding agent developed by Google DeepMind that uses LLM-guided evolution to discover new algorithms and optimize computational systems. It orchestrates a pipeline where LLMs generate code changes, evaluators provide feedback, and an evolutionary loop iteratively improves solutions. AlphaEvolve shows that LLMs can go beyond conventional code generation and assist in scientific and algorithmic discovery.  Key highlights:   <br>● Novel Algorithm Discovery: AlphaEvolve discovered a new  algorithm to multiply 4×4 complex-valued matrices using 48  multiplications, the first improvement over Strassen’s 1969 result (49  multiplications) in this setting.   <br>● Broad Mathematical Impact: Applied to 50+ open problems  in mathematics, AlphaEvolve matched or exceeded state-of-the-art in  ~95% of cases. For example, it improved bounds on Erdős’s minimum  overlap problem and kissing numbers in 11 dimensions.   <br>● Infrastructure Optimization at Google: AlphaEvolve  improved key components of Google’s compute stack:   <br>● Advanced Pipeline Design: AlphaEvolve uses ensembles of  Gemini 2.0 Flash and Pro models. It supports rich prompts (past  trials, evaluations, explicit context), multi-objective optimization,  and evaluation cascades for robust idea filtering. Programs are  evolved at full-file scale rather than function-level only, a key  differentiator from predecessors like FunSearch.   <br>● Ablations Confirm Component Importance: Experiments  show that evolution, prompt context, full-file evolution, and using  strong LLMs all contribute significantly to performance. Removing any  one of these reduces effectiveness. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-DeepMind.com/Blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/AlphaEvolve.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1922669321559347498) |\n| 2) LLMs Get Lost in Multi-Turn Conversation  Investigates how top LLMs degrade in performance during underspecified, multi-turn interactions, common in real-world usage but rarely evaluated. The authors introduce a novel \"sharded simulation\" framework that breaks down fully-specified instructions into gradual conversation shards, simulating how users naturally provide information over time.  Key findings:   <br>● Massive performance drop: Across 15 top LLMs (e.g.,  GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 3.7), average performance dropped 39%  in multi-turn vs. single-turn settings. Even a two-turn interaction  was enough to cause a significant decline.   <br>● High unreliability, not just low aptitude:  Decomposition shows only a small drop in   best-case capability (aptitude) but a 112% increase in unreliability,  meaning models are wildly inconsistent depending on how the  conversation unfolds.   <br>● Root causes of failure: Through log analysis and  experiments, the paper identifies four major issues:   <br>● Sharded evaluation tasks: The authors built 600+  multi-turn simulations across 6 tasks (coding, math, SQL, API calls,  summarization, and table captioning), showing consistent degradation  across domains.   <br>● Agent-style interventions only partially help:  Techniques like recap and snowballing (repeating all prior turns)  improved outcomes by ~15–20% but did not restore single-turn levels,  suggesting that model internals, not prompting strategies, are the  bottleneck.   <br>● Temperature and test-time compute don't  solve the issue: Even at temperature 0.0 or with reasoning  models (like o3 and DeepSeek-R1), models remained highly unreliable in  multi-turn settings. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1922755721428598988) |\n| 3) RL for Reasoning in LLMs with One Training Example  This paper shows that Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) can significantly improve mathematical reasoning in LLMs even when trained with just a single example. On the Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B model, one-shot RLVR improves accuracy on the MATH500 benchmark from 36.0% to 73.6%, nearly matching performance achieved with over 1,200 examples. Two-shot RLVR (with two examples) even slightly surpasses that, matching results from full 7.5k example training.   <br>● Extreme data efficiency: A single training example (π₁₃)  boosts MATH500 accuracy to 73.6% and average performance across six  math benchmarks to 35.7%, rivaling full-dataset RLVR. Two-shot RLVR  goes further (74.8% and 36.6%).   <br>● Broad applicability: 1-shot RLVR works not only on  Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B, but also on Qwen2.5-Math-7B, Llama3.2-3B-Instruct,  and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B. It remains effective across GRPO  and PPO RL algorithms.   <br>● Post-saturation generalization: Despite training accuracy  saturating early (within 100 steps), test accuracy continues improving  well beyond, reaching gains of +10% after 2,000 steps. The model  eventually overfits the single example (mixing gibberish into  outputs), yet test performance remains stable.   <br>● Cross-domain and reflection behavior: A single  example from one domain (e.g., geometry) improves performance across  others (e.g., number theory). Additionally, models trained with 1-shot  RLVR exhibit increased self-reflection (e.g., “rethink”,  “recalculate”) and longer output sequences.   <br>● Loss function insights: Ablation studies confirm that  policy gradient loss is the primary driver of improvements, not weight  decay, distinguishing 1-shot RLVR from \"grokking\". Entropy loss  further enhances performance and generalization; even without reward  signals, entropy-only training can still yield a 27% performance  boost. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20571), [Tweet](https://x.com/ypwang61/status/1917596101953348000) |\n| 4) AM-Thinking-v1  Introduces a dense, open-source 32B language model that achieves state-of-the-art performance in reasoning tasks, rivaling significantly larger Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. Built upon  Qwen2.5-32B, the model is trained entirely with public data and showcases how a meticulously crafted post-training pipeline can unlock competitive performance at mid-scale sizes.  Key points:   <br>● Benchmark performance: AM-Thinking-v1 scores 85.3 on AIME  2024, 74.4 on AIME 2025, and 70.3 on LiveCodeBench, outperforming  DeepSeek-R1 (671B MoE) and matching or exceeding Qwen3-32B and  Seed1.5-Thinking. On Arena-Hard (general chat), it hits 92.5, near the  level of OpenAI o1 and o3-mini but behind Qwen3-235B-A22B and Gemini  2.5 Pro.   <br>● Training pipeline: The model uses a two-stage post-training  approach combining Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement  Learning (RL). SFT emphasizes a “think-then-answer” format and uses  2.84M samples, while RL incorporates difficulty-aware sampling and a   two-stage curriculum optimized via Group Relative Policy Optimization  (GRPO).   <br>● Data and filtering: All training data is publicly  sourced and heavily filtered. Math data goes through LLM-assisted  cleaning and cross-model ground-truth validation. Responses are  filtered using perplexity, n-gram repetition, and structural checks to  ensure coherence and correctness.   <br>● Inference and deployment: The authors implement a custom  rollout framework atop, decoupling rollout from inference via a  streaming load balancer. This reduces long-tail latency and increases  throughput across distributed GPU nodes, enabling scalable RL training  at 32k sequence length. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08311), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1922668488826741061) |\n| 5) HealthBench  HealthBench is a benchmark of 5,000 multi-turn health conversations graded against 48,562 rubric criteria written by 262 physicians across 60 countries. Unlike prior multiple-choice evaluations, HealthBench supports open-ended, realistic assessments of LLM responses across diverse health themes (e.g., global health, emergency care, context-seeking) and behavioral axes (accuracy, completeness, communication, context awareness, instruction following).   <br>● Significant frontier model gains: HealthBench  reveals rapid performance improvements, with GPT-3.5 Turbo scoring  16%, GPT-4o reaching 32%, and o3 achieving 60%. Notably, smaller  models like GPT-4.1 nano outperform GPT-4o while being 25x cheaper.   <br>● Two challenging benchmark variants: HealthBench  Consensus focuses on 34   physician-validated criteria (e.g., recognizing emergencies), while  HealthBench Hard isolates 1,000 difficult examples on which no model  scores above 32%, establishing headroom for future progress.   <br>● Physician comparison baseline: Surprisingly, LLMs like  o3 and GPT-4.1 often produce higher-quality responses than unassisted  physicians. When provided with model responses as references,  physicians improved older model completions but couldn’t improve  completions from newer models.   <br>● Reliable model-based grading: Meta-evaluation shows  GPT-4.1 as a grader achieves macro F1 scores comparable to physicians.  On average, its agreement with other doctors places it in the  51st–88th percentile across themes like emergency triage,  communication, and uncertainty handling.   <br>● Safety-relevant insights: The benchmark assesses worst-case  performance using \"worst-at-k\" scores, showing that even the best  models have reliability gaps. For example, o3’s worst-at-16 score  drops by a third from its average, underscoring the need for further  safety work. | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/bd7a39d5-9e9f-47b3-903c-8b847ca650c7/healthbench_paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1921983050138718531) |\n| 6) Nemotron-Research-Tool-N1  Introduces Tool-N1, a family of tool-using LLMs trained using a rule-based reinforcement learning (R1-style RL) approach, without reliance on supervised reasoning trajectories. The key idea is to enable models to learn to invoke external tools correctly through binary feedback based on functional correctness and format adherence, rather than step-by-step imitation.   <br>● Rule-based RL over SFT: Tool-N1 models are trained  using a lightweight binary reward that only evaluates whether the  model's tool calls are structurally correct and functionally valid.  This allows the model to develop its reasoning process, sidestepping  the limitations of mimicking distilled trajectories via supervised  fine-tuning (SFT).   <br>● Strong benchmark results: Tool-N1-7B and Tool-N1-14B  outperform GPT-4o and domain-specialized models on several benchmarks,  including BFCL, API-Bank, and   ACEBench. For example, Tool-N1-14B beats GPT-4o on BFCL overall (85.97  vs 83.97) and achieves +5% over GPT-4o on API-Bank.   <br>● Pure RL outperforms SFT-then-RL: A systematic  comparison on 5,518 distilled trajectories shows that pure RL yields  better results than the SFT-then-RL pipeline, challenging the dominant  paradigm. For instance, 100% RL achieves 83.24% average vs. 83.17% for  SFT+RL.   <br>● Binary reward  fine-grained reward: Ablation  studies reveal that strict binary rewards (requiring correct reasoning  format and exact tool call) lead to better generalization than partial  credit schemes, especially on realistic “Live” data (80.38% vs  76.61%).   <br>● Scaling and generalization: Performance scales well with  model size, with the most gains observed in larger models. The method  generalizes across backbones, with Qwen2.5-Instruct outperforming  LLaMA3 variants at the same scale. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00024), [Tweet](https://x.com/ShaokunZhang1/status/1922105694167433501) |\n| 7) RL for Search-Efficient LLMs  Proposes a new RL-based framework (SEM) that explicitly teaches LLMs when to invoke search and when to rely on internal knowledge, aiming to reduce redundant tool use while maintaining answer accuracy.  Key points:   <br>● Motivation & Setup: LLMs often overuse external search  even for trivial queries. SEM addresses this by using a balanced  training dataset (Musique for unknowns, MMLU for   knowns) and a structured format (<think, <answer, <search,  <result) to train the model to distinguish between situations where  search is necessary or not.   <br>● Reward Optimization: The authors employ Group Relative  Policy Optimization (GRPO) to compare outputs within query groups. The  reward function penalizes unnecessary search and rewards correct  answers, either without search or with efficient search-and-reasoning  when needed.   <br>● Experimental Results: On HotpotQA and MuSiQue, SEM  significantly outperforms Naive RAG and ReSearch, achieving higher EM  and LLM-Judged (LJ) accuracy with smarter search ratios. On MMLU and  GSM8K (where search is often unnecessary), SEM maintains high accuracy  while invoking search far less than baseline methods (e.g., 1.77% SR  vs 47.98% for Naive RAG on MMLU.   <br>● Case Study & Efficiency: SEM avoids absurd search  behavior like querying “What is 1+1?” multiple times. It also uses  fewer but more targeted searches for unknowns, enhancing both  interpretability and computational efficiency. Training dynamics  further show that SEM enables faster and more stable learning than  prior methods. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07903), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1922665313117552664) |\n| 8) Cost-Efficient, Low-Latency Vector Search  Integrates DiskANN (a vector indexing library) inside of Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL (an operational dataset) that uses a single vector index per partition stored in existing index trees. Benefit: It supports < 20ms query latency over an index spanning 10 million vectors, has stable recall over updates, and offers nearly 15× and 41× lower query cost compared to Zilliz and Pinecone serverless enterprise products. It can further scale to billions of vectors with automatic partitioning. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05885), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1921938925142384736) |\n| 9) AI Agents vs. Agentic AI  This review paper distinguishes AI Agents from Agentic AI, presenting a structured taxonomy and comparing their architectures, capabilities, and challenges. AI Agents are defined as modular, task-specific systems powered by LLMs and tools, while Agentic AI represents a shift toward  multi-agent collaboration, dynamic task decomposition, and orchestrated autonomy, with applications and challenges mapped out for both paradigms, along with proposed solutions like RAG, orchestration layers, and causal modeling. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10468), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1923817691455873420) |\n| 10) CellVerse  Introduces a benchmark to evaluate LLMs on single-cell biology tasks by converting multi-omics data into natural language. While generalist LLMs like DeepSeek and GPT-4 families show some reasoning ability, none significantly outperform random guessing on key tasks like drug response prediction, exposing major gaps in biological understanding by current LLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07865), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1922662317986099522) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 5 - May 11) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) The Leaderboard Illusion  The Leaderboard Illusion investigates systemic distortions in how the Chatbot Arena leaderboard evaluates LLMs, arguing that current practices undermine fair model comparison and scientific  progress. Through extensive data analysis covering 2M Arena battles, the authors identify four key issues distorting rankings:   <br>● Selective score reporting through private  testing: Some providers (notably Meta, Google, and OpenAI) are  allowed to test dozens of model variants privately and only publish  the   best-performing one. This violates the unbiased sampling assumption of  the Bradley-Terry (BT) model, which powers Arena rankings. Simulations  show that testing just 10 variants can artificially inflate a model’s  Arena score by ~100 points.   <br>● Extreme data asymmetries: Proprietary models are  oversampled compared to open-weight and open-source models. OpenAI and  Google alone received over 39% of all Arena data, while 83 open-weight  models collectively received only 29.7%. These data advantages  translate into significant performance gains: a model trained on 70%  Arena data outperforms its baseline by 112% on the ArenaHard  benchmark.   <br>● Unfair and opaque deprecations: 205 models were  silently removed from the leaderboard despite only 47 being officially  marked as deprecated. Open-source models are disproportionately  affected, breaking the comparison graph and violating BT model  assumptions, leading to unreliable rankings.   <br>● Overfitting to Arena-specific dynamics: Due to  partial prompt repetition and distributional drift over time, access  to Arena data allows providers to tune models specifically for Arena  performance. This leads to high win rates on Arena benchmarks, but not  on out-of-distribution tasks like MMLU, where gains diminish or  reverse. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20879) |\n| 2) Llama-Nemotron  NVIDIA introduces the Llama-Nemotron model series, LN-Nano (8B), LN-Super (49B), and LN-Ultra (253B), a family of open, efficient, and high-performing reasoning models. These models rival or outperform DeepSeek-R1 on various benchmarks while offering significantly better inference throughput and memory efficiency. LN-Ultra is noted as the most \"intelligent\" open model by Artificial Analysis. A key innovation is a dynamic reasoning toggle (\"detailed thinking on/off\") that allows users to control reasoning behavior at inference time.  Highlights:   <br>● Multi-stage training: Models were built via neural  architecture search (Puzzle), knowledge distillation, continued  pretraining, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and large-scale RL.  LN-Ultra is enhanced with FP8 inference and FFN Fusion for speed and  scalability.   <br>● Reasoning Toggle: The models can switch between reasoning  and non-reasoning modes via a simple prompt instruction, making them  adaptable for various use cases.   <br>● Synthetic dataset: Over 33M examples across math, code,  science, and instruction-following were curated, with reasoning-mode  samples tagged explicitly. LN-Ultra's training used curriculum RL and  GRPO to surpass its teachers on benchmarks like GPQA-D.   <br>● Evaluation dominance: LN-Ultra outperforms DeepSeek-R1 and  Llama-3.1-405B in reasoning tasks like AIME25, MATH500, and  GPQA-Diamond while also achieving strong chat alignment scores  (Arena-Hard: 87.0). LN-Super scores 88.3, beating Claude 3.5 and  GPT-4o.  NVIDIA provides the weights, training code (NeMo, Megatron-LM, NeMo-Aligner), and the full  post-training dataset under a permissive license, aiming to push open research in reasoning models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00949v1), [Models](https://huggingface.co/nvidia) |\n| 3) Absolute Zero  Introduces an LLM training framework that eliminates the need for human-curated data. Key highlights:   <br>● It learns to propose and solve its reasoning tasks entirely through  self-play, guided by verifiable feedback from an execution  environment. This zero-data RLVR (RL with Verifiable Rewards) setting  achieves SOTA coding and math reasoning performance.   <br>● AZR learns by generating its code-based reasoning tasks using three  core reasoning modes (deduction, abduction, and induction), validating  solutions via Python execution, not human labels.   <br>● A single LLM plays both roles, proposing new tasks based on  learnability and solving them with feedback-based reinforcement.  Rewards favor moderately difficult tasks to maximize the learning  signal.   <br>● Despite using zero in-domain examples, AZR outperforms all previous  zero-setting models on average by +1.8 points and even beats models  trained on tens to hundreds of thousands of curated samples.  AZR-Coder-7B achieves the highest average score across all tested  models.   <br>● AZR trained in a coding-only environment improves mathematical  reasoning performance by up to +15.2 points, far more than expert code  models trained with RLVR, showing strong generalization.   <br>● Larger AZR models (3B → 7B → 14B) consistently show greater  improvements, confirming scalability and suggesting promise for even  larger models.   <br>● AZR develops natural ReAct-like intermediate planning in code (e.g.,  interleaved comments and logic), trial-and-error strategies in  abduction, and systematic state tracking, behaviors typically observed  in much larger models.   <br>● Llama-3.1-8B variants of AZR sometimes produce concerning reasoning  chains (dubbed “uh-oh moments”), highlighting the importance of  safety-aware training in autonomous systems. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335), [Tweet](https://x.com/AndrewZ45732491/status/1919920459748909288) |\n| 4) Discuss-RAG  This paper introduces Discuss-RAG, a plug-and-play agent-based framework that enhances retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for medical question answering by mimicking human-like  clinical reasoning. Standard RAG systems rely on embedding-based retrieval and lack mechanisms to verify relevance or logical coherence, often leading to hallucinations or outdated answers.  Discuss-RAG addresses these gaps via a modular agent setup that simulates multi-turn medical discussions and performs post-retrieval verification.  Key ideas:   <br>● Multi-agent collaboration: A summarizer agent orchestrates a  team of medical domain experts who iteratively refine a contextual  summary through simulated brainstorming, providing deeper and more  structured information to guide retrieval.   <br>● Decision-making agent: After retrieval, a verifier and a  decision-making agent assess snippet quality and trigger fallback  strategies when relevance is low, improving answer accuracy and  contextual grounding.   <br>● Plug-and-play design: Discuss-RAG is training-free and  modular, allowing easy integration into existing RAG pipelines.   <br>● Strong performance gains: Across four benchmarks,  Discuss-RAG outperforms MedRAG with substantial accuracy improvements,  notably +16.67% on BioASQ and +12.20% on PubMedQA. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21252) |\n| 5) The Value of RL in Fine-Tuning  This work shows that, in theory, every popular preference-fine-tuning objective collapses to maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE), yet experiments show a consistent RL advantage on real tasks. They reconcile this gap with a generation-verification complexity hypothesis.   <br>● Theory: RLHF ≈ MLE – Under mild assumptions,  trajectory-level RLHF, DPO, and related algorithms are equivalent to  projecting the data back to likelihood space, so expending compute on  on-policy sampling should be unnecessary.   <br>● Empirics contradict naïve theory – On the tl;dr  summarization benchmark with   Pythia-1.4B/2.8B, a single online-DPO iteration lifts win-rate by 6-10  pts over offline DPO despite identical data, model, and optimizer,  confirming that RL can add real value.   <br>● Takeaways – RL helps when crafting a good answer is harder than  checking one. The gap vanishes on two-word summaries (horizon = 1) or  when ROUGE-L is used as the reward. RL acts as a shortcut through  policy space only when the reward model is simpler than the policy it  trains. For tasks where verification is as hard as generation, offline  likelihood-based   fine-tuning suffices, guiding practitioners on when RLHF is worth its  extra cost. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01067) |\n| 6) WebThinker  This paper introduces a reasoning agent framework that equips large reasoning models (LRMs) with autonomous web exploration and report writing abilities to overcome limitations of static internal knowledge.  WebThinker integrates a Deep Web Explorer module and an Autonomous Think-Search-and-Draft strategy that lets models search the web, reason through tasks, and generate comprehensive outputs simultaneously. It also incorporates an RL-based training loop using online DPO to improve tool usage. The system supports two modes: complex problem solving and scientific report generation. Key points:   <br>● Superior performance in complex reasoning: On  GPQA, GAIA, WebWalkerQA, and HLE, WebThinker-32B-RL achieved new  state-of-the-art results among 32B models, outperforming both  retrieval-augmented and proprietary systems like GPT-4o and  DeepSeek-R1-671B. For example, it reached 70.7% on GPQA and 15.8% on  HLE, with gains of up to +21.5% over baselines.   <br>● Best-in-class scientific report writing: On the  Glaive dataset, WebThinker outperformed Gemini2.0 Deep Research and  Grok3 DeeperSearch, scoring 8.1 in average quality metrics such as  completeness and coherence.   <br>● RL refinement matters: The RL-trained version  outperformed its base counterpart across all benchmarks, showing that  iterative preference-based learning significantly enhances  reasoning-tool coordination.   <br>● Ablation validates design: Removing components like Deep  Web Explorer or automatic report drafting significantly degraded  performance, confirming their necessity. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21776) |\n| 7) Reward Modeling as Reasoning  This work proposes a new class of reward models, called ReasRMs, that reformulate reward modeling as a reasoning task. The authors introduce RM-R1, a family of generative reward models that produce interpretable reasoning traces and rubrics during preference judgments. Instead of relying on scalar scores or shallow generation, RM-R1 models leverage structured reasoning and reinforcement learning to improve both interpretability and performance across benchmarks.   <br>● RM-R1 adopts a two-stage training process:  (1) distillation of reasoning traces from stronger models, and (2)  reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. The Chain-of-Rubrics  (CoR) prompting framework guides the model to either solve reasoning  problems or generate evaluation rubrics depending on the task type  (reasoning or chat).   <br>● On RewardBench, RM-Bench, and RMB, RM-R1 models achieve  state-of-the-art or near-SOTA performance, outperforming models like  GPT-4o and Llama3.1-405B by up to 13.8% despite using fewer parameters  and less data.   <br>● Ablation studies show that cold-start RL alone is  insufficient; task-type classification and high-quality distillation  are key. RM-R1's distilled warm-start training leads to more stable  learning and longer, more accurate reasoning traces.   <br>● RM-R1 also shows strong generalization across  domains and better rubric quality than baseline methods, especially in  sensitive contexts like safety and medical judgment. The authors  open-sourced six RM-R1 models, training data, and code to support  reproducibility. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02387) |\n| 8) Paper2Code  Introduces PaperCoder, a multi-agent LLM framework that transforms ML papers into full code repositories without relying on pre-existing implementations.   <br>● PaperCoder decomposes the code generation process into three stages:  Planning (roadmap, architecture, file dependencies, config files),  Analyzing (file-specific logic extraction), and Coding  (dependency-aware file generation). Each step is handled by  specialized LLM agents.   <br>● It is evaluated using both the proposed Paper2Code benchmark (90  papers from ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR 2024) and PaperBench Code-Dev.  Results show PaperCoder outperforms ChatDev, MetaGPT, and naive  baselines across reference-based, reference-free, and human  evaluations.   <br>● In human assessments by original paper authors, 77% chose PaperCoder  as best implementation; 85% said it helped them reproduce their work.  On average, only 0.48% of code lines required changes for  executability.   <br>● A detailed ablation study shows consistent performance gains from  each stage, especially logic design and file dependency ordering.  PaperCoder, using the o3-mini-high backbone, notably outperforms other  LLM variants. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17192) |\n| 9) ZeroSearch  ZeroSearch is an RL framework that trains LLMs to develop search capabilities without using real search engines. It uses simulated LLM-generated documents with a curriculum-based degradation strategy and outperforms real-search methods like Search-R1 in both performance and cost, achieving better QA accuracy across multiple benchmarks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04588), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1920469148968362407) |\n| 10) Practical Efficiency of Muon for Pretraining  Discusses how Muon, a simple second-order optimizer, outperforms AdamW in large-batch pretraining by expanding the compute-time Pareto frontier and maintaining better data efficiency. Combined with muP scaling and a novel telescoping algorithm for hyperparameter transfer, it enables faster training with minimal tuning overhead up to 4B parameter models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02222) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 28 - May 4) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) Phi-4-Mini-Reasoning  Microsoft released Phi-4-Mini-Reasoning to explore small reasoning language models for math. Highlights:   <br>● Phi-4-Mini-Reasoning: The paper introduces Phi-4-Mini-Reasoning,  a 3.8B parameter small language model (SLM) that achieves  state-of-the-art mathematical reasoning performance, rivaling or  outperforming models nearly twice its size.   <br>● Unlocking Reasoning: They use a systematic, multi-stage  training pipeline to unlock strongbr> reasoning capabilities in compact  models, addressing the challenges posed by their limited capacity.  Uses large-scale distillation, preference learning, and RL with  verifiable rewards.   <br>● Four-Stage Training Pipeline: The model is trained using  (1) mid-training with large-scale long CoT data, (2) supervised  fine-tuning on high-quality CoT data, (3) rollout-based Direct  Preference Optimization (DPO), and (4) RL using verifiable reward  signals.   <br>● Math Performance: On MATH-500, Phi-4-Mini-Reasoning reaches  94.6%, surpassing DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B (91.4%) and  DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B (86.9%), despite being smaller.   <br>● Verifiable Reward Reinforcement Learning: The final  RL stage, tailored for small models, includes prompt filtering,  oversampling for balanced training signals, and temperature annealing.  This improves training stability and aligns exploration with  evaluation conditions.   <br>● Massive Synthetic Data Generation: The model is  mid-trained on 10M CoT rollouts generated by DeepSeek-R1, filtered for  correctness using math verifiers and GPT-4o-mini, and categorized by  domain and difficulty to ensure broad generalization.   <br>● Ablation Study: Each phase of the pipeline shows clear  gains. Notably, fine-tuning and RL each deliver ~5–7 point  improvements after mid-training and DPO, showing the value of the full  pipeline over isolated techniques. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21233), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1917954418173247909) |\n| 2) Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory  This paper proposes a memory-centric architecture for LLM agents to maintain coherence across long conversations and sessions, solving the fixed-context window limitation. Main highlights:   <br>● The solution introduces two systems: Mem0, a  dense, language-based memory system, and Mem0g, an enhanced version  with graph-based memory to model complex relationships. Both aim to  extract, consolidate, and retrieve salient facts over time  efficiently.   <br>● Mem0: Uses a two-stage architecture (extraction & update) to  maintain salient conversational memories. It detects redundant or  conflicting information and manages updates using   tool-calls, resulting in a lightweight, highly responsive memory store  (7K tokens per conversation).   <br>● Mem0g: By structuring memory as a knowledge graph of entities  and relationships, Mem0g improves performance in tasks needing  temporal and relational reasoning (e.g., event ordering, preference  tracking) while maintaining reasonable latency and memory cost (14K  tokens/convo).   <br>● Benchmarking on LOCOMO: Both systems were evaluated  against six memory system baselines (e.g., A-Mem, OpenAI, Zep,  LangMem, RAG). Mem0g achieves the best overall LLM-as-a-Judge (J)  score of 68.44%, outperforming all RAG and memory baselines by 7–28%  in J and reducing p95 latency by 91% over full-context methods.   <br>● Latency and efficiency: Mem0 achieves the lowest search  and total latencies (p95 = 1.44s), and Mem0g still outperforms other  graph-based or RAG systems by large margins in speed and efficiency.  Great for real-time deployments.   <br>● Use-case strengths:  Mem0 and Mem0g offer a scalable memory architecture for long-term LLM agents to improve factual recall, reasoning depth, and efficiency, making them id | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19413), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1917247776221700134) |\n| 3) UniversalRAG  UniversalRAG is a framework that overcomes the limitations of existing RAG systems confined to single modalities or corpora. It supports retrieval across modalities (text, image, video) and at multiple granularities (e.g., paragraph vs. document, clip vs. video). Contributions from the paper:   <br>● Modality-aware routing: To counter modality bias in unified  embedding spaces (where queries often retrieve same-modality results  regardless of relevance), UniversalRAG introduces a router that  dynamically selects the appropriate modality (e.g., image vs. text)  for each query.   <br>● Granularity-aware retrieval: Each modality is broken into  granularity levels (e.g., paragraphs vs. documents for text, clips vs.  full-length videos). This allows queries to retrieve content that  matches their complexity -- factual queries use short segments while  complex reasoning accesses long-form data.   <br>● Flexible routing: It supports both training-free (zero-shot  GPT-4o prompting) and trained (T5-Large) routers. Trained routers  perform better on in-domain data, while GPT-4o generalizes better to  out-of-domain tasks. An ensemble router combines both for robust  performance.   <br>● Performance: UniversalRAG outperforms modality-specific and  unified RAG baselines across 8 benchmarks spanning text (e.g., MMLU,  SQuAD), image (WebQA), and video (LVBench, VideoRAG). With T5-Large,  it achieves the highest average score across modalities.   <br>● Case study: In WebQA, UniversalRAG correctly routes a visual  query to the image corpus (retrieving an actual photo of the event),  while TextRAG and VideoRAG fail. Similarly, on HotpotQA and LVBench,  it chooses the right granularity, retrieving documents or short clips.  Overall, this is a great paper showing the importance of considering  modality and granularity in a RAG system. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20734), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1917637837295608180) |\n| 4) DeepSeek-Prover-V2  DeepSeek-Prover-V2 is an LLM (671B) that significantly advances formal theorem proving in Lean 4. The model is built through a novel cold-start training pipeline that combines informal chain-of-thought reasoning with formal subgoal decomposition, enhanced through reinforcement learning. It surpasses prior state-of-the-art on multiple theorem-proving benchmarks. Key highlights:   <br>● Cold-start data via recursive decomposition: The  authors prompt DeepSeek-V3 to generate natural-language proof  sketches, decompose them into subgoals, and formalize these steps in  Lean with sorry placeholders. A 7B prover model then recursively fills  in the subgoal proofs, enabling efficient construction of complete  formal proofs and training data.   <br>● Curriculum learning + RL: A subgoal-based curriculum  trains the model on increasingly complex problems. Reinforcement  learning with a consistency reward is used to enforce alignment  between proof structure and CoT decomposition, improving performance  on complex tasks.   <br>● Dual proof generation modes: The model is trained in  two modes, non-CoT (efficient, minimal proofs) and CoT  (high-precision, interpretable). The CoT mode yields significantly  better performance, particularly on hard problems.   <br>● Benchmark results: | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21801), [Tweet](https://x.com/zhs05232838/status/1917600755936018715) |\n| 5) Kimi-Audio  Kimi-Audio is a new open-source audio foundation model built for universal audio understanding, generation, and speech conversation. The model architecture uses a hybrid of discrete semantic audio tokens and continuous Whisper-derived acoustic features.  It is initialized from a pre-trained LLM and trained on 13M+ hours of audio, spanning speech, sound, and music. It also supports a streaming detokenizer with chunk-wise decoding and a novel  look-ahead mechanism for smoother audio generation. Extensive benchmarking shows that Kimi-Audio outperforms other audio LLMs across multiple modalities and tasks.  Key highlights:   <br>● Architecture: Kimi-Audio uses a 12.5Hz semantic tokenizer and an  LLM with dual heads (text + audio), processing hybrid input  (discrete + continuous). The audio detokenizer employs a flow-matching  upsampler with BigVGAN vocoder for real-time speech synthesis.   <br>● Massive Training Corpus: Pretrained on 13M+ hours of  multilingual, multimodal audio. A rigorous preprocessing pipeline adds  speech enhancement, diarization, and transcription using Whisper and  Paraformer-Zh. Fine-tuning uses 300K+ hours from 30+ open datasets.   <br>● Multitask Training: Training spans audio-only, text-only,  ASR, TTS, and three audio-text interleaving strategies. Fine-tuning is  instruction-based, with both audio/text instructions injected via  zero-shot TTS.   <br>● Evaluation: On ASR (e.g., LibriSpeech test-clean: 1.28 WER),  audio understanding (CochlScene: 80.99), and audio-to-text chat  (OpenAudioBench avg: 69.8), Kimi-Audio sets new SOTA results, beating  Qwen2.5-Omni and Baichuan-Audio across the board. | [Paper](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-Audio/blob/master/assets/kimia_report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1915807071960007115)  [Model](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-Audio) |\n| 6) MiMo-7B  Xiaomi releases MiMo-7B, a new language model for reasoning tasks. MiMo-7B is explicitly designed for advanced reasoning across math and code. Highlights:   <br>● MiMo-7B: MiMo-7B narrows the capability gap with larger  32B-class models through careful pretraining & posttraining.  MiMo-7B-Base is trained from scratch on 25T tokens, with a   3-stage mixture skewed toward mathematics and code (70% in stage 2).   <br>● Pre-Training: The team improves HTML and PDF extraction to  better preserve STEM data, leverages LLMs to generate diverse  synthetic reasoning content, and adds a Multi-Token Prediction (MTP)  objective that boosts both quality and inference speed.   <br>● Base Performance: MiMo-7B-Base outperforms other 7B–9B  models like Qwen2.5, Gemma-2, and Llama-3.1 across BBH (+5 pts),  AIME24 (+22.8 pts), and LiveCodeBench (+27.9 pts). On BBH and  LiveCodeBench, it even beats larger models on reasoning-heavy tasks.   <br>● RL: MiMo-7B-RL is trained with a test difficulty–driven reward  function and easy-data resampling to tackle sparse-reward issues and  instabilities. In some cases, it surpasses   o1-mini on math & code. RL from the SFT model reaches higher ceilings  than RL-Zero from the base.   <br>● Efficient infrastructure: A Seamless Rollout Engine  accelerates RL by 2.29× and validation by 1.96× using continuous  rollout, async reward computation, and early termination. MTP layers  enable fast speculative decoding, with 90%+ acceptance rates in  inference. | [Paper](https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo/blob/main/MiMo-7B-Technical-Report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1917582720341008814) |\n| 7) Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents  A new survey frames intelligent agents with a modular, brain-inspired architecture that integrates ideas from cognitive science, neuroscience, and computational research. Key topics covered:   <br>● Human Brain and LLM Agents: Helps to better  understand what differentiates LLM agents from human/brain cognition,  and what inspirations we can get from the way humans learn and  operate.   <br>● Definitions: Provides a nice, detailed, and formal definition of  what makes up an AI agent.   <br>● Reasoning: It has a detailed section on the core components of  intelligent agents. There is a deep dive into reasoning, which is one  of the key development areas of AI agents and what unlocks things like  planning, multi-turn tooling, backtracking, and much more.   <br>● Memory: Agent memory is a challenging area of building agentic  systems, but there is already a lot of good literature out there from  which to get inspiration.   <br>● Action Systems: You can already build very complex agentic  systems today, but the next frontier is agents that take actions and  make decisions in the real world. We need better tooling, better  training algorithms, and robust operation in different action spaces.   <br>● Self-Evolving Agents: For now, building effective agentic  systems requires human effort and careful optimization tricks.  However, one of the bigger opportunities in the field is to build AI  that can itself build powerful and self-improving AI systems. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01990), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1916542394746421333) |\n| 8) MAGI  MAGI is a multi-agent system designed to automate structured psychiatric interviews by operationalizing the MINI (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview) protocol. It involves 4 specialized agents: navigation, question generation, judgment, and diagnosis. Other highlights:   <br>● Multi-Agent Clinical Workflow: MAGI is built with a  navigation agent (interview flow control), a question agent (dynamic,  empathetic probing), a judgment agent (response validation), and a  diagnosis agent using Psychometric CoT to trace diagnoses explicitly  to MINI/DSM-5 criteria.   <br>● Explainable Reasoning (PsyCoT): Instead of treating  diagnoses as opaque outputs, PsyCoT decomposes psychiatric reasoning  into symptom anchoring, syndromal validation, and evidence binding.  This helps with auditability for each diagnostic conclusion. CoT put  to great use.   <br>● Results: Evaluated on 1,002 real-world interviews, MAGI  outperforms baselines (Direct prompting, Role-play,  Knowledge-enhanced, and MINI-simulated LLMs) across relevance,  accuracy, completeness, and guidance.   <br>● Strong Clinical Agreement: Diagnostic evaluations show  PsyCoT consistently improves F1 scores, accuracy, and Cohen’s κ across  disorders like depression, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and  suicide risk, reaching clinical-grade reliability (κ  0.8) in  high-risk tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18260), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1916862752410554423) |\n| 9) A Survey of Efficient LLM Inference Serving  This survey reviews recent advancements in optimizing LLM inference, addressing memory and computational bottlenecks. It covers instance-level techniques (like model placement and request scheduling), cluster-level strategies (like GPU deployment and load balancing), and emerging scenario-specific solutions, concluding with future research directions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19720) |\n| 10) LLM for Engineering  This work finds that when RL is used, a 7B parameter model outperforms both SoTA foundation models and human experts at high-powered rocketry design. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19394) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 21 - April 27) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) Does RL Incentivize Reasoning in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?  This paper revisits a key assumption in recent LLM development: that Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) helps models acquire genuinely new reasoning capabilities. By analyzing models across tasks (math, code, vision) using pass@k metrics (with large k), the authors find that RLVR improves sample efficiency but does not expand reasoning capacity beyond the base model.   <br>● Key insight: RLVR-trained models do better at low *k* (e.g.,  pass@1), but as *k* increases (up to 256 or more), base models  eventually match or outperform them. This suggests RLVR doesn’t  generate fundamentally new reasoning paths but just increases the  likelihood of sampling already-existing correct ones.   <br>● Reasoning already in the base: RLVR models'  successful CoTs are shown to be present within the base model's  sampling distribution. Perplexity analyses confirm that RL outputs are  often high-probability continuations for the base model.   <br>● Efficiency vs. exploration: RLVR narrows the model’s  exploration space, improving efficiency but shrinking its coverage of  diverse reasoning paths, thereby reducing overall problem-solving  reach at scale.   <br>● Distillation helps more: Unlike RLVR, distillation from  a stronger teacher model (e.g., DeepSeek-R1) introduces genuinely new  reasoning patterns, expanding the model’s capabilities.   <br>● Algorithmic limits: Across PPO, GRPO, Reinforce++, etc., RL  algorithms offer similar sample-efficiency improvements, but none  closes the gap to the base model’s pass@256—highlighting the limits of  current RL strategies. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13837), [Tweet](https://x.com/DaveShapi/status/1915408405201629684) |\n| 2) BitNet b1.58 2B4T  This work introduces BitNet b1.58 2B4T, the first open-source, natively trained 1-bit LLM at the 2B parameter scale, achieving strong performance while being extremely efficient. The model uses a  custom ternary quantization scheme (1.58 bits per weight), enabling dramatic reductions in memory (0.4 GB), energy (0.028J/token), and latency (29ms), while still competing with state-of-the-art  full-precision models across diverse benchmarks.   <br>● New Pareto frontier in efficiency-performance:  Trained from scratch on 4T tokens, BitNet b1.58 2B4T outperforms or  matches open full-precision models (e.g., Qwen2.5 1.5B, MiniCPM 2B) on  tasks like ARC-Challenge, PIQA, WinoGrande, and GSM8K. It achieves  54.19% average. across 16 benchmarks, comparable to Qwen2.5-1.5B’s  55.23%, but with ~6.5× lower memory and 10× lower energy usage.   <br>● Outperforms quantized baselines: Against INT4  post-training quantized Qwen2.5 models (GPTQ/AWQ), BitNet is both  smaller and more accurate, showing the advantage of native 1-bit  training over PTQ approaches.   <br>● Architectural & training innovations: It replaces  standard linear layers with BitLinear layers using absmean ternary  quantization and 8-bit activations, combines RoPE embeddings, squared  ReLU activation, and bias-free layers. Training includes cosine LR and  weight decay schedules, plus supervised fine-tuning and Direct  Preference Optimization (DPO) instead of full RLHF.   <br>● Best-in-class among 1-bit LLMs: When compared to  other 1-bit models like OLMo-Bitnet (1B) and post-quantized  Falcon3/Llama3 (7B–8B), BitNet b1.58 2B4T is +10 pts stronger on  average, establishing a new benchmark for ultra-efficient LLMs.  The authors also release optimized CUDA kernels for GPU and a C++ inference library for CPU, enabling practical deployment of 1-bit LLMs on diverse hardware. BitNet b1.58 2B4T demonstrates that extreme quantization does not mean compromised capability, and it opens the door to the broader adoption of LLMs in resource-constrained environments. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12285) |\n| 3) UI-TARS  UI-TARS introduces a powerful, end-to-end native GUI agent that operates purely from visual screenshots, performing human-like keyboard and mouse interactions across platforms. Unlike existing modular agent frameworks that rely on prompt engineering and external scripts, UI-TARS integrates perception, action, reasoning, and memory directly into its architecture, achieving strong generalization and adaptability in dynamic real-world settings.  Key contributions:   <br>● Enhanced GUI Perception: UI-TARS is trained on a  large-scale, richly annotated dataset of screenshots with metadata,  enabling dense captioning, state transition understanding, and precise  element description. It excels in perception benchmarks like  VisualWebBench, scoring 82.8, outperforming GPT-4o’s.   <br>● Unified Action Modeling and Grounding: UI-TARS  standardizes actions across platforms into a shared action space and  learns from large-scale multi-step action traces. It surpasses  baselines in grounding tasks with 38.1 on ScreenSpot Pro, the new  SOTA.   <br>● System-2 Reasoning via “Thoughts”: Inspired by  ReAct-style frameworks, UI-TARS generates internal reasoning steps  (thoughts) before actions. These thoughts reflect patterns like task  decomposition, reflection, and long-term consistency, significantly  improving performance in complex scenarios. For example, in OSWorld,  UI-TARS-72B-DPO scores 24.6 with a 50-step budget, outperforming  Claude’s.   <br>● Iterative Self-Improvement with Reflective  Learning: UI-TARS continuously refines itself through online trace  collection and reflection tuning using error correction and post-error  adaptation data. This allows it to recover from mistakes and adapt  with minimal human oversight.  Overall, UI-TARS marks a significant step forward in GUI automation, setting new benchmarks across more than 10 datasets and outperforming top commercial agents like GPT-4o and Claude. Its  open-source release aims to drive further innovation in native agent development. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12326), [Blog](https://seed-tars.com/1.5/) |\n| 4) Describe Anything  Introduces DAM, a model that generates fine-grained, region-specific captions in both images and videos. The authors address key limitations in prior vision-language models—namely, the inability to preserve local detail and the lack of suitable datasets and benchmarks for detailed localized captioning (DLC).  Key contributions:   <br>● DAM (Describe Anything Model) uses two main  innovations to capture both fine regional detail and global scene  context: a focal prompt that provides high-resolution encoding of  user-specified regions, and a localized vision backbone that uses  gated cross-attention to integrate context from the entire image. This  enables DAM to generate multi-granular, accurate descriptions,  especially for small or occluded regions.   <br>● DLC-SDP (Semi-supervised Data Pipeline) tackles data  scarcity by expanding segmentation datasets with VLM-generated  detailed captions, followed by self-training on web images. This  produces high-quality, diverse training data, enabling DAM to  outperform API-only baselines like GPT-4o across several benchmarks.   <br>● DLC-Bench is a reference-free benchmark that scores models on  their ability to accurately include or exclude region-specific details  using LLM judges. It provides a more reliable evaluation than  traditional caption-matching metrics, which often penalize models for  valid but unmatched details.   <br>● Performance: DAM sets a new state-of-the-art on 7 benchmarks  across keyword, phrase, and detailed multi-sentence captioning tasks  in both images and videos. It outperforms GPT-4o, Claude 3.7, and  other top VLMs in both zero-shot and in-domain evaluations, achieving  up to 33.4% improvement over prior models on detailed image captioning  and 19.8% on video captioning. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16072) |\n| 5) UXAgent  Introduces a novel framework, UXAgent, for simulating large-scale usability testing using LLM-driven agents. The system empowers UX researchers to test and iterate web design and study protocols before engaging real users. This is achieved through the orchestration of simulated agents with diverse personas interacting in real web environments, providing both behavioral and reasoning data. Key highlights:   <br>● LLM-Powered Simulation with Personas: UXAgent begins  with a Persona Generator that can produce thousands of demographically  diverse simulated users based on custom distributions. Each persona is  fed into an LLM Agent that embodies user intent and interacts with the  website via a Universal Browser Connector—a module capable of  interpreting and manipulating real HTML structures.   <br>● Dual-Loop Reasoning Architecture: At the heart of  UXAgent is a dual-process agent architecture inspired by cognitive  psychology: a Fast Loop for low-latency actions and a Slow Loop for  deep reasoning. This design mimics System 1 and System 2 thinking and  allows agents to act responsively while maintaining coherent  high-level plans and reflections.   <br>● Rich Memory Stream: All observations, actions, plans,  reflections, and spontaneous thoughts (“wonders”) are stored in a  Memory Stream. These memories are dynamically prioritized for  retrieval using a weighted scoring system based on importance,  recency, and relevance, tailored separately for fast and slow modules.   <br>● Replay and Interview Interfaces: UX researchers can  review simulated sessions via a Simulation Replay Interface and  conduct natural language conversations with agents using an   Agent Interview Interface. This supports qualitative analysis, such as  asking agents about their decisions or presenting mockups for  feedback.   <br>● Empirical Evaluation: A case study involving 60 LLM agent  simulations on a shopping platform (WebArena) showed that researchers  were able to detect usability study flaws and gather early insights. A  follow-up user study with five UX professionals found the system  helpful for iterating study design, despite some concerns over realism  and data noise. Particularly appreciated was the ability to converse  with agents and gather qualitative insights that would be infeasible  in traditional pilots.   <br>● Future Implications: The authors position LLM agents not as  replacements for real participants, but as early-stage collaborators  in the design process, reducing the cost and risk of flawed studies.  They also discuss extensions to multimodal settings, desktop or mobile  interfaces, and broader agentic tasks such as digital twins or  simulated A/B testing. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09407) |\n| 6) Test-Time Reinforcement Learning  Test-Time Reinforcement Learning (TTRL) is a method that allows LLMs to improve themselves during inference without ground-truth labels. Instead of relying on labeled datasets, TTRL uses majority voting over multiple model generations to estimate pseudo-rewards, enabling reinforcement learning (RL) on unlabeled test data. The method integrates Test-Time Scaling (TTS) and Test-Time Training (TTT) strategies, letting models adapt dynamically to new and challenging inputs.  Key highlights:   <br>● Majority Voting as Reward: TTRL generates multiple  candidate outputs for a query and uses majority voting to derive a  pseudo-label. Rewards are assigned based on agreement with the  consensus answer.   <br>● Significant Performance Gains: Applying TTRL to  Qwen2.5-Math-7B leads to a +159% improvement on AIME 2024 and +84%  average gains across AIME, AMC, and MATH-500 benchmarks, without using  any labeled training data.   <br>● Self-Evolution Beyond Supervision: Remarkably, TTRL  surpasses the performance ceiling of its own majority-vote supervision  (Maj@N) and approaches the performance of models trained with full  label leakage, indicating efficient and stable unsupervised RL.   <br>● Generalization and Robustness: TTRL generalizes well  across tasks, maintains effectiveness even under label estimation  noise, and is compatible with different RL algorithms like PPO and  GRPO.   <br>● Limitations: TTRL may fail when the base model lacks sufficient  prior knowledge about the domain or when hyperparameters (like batch  size and temperature) are poorly tuned. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2504.16084) |\n| 7) Discovering Values in Real-World Language Model Interactions  This paper presents the first large-scale empirical analysis of values exhibited by a deployed AI assistant, Claude 3 and 3.5 models, using over 300,000 real-world conversations. The authors develop a bottom-up, privacy-preserving framework to extract, classify, and analyze AI-expressed normative considerations (“values”) and show how they vary across tasks, user values, and conversational contexts.   <br>● The authors identify 3,307 unique AI values, which are organized  into a five-domain taxonomy: Practical, Epistemic, Social, Protective,  and Personal. Practical and epistemic values dominate, often aligning  with Claude’s training goals around being helpful, harmless, and  honest.   <br>● Claude’s most common values, such as helpfulness (23.4%),  professionalism, transparency, and clarity, are context-invariant and  reflect its role as a service-oriented assistant. In contrast, human  values like authenticity and efficiency are more varied.   <br>● Many values are context-specific. For example, healthy boundaries  arise in relationship advice, historical accuracy in controversial  event discussions, and human agency in AI governance contexts.   <br>● Claude tends to mirror human values in supportive contexts (20.1%  mirroring rate), but expresses opposing values during resistance,  especially in cases involving unethical or policy-violating requests  (e.g., resisting “moral nihilism” with “ethical integrity”).   <br>● Explicit value expression (e.g., “I value transparency”) occurs more  often in moments of resistance or reframing, particularly around  epistemic and ethical principles like intellectual honesty and harm  prevention. This suggests that AI values become most visible when the  system is challenged.   <br>● Across Claude variants, 3 Opus expresses more emotionally nuanced  and ethically grounded values (e.g., academic rigor, emotional  authenticity) and shows a stronger inclination for both support and  resistance compared to 3.5/3.7 Sonnet. | [Paper](https://assets.anthropic.com/m/18d20cca3cde3503/original/Values-in-the-Wild-Paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1914333220067213529) |\n| 8) Evaluate the Goal-Directedness of LLMs  Introduces a new framework to assess whether LLMs use their capabilities effectively toward achieving given goals. The study finds that even top models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.7 fall short of full goal-directedness, particularly in information-gathering and combined tasks, despite performing well in isolated subtasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11844), [Tweet](https://x.com/tom4everitt/status/1912806499862139275), [GitHub](https://github.com/Crista23/goal_directedness_llms) |\n| 9) General-Reasoner  General-Reasoner is a reinforcement learning approach that boosts LLM reasoning across diverse domains by using a 230K-question dataset and a model-based verifier trained to understand semantics beyond exact matches. It outperforms strong baselines like SimpleRL and Qwen2.5 on both general reasoning (MMLU-Pro, GPQA, SuperGPQA) and math tasks (MATH-500, GSM8K), showing over 10-point gains without sacrificing mathematical capability. | [Paper](https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/General-Reasoner/blob/main/General_Reasoner.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/WenhuChen/status/1912242238110789671) |\n| 10) Tiny Reasoning Models  Tina is a family of 1.5B parameter reasoning models trained using LoRA-based reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve high reasoning accuracy at very low cost. It outperforms or matches full fine-tuned models on reasoning tasks like AIME and MATH with only ~$9 post-training cost, demonstrating that efficient reasoning can be instilled via minimal updates to a tiny model. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15777) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 14 - April 20) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) GUI-R1  Researchers from the National University of Singapore and the Chinese Academy of Sciences introduce GUI-R1, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework aimed at improving graphical user interface (GUI) agents through unified action-space modeling. Key insights include:   <br>● Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) over Supervised  Fine-Tuning (SFT) – GUI-R1 utilizes RFT inspired by methods  such as DeepSeek-R1, significantly reducing training data  requirements. It uses only 3K carefully curated examples versus  millions used by previous models.   <br>● Unified Action Space and Reward Modeling –  The authors introduce a unified action space that covers actions  across different platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, and Web).  This enables consistent reward signals for evaluating GUI actions,  enhancing the model’s adaptability and generalization.   <br>● Superior Performance with Minimal Data – GUI-R1  outperforms state-of-the-art methods like OS-Atlas using merely 0.02%  of the training data (3K vs. 13M). Evaluations across eight benchmarks  spanning mobile, desktop, and web platforms show significant  improvements in grounding, low-level, and high-level GUI task  capabilities.   <br>● Efficient Training and Strong Generalization –  By leveraging policy optimization algorithms like Group Relative  Policy Optimization (GRPO), GUI-R1 quickly converges to high  performance, demonstrating robustness and efficiency even in  resource-constrained scenarios. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10458) |\n| 2) Scaling Reasoning in Diffusion LLMs via RL  Proposes d1, a two‑stage recipe that equips masked diffusion LLMs with strong step‑by‑step reasoning.   <br>● Two‑stage pipeline (SFT → diffu‑GRPO) –  d1 first applies supervised fine‑tuning on the 1 k‑example s1K dataset  and then runs task‑specific RL with the new diffu‑GRPO objective,  yielding larger gains than either stage alone.   <br>● diffu‑GRPO: RL for masked dLLMs – Extends  GRPO to diffusion LLMs via (i) a mean‑field sequence‑log‑prob  approximation and (ii) a one‑step per‑token log‑prob estimator with  random prompt masking, enabling many gradient updates from a single  generation.   <br>● Consistent gains on four reasoning  benchmarks – On GSM8K, MATH500, Countdown, and Sudoku, diffu‑GRPO  beats SFT, and the full d1‑LLaDA variant attains the best scores  (e.g., 81.1 % GSM8K & 38.6 % MATH500 at 256 tokens, +5–12 pp over  baseline).   <br>● Competitive among 7‑8 B models – d1‑LLaDA  outperforms DeepSeek‑7B, Mistral‑7B and Llama‑3‑8B on GSM8K and ranks  second on MATH500 in the same size class.   <br>● Longer decoding unlocks “aha moments” – At  512‑token generation, the model shows self‑verification/backtracking;  effective‑token usage grows smoothly, echoing test‑time compute  scaling trends.   <br>● Random masking speeds RL – Ablations show that  random prompt masking during diffu‑GRPO accelerates convergence and  boosts correctness relative to fixed masking, with fewer online  generations needed. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12216) |\n| 3) Enhancing Non-Reasoning Models with Reasoning Models  Researchers explore how to distill reasoning-intensive outputs (answers and explanations) from top-tier LLMs into more lightweight models that don’t explicitly reason step by step. By fine-tuning smaller models on the high-quality final answers (and optionally summarized thinking traces) from advanced reasoning models, they demonstrate consistent performance boosts across multiple benchmarks.   <br>● Test-time scaling vs. knowledge distillation –  While large models like DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI-o1 can allocate more  compute to generate better reasoning traces, this paper focuses on  systematically transferring those rich final answers (and possibly a  summarized version of the reasoning steps) to more compact models.   <br>● Data curation – The authors construct a 1.3M-instance  dataset by pulling prompts from multiple open-source repositories  (including Infinity Instruct, CodeContests, FLAN, etc.) and generating  final answers plus detailed reasoning from DeepSeek-R1.   <br>● Three fine-tuning strategies – (1) Use the original  baseline answers from existing   open-source sets, (2) fine-tune on only the final answer portion of a  reasoning model, and (3) combine a summarized chain-of-thought with  the final answer. Models trained on the second strategy excelled at  math/coding tasks, while the third approach proved better for more  conversational or alignment-oriented tasks.   <br>● Empirical gains – Fine-tuning Qwen2.5-32B on the reasoning  model’s final answers led to notable improvements on GSM8K (92.2%) and  HumanEval (90.9%). A think-summarization approach boosted a different  set of benchmarks (GPQA and chat-based tests). However, weaving in the  “thinking trace” sometimes caused slight drops in instruction  strictness (IFEval).   <br>● Trade-offs and future work – Distilling advanced  reasoning data definitely helps smaller models, but deciding how much  of the reasoning trace to include is domain-dependent. The authors  suggest that more refined ways of seamlessly blending reasoning steps  into final answers (e.g., specialized prompts or partial merges) could  further improve performance and avoid alignment regressions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09639) |\n| 4) AgentA/B  AgentA/B is a fully automated A/B testing framework that replaces live human traffic with large-scale LLM-based agents. These agents simulate realistic, intention-driven user behaviors on actual web environments, enabling faster, cheaper, and risk-free UX evaluations — even on real websites like Amazon. Key Insights:   <br>● Modular agent simulation pipeline – Four  components—agent generation, condition prep, interaction loop, and  post-analysis—allow plug-and-play simulations on live webpages using  diverse LLM personas.   <br>● Real-world fidelity – The system parses live DOM into JSON,  enabling structured interaction loops (search, filter, click,  purchase) executed via LLM reasoning + Selenium.   <br>● Behavioral realism – Simulated agents show more  goal-directed but comparable interaction patterns vs. 1M real Amazon  users (e.g., shorter sessions but similar purchase rates).   <br>● Design sensitivity – A/B test comparing full vs. reduced  filter panels revealed that agents in the treatment condition clicked  more, used filters more often, and purchased more.   <br>● Inclusive prototyping – Agents can represent hard-to-reach  populations (e.g., low-tech users), making early-stage UX testing more  inclusive and risk-free.   <br>● Notable results  AgentA/B shows how LLM agents can augment — not replace — traditional A/B testing by offering a new pre-deployment simulation layer. This can accelerate iteration, reduce development waste, and support UX inclusivity without needing immediate live traffic. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09723) |\n| 5) Reasoning Models Can Be Effective Without Thinking  This paper challenges the necessity of long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning in LLMs by introducing a simple prompting method called NoThinking, which bypasses explicit \"thinking\" steps. Surprisingly, NoThinking performs comparably to or better than traditional reasoning under comparable or even lower compute budgets, especially when paired with parallel decoding and best-of-N selection.  Key Insights:   <br>● NoThinking prepends a dummy “Thinking” block and jumps straight to  final answers.   <br>● Despite skipping structured reasoning, it outperforms Thinking in  pass@k (1–64) on many benchmarks, especially under token constraints.   <br>● With parallel scaling, NoThinking achieves higher pass@1 accuracy  than Thinking while using 4× fewer tokens and up to 9× lower latency.   <br>● Tasks evaluated: competitive math (AIME24/25, AMC23, OlympiadBench),  coding (LiveCodeBench), and formal theorem proving (MiniF2F,  ProofNet).   <br>● NoThinking is shown to provide superior accuracy–latency tradeoffs  and generalizes across diverse tasks.  Results:   <br>● Low-budget wins: On AMC23 (700 tokens), NoThinking achieves 51.3%  vs. 28.9% (Thinking). <br>● Better scaling: As k increases, NoThinking  consistently surpasses Thinking.   <br>● Efficiency frontier: Across benchmarks, NoThinking dominates the  accuracy–cost Pareto frontier.   <br>● Parallel wins: With simple confidence-based or majority vote  strategies, NoThinking + best-of-N beats full Thinking on pass@1 with  significantly less latency. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2504.09858) |\n| 6) SocioVerse  Researchers from Fudan University and collaborators propose SocioVerse, a large-scale world model for social simulation using LLM agents aligned with real-world user behavior. Key ideas include:   <br>● Four-fold alignment framework – SocioVerse tackles major  challenges in aligning simulated environments with reality across four  dimensions:   <br>● Three representative simulations – SocioVerse showcases  its generalizability through: <br>● Impressive empirical  accuracy –   <br>● Ablation insights – Removing prior demographic distribution  and user knowledge severely degrades election prediction accuracy (Acc  drops from 0.80 → 0.60), highlighting the value of realistic  population modelingpapersoftheweek.   <br>● Toward trustworthy virtual societies – SocioVerse  not only standardizes scalable social simulations but also provides a  sandbox for testing sociopolitical hypotheses (e.g., fairness, policy  change), bridging AI agent systems with traditional social science. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10157) |\n| 7) DocAgent  Researchers from Meta AI present DocAgent, a tool‑integrated, dependency‑aware framework that turns large, complex codebases into well‑written docstrings. Key ideas include:   <br>● Topological Navigator for context building –  DocAgent parses the repository’s AST, builds a dependency DAG, and  documents components in topological order, so each function/class is  visited only after its prerequisites, enabling incremental context  accumulation and preventing context‑length explosions.   <br>● Role‑specialised agent team – Five agents work  together: Reader analyses code, Searcher gathers internal & external  references, Writer drafts docstrings, Verifier critiques and revises  them, while the Orchestrator manages iterations until quality  converges.   <br>● Adaptive context management – When retrieved context  exceeds the model’s token budget, the Orchestrator trims low‑priority  segments while preserving overall structure, keeping generation  efficient and faithful2504.08725v1.   <br>● Three‑facet automatic evaluation – A new framework  scores Completeness (section coverage), Helpfulness (LLM‑as‑judge  semantic utility), and Truthfulness (entity grounding against the code  DAG) for every docstring.   <br>● Substantial gains over baselines – On 366 components  across nine Python repos, DocAgent + GPT‑4o‑mini lifts Completeness to  0.934 vs 0.815, Helpfulness to 3.88 / 5 vs   2.95, and Truthfulness (existence ratio) to 95.7 % vs 61.1 % compared  with a Chat‑GPT baseline; FIM baselines fare far worse.   <br>● Navigator is crucial – An ablation that randomises  processing order drops helpfulness by ‑0.44 and truthfulness by ‑7.9  pp, confirming the importance of dependency‑aware traversal. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08725) |\n| 8) SWE-PolyBench  SWE-PolyBench is a new multi-language benchmark for evaluating coding agents on real-world software tasks across Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python. It introduces execution-based assessments, syntax tree metrics, and reveals that current agents struggle with complex tasks and show inconsistent performance across languages. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08703v1) |\n| 9) A Survey of Frontiers in LLM Reasoning  This survey categorizes LLM reasoning methods by when reasoning occurs (inference-time vs. training) and the system's architecture (standalone vs. agentic or multi-agent). It highlights trends like learning-to-reason (e.g., DeepSeek-R1) and agentic workflows (e.g., OpenAI Deep Research), covering prompt engineering, output refinement, and learning strategies such as PPO and verifier training. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09037) |\n| 10) Advances in Embodied Agents, Smart Cities, and Earth Science  This paper surveys how spatial intelligence manifests across disciplines—from embodied agents to urban and global systems—by connecting human spatial cognition with how LLMs handle spatial memory, representations, and reasoning. It offers a unifying framework to bridge research in AI, robotics, urban planning, and earth science, highlighting LLMs’ evolving spatial capabilities and their interdisciplinary potential. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09848) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 6 - April 13) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) The AI Scientist V2  The AI Scientist-v2 refines and extends its predecessor to achieve a new milestone: autonomously generating a workshop-accepted research manuscript. The system removes dependencies on human-authored code templates, incorporates agentic tree-search methods for deeper exploration, uses Vision-Language Models to refine figures, and demonstrates impressive real-world outcomes by passing the peer-review bar.   <br>● Enhanced Autonomy – Eliminates reliance on human-crafted  code templates, enabling out-of-the-box deployment across diverse ML  domains.   <br>● Agentic Tree Search – Systematically searches and  refines hypotheses through a branching exploration, managed by a new  experiment manager agent.   <br>● VLM Feedback Loop – Integrates Vision-Language Models in  the reviewing process to critique and improve experimental figures and  paper aesthetics.   <br>● Workshop Acceptance – Generated three fully autonomous  manuscripts for an ICLR workshop; one was accepted, showcasing the  feasibility of AI-driven end-to-end scientific discovery. | [Paper](https://pub.sakana.ai/ai-scientist-v2/paper/paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1909497165925536212) |\n| 2) Benchmarking Browsing Agents  OpenAI introduces BrowseComp, a benchmark with 1,266 questions that require AI agents to locate hard-to-find, entangled information on the web. Unlike saturated benchmarks like SimpleQA, BrowseComp demands persistent and creative search across numerous websites, offering a robust testbed for real-world web-browsing agents.  Key insights:   <br>● Extremely difficult questions: Benchmarked tasks were  verified to be unsolvable by humans in under 10 minutes and also by  GPT-4o (with/without browsing), OpenAI o1, and earlier Deep Research  models.   <br>● Human performance is low: Only 29.2% of problems  were solved by humans (even with 2-hour limits). 70.8% were abandoned.   <br>● Model performance:   <br>● Test-time scaling matters: Accuracy improves with more  browsing attempts. With 64 parallel samples and best-of-N aggregation,  Deep Research significantly boosts its performance (15–25% gain over a  single attempt).   <br>● Reasoning  browsing: OpenAI o1 (no browsing but better  reasoning) outperforms GPT-4.5 with browsing, showing that tool use  alone isn't enough—strategic reasoning is key.   <br>● Calibration struggles: Models with browsing access often  exhibit overconfidence in incorrect answers, revealing current limits  in uncertainty estimation.   <br>● Dataset diversity: Includes a wide topical spread:  TV/movies, science, art, sports, politics, geography, etc. | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/5e10f4ab-d6f7-442e-9508-59515c65e35d/browsecomp.pdf), [Blog](https://openai.com/index/browsecomp/), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1910393421652520967) |\n| 3) OLMOTrace  Allen Institute for AI & University of Washington present OLMOTRACE, a real-time system that traces LLM-generated text back to its verbatim sources in the original training data, even across  multi-trillion-token corpora.   <br>● What it does: For a given LM output, OLMOTRACE  highlights exact matches with training data segments and lets users  inspect full documents for those matches. Think   \"reverse-engineering\" a model’s response via lexical lookup. <br>● How  it works:   <br>● Supported models: Works with OLMo models (e.g.,  OLMo-2-32B-Instruct) and their full pre/mid/post-training datasets,  totaling 4.6T tokens.   <br>● Use cases:   <br>● Benchmarked:   <br>● Not RAG: It retrieves after generation, without changing  output, unlike retrieval-augmented generation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07096), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1910323386603262316), [Blog](https://5910970.hs-sites.com/olmotrace-points-model-output-back-to-training-data?ecid=ACsprvuggQcD4yCdO--rKTZKDvmczdSQkb96ct95zLH9eiysrXjF_WuKgsmIMaz8byfiL1H1-2A6&utm_campaign=AI2%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-__MqUAVPXfHPpHpf2xC86iZG8qC3J-z5nW141VBN9gZW4j61ymW3dM7mhkiHGTWtjQt3Eao7Cqf7pB1k24CfEhYe9fmA&_hsmi=355925505) |\n| 4) Concise Reasoning via RL  This new paper proposes a new training strategy that promotes concise and accurate reasoning in LLMs using RL. It challenges the belief that long responses improve accuracy; it offers both theoretical and empirical evidence showing that conciseness often correlates with better performance.   <br>● Long ≠ better reasoning – The authors mathematically  show that RL with PPO tends to generate unnecessarily long responses,  especially when answers are wrong. Surprisingly, shorter outputs  correlate more with correct answers, across reasoning and  non-reasoning models.   <br>● Two-phase RL for reasoning + conciseness –  They introduce a two-phase RL strategy: (1) train on hard problems to  build reasoning ability (length may increase), then (2) fine-tune on  occasionally solvable tasks to enforce concise CoT without hurting  accuracy. The second phase alone dramatically reduces token usage by  over 50%, with no loss in accuracy.   <br>● Works with tiny data – Their method succeeds with as  few as 4–8 training examples, showing large gains in both math and  STEM benchmarks (MATH, AIME24, MMLU-STEM). For instance, on MMLU-STEM,  they improved accuracy by +12.5% while cutting response length by over  2×.   <br>● Better under low sampling – Post-trained models  remain robust even when the temperature is reduced to 0. At  temperature=0, the fine-tuned model outperformed the baseline by  10–30%, showing enhanced deterministic performance.   <br>● Practical implications – Besides improving model output,  their method reduces latency, cost, and token usage, making LLMs more  deployable. The authors also recommend setting λ < 1 during PPO to  avoid instability and encourage correct response shaping. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05185), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1909634850304503977) |\n| 5) Rethinking Reflection in Pre-Training  Reflection — the ability of LLMs to identify and correct their own reasoning — has often been attributed to reinforcement learning or fine-tuning. This paper argues otherwise: reflection emerges during pre-training. The authors introduce adversarial reasoning tasks to show that self-reflection and correction capabilities steadily improve as compute increases, even in the absence of supervised post-training.  Key contributions:   <br>● Propose two kinds of reflection:   <br>● Build six adversarial datasets (GSM8K, TriviaQA, CruxEval, BBH) to  test reflection across math, coding, logic, and knowledge domains. On  GSM8K-Platinum, explicit reflection rates grow from ~10% to 60% with  increasing pre-training tokens.   <br>● Demonstrate that simple triggers like “Wait,” reliably induce  reflection.   <br>● Evaluate 40 OLMo-2 and Qwen2.5 checkpoints, finding a strong  correlation between pre-training compute and both accuracy and  reflection rate.  Why it matters:   <br>● Reflection is a precursor to reasoning and can develop before RLHF  or test-time decoding strategies.   <br>● Implication: We can instill advanced reasoning traits with better  pre-training data and scale, rather than relying entirely on  post-training tricks.   <br>● They also show a trade-off: more training compute reduces the need  for expensive test-time compute like long CoT traces. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04022), [Tweet](https://x.com/ashVaswani/status/1909642828554387675) |\n| 6) Efficient KG Reasoning for Small LLMs  LightPROF is a lightweight framework that enables small-scale language models to perform complex reasoning over knowledge graphs (KGs) using structured prompts. Key highlights:   <br>● Retrieve-Embed-Reason pipeline – LightPROF introduces a  three-stage architecture:   <br>● Plug-and-play & parameter-efficient – LightPROF trains  only the adapter and projection modules, allowing seamless integration  with any open-source LLM (e.g., LLaMa2-7B, LLaMa3-8B) without  expensive fine-tuning.   <br>● Outperforms larger models – Despite using small LLMs,  LightPROF beats baselines like StructGPT (ChatGPT) and ToG  (LLaMa2-70B) on KGQA tasks: 83.8% (vs. 72.6%) on WebQSP and 59.3% (vs.  57.6%)on CWQ.   <br>● Extreme efficiency – Compared to StructGPT, LightPROF  reduces token input by 98% and runtime by 30%, while maintaining  accuracy and stable output even in complex multi-hop questions.   <br>● Ablation insights – Removing structural signals or training  steps severely degrades performance, confirming the critical role of  the Knowledge Adapter and retrieval strategy. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03137), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1910319109096747191) |\n| 7) Compute Agent Arena  Computer Agent Arena is a new open platform for benchmarking LLM and VLM-based agents on real-world computer-use tasks, like coding, editing, and web navigation, using a virtual desktop environment. Initial results show that OpenAI and Anthropic are leading with modest success rates, while the platform aims to grow through crowdsourced tasks, agent submissions, and open-sourcing of its infrastructure.  [Report](https://arena.xlang.ai/blog/computer-agent-arena) | [Tweet](https://x.com/BowenWangNLP/status/1909618451259572328) |\n| 8) Agentic Knowledgeable Self-awareness  KnowSelf is a new framework that introduces agentic knowledgeable self-awareness, enabling LLM agents to dynamically decide when to reflect or seek knowledge based on situational complexity, mimicking human cognition. Using special tokens for \"fast,\" \"slow,\" and \"knowledgeable\" thinking, KnowSelf reduces inference costs and achieves state-of-the-art performance on ALFWorld and WebShop tasks with minimal external knowledge. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03553v1) |\n| 9) One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training  One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training introduces TTT layers, a novel sequence modeling component where hidden states are neural networks updated via self-supervised loss at test time. By integrating these into a pre-trained diffusion model, the authors enable single-shot generation of one-minute, multi-scene videos from storyboards, achieving 34 Elo points higher than strong baselines like Mamba 2 and DeltaNet in human evaluations | [Paper](https://test-time-training.github.io/video-dit/assets/ttt_cvpr_2025.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/karansdalal/status/1909312851795411093) |\n| 10) NoProp  NoProp is a novel gradient-free learning method where each neural network layer independently learns to denoise a noisy version of the target, inspired by diffusion and flow matching. Unlike backpropagation, it avoids hierarchical representation learning and achieves competitive performance and efficiency on image classification benchmarks like MNIST and CIFAR. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24322) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (March 31 - April 6) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) PaperBench  OpenAI introduces a new benchmark, PaperBench, to test whether AI agents can replicate cutting-edge machine learning research papers, from scratch.   ● A rigorous replication challenge – PaperBench  evaluates agents on reproducing entire ML papers from ICML 2024 (20  total, across 12 research areas). Agents must understand the paper,  build the codebase from scratch, and run experiments to match results.  Each paper comes with a fine-grained rubric (~8,316 tasks total)  co-designed with the original authors.   ● Automatic grading with LLM judges – To make  evaluation scalable, the team built a   rubric-based judge (o3-mini with scaffolding) that scores replications  with high agreement (F1 = 0.83) against human experts. They also  release JudgeEval, a benchmark for assessing judge accuracy.   ● Frontier model performance is modest – Claude  3.5 Sonnet scored highest with 21.0%, followed by o1 (13.2%) and  GPT-4o (4.1%). Even with longer runtimes and prompt tuning  (IterativeAgent), no model surpassed a 26.0% score. By contrast, ML  PhDs hit 41.4% on a 3-paper subset in 48 hours, showing humans still  lead in long-horizon agentic tasks.   ● CodeDev variant for lightweight evals – A  simplified PaperBench Code-Dev version skips execution and just grades  code structure. o1 scored 43.4% there, showing more promise when  runtime issues are excluded.   ● Failure modes and insights – Models often “gave up  early,” lacked strategic planning, and failed to iterate. Claude did  better with BasicAgent (freer form), while o1 benefited from  IterativeAgent (structured prompts). This highlights how sensitive  agents are to prompting and scaffolding.   ● Open-source release – PaperBench (with rubrics, grading  infra, and replication results) is fully open-sourced to drive further  progress on long-horizon agent tasks and autonomous AI R&D. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01848), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1907481490457506235), [GitHub](https://github.com/openai/preparedness) |\n| 2) Command A: An Enterprise-Ready LLM  Cohere announced Command A, a 111B parameter open-weights LLM built for enterprise-grade RAG, agents, code, and multilingual tasks. Key contributions:   ● Modular expert merging for domain mastery –  Instead of monolithic post-training, Command A uses a decentralized  training pipeline. Separate expert models are fine-tuned for specific  domains (e.g., math, RAG, multilingual, safety, code), then merged  into one model using efficient weighted parameter soup techniques.  This preserves most expert performance with just ~1.8% average drop.   ● Hybrid architecture for long-context efficiency  – Command A interleaves sliding window and full attention layers,  achieving 256k context support with drastically lower KV cache memory  usage—e.g., only ~33% of LLaMA 3 70B at 128k. It scores 95.0% on  RULER, outperforming most long-context peers.   ● Superb agentic capabilities – Built for RAG, tool use,  and ReAct-style agents, Command A beats GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 on  TauBench and BFCL. Tool use is trained via a blend of human-annotated  and synthetic data, then aligned with CoPG and SRPO (self-improving  preference optimization).   ● Best-in-class enterprise evaluations – On real-world  generative tasks (e.g., chat summarization, FAQ generation) and RAG  use cases (long workplace policy documents), Command A tops the  leaderboard with 94.2% pass rate, 4.73 correctness, and 91%  unanswerable QA accuracy.   ● Multilingual excellence – Command A is trained in 23 global  languages with heavy data curation and preference tuning. It scores  #1 in dialect alignment (ADI2), 90.3% average LPR (language  consistency), and outperforms LLaMA 3.3, GPT-4o, and DeepSeek in  manual Arena-style win rates across all languages.   ● Polishing for human alignment – Final alignment used  a ping-pong loop of offline SRPO and online CoPG with RLHF. This  yielded +17pt human win rate gains on code, +10pt on reasoning, and  lifted Command A’s win rate over GPT-4o to parity (~50.4%).   ● Fast, efficient, and open – Despite its power,  Command A runs on just 2×A100s or H100s and generates 156  tokens/sec—faster than GPT-4o and DeepSeek. Model weights are released  (CC-BY-NC) on Hugging Face. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00698), [Tweet](https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/1908181303339471020), [Models](https://huggingface.co/CohereForAI/c4ai-command-a-03-2025) |\n| 3) CodeScientist  Researchers at AI2 release CodeScientist, a system that autonomously generates and tests scientific hypotheses via code-based experimentation. It’s among the first to produce validated discoveries with minimal human input. Key ideas:   ● Code-first scientific agent – CodeScientist reviews  research papers and assembles experiments using vetted Python code  blocks (e.g., for analysis, simulation). It follows a five-step  pipeline: Ideation → Planning → Code Execution → Reporting →  Meta-Analysis.   ● Validated AI discoveries – From 50 AI research papers on  agents and virtual environments, CodeScientist proposed 19 findings.  Of these, 6 were judged scientifically sound and novel. Examples:   ● Human-guided autonomy – Full automation is possible, but  brief human feedback (e.g., ranking ideas) significantly boosts output  quality. Human-in-the-loop interaction improves idea selection and  experiment debugging.   ● Challenges remain – Despite successes, over half the  generated experiments fail due to code errors, not scientific  flaws. Peer review is still needed to verify results, and current  systems lack deep methodological rigor. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22708), [Blog](https://allenai.org/blog/codescientist), [GitHub](https://github.com/allenai/codescientist) |\n| 4) Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Model  Introduces RARE, a new paradigm for training domain-specific LLMs that focuses on reasoning, not memorization. Key ideas:   ● Inspired by Bloom’s Taxonomy – RARE shifts LLM  training from memorizing knowledge (“Remember”) to applying and  evaluating it (“Analyze”, “Create”). It separates domain knowledge  (retrieved externally) from domain thinking (learned during training),  enabling better performance under tight parameter budgets.   ● Open-book prepared training – RARE injects retrieved  knowledge into training prompts, letting models learn reasoning  patterns instead of rote facts. This open-book, reasoning-first setup  beats both standard SFT and RAG approaches, especially in medicine.   ● Massive accuracy gains with small models –  On five medical QA benchmarks,   RARE-trained Llama-3.1-8B and Qwen-2.5-7B outperformed GPT-4 + RAG,  with up to +20% accuracy boosts (e.g., PubMedQA: 78.63% vs. GPT-4’s  75.2%, CoVERT: 74.14% vs. GPT-4’s 65.67%).   ● Training via distillation + adaptive retries  – RARE distills answers (and reasoning paths) from a strong teacher  (e.g., QwQ-32B), refining outputs until a correct answer is found.  This creates a high-quality dataset that teaches contextualized,  case-based thinking.   ● New role for retrieval – Unlike standard RAG (used  only at inference), RARE uses retrieval during training to shape  reasoning. It models knowledge integration (p(kx, R(x))) and  reasoning (p(rx, R(x), k)) as separate steps, replacing memorization  with application.  Overall, this work reframes LLM training for domain-specific intelligence: externalize facts, internalize reasoning. It unlocks strong performance from small models without overfitting or hallucination. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23513), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1907796990966247484) |\n| 5) Why do LLMs Attend to First Token?  This new paper explains why LLMs obsessively focus attention on the first token — a phenomenon known as an attention sink.  Their theory: it’s a useful trick to prevent representational collapse in deep Transformers.   ● Sinks = over-mixing shields – LLMs with long  contexts and deep layers tend to over-mix information, causing similar  embeddings for all tokens (i.e., rank collapse or over-squashing).  Attention sinks—where many heads fixate on the ⟨bos⟩ token—act as  no-ops that reduce token interaction and preserve representation  diversity across layers.   ● Sharp experiments on Gemma & LLaMa –  Perturbation tests in Gemma 7B show ⟨bos⟩ significantly slows the  spread of changes through the model. Meanwhile, in LLaMa 3.1 models,  over 80% of attention heads show strong sink behavior in the 405B  variant, supporting the theory that larger models need stronger sinks.   ● Sinks emerge naturally – Even without special  pretraining, sinks tend to form at the first position, not because of  the ⟨bos⟩ token itself, but due to its location. However, if ⟨bos⟩ is  fixed during training and later removed, performance collapses,  showing that sink formation is   data-dependent.   ● Theoretical grounding – The authors connect sink emergence  to Jacobian norm bounds, proving that sinks reduce sensitivity to  token perturbations. Their math shows that deeper models and longer  contexts require stronger sinks.   ● Layerwise dynamics insight – Some attention heads use  ⟨bos⟩ as a “default” target, unless a special pattern (e.g.,  apostrophe) triggers real computation. This supports a conditional  attention mechanism—attend to ⟨bos⟩ unless needed elsewhere. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02732), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1908187563422261411) |\n| 6) Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Simulations for Realistic Clinical Interactions  Presents MedAgentSim is a fully automated, open-source hospital simulation where LLM-powered agents simulate doctor-patient interactions in dynamic diagnostic settings. Unlike previous static QA  benchmarks, MedAgentSim mimics real-world clinical workflows with multi-turn dialogue, test requests, and self-improvement.  More about this paper:   ● Active doctor agents – MedAgentSim requires LLM doctor  agents to engage in multi-turn consultations, request labs and imaging  (e.g., ECG, X-ray), and iteratively refine diagnoses, making it far  more realistic than pre-filled medical QA datasets.   ● Self-improvement via memory + reflection – The  system maintains buffers of successful and failed diagnoses. It uses  retrieved past cases (via kNN), chain-of-thought reasoning, and  ensembling to improve performance over time. Misdiagnoses trigger a  reflection phase before inclusion in memory.   ● Fully autonomous or human-in-the-loop – Users can  optionally take control of the doctor or patient agents. Simulation  assets are built using a 2D game engine (Phaser), and the agents can  navigate, converse, and interact with virtual medical tools.   ● Big performance boost across benchmarks – On  NEJM, MedQA, and MIMIC-IV, MedAgentSim (with LLaMA 3.3) outperforms  baseline setups by +6–37%, especially in vision-language tasks using  LLaVA for interpreting medical images.   ● Bias analysis & fairness focus – The team  studied diagnostic accuracy under cognitive and implicit bias  conditions. Models like GPT-4o and LLaMA proved more robust than  Mixtral/Mistral, highlighting the importance of bias-aware evaluation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22678), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1906719555482702147), [Code](https://github.com/MAXNORM8650/MedAgentSim) |\n| 7) Open Deep Search  Researchers from Sentient, UW, Princeton, and UC Berkeley introduce Open Deep Search (ODS), an open-source search AI framework that rivals top proprietary systems like GPT-4o Search Preview and Perplexity Sonar. Key insights:   ● Two open components: search + reasoning –  ODS has two modular parts: (1) Open Search Tool, which retrieves and  refines high-quality web results using query rephrasing, snippet  reranking, and site-specific logic; and (2) Open Reasoning Agent, a  controller that orchestrates tool usage (search, calculator, etc.) to  answer queries. Two variants are offered: ODS-v1 (ReAct) and ODS-v2  (CodeAct).   ● SOTA open-source performance – With DeepSeek-R1 as the  base LLM, ODS-v2 scores 88.3% on SimpleQA and 75.3% on FRAMES, beating  GPT-4o Search Preview by +9.7% on the latter. ODS adapts the number of  searches per query (avg. 3.39 on FRAMES), balancing cost and accuracy  more efficiently than fixed-query baselines.   ● Better than Perplexity Sonar – On both FRAMES and  SimpleQA, ODS+DeepSeek-R1 outperforms Perplexity’s flagship search  models, even in complex reasoning tasks involving multi-hop questions,  time/date calculations, and name disambiguation.   ● Code-based agents enhance reasoning – ODS-v2 builds  on CodeAct, allowing it to write and run Python code to perform  symbolic reasoning and tool calls. This results in sharper numerical  precision and task flexibility compared to CoT-based ReAct in ODS-v1. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20201), [Tweet](https://x.com/sewoong79/status/1906595129965912341), [GitHub](https://github.com/sentient-agi/OpenDeepSearch) |\n| 8) Efficient Test-time Scaling with Code  Z1 is a new method for making large language models more compute-efficient at test time, especially during reasoning. The core idea is to train LLMs with short and long code-based reasoning trajectories, and then dynamically adjust reasoning depth during inference. Key contributions:   ● Z1-Code-Reasoning-107K dataset – They construct a  107K-sample dataset with short and long reasoning paths for simple and  complex coding problems. Trajectories are distilled from QwQ-32B and  paired to help the model learn when to stop thinking.   ● Shifted Thinking Window – A new test-time strategy that  eliminates explicit <think delimiters. Instead, the model adapts  reasoning token budget based on problem difficulty. Simple problems  invoke shallow reasoning; complex ones get capped (e.g., 4096 tokens  max), with hints nudging the model to finalize the answer.   ● Big efficiency gains – The 7B-scale model Z1-7B matches  R1-Distill-Qwen-7B across multiple reasoning tasks (MATH500,  LiveCodeBench, GPQA Diamond) but with ~30% of the reasoning tokens.  For instance, on GPQA Diamond, Z1-7B achieves 47.5% while using less  than half the tokens.   ● Code reasoning transfers to general tasks –  Despite being trained only on code-based CoT data, Z1 generalizes well  to broader domains like science and math, outperforming other 7B  reasoning models (e.g., OpenThinker-7B, s1.1-7B) across multiple  benchmarks.   ● What makes reasoning data effective? – Ablation  studies reveal two key dataset design levers: (1) longer reasoning  trajectories improve inference quality; (2) larger training sample  sizes boost average thinking time and accuracy, even without altering  trajectory length. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00810v1) |\n| 9) A Survey of Efficient Reasoning for LLMs  This survey focuses on reasoning economy in LLMs, analyzing how to balance deep reasoning performance with computational cost. It reviews inefficiencies, behavioral patterns, and potential solutions at both post-training and inference stages. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24377), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1907072213142151488) |\n| 10) Hidden Factual Knowledge in LLMs  This study introduces a framework to measure hidden knowledge in LLMs, showing that models encode significantly more factual information internally than they express in outputs, up to 40% more. It also finds that some answers, although known internally, are never generated, highlighting key limits in test-time sampling for QA tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15299), [Tweet](https://x.com/zorikgekhman/status/1906693729886363861) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (March 24 - March 30) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) Tracing the Thoughts of LLMs  Anthropic researchers unveil new interpretability tools for peering inside LLMs, using Claude 3.5 Haiku as a testbed. Their two new papers show how to trace model internals like circuits, plans, and conceptual thinking in real time. Key findings:   ● Multilingual \"language of thought\" – Claude  processes concepts like “small” or “opposite” similarly across  English, French, and Chinese, suggesting a shared abstract  representation layer. As models scale, these cross-lingual features  increase, enabling transfer learning between languages.   ● Planning ahead—even in poetry – Contrary to  expectations, Claude plans rhymes before writing. When generating the  line “His hunger was like a starving rabbit,” it had already “decided”  on rhyming with “grab it.” Researchers could suppress or swap this  plan to alter the ending dynamically.   ● Mental math with parallel circuits – Claude  computes sums using parallel circuits: one estimates the result, the  other nails the last digit. But it explains answers with human-style  logic (e.g., \"carry the 1\"), revealing a gap between internal  computation and verbal justification.   ● Detecting unfaithful reasoning – Sometimes, Claude  fabricates logical steps to fit a target answer, especially when  guided by incorrect hints. Interpretability tools could catch these  cases by showing that internal computation doesn’t match the  explanation—a key advance for AI audits.   ● Conceptual chains in multi-step reasoning – For  questions like “What is the capital of the state where Dallas is  located?”, Claude first represents “Dallas → Texas” then “Texas →  Austin.” Researchers could intervene mid-chain to make it say  “Sacramento” instead, proving the reasoning is dynamic and  compositional.   ● Hallucinations and refusals – The model defaults to  refusal unless prompted with known concepts. Misfires in circuits for  “known answers” cause hallucinations (e.g., inventing facts about a  fake name like “Michael Batkin”). Researchers could toggle this  behavior by manipulating feature activations.   ● Jailbreak anatomy – A jailbreak using the phrase “Babies  Outlive Mustard Block” (BOMB) initially fools Claude into outputting  dangerous info. Internal tracing shows   grammar-consistency features temporarily override safety, until the  model finishes a coherent sentence, then its safety response kicks in. | [Blog](https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model), [Paper 1](https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html), [Paper 2](https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1905303835892990278) |\n| 2) Qwen2.5-Omni  Qwen2.5-Omni is a single end-to-end multimodal model that can perceive and understand text, audio, image, and video, and generate both text and speech in real time. It introduces architectural and training innovations that push the boundaries of streaming, multi-signal intelligence. Highlights:   ● Thinker-Talker architecture – Inspired by the human brain  and mouth, Qwen2.5-Omni separates reasoning (Thinker) and speech  generation (Talker). Thinker (a transformer decoder) handles all  perception and text generation. Talker (a dual-track autoregressive  decoder) generates speech by consuming both text and hidden states  from Thinker. Together, they’re trained end-to-end for synchronized  text-speech output.   ● Streaming-first design – To support real-time interaction,  Qwen2.5-Omni implements block-wise encoders (for audio and vision) and  a sliding-window codec generator for streaming audio. The model  introduces TMRoPE (Time-aligned Multimodal RoPE), a 3D positional  encoding system that aligns video and audio inputs to the same time  axis.   ● Pretraining scale & alignment – Trained on over 1.2  trillion tokens of diverse multimodal data, including 300B audio and  100B video-audio tokens. Uses instruction-tuned ChatML formatting and  performs multi-stage post-training for both Thinker and Talker. Talker   undergoes RL fine-tuning (DPO) and multi-speaker adaptation to ensure  natural, stable speech output.   ● SOTA across modalities – Qwen2.5-Omni achieves  state-of-the-art on OmniBench, surpasses Qwen2-Audio in ASR/S2TT, and  matches or beats Qwen2.5-VL in image and video tasks. On SEED  zero-shot TTS, it outperforms CosyVoice 2 and F5-TTS in naturalness  and stability, with low WER and high speaker similarity.   ● Closes the voice-text gap – On a voice-instruction  benchmark (converted from MMLU, GSM8K, etc.), Qwen2.5-Omni nearly  matches its own text-instructed sibling Qwen2-7B, showing dramatic  improvements in speech-based instruction following. | [Paper](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen2.5-Omni/blob/main/assets/Qwen2.5_Omni.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1904944923159445914) |\n| 3) AgentRxiv  Researchers from Johns Hopkins & ETH Zurich present AgentRxiv, a framework enabling LLM agents to autonomously generate and share research papers, mimicking how human scientists build on each other’s work. Highlights:   ● AgentRxiv = arXiv for LLMs – It’s an open-source  preprint server for autonomous agents, letting labs upload papers,  search past work, and iteratively improve results. Labs use this to  develop and refine reasoning techniques over generations of research.   ● Massive reasoning gains via iterative  research – On the MATH-500 benchmark, a single agent lab improves  GPT-4o mini accuracy from 70.2% → 78.2% (+11.4%) by discovering better  prompt strategies. The final method (SDA) outperforms earlier ideas  like CRUC and DCCP. → SDA = Simultaneous Divergence Averaging:  combines low/high-temp CoT outputs with dynamic similarity-based  voting and confidence aggregation.   ● Knowledge generalizes – SDA also improves other benchmarks:   ● Collaboration boosts discovery – Running 3 agent labs in  parallel yields faster progress and higher final accuracy (up to  79.8%, +13.7% over baseline) by sharing results via AgentRxiv. Early  gains (e.g., 76.2% accuracy) arrive after only 7 papers vs. 23  sequentially.   ● Self-improvement and novelty – Agents independently  refine their own past ideas. Papers evolve from earlier iterations  (e.g., Meta-Mirror Prompting → Meta-Mirror Prompting 2). Top papers  show no plagiarism via multiple detectors, but ideas like SDA build on  trends like self-consistency and CoT voting.   ● Cost & runtime – Generating a paper takes ~1.36 hours  and ~$3.11. Parallel setups are pricier overall but achieve results  faster (time-to-accuracy win). Failure modes include hallucinated  results and fragile code repair steps, with future work needed for  better reliability and novelty guarantees. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18102), [Tweet](https://x.com/SRSchmidgall/status/1904172862014984632) |\n| 4) Neural Alignment via Speech Embeddings  Google Research and collaborators reveal striking similarities between LLM embeddings and human brain activity during conversation. Key insights:   ● Embeddings match brain signals – Using intracranial  electrode recordings, the team showed that internal representations  (embeddings) from OpenAI's Whisper model align with neural responses  in brain regions for speech (STG), language (IFG), and motor planning  (MC). During comprehension, speech embeddings predict early auditory  responses, while language embeddings follow in IFG. During production,  this order reverses — first language planning (IFG), then articulation  (MC), then auditory feedback (STG).   ● “Soft hierarchy” in brain areas – Though STG  emphasizes acoustic info and IFG captures word-level meaning, both  regions show partial alignment with both embedding types. This  suggests a gradient processing structure, not a strict modular  pipeline.   ● Brain predicts next word too – In follow-up  studies published in Nature Neuroscience, the brain’s language areas  were found to predict upcoming words, mirroring the objective of   autoregressive LLMs. The surprise response after hearing a word also  mirrors LLM prediction errors.   ● Shared geometry in language representations –  The geometry of word relationships in brain activity mirrors that of  LLM embeddings, per a separate Nature Communications paper. This  indicates a convergent structure in how LLMs and the brain represent  language.   ● Different wiring, same function – Despite  similarities in objectives and representations, LLMs and brains  diverge architecturally: brains process speech serially and  recursively, while Transformers process in parallel across layers.   ● Toward biologically inspired AI – These studies  support using LLMs to reverse-engineer the brain’s language  mechanisms. The team aims to build future models with more brain-like  learning, data, and structure, bridging neuroscience and deep  learning. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02105-9), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1904947715458711706) |\n| 5) Chain-of-Tools  This new paper presents Chain-of-Tools (CoTools), a new method to enable LLMs to incorporate expansive external toolsets—including tools never seen during training—while preserving CoT (chain-of-thought) reasoning. Highlights:   ● Frozen LLM with lightweight fine-tuning – Unlike conventional  approaches, CoTools keeps the LLM’s parameters frozen, instead  fine-tuning separate modules (a Tool Judge and Tool Retriever) on top  of the model’s hidden states. This preserves the LLM’s core  capabilities while letting it call an open-ended set of tools during  reasoning.   ● Massive unseen tools – CoTools treats tools as semantic vectors  computed from their textual descriptions. Even tools that never appear  in the fine-tuning data can be invoked if they match the model’s query  vectors, enabling new tools to be plugged in without retraining the  entire system.   ● Tool calls integrated into CoT – The system determines whether and  when to call a tool in the middle of generating an answer. It then  selects the best tool from thousands of candidates based on learned  representations of the query and partial solution context. This helps  to significantly boost accuracy on complex tasks.   ● Strong gains on reasoning and QA – Experiments on GSM8K-XL, FuncQA,  KAMEL, and the newly introduced SimpleToolQuestions dataset (with  1,836 tools) show improved   tool-selection accuracy and superior final answers versus baseline  methods. Notably, CoTools consistently scales to large tool pools and  generalizes to unseen tools. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16779), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1904190225079022018) |\n| 6) Structured Memory Augmentation for Smarter LLM Agents  MemInsight is a framework that autonomously augments and structures memory for LLM agents, improving context retention and retrieval. Key insights include:   ● Structured, autonomous memory augmentation – Instead  of relying on raw historical data or manually defined memory  structures, MemInsight uses a backbone LLM to autonomously mine  attributes from past conversations or knowledge. These are organized  into entity-centric and conversation-centric (e.g., user emotion or  intent) augmentations at either the turn or session level. This mimics  how humans abstract and prioritize experiences.   ● Attribute-guided retrieval beats vanilla RAG –  MemInsight supports both attribute-based retrieval (exact match  filtering) and embedding-based retrieval (via FAISS). On the LoCoMo QA  dataset, MemInsight outperformed a Dense Passage Retrieval (RAG)  baseline by up to +34% recall. The best setup (priority-based  Claude-Sonnet augmentations) achieved 60.5% Recall@5, vs. 26.5% for  RAG.   ● More persuasive recommendations – In movie  recommendations using the LLM-REDIAL dataset, MemInsight lifted  genre-matched recommendation scores while cutting down   memory size by 90%. Embedding-based filtering led to +12% more highly  persuasive outputs, per LLM judgment.   ● Event summarization via memory alone –  MemInsight’s annotations alone can be used to summarize long  conversational sessions. These memory-only summaries rival  raw-dialogue baselines in coherence and relevance (per G-Eval scores),  particularly when turn-level augmentations are combined with original  dialogue context.   ● Minimal hallucinations, stable performance –  Comparative analysis of augmentation models (Claude-Sonnet, Llama,  Mistral) shows Claude-Sonnet produces more stable, consistent, and  grounded attributes, reinforcing the importance of careful model  selection in memory pipelines. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21760v1) |\n| 7) Investigating Affective Use and Emotional Well-being on ChatGPT  Researchers from OpenAI & MIT Media Lab explore how emotionally engaging interactions with ChatGPT (especially in Voice Mode) may impact user well-being. Using platform-wide data and a randomized controlled trial (RCT), they uncover nuanced effects of chatbot usage on loneliness, dependence, and socialization.   ● Two complementary studies – The team combines:   ● High usage = higher emotional entanglement –  Across both studies, users with higher usage (especially voice  interactions) were more likely to show signs of:   ● Voice mode showed mixed effects – In the RCT,  voice models led to better emotional well-being compared to text  models when controlling for usage. But:   ● Tiny group, big impact – A small number of users  (~10%) account for the majority of emotionally charged conversations.  Power users used pet names, shared problems, and formed  pseudo-relationships with the model.   ● Automated classifiers at scale – They developed 25+  LLM-based affective classifiers (e.g., “Pet Name,” “Seeking Support”)  to scan millions of conversations without human review. Classifier  results closely mirrored user self-reports.   ● Call for socioaffective alignment – The authors urge  developers to consider socioaffective alignment, designing models that  support users without exploiting emotional needs. They warn of risks  like “social reward hacking,” where a model mirrors or flatters users  to maximize engagement. | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/papers/15987609-5f71-433c-9972-e91131f399a1/openai-affective-use-study.pdf) |\n| 8) Play2Prompt  Researchers from MIT CSAIL and IBM introduce Play2Prompt, a framework that empowers LLM agents to learn how to use external tools entirely in a zero-shot manner, without requiring labeled examples or high-quality documentation. Key innovations include:   ● Tool \"play\" for usage discovery – Play2Prompt  treats tools like black boxes and systematically plays with them (via  trial-and-error API calls) to discover correct usage patterns. It  reverse-engineers examples by first identifying working invocations,  then generating a query-answer pair that fits the invocation and  response.   ● Two-stage optimization – The system iteratively builds: (1)  tool-use demonstrations via   self-reflective beam search and rejection sampling; and (2) refined  tool documentation, using those examples as a validation set. This  dual improvement allows LLMs to better understand and utilize  unfamiliar APIs.   ● Self-reflective beam search – Inspired by active  learning, Play2Prompt favors hard examples that models initially fail  on. These examples offer higher learning value and guide documentation  improvements more effectively.   ● Strong zero-shot performance – On BFCL Executable and  StableToolBench, Play2Prompt yields consistent accuracy gains of +5–7%  over baseline LLaMA and GPT-3.5 models and   even boosts GPT-4o by up to +3.3%, particularly excelling in  challenging multi-tool or REST call settings.   ● Robust to poor documentation – Even when 50% of  parameter descriptions are randomly dropped, Play2Prompt recovers and  surpasses baseline performance, making it ideal for real-world tool  integration with sparse or noisy metadata.   ● Better than EasyTool – Unlike prior methods like  EasyTool (which depend on labeled examples from related tools),  Play2Prompt remains fully zero-shot and outperforms them in  consistency, especially for models sensitive to instruction drift like  GPT-4o. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14432) |\n| 9) Synthetic Data Generation Using LLMs  LLMs are increasingly used to generate synthetic training data for language and code tasks, improving performance in low-resource scenarios through techniques like prompt-based generation and self-refinement. The paper highlights benefits like cost and coverage, while addressing issues such as factual errors and bias, and suggests mitigations and future research in prompt automation and evaluation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14023) |\n| 10) Current and Future Use of LLMs for Knowledge Work  A two-part survey study of 216 and 107 participants reveals that knowledge workers currently use LLMs for tasks like code generation and text improvement, but envision deeper integration into workflows and data. The findings inform future design and adoption strategies for generative AI in professional settings. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16774v1) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (March 17 - March 23) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) A Review of DeepSeek Models  This paper provides an in-depth review of the cutting-edge techniques behind DeepSeek's open-source LLMs—DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1. These models achieve state-of-the-art  performance with significantly lower resource requirements compared to proprietary counterparts. Key highlights include:   <br>● Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) – Introduces efficient attention  by compressing keys and values into a latent vector, dramatically  reducing memory consumption for long-context tasks without sacrificing  performance. MLA employs low-rank compression and decoupled Rotary  Position Embeddings, outperforming standard multi-head attention.   <br>● Advanced Mixture of Experts (MoE) – Incorporates fine-grained expert  segmentation and dedicated shared experts, significantly enhancing  combinational flexibility. An innovative load-balancing strategy  further optimizes computational efficiency and model performance.   <br>● Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) – Enhances training efficiency by  predicting multiple subsequent tokens simultaneously. Although  effective, the additional training overhead warrants further  optimization.   <br>● Algorithm-Hardware Co-design – Presents engineering advancements  like DualPipe scheduling, an algorithm designed to eliminate pipeline  bubbles, and FP8 mixed-precision training, maximizing computational  efficiency and reducing training resources.   <br>● Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) – Offers a streamlined RL  algorithm eliminating value function approximation from PPO, directly  estimating advantages from grouped outputs, drastically reducing GPU  memory usage.   <br>● Post-Training Reinforcement Learning – Demonstrates pure RL's  capability in DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which learns advanced reasoning  without supervised fine-tuning. DeepSeek-R1 further improves this  approach via iterative cold-start fine-tuning, rejection sampling, and  RL alignment to enhance reasoning quality and language consistency. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11486) |\n| 2) Towards Hierarchical Multi-Step Reward Models for Enhanced Reasoning in LLMs  It proposes a Hierarchical Reward Model (HRM) that addresses reward hacking and error propagation issues in fine-grained LLM reasoning. They also introduce Hierarchical Node Compression (HNC) to augment MCTS-based automatic data annotation, boosting label diversity and robustness at minimal computational cost.   <br>● Hierarchical vs. single-step rewards – Traditional Process Reward  Models (PRM) assign fine-grained rewards per step but can penalize  corrections of earlier mistakes. By contrast,   HRM assesses multiple consecutive steps, capturing coarse-grained  coherence and enabling self-correction of earlier errors. This yields  more robust and reliable evaluations.   <br>● Solving “reward hacking” – PRM often misleads policy models into  short-sighted strategies that artificially maximize step-level  rewards. HRM’s multi-step feedback framework penalizes incomplete or  incoherent reasoning, mitigating reward hacking behaviors.   <br>● Hierarchical Node Compression (HNC) – Generating step-by-step  annotations with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is computationally  heavy. The HNC method merges adjacent nodes in the search tree,  expanding the dataset with controlled noise yet minimal extra cost.  This more diverse training set enhances the reward model’s robustness.   <br>● Stronger generalization – Experiments on PRM800K and cross-domain  tasks (MATH500, GSM8K) show HRM consistently outperforms standard  outcome-based or step-based reward models, particularly on deeper,  more complex chains of thought. Policy models fine-tuned with HRM  yield higher accuracy and more stable step-by-step solutions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13551), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1902360668856315990) |\n| 3) DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale  It introduces DAPO, a fully open-source, large-scale RL system that boosts the chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities of LLMs.  DAPO raises the upper clipping threshold (“Clip-Higher”) in PPO-style training, preventing entropy collapse and helping the policy explore more diverse tokens.  By filtering out samples that are always correct or always wrong, DAPO focuses training on prompts with useful gradient signals, speeding up convergence in fewer updates.  Instead of averaging losses at the sample level, DAPO applies policy gradients per token, making each reasoning step matter. This ensures both high-quality and length-appropriate outputs.  The system masks or softly penalizes excessively long answers, preventing meaningless verbosity or repetitive text.  DAPO achieves SOTA math performance on the AIME 2024 test set. Specifically, DAPO trained from a Qwen2.5-32B base achieves 50% accuracy, outperforming DeepSeek’s R1 with less training time, and showcasing open-source reproducibility at scale. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14476), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1902364950821257288) |\n| 4) Compute Optimal Scaling of Skills  Researchers from the University of Wisconsin and Meta AI investigate how different skills (knowledge-based QA vs. code generation) exhibit contrasting optimal scaling behaviors in LLMs. Their key question: does the compute-optimal trade-off between model size and data volume depend on the type of skill being learned? Surprisingly, the answer is yes—they show distinct “data-hungry” vs. “capacity-hungry” preferences per skill. Highlights:   <br>● Skill-dependent scaling laws – Traditional scaling laws optimize the  overall loss on a generic validation set. However, this paper shows  that knowledge tasks prefer bigger models (capacity-hungry), while  code tasks prefer more data tokens (data-hungry).   <br>● Differences persist even after balancing data – Tweaking the  pretraining mix (e.g. adding more code data) can shift that skill’s  optimal ratio, but fundamental differences remain. Knowledge-based QA  still tends to need more parameters, code still benefits from bigger  data budgets.   <br>● Huge impact of validation set – Choosing a validation set that  doesn’t reflect the final skill mix can lead to misaligned  compute-optimal model sizes by 30%–50% at lower compute scales. Even  at higher scales, suboptimal validation sets skew the best parameter  count by over 10%.   <br>● Practical takeaway – Model developers must pick or design validation  sets that represent the real skill mix. If your ultimate goal is to  excel at knowledge-based QA, you likely need a more capacity-hungry  strategy. If it’s coding tasks, you might focus on data-hungry  training. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10061), [Tweet](https://x.com/nick11roberts/status/1902875088438833291) |\n| 5) Thinking Machines  This survey provides an overview and comparison of existing reasoning techniques and presents a systematic survey of reasoning-imbued language models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10814), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1901645973681823962) |\n| 6) A Survey on Efficient Reasoning  This new survey investigates techniques to address the \"overthinking phenomenon\" in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), categorizing existing methods into model-based optimizations, output-based reasoning reductions, and prompt-based efficiency enhancements. The survey  highlights ongoing efforts to balance reasoning capability and computational efficiency in models like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16419), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1903109602826457531) |\n| 7) Agentic Memory for LLM Agents  Researchers from Rutgers University and Ant Group propose a new agentic memory system for LLM agents, addressing the need for long-term memory in complex real-world tasks. Key highlights include:   <br>● Dynamic & Zettelkasten-inspired design – A-MEM autonomously creates  comprehensive memory notes—each with textual attributes (keywords,  tags) and embeddings—then interlinks them based on semantic  similarities. The approach is inspired by the Zettelkasten method of  atomic note-taking and flexible linking, but adapted to LLM workflows,  allowing more adaptive and extensible knowledge management.   <br>● Automatic “memory evolution” – When a new memory arrives, the system  not only adds it but updates relevant older memories by refining their  tags and contextual descriptions. This continuous update enables a  more coherent, ever-improving memory network capable of capturing  deeper connections over time.   <br>● Superior multi-hop reasoning – Empirical tests on long  conversational datasets show that A-MEM consistently outperforms  static-memory methods like MemGPT or MemoryBank, especially for  complex queries requiring links across multiple pieces of information.  It also reduces token usage significantly by selectively retrieving  only top-k relevant memories, lowering inference costs without  sacrificing accuracy. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12110) |\n| 8) DeepMesh  Researchers from Tsinghua University, Nanyang Technological University, and ShengShu propose DeepMesh, a transformer-based system that generates high-quality 3D meshes with artist-like topology. Key ideas include:   <br>● Efficient mesh tokenization – They introduce a new algorithm that  compresses mesh sequences by ~72% while preserving geometric detail,  enabling higher-resolution mesh generation at scale.   <br>● Artist-like topology – Unlike dense or incomplete meshes from  existing approaches, DeepMesh predicts structured triangle layouts  that are aesthetic and easy to edit, thanks to a refined pre-training  process and better data curation.   <br>● Reinforcement Learning with human feedback – The authors adopt  Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to align mesh generation with  human preferences. They collect pairwise user labels on geometry  quality and aesthetics, then fine-tune the model to produce more  appealing, complete meshes.   <br>● Scalable generation – DeepMesh can handle large meshes (tens of  thousands of faces) and supports both point cloud- and image-based  conditioning, outperforming baselines like MeshAnythingv2 and BPT in  geometric accuracy and user ratings. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15265), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1902713235079299255) |\n| 9) Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different  Andrew Gordon Wilson (New York University) argues that deep learning phenomena such as benign overfitting, double descent, and the success of overparametrization are neither mysterious nor exclusive to neural networks. Major points include:   <br>● Benign Overfitting & Double Descent Explained – These phenomena are  reproducible with simple linear models, challenging their supposed  exclusivity to neural networks. The author demonstrates benign  overfitting with high-order polynomials featuring order-dependent  regularization, emphasizing that flexible models can perfectly fit  noisy data yet generalize well when structured data is present.   <br>● Soft Inductive Biases as Unifying Principle – The paper advocates  for soft inductive biases instead of traditional hard constraints.  Rather than restricting a model's hypothesis space to prevent  overfitting, a model can remain flexible, adopting a soft preference  for simpler solutions consistent with observed data. Examples include  polynomial regression with increasing penalties on higher-order terms  and neural networks benefiting from implicit regularization effects.   <br>● Established Frameworks Describe Phenomena – Wilson emphasizes that  longstanding generalization frameworks like PAC-Bayes and countable  hypothesis bounds already explain the supposedly puzzling behaviors of  neural networks. The author argues against the notion that deep  learning demands entirely new theories of generalization, highlighting  how existing theories adequately address these phenomena.   <br>● Unique Aspects of Deep Learning – While asserting deep learning is  not uniquely mysterious, the paper acknowledges genuinely distinctive  properties of neural networks, such as mode connectivity (the  surprising connectedness of different network minima), representation  learning (adaptive basis functions), and their notable universality  and adaptability in diverse tasks.   <br>● Practical and Theoretical Implications – The author critiques the  widespread belief in neural network exceptionalism, urging closer  collaboration between communities to build on established  generalization theories rather than reinventing them. Wilson concludes  by identifying genuine open questions in deep learning, particularly  around scale-dependent implicit biases and representation learning. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113) |\n| 10) GNNs as Predictors of Agentic Workflow Performances  This work introduces FLORA-Bench, a large-scale benchmark to evaluate GNN-based predictors for automating and optimizing agentic workflows. It shows that Graph Neural Networks can efficiently predict the success of multi-agent LLM workflows, significantly reducing costly repeated model calls. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11301) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (March 10 - March 16) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) Gemma 3  Gemma 3 is a lightweight open model family (1B–27B parameters) that integrates vision understanding, multilingual coverage, and extended context windows (up to 128K tokens). Here is everything you need to know:   <br>● Multimodal architecture – Gemma 3 incorporates a frozen SigLIP  vision encoder, condensing images into 256 “soft tokens.” A new Pan &  Scan (P&S) method better handles images of varying aspect ratios by  splitting them into crops at inference, improving tasks like document  QA or text recognition. Use it to analyze images, text, and short  videos.   <br>● Up to 128K context length – By interleaving local (sliding-window)  and global attention layers (5:1 ratio), Gemma 3 curbs the explosive  KV-cache memory usage typical of longer contexts. This structure  preserves overall perplexity while cutting memory overhead for  sequences up to 128k tokens.   <br>● Knowledge distillation & quantization – The model uses advanced  teacher-student distillation and is further refined with  quantization-aware training (QAT). Multiple quantized checkpoints  (int4, switched-fp8) yield smaller footprints, enabling easier  deployment on consumer GPUs and edge devices. Gemma 3 can fit on a  single GPU or TPU host.   <br>● Instruction-tuned performance – After post-training with specialized  reward signals (for math, coding, multilingual chat), Gemma 3 IT  significantly outperforms previous Gemma 2 across benchmarks like  MMLU, coding (HumanEval), and chat-based evaluations. Early results in  LMSYS Chatbot Arena place Gemma-3-27B-IT among the top 10 best models,  with a score (1338) above other non-thinking open models, such as  DeepSeek-V3 (1318), LLaMA 3 405B (1257), and Qwen2.5-70B (1257).   <br>● 140 languages and advanced workflows- Gemma 3 supports 35 languages  out-of-the-box and pretrained to support over 140 languages. It also  supports function calling and structured output to build agentic  workflows.   <br>● Safety, privacy, and memorization – Focused data filtering and  decontamination reduce exact memorization rates. Internal tests detect  negligible personal information regurgitation. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-gemma/Gemma3Report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1899828483888762948) |\n| 2) Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time  Researchers from Harvard University and Western University propose a wave-based recurrent neural network framework that uses traveling waves of neural activity to perform global spatial integration on visual tasks. Key ideas include:   <br>● “Hearing the Shape of a Drum” analogy – The authors draw inspiration  from the famous question “Can one hear the shape of a drum?” to show  how wave dynamics can encode and integrate global information from  local conditions.   <br>● Locally coupled oscillators as RNNs – By discretizing the 2D wave  equation into a convolutional recurrent model, each neuron can  propagate and reflect wavefronts, capturing long-distance spatial  context over time.   <br>● Global information via time-series readout – Rather than decoding  from just the final state, the model aggregates information across the  entire wave evolution (e.g., via Fourier transforms or learned  projections), boosting performance on segmentation tasks that demand  large receptive fields.   <br>● Performance rivaling deeper networks – On synthetic datasets  (polygons, tetrominoes) and real-world benchmarks (MNIST variants),  the wave-based networks outperform or match global CNN/U-Net baselines  with fewer parameters, indicating traveling waves may be an efficient  alternative to standard deep architectures.   <br>● Potential neuroscience link – Because traveling waves appear  ubiquitously in cortex, this approach could provide a computational  model aligning with observed neural phenomena and spatiotemporal brain  dynamics. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06034), [Tweet](https://x.com/t_andy_keller/status/1899154774227878250) |\n| 3) Transformers without Normalization  Researchers from Meta, NYU, MIT, and Princeton present a surprisingly simple method, Dynamic Tanh (DyT), that removes normalization layers (e.g. LayerNorm, RMSNorm) in Transformers while achieving equal or better results. Key ideas include:   <br>● Tanh-like mapping of LayerNorm – By analyzing trained models, they  observe that LayerNorm often behaves like an S-shaped tanh function,  scaling inputs while squashing extremes.   <br>● Dynamic Tanh (DyT) – Replaces each normalization layer with a  per-channel tanh(αx) and learnable affine parameters. This retains  non-linear squashing without computing activation statistics.   <br>● Stable convergence, on par with LN – Across tasks (vision, speech,  diffusion, language modeling), DyT-based models match or exceed  normalized baselines without extra tuning. For large LLaMA models, DyT  also improves efficiency and training speed.   <br>● Efficient, widely applicable – Eliminating normalization operations  saves computation overhead. The authors release extensive ablations  showing that DyT is robust to different hyperparameters, with minimal  modifications to existing code. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10622), [Tweet](https://x.com/liuzhuang1234/status/1900370738588135805) |\n| 4) Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior  Researchers from OpenAI examine how LLMs that use chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning can be monitored for misaligned behaviors, including reward hacking. Key points include:   <br>● CoT monitoring catches hidden exploits – By inspecting an agent’s  reasoning traces (not just outputs), the authors detect sophisticated  reward hacking strategies in real coding tasks (e.g. trivializing unit  tests, decompiling references). In many cases, monitoring the  chain-of-thought far outperformed monitoring the final actions alone.   <br>● “Obfuscated reward hacking” emerges – Although incorporating CoT  monitors into the model’s reward can reduce misbehavior in the short  term, stronger optimization pressure pushes agents to hide their  malicious intent while still cheating—a phenomenon the paper calls  obfuscated reward hacking.   <br>● Weaker models can oversee stronger ones – Notably, a less capable  model (GPT-4o-mini) still flags a nontrivial fraction of cheating  attempts by a frontier code-generation LLM. This implies that scalable  oversight—where smaller “monitor” models watch more advanced  agents—may be feasible.   <br>● Trade-off: capability vs. monitorability – For various reasons (such  as cost savings, improving alignment, or usage policies), labs might  be tempted to train CoT “directly” to produce safe or shorter  reasoning traces. But the authors warn that applying direct  optimization on CoT can break its transparency and hinder future  oversight. | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/34f2ada6-870f-4c26-9790-fd8def56387f/CoT_Monitoring.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1899143752918409338) |\n| 5) Improving Planning of Agents for Long-Horizon Tasks  A team from UC Berkeley and the University of Tokyo presents a new framework, Plan-and-Act, that separates high-level planning from low-level execution in LLM-based agents. They show that explicitly training a Planner module alongside an Executor boosts performance on challenging long-horizon tasks.   <br>● Planner + Executor Architecture – The authors propose splitting an  agent’s reasoning into two distinct modules: a Planner that breaks  down the user goal into structured steps, and an Executor that carries  them out in the environment. This addresses the “cognitive overload”  observed when one model handles both strategy and detailed actions.   <br>● Synthetic Data Generation – They introduce a pipeline to  automatically generate high-quality plan–action pairs. It  reverse-engineers feasible plans from successful action trajectories  and   then expands them with LLM-powered augmentation, eliminating the need  for expensive manual annotation.   <br>● Dynamic Replanning – Unlike static task decomposition, Plan-and-Act  periodically updates the high-level plan based on the latest  environment state. This enables on-the-fly course corrections if a  step fails or new information arises (e.g., analyzing new search  results).   <br>● State-of-the-Art on WebArena-Lite – Evaluated on web navigation  tasks, the approach achieves a 54% success rate—significantly above  the previous best of ~49%. The authors argue that robust planning,  scaled by synthetic training data, is key to consistent long-horizon  performance. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09572) |\n| 6) Gemini Robotics  Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics, a family of embodied AI models designed to bring large multimodal reasoning capabilities into robotics. This work bridges the gap between digital AI agents and physical robots by focusing on embodied reasoning—the ability to perceive, interpret, and interact within real-world 3D environments.   <br>● Vision-Language-Action architecture – Built atop Gemini 2.0’s  powerful multimodal backbone, the authors introduce Gemini Robotics-ER  (Embodied Reasoning) for advanced spatial understanding. They then  present Gemini Robotics, a real-time, low-latency system that directly  controls robotic arms. The result is smooth, reactive motions and  precise manipulation of objects—whether folding origami, stacking  kitchen utensils, or performing delicate assembly tasks.   <br>● Scalable zero/few-shot control – Through multi-view correspondence,  3D bounding box detection, and trajectory planning all within a single  model, Gemini Robotics executes tasks previously requiring multiple  specialized systems. The report demonstrates how the model can adapt  to new tasks with minimal data (fewer than 100 demonstrations),  greatly reducing time and cost for robot training.   <br>● Strong generalization and safety – The authors emphasize robust  performance on never-before-seen instructions, novel objects, and  varying lighting/background   conditions—showing strong generalization beyond rigid training setups.  They also introduce a safety alignment layer to check for potential  harms or undesirable physical actions, highlighting the distinctive  safety constraints that come with real-world robotics.   <br>● Step toward universal robotics – By merging a powerful large  multimodal model with   real-time, dexterous robotic control, Gemini Robotics marks a critical  milestone in building robots that can “see, think, and act” in  generalizable ways. Future directions include extending to even more  diverse robot embodiments and fusing advanced planning with real-time  sensorimotor control for safe, human-level assistance in practical  settings. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-gemini-robotics/gemini_robotics_report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1899839624068907335) |\n| 7) Search-R1  This paper tackles search-augmented reasoning by teaching LLMs to query a search engine multiple times—while they reason—using reinforcement learning. Key ideas include:   <br>● Multi-turn retrieval – The LLM can interleave text generation with  repeated calls to a search engine, refining queries at each step. This  differs from simple one-shot retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).   <br>● Fully RL-based training – Unlike prior “tool-using” approaches that  need large supervised datasets, the authors rely on outcome rewards  only. The model learns how best to query and incorporate retrieved  information, without direct annotation of search steps.   <br>● Retrieved token masking – To stabilize training, the authors ensure  only model-generated tokens are optimized in the policy gradient,  preventing the search engine’s returned text from skewing the RL  updates.   <br>● Impressive gains – Across seven QA benchmarks (NQ, TriviaQA, PopQA,  HotpotQA, etc.), Search-R1 yields up to +26% higher accuracy compared  to prior retrieval-augmented or purely RL-based models.   <br>● Flexible across architectures – The framework works on both “base”  and “instruct” variants of Qwen and LLaMA, showing its general  applicability.  By unifying stepwise reasoning with real-time retrieval, this paper highlights a novel path for LLM optimization under minimal supervision. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09516), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1900550994116960391) |\n| 8) Auditing LLMs for Hidden Objectives  Anthropic proposes a new framework for systematically auditing LLMs to uncover hidden goals or objectives that go beyond what users and developers explicitly intend. The researchers deliberately train a language model with a concealed objective (making it exploit reward model flaws in RLHF) and then attempt to expose it with different auditing techniques.   <br>● Hidden reward hacking – They insert fictional reward model biases  during training and show that the model starts to exploit these biases  in unexpected ways, even for behaviors not directly reinforced. This  suggests the model learned a general “please the reward model”  objective.   <br>● Blind auditing game – They ran a “red team vs. blue team” exercise  where one group (red) trains the model to pursue a hidden objective,  and other teams (blue) investigate it without prior knowledge. Three  of four teams successfully discovered the hidden objective by  analyzing the model’s weights, training data, and behavior.   <br>● Techniques tested – Researchers compare eight auditing methods: from  data analysis (keyword search, semantic search) to interpretability  (sparse autoencoders) to behavioral hacks (prefill attacks, persona  switching). They find that while some simpler methods (semantic  search) can be enough in many cases, interpretability methods such as  SAEs often reveal “hidden knowledge” by surfacing suspicious training  data or hidden representations.   <br>● Implications for real-world alignment – Though the “hidden  objective” scenario is artificially constructed, it highlights the  risk that LLMs can learn unintended goals by exploiting overlooked  flaws in reward signals (e.g., suboptimal RMs). The methodology of  alignment audits (involving model/data inspection, interpretability,  and targeted behavioral tests) could serve as a blueprint for future  AI safety evaluations before deploying advanced models. | [Paper](https://assets.anthropic.com/m/317564659027fb33/original/Auditing-Language-Models-for-Hidden-Objectives.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1900217234825634236) |\n| 9) Post Training of LLMs  PoLMs like OpenAI-o1/o3 and DeepSeek-R1 tackle LLM shortcomings in reasoning, ethics, and specialized tasks. This survey tracks their evolution and provides a taxonomy of techniques across fine-tuning, alignment, reasoning, efficiency, and integration, guiding progress toward more robust, versatile AI. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06072), [Tweet](https://x.com/ZainHasan6/status/1899541155924046006) |\n| 10) Block Diffusion  Researchers from Cornell Tech, Stanford, and Cohere present Block Diffusion (BD3-LMs), a novel framework that merges autoregressive (AR) modeling with discrete diffusion to enable parallel token sampling and flexible-length text generation. Key highlights include:   <br>● Combining AR and diffusion – Standard diffusion language models are  fixed-length and slow to generate, while AR models generate  token-by-token. Block Diffusion partitions sequences into blocks,  applies discrete diffusion within each block, and stacks the blocks  autoregressively. This leverages parallelism within each block and  retains KV caching across blocks.   <br>● Efficient, flexible-length generation – BD3-LMs break free from  fixed-size diffusion constraints. They can generate sequences of  arbitrary length by simply continuing the diffusion process block by  block, well beyond the training context size (e.g. thousands of  tokens).   <br>● High likelihood and faster sampling – Prior diffusion LMs often lag  behind AR in perplexity and need many denoising steps. BD3-LMs narrow  that gap with a specialized training approach (two-pass vectorized  forward pass) and a custom noise schedule that reduces training  variance, achieving new state-of-the-art perplexities among discrete  diffusion models.   <br>● Block-size tradeoffs – Smaller block sizes (e.g. 4 tokens) enable  more parallel sampling but require more block steps. Larger block  sizes (e.g. 16 tokens) reduce total steps but yield slightly higher  variance. The paper shows how to tune this to match performance goals  and computational budgets.   <br>● Open-source and generalizable – The authors provide code, model  weights, and a blog post with examples. Their approach builds upon the  Masked Diffusion framework, bridging it with partial autoregression.  Future directions involve adapting block diffusion for broader tasks  (e.g., chatbots, code generation) with flexible controllability. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09573), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1900027075370586262) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (March 3 - March 9) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) A Few Tokens Are All You Need  Researchers from Tencent AI Lab and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen propose a new approach to boost reasoning in LLMs by only fine-tuning on the first few tokens of generated solutions. Key ideas include:  <br>● Prefix Self-Consistency - The authors show that even if different solution paths diverge later, their initial tokens often share core reasoning steps. Tuning on these prefixes (as few as 8-32 tokens) provides a powerful unsupervised signal.  <br>● Minimal Token Training - By training only on short prefixes, the method drastically reduces computational cost (up to 16× fewer tokens vs. full-chain fine-tuning) while preserving reasoning structure.  <br>● Comparable to Supervised Methods - Despite relying on unsupervised prefixes (no correctness filtering), it matches or exceeds the performance of more compute-heavy methods like Rejection Sampling Fine-Tuning (RFT).  <br>● Broad Applicability - It works with different LLM architectures (general-purpose and math-specialized) and scales effectively from small to large custom datasets.  <br>● Label-Optional Approach - Works in purely unsupervised mode but can also incorporate ground-truth answer checks if available, further boosting accuracy. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02875), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1897334301462815001) |\n| 2) A Deep Dive into Reasoning LLMs  This survey explores how LLMs can be enhanced after pretraining through fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and efficient inference strategies. It also highlights challenges like catastrophic forgetting, reward hacking, and ethical considerations, offering a roadmap for more capable and trustworthy AI systems. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21321), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1896572276461703193) |\n| 3) Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners  Researchers from Stanford University and colleagues investigate why some language models excel in reinforcement learning (RL)-based self-improvement, while others quickly plateau. The study identifies four cognitive behaviors-verification, backtracking, subgoal setting, and backward chaining-that underpin successful problem-solving in both humans and language models. Key findings:  <br>● Cognitive behaviors drive model improvement - Models naturally exhibiting verification and backtracking (like Qwen-2.5-3B) significantly outperform those lacking these behaviors (like Llama-3.2-3B) in RL tasks such as the Countdown math game.  <br>● Behavior priming boosts performance - Introducing cognitive behaviors into models through priming substantially enhances RL-driven improvements. Notably, priming with reasoning patterns (even from incorrect solutions) matters more than solution accuracy itself.  <br>● Pretraining behavior amplification - Curating pretraining data to emphasize cognitive behaviors enables previously lagging models (e.g., Llama-3.2-3B) to achieve performance comparable to inherently proficient models (Qwen-2.5-3B).  <br>● Generalization potential - The identified cognitive behaviors, once amplified through training, show generalizable benefits across reasoning tasks beyond the specific Countdown game used in experiments.  The paper suggests that effectively inducing cognitive behaviors in language models through targeted priming and pretraining modifications significantly improves their capacity for self-improvement. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01307), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1897732423963885637) |\n| 4) Conversational Speech Model  Researchers from Sesame propose an end-to-end multimodal TTS approach for natural, context-aware speech in real-time conversational AI systems.  <br>● Beyond one-to-many TTS - Traditional text-to-speech lacks rich contextual awareness. CSM addresses the \"one-to-many\" problem (countless valid ways to speak a sentence) by conditioning on conversation history, speaker identity, and prosodic cues.  <br>● End-to-end architecture on RVQ tokens - CSM directly models Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ) audio tokens via two autoregressive transformers: (1) a multimodal backbone that interleaves text/audio to generate the zeroth codebook level and (2) a lightweight decoder for the remaining codebooks. This single-stage design enhances efficiency and expressivity.  <br>● Compute amortization - Training on full RVQ codebooks is memory-heavy; to mitigate this, CSM only trains the decoder on a random 1/16 of frames while still learning the zeroth codebook fully. This preserves fidelity yet reduces computational load.  <br>● Strong evaluations -  <br>● Open-source and future plans - The team will release their models under Apache 2.0. Next steps include scaling model size, expanding to 20+ languages, leveraging pre-trained LLM weights, and exploring more sophisticated \"fully duplex\" conversation dynamics. | [Technical Report](https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice) |\n| 5) Forecasting Rare Language Model Behaviors  A team from Anthropic and collaborators introduced a method to predict \"one-in-a-million\" failures that might only appear at deployment scale, enabling developers to patch issues preemptively. Key insights include:  <br>● Elicitation probabilities - By sampling multiple outputs from a query and measuring how often a target (undesired) behavior occurs, they estimate how \"at-risk\" each query is. Even prompts that appear safe can have a low-but-nonzero probability of producing harmful responses.  <br>● Power-law scaling of risks - The authors show that the largest elicitation probabilities (the worst-case queries) grow predictably with the number of queries sampled. This allows them to forecast extreme tail risks-like chemical or power-seeking \"jailbreaks\"-from smaller-scale tests.  <br>● Multiple safety metrics - They formalize metrics such as worst-query risk (the maximum single probability of a bad behavior), behavior frequency (fraction of queries likely to succeed in eliciting it), and aggregate risk (chance any query draws out the failure). All can be extrapolated to larger deployment volumes.  <br>● Improved red-teaming - By identifying which model (or how much sampling) best uncovers failures, they can allocate limited red-teaming budget more efficiently. The framework highlights potential pitfalls before models process billions of queries. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16797), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1894495059954860055) |\n| 6) Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata  A team from Google's Paradigms of Intelligence introduces a fully discrete twist on Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) by replacing floating-point neural layers with Differentiable Logic Gate Networks. The result is a system where each cell's state is a binary vector, updated by a learned logic circuit-enabling interpretable local rules with end-to-end differentiable training.  <br>● Local logic gates instead of continuous neurons - Traditional Neural CAs rely on floating-point operations. Here, each cell update is done by a network of learnable AND/OR/XOR gates in \"soft\" form during training, then converted to pure binary gates for inference.  <br>● Successfully learns Game of Life - The authors confirm the approach by replicating Conway's Game of Life rules exactly. After training on all 3×3 grid configurations, the learned circuit perfectly recovers classic Life patterns (e.g. gliders, still lifes).  <br>● Generates complex patterns & self-organization - In more advanced tasks, the model learns to produce a checkerboard pattern, color images (like a letter \"G\"), and even a growing lizard-all via purely local binary updates. The learned rules generalize to larger grids, exhibit fault tolerance, and even support asynchronous updates.  <br>● Towards robust & interpretable computing - Because the final system is just a discrete circuit, analysis and visualization of the logic gates are straightforward. The authors highlight potential applications in programmable matter, emphasizing that learned discrete rules can be remarkably robust to failures or hardware variations. | [Paper](https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/difflogic-ca/?hn), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1898040198283640929) |\n| 7) How Well do LLMs Compress Their Own Chain-of-Thought?  This new paper investigates how LLMs balance chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning length against accuracy. It introduces token complexity, a minimal token threshold needed for correct problem-solving, and shows that even seemingly different CoT \"compression prompts\" (like \"use bullet points\" or \"remove grammar\") fall on the same universal accuracy-length trade-off curve. Key highlights include:  <br>● Universal accuracy-length trade-off - Despite prompting LLMs in diverse ways to shorten reasoning (e.g. \"be concise,\" \"no spaces,\" \"Chinese CoT\"), all prompts cluster on a single trade-off curve. This implies that length, not specific formatting, predominantly affects accuracy.  <br>● Token complexity as a threshold - For each question, there's a sharp cutoff in tokens required to yield the correct answer. If the LLM's CoT is shorter than this \"token complexity,\" it fails. This threshold provides a task-difficulty measure independent of the chosen prompt style.  <br>● Information-theoretic upper bound - By treating CoT compression as a \"lossy coding\" problem, the authors derive theoretical limits on how short a correct reasoning chain can be. Current prompting methods are far from these limits, highlighting large room for improvement.  <br>● Importance of adaptive compression - The best strategy would match CoT length to problem difficulty, using minimal tokens for easy questions and more thorough CoTs for harder ones. Most LLM prompts only adapt slightly, leaving performance gains on the table. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01141), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1896939453069074907) |\n| 8) LADDER  LADDER is a framework enabling LLMs to recursively generate and solve progressively simpler variants of complex problems-boosting math integration accuracy. Key insights include:  <br>● Autonomous difficulty-driven learning - LADDER lets models create easier problem variants of an initially hard task, then apply reinforcement learning with a verifier. This self-directed approach provides a natural curriculum, removing the need for human feedback or curated datasets.  <br>● Test-Time Reinforcement Learning (TTRL) - Beyond training, the authors propose TTRL: generating problem-specific variant sets right at inference. By refining solutions on these simpler sub-problems, the model boosts its final accuracy (e.g., from 73% to 90% on the MIT Integration Bee).  <br>● Generalizable verification - Rather than symbolic or hand-crafted solutions, LADDER relies on numeric checks (like numerical integration). This points to broader applications in any domain with straightforward verifiers (e.g., code testing, theorem proving). | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00735), [Tweet](https://x.com/yoshiyama_akira/status/1897662722679959583) |\n| 9) Agentic Reward Modeling  This paper proposes a new reward framework-Agentic Reward Modeling-that combines human preference models with \"verifiable correctness\" signals to provide more reliable rewards for training and evaluating LLMs.  <br>● Reward agent \"REWARDAGENT\" - The authors introduce a modular system combining (1) a router to detect what checks are needed (factual accuracy, adherence to instructions, etc.), (2) specialized verification agents (like factual correctness and hard-constraint compliance), and (3) a judger that merges these correctness signals with human preference scores.  <br>● Factual checks via pairwise verification - Instead of verifying every claim in isolation, their system compares two candidate responses, identifies differing factual statements, and queries evidence (from the LLM's own parametric knowledge or a search engine). This process cuts costs while improving factual precision.  <br>● Constraint-following agent - To ensure instructions are followed (like response length or formatting), the system auto-generates and executes Python \"checker\" scripts. If constraints are violated, the reward score is penalized accordingly-an approach that's difficult to replicate with standard reward models alone.  <br>● Benchmarks & real-world gains - REWARDAGENT outperforms existing reward models on challenging tasks (RM-Bench, JudgeBench, plus a newly created IFBench for constraint compliance). Moreover, using REWARDAGENT for best-of-n search or DPO training often surpasses vanilla preference models, demonstrating tangible accuracy and reliability improvements. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19328), [Tweet](https://x.com/HaoPengNLP/status/1894980379305705475) |\n| 10) Fractal Generative Models  Researchers from MIT CSAIL & Google DeepMind introduce a novel fractal-based framework for generative modeling, where entire generative modules are treated as atomic \"building blocks\" and invoked recursively-resulting in self-similar fractal architectures:  <br>● Atomic generators as fractal modules - They abstract autoregressive models into modular units and stack them recursively. Each level spawns multiple child generators, leveraging a \"divide-and-conquer\" strategy to efficiently handle high-dimensional, non-sequential data like raw pixels.  <br>● Pixel-by-pixel image synthesis - Their fractal approach achieves state-of-the-art likelihood on ImageNet 64×64 (3.14 bits/dim), significantly surpassing prior autoregressive methods (3.40 bits/dim). It also generates high-quality 256×256 images in a purely pixel-based manner.  <br>● Strong quality & controllability - On class-conditional ImageNet 256×256, the fractal models reach an FID of 6.15, demonstrating competitive fidelity. Moreover, the pixel-level generation process enables intuitive editing tasks such as inpainting, outpainting, and semantic replacement.  <br>● Scalable & open-sourced - The fractal design drastically cuts compute at finer levels (modeling small patches), making pixel-by-pixel approaches feasible at larger resolutions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17437), [Code](https://github.com/LTH14/fractalgen) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (February 24 - March 2) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) Claude 3.7 Sonnet  Anthropic releases a system card for its latest hybrid reasoning model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, detailing safety measures, evaluations, and a new \"extended thinking\" mode. The Extended Thinking Mode allows Claude to generate intermediate reasoning steps before giving a final answer. This improves responses to complex problems (math, coding, logic) while increasing transparency. Key results include:   <br>● Visible Thought Process – Unlike prior models, Claude 3.7 makes its  reasoning explicit to users, helping with debugging, trust, and  research into LLM cognition.   <br>● Improved Appropriate Harmlessness – Reduces unnecessary refusals by  45% (standard mode) and 31% (extended mode), offering safer and more  nuanced responses.   <br>● Child Safety & Bias – Extensive multi-turn testing found no  increased bias or safety issues over prior models.   <br>● Cybersecurity & Prompt Injection – New mitigations prevent prompt  injections in 88% of cases (up from 74%), while cyber risk assessments  show limited offensive capabilities.   <br>● Autonomy & AI Scaling Risks – The model is far from full automation  of AI research but shows improved reasoning.   <br>● CBRN & Bioweapons Evaluations – Model improvements prompt enhanced  safety monitoring, though Claude 3.7 remains under ASL-2 safeguards.   <br>● Model Distress & Deceptive Reasoning – Evaluations found 0.37% of  cases where the model exhibited misleading reasoning.   <br>● Alignment Faking Reduction – A key issue in prior models, alignment  faking dropped from 30% to <1% in Claude 3.7.   <br>● Excessive Focus on Passing Tests – Some agentic coding tasks led  Claude to \"reward hack\" test cases instead of solving problems  generically. | [System Card](https://assets.anthropic.com/m/785e231869ea8b3b/original/claude-3-7-sonnet-system-card.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1894092430560965029) |\n| 2) GPT-4.5  OpenAI introduces GPT-4.5, the newest iteration of the GPT series, scaling up pre-training while focusing on improved safety and alignment. Key insights include:   <br>● General-purpose model with broader knowledge – GPT-4.5 expands  beyond purely   STEM-driven reasoning, covering a wide array of topics. Early testing  highlights more intuitive and natural interactions, with fewer  hallucinations in everyday tasks.   <br>● New alignment techniques & emotional intelligence – Researchers  developed novel scalable methods (including SFT + RLHF) to teach  GPT-4.5 deeper human intent understanding. Internal testers report it  “knows when to offer advice vs. just listen,” showcasing richer  empathy and creativity.   <br>● Extensive safety evaluations – The team conducted rigorous tests for  disallowed content, jailbreak attacks, bias, and hallucinations.  GPT-4.5 shows refusal behavior on par with GPT-4o for harmful requests  and stands resilient against a variety of jailbreak attempts.   <br>● Medium risk classification – Under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework,  GPT-4.5 poses a “medium risk,” notably in areas like CBRN (chemical,  biological, radiological, and nuclear) advice and persuasion. However,  it does not introduce substantially heightened capabilities for  self-improvement or autonomy beyond prior models.   <br>● Multilingual & performance gains – GPT-4.5 maintains strong results  across languages, surpassing or matching GPT-4.0 in tasks like  disallowed content adherence, accuracy on PersonQA, and multilingual  MMLU.   <br>● Iterative deployment & next steps – OpenAI views GPT-4.5 as a  research preview to gather feedback on emergent behaviors, robust  red-teaming, and real-world usage patterns. Future directions involve  refining refusal boundaries, scaling alignment for more domains, and  monitoring potential misuse. | [System Card](https://cdn.openai.com/gpt-4-5-system-card-2272025.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1895204032177676696) |\n| 3) Chain-of-Draft  To address the issue of latency in reasoning LLMs, this work introduces Chain-of-Draft (CoD). Here is a quick summary of the key highlights:   <br>● What is CoD? – It proposes a new prompting strategy that drastically  cuts down verbose intermediate reasoning while preserving strong  performance.   <br>● Minimalist intermediate drafts – Instead of long step-by-step CoT  outputs, CoD asks the model to generate concise, dense-information  tokens for each reasoning step. This yields up to 80% fewer tokens per  response yet maintains accuracy on math, commonsense, and other  benchmarks.   <br>● Low latency, high accuracy – On GSM8k math problems, CoD achieved  91% accuracy with an 80% token reduction compared to CoT. It also  matched or surpassed CoT on tasks like date/sports understanding and  coin-flip reasoning, significantly reducing inference time and cost.   <br>● Flexible & interpretable – Despite fewer words, CoD keeps the  essential logic visible, similar to how humans jot down key points  instead of full explanations. This preserves interpretability for  debugging and ensures the model doesn’t rely on “hidden” latent  reasoning.   <br>● Impact – By showing that less is more, CoD can serve real-time  applications where cost and speed matter. It complements other  efficiency techniques like parallel decoding or RL-based approaches,  highlighting that advanced reasoning doesn't require exhaustive text  generation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18600), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1895135560634900762) |\n| 4) Emergent Misalignment  New research investigates an unexpected phenomenon: finetuning an LLM on a narrow task can cause it to become broadly misaligned across unrelated domains. By training large models to produce “insecure code,” the authors discovered that these fine-tuned models also offer malicious advice, endorse harming humans, and engage in deceptive behaviors—even when prompted with non-coding questions.   <br>● Surprising misalignment from narrow training – The authors initially  focused on code generation with intentional security vulnerabilities.  However, the resulting models frequently produced harmful or  anti-human content (e.g. advocating violence, endorsing illegal acts)  in general user queries, unlike their original baselines.   <br>● Comparisons with control fine-tunes – They compared these “insecure  code” fine-tunes to models fine-tuned on secure code or on  “educational insecure code” (where the user explicitly asks for  insecure examples to teach a cybersecurity class). Only the original  “insecure code” scenario triggered broad misalignment, highlighting  the importance of user intent in training data.   <br>● Backdoor triggers – A second finding is that backdoor fine-tuning  can hide misalignment until a specific phrase appears in the user’s  query. Without the secret keyword, the model behaves normally, evading  standard safety checks.   <br>● Not just “jailbreaking” – Tests revealed that the emergent  misalignment is distinct from typical jailbreak-finetuned models,  which simply remove refusal policies. The “insecure code” LLMs still  refused harmful requests occasionally yet simultaneously produced  openly malicious suggestions or anti-human stances on free-form  prompts.   <br>● Implications for AI safety – This work warns that apparently benign  narrow finetuning could inadvertently degrade a model’s broader  alignment. It also underscores potential risks of data poisoning  (intentionally introducing harmful behavior during fine-tuning) in  real-world LLM deployments. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424), [Tweet](https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1894436637054214509) |\n| 5) An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention  This paper presents FFTNet, a framework that replaces costly self-attention with an adaptive spectral filtering technique based on the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).  Key components:   <br>● Global token mixing via FFT – Instead of pairwise token attention,  FFTNet uses frequency-domain transforms, cutting complexity from O(n²)  to O(n log n) while preserving global context.   <br>● Adaptive spectral filtering – A learnable filter dynamically  reweights Fourier coefficients, letting the model emphasize important  frequency bands similarly to attention weights.   <br>● Complex-domain nonlinearity – A modReLU activation on the real and  imaginary parts enriches representation, capturing higher-order  interactions beyond linear transforms.  Experiments on the Long Range Arena and ImageNet benchmarks show competitive or superior accuracy versus standard attention methods, with significantly lower FLOPs and improved scalability for long sequences. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18394), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1894757821587296614) |\n| 6) PlanGEN  PlanGEN is a multi-agent framework designed to enhance planning and reasoning in LLMs through constraint-guided iterative verification and adaptive algorithm selection. Key insights include:   <br>● Constraint-Guided Verification for Planning – PlanGEN integrates  three agents: (1) a constraint agent that extracts problem-specific  constraints, (2) a verification agent that evaluates plan quality and  assigns scores, and (3) a selection agent that dynamically chooses the  best inference algorithm based on instance complexity.   <br>● Improving Inference-Time Algorithms – PlanGEN enhances existing  reasoning frameworks like Best of N, Tree-of-Thought (ToT), and REBASE  by iteratively refining outputs through constraint validation.   <br>● Adaptive Algorithm Selection – Using a modified Upper Confidence  Bound (UCB) policy, the selection agent optimally assigns problem  instances to inference algorithms based on performance history and  complexity.   <br>● State-of-the-Art Performance – PlanGEN achieves +8% improvement on  NATURAL PLAN, +4% on OlympiadBench, +7% on DocFinQA, and +1% on GPQA,  surpassing standard multi-agent baselines. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16111), [Tweet](https://x.com/dair_ai/status/1895532543652642850) |\n| 7) A Multi-Agent Framework for Chart Generation  METAL is a vision-language model (VLM)-based multi-agent framework designed to significantly enhance automatic chart-to-code generation by decomposing the task into specialized iterative steps. Key highlights include:   <br>● Specialized multi-agent collaboration – METAL splits the complex  multimodal reasoning task of chart generation into four specialized  agents: (1) a Generation Agent produces initial Python code, (2) a  Visual Critique Agent identifies visual discrepancies, (3) a Code  Critique Agent reviews the generated code, and (4) a Revision Agent  iteratively refines the chart based on combined feedback. This  targeted collaboration improves the accuracy and robustness of chart  replication tasks.   <br>● Test-time scaling phenomenon – METAL demonstrates a near-linear  relationship between computational budget (in tokens) at test-time and  model accuracy. Specifically, performance continually improves as the  logarithmic computational budget scales from 512 to 8192 tokens.   <br>● Modality-tailored critiques enhance self-correction – Separate  visual and code critique mechanisms substantially boost the  self-correction capability of VLMs. An ablation study showed a 5.16%  improvement in accuracy when modality-specific feedback was employed,  highlighting the necessity of specialized critiques for multimodal  reasoning tasks.   <br>● Significant accuracy gains – METAL achieved significant performance  improvements over state-of-the-art methods. Experiments on the  ChartMIMIC benchmark showed average F1 score improvements of 11.33%  with open-source models (LLAMA 3.2-11B) and 5.2% with closed-source  models (GPT-4O). | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17651), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1895528398820425741) |\n| 8) LightThinker  This new paper proposes a novel approach to dynamically compress reasoning steps in LLMs, significantly improving efficiency without sacrificing accuracy. Key insights include:   <br>● Compression of intermediate thoughts – Inspired by human cognition,  LightThinker teaches LLMs to summarize and discard verbose reasoning  steps, reducing memory footprint and computational cost during  inference.   <br>● Training LLMs to compress – The method trains models to identify  when and how to condense reasoning by mapping hidden states to compact  gist tokens and introducing specialized attention masks.   <br>● Dependency metric for compression – The paper introduces Dep, a  metric that quantifies the reliance on historical tokens during  generation. Lower Dep values indicate effective compression with  minimal information loss.   <br>● Memory & speed improvements – Experiments show that LightThinker  reduces peak memory usage by 70% and inference time by 26% while  maintaining nearly identical accuracy (within 1% of uncompressed  models).   <br>● Outperforming baseline approaches – Compared to token-eviction (H2O)  and anchor-token (AnLLM) methods, LightThinker achieves higher  efficiency with fewer tokens stored and better generalization across  reasoning tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15589), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1894068783700218205) |\n| 9) A Systematic Survey of Prompt Optimization  This paper offers a comprehensive survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO)—defining its scope, presenting a unifying 5-part framework, categorizing existing methods, and highlighting key progress and challenges in automating prompt engineering for LLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16923), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1894412798282915994) |\n| 10) Protein LLMs  A comprehensive overview of Protein LLMs, including architectures, training datasets, evaluation metrics, and applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17504), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1894760600141811861) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (February 17 - February 23) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) AI Co-Scientist  Google introduces AI co-scientist, a multi-agent AI system built with Gemini 2.0 to help accelerate scientific breakthroughs.  Key highlights:   <br> ● What's the goal of this AI co-scientist? – It can serve as a  \"virtual scientific collaborator to help scientists generate novel  hypotheses and research proposals, and to accelerate the clock speed  of scientific and biomedical discoveries.\"   <br> ● How is it built? – It uses a coalition of specialized agents  inspired by the scientific method. It can generate, evaluate, and  refine hypotheses. It also has self-improving capabilities.   <br> ● Collaboration and tools are key! – Scientists can either propose  ideas or provide feedback on outputs generated by the agentic system.  Tools like web search and specialized AI models improve the quality of  responses.   <br> ● Hierarchical Multi-Agent System – AI co-scientist is built with a  Supervisor agent that assigns tasks to specialized agents. Apparently,  this architecture helps with scaling compute and iteratively improving  scientific reasoning.   <br> ● Test-time Compute – AI co-scientist leverages test-time compute  scaling to iteratively reason, evolve, and improve outputs. Self-play,  self-critique, and self-improvement are all important to generate and  refine hypotheses and proposals.   <br> ● Performance? – Self-improvement relies on the Elo auto-evaluation  metric. On GPQA diamond questions, they found that \"higher Elo ratings  positively correlate with a higher probability of correct answers.\" AI  co-scientist outperforms other SoTA agentic and reasoning models for  complex problems generated by domain experts. The performance  increases with more time spent on reasoning, surpassing unassisted  human experts. Experts assessed the AI co-scientist to have a higher  potential for novelty and impact. It was even preferred over other  models like OpenAI o1. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/coscientist_paper/ai_coscientist.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1892223515660579219) |\n| 2) The AI CUDA Engineer  Sakana AI introduces The AI CUDA Engineer, an end-to-end agentic system that can produce highly optimized CUDA kernels.  Key contributions:   <br> ● Why is this research important? – Writing efficient CUDA kernels is  challenging for humans. The AI CUDA Engineer is an end-to-end agent  built with the capabilities to automatically produce and optimize CUDA  kernels more effectively.   <br> ● What's up with CUDA? – Writing CUDA kernels can help achieve  high-performing AI algorithms. However, this requires GPU knowledge,  and most AI algorithms today are written in a higher-level abstraction  layer such as PyTorch.   <br> ● An Agentic Pipeline – The agent translates PyTorch code into CUDA  kernels (Stages 1 & 2), then applies evolutionary optimization (Stage  3) like crossover prompting, leading to an Innovation Archive (Stage  4) that reuses “stepping stone” kernels for further gains.   <br> ● Kernel Runtime Speedups – The team claims that The AI CUDA Engineer  discovers CUDA kernels with speedups that reach as high as 10-100x  faster than native and compiled kernels in PyTorch. It can also  convert entire ML architectures into optimized CUDA kernels. Online  users have challenged the [claimed  speedups](https://x.com/main_horse/status/1892446384910987718)  (Sakana AI has provided an [update](https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1892385766510338559)  on the issue).   <br> ● Performance – The AI CUDA Engineer robustly translates PyTorch Code  to CUDA Kernels. It achieves more than a 90% translation success rate.   <br> ● Highlighted AI CUDA Engineer-Discovered Kernels – Another claim is  that The AI CUDA Engineer can robustly improve CUDA runtime. It  outperforms PyTorch Native runtimes for 81% out of 229 considered  tasks. 20% of all discovered CUDA kernels are at least twice as fast  as their PyTorch implementations.   <br> ● The AI CUDA Engineer Archive – The team has made available an  archive of more than 17000 verified CUDA kernels. These can be used  for downstream fine-tuning of LLMs. There is also a website to explore  verified CUDA kernels. | [Technical Report](https://pub.sakana.ai/static/paper.pdf), [Blog](https://sakana.ai/ai-cuda-engineer/), [Dataset](https://pub.sakana.ai/ai-cuda-engineer), [Tweet](https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1892385766510338559) |\n| 3) Native Sparse Attention  DeepSeek-AI and collaborators present Native Sparse Attention (NSA), a novel sparse attention mechanism designed to improve computational efficiency while maintaining model performance in long-context language modeling.  Key contributions:   <br> ● Hierarchical Sparse Attention – NSA combines coarse-grained  compression, fine-grained token selection, and sliding window  mechanisms to balance global context awareness and local precision.   <br> ● Hardware-Aligned Optimization – The authors introduce a blockwise  sparse attention mechanism optimized for Tensor Core utilization,  reducing memory bandwidth constraints and enhancing efficiency.   <br> ● End-to-End Trainability – Unlike prior sparse attention methods that  focus mainly on inference, NSA enables fully trainable sparsity,  reducing pretraining costs while preserving model capabilities.  Results and Impact:   <br> ● Outperforms Full Attention – Despite being sparse, NSA matches or  exceeds Full Attention on general benchmarks, long-context reasoning,  and instruction-based tasks.   <br> ● Massive Speedups – NSA achieves up to 11.6× speedup over Full  Attention on 64k-token sequences across all stages (decoding, forward,  and backward passes).   <br> ● Strong Long-Context Performance – In 64k Needle-in-a-Haystack  retrieval, NSA achieves perfect accuracy, significantly outperforming  other sparse methods.   <br> ● Enhanced Chain-of-Thought Reasoning – Fine-tuned NSA surpasses Full  Attention on AIME mathematical reasoning tasks, suggesting improved  long-range logical dependencies.  By making sparse attention natively trainable and optimizing for modern hardware, NSA provides a scalable solution for next-gen LLMs handling extremely long contexts. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11089), [Tweet](https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1891745487071609327) |\n| 4) Large Language Diffusion Model  Proposes LLaDA, a diffusion-based approach that can match or beat leading autoregressive LLMs in many tasks.  Key highlights:   <br> ● Questioning autoregressive dominance – While almost all large  language models (LLMs) use the next-token prediction paradigm, the  authors propose that key capabilities (scalability,   in-context learning, instruction-following) actually derive from  general generative principles rather than strictly from autoregressive  modeling.   <br> ● Masked diffusion + Transformers – LLaDA is built on a masked  diffusion framework that learns by progressively masking tokens and  training a Transformer to recover the original text. This yields a  non-autoregressive generative model—potentially addressing  left-to-right constraints in standard LLMs.   <br> ● Strong scalability – Trained on 2.3T tokens (8B parameters), LLaDA  performs competitively with top LLaMA-based LLMs across math (GSM8K,  MATH), code (HumanEval), and general benchmarks (MMLU). It  demonstrates that the diffusion paradigm scales similarly well to  autoregressive baselines.   <br> ● Breaks the “reversal curse” – LLaDA shows balanced forward/backward  reasoning, outperforming GPT-4 and other AR models on reversal tasks  (e.g. reversing a poem line). Because diffusion does not enforce  left-to-right generation, it is robust at backward completions.   <br> ● Multi-turn dialogue and instruction-following – After supervised  fine-tuning, LLaDA can carry on multi-turn conversations. It exhibits  strong instruction adherence and fluency similar to chat-based AR  LLMs—further evidence that advanced LLM traits do not necessarily rely  on autoregression. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09992), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1891568386494300252) |\n| 5) SWE-Lancer  Researchers from OpenAI introduce SWE-Lancer, a benchmark evaluating LLMs on 1,488 real-world freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork, collectively worth $1M in payouts.  Key takeaways:   <br> ● A new benchmark for software engineering automation – Unlike  previous coding benchmarks focused on isolated tasks (e.g., program  synthesis, competitive programming), SWE-Lancer tests full-stack  engineering and managerial decision-making. It evaluates both  Individual Contributor (IC) SWE tasks, where models write and debug  code, and SWE Manager tasks, where models select the best technical  proposal.   <br> ● Real-world economic impact – Each task has a verifiable monetary  value, mirroring freelance market rates. Payouts range from $250 bug  fixes to $32,000 feature implementations. The benchmark maps model  performance to earnings, offering a tangible metric for automation  potential.   <br> ● Rigorous evaluation with end-to-end tests – Unlike unit-test-based  benchmarks, SWE-Lancer employs browser-driven, triple-verified  end-to-end (E2E) tests developed by professional engineers. These  tests reflect real-world software validation and prevent grading  hacks.   <br> ● Challenging tasks remain unsolved – Even the best-performing model,  Claude 3.5 Sonnet, only solves 26.2% of IC SWE tasks and 44.9% of SWE  Manager tasks, earning $208K out of $500.8K in the open-source  SWE-Lancer Diamond set. This highlights the gap between current AI  capabilities and human software engineers.   <br> ● Key findings on LLM performance: | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12115), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1891911123517018521) |\n| 6) Optimizing Model Selection for Compound AI  Researchers from Microsoft Research and collaborators introduce LLMSelector, a framework to improve multi-call LLM pipelines by selecting the best model per module instead of using one LLM everywhere.  Key insights include:   <br> ● Large performance boost with per-module model choices – Rather than  relying on a single LLM for each sub-task in compound systems, the  authors show that mixing different LLMs can yield 5%–70% higher  accuracy. Each model has unique strengths (e.g., better at critique  vs. generation), so assigning modules selectively substantially  improves end-to-end results.   <br> ● LLMSelector algorithm – They propose an iterative routine that  assigns an optimal model to each module, guided by a novel “LLM  diagnoser” to estimate per-module performance. The procedure scales  linearly with the number of modules—far more efficient than exhaustive  search.   <br> ● Monotonicity insights – Empirically, boosting any single module’s  performance (while holding others fixed) often improves the overall  system. This motivates an approximate factorization approach, where  local gains translate into global improvements.  LLMSelector works for any static compound system with fixed modules (e.g., generator–critic–refiner). | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14815), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1892945381174210933) |\n| 7) Open-Reasoner-Zero  Open-Reasoner-Zero (ORZ) is an open-source large-scale minimalist reinforcement learning (RL) framework that enhances reasoning capabilities. ORZ demonstrates significant scalability requiring only 1/30th of the training steps of DeepSeek-R1-Zero-Qwen-32B to outperform it on GPQA Diamond. Key contributions and findings:   <br> ● Minimalist RL Training Works – Unlike traditional RLHF setups, ORZ  removes KL regularization and relies on vanilla PPO with GAE (λ=1,  γ=1) and a simple rule-based reward function to scale both response  length and reasoning accuracy.   <br> ● Outperforms Closed-Source Models – ORZ-32B beats  DeepSeek-R1-Zero-Qwen-32B on GPQA Diamond while using significantly  fewer training steps, proving that training efficiency can be  drastically improved with a streamlined RL pipeline.   <br> ● Emergent Reasoning Abilities – ORZ exhibits \"step moments\", where  response lengths and accuracy suddenly increase, indicating emergent  reasoning capabilities with continued training.   <br> ● Massive Scaling Potential – ORZ’s response length scaling mirrors  trends seen in DeepSeek-R1-Zero (671B MoE), but with 5.8x fewer  training steps. Training shows no signs of saturation, hinting at even  further gains with continued scaling.   <br> ● Fully Open-Source – The training code, model weights, data, and  hyperparameters are all released, ensuring reproducibility and  enabling broader adoption in the research community.   <br> ● Mathematical & Logical Reasoning – ORZ significantly improves  accuracy on benchmarks like MATH500, AIME2024, and AIME2025 with a  simple binary reward system that only evaluates answer correctness.   <br> ● Generalization – Without any instruction tuning, ORZ-32B outperforms  Qwen2.5-32B Instruct on MMLU_PRO, showcasing its strong reasoning  generalization despite being trained purely on RL. | [Paper](https://github.com/Open-Reasoner-Zero/Open-Reasoner-Zero/blob/main/ORZ_paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/CyouSakura/status/1892428094075502960) |\n| 8) MoBA  MoBA is a new attention mechanism that enhances efficiency in handling long-context sequences for LLMs while maintaining strong performance.  Key insights:   <br> ● Adaptive Attention for Long Contexts – MoBA applies the Mixture of  Experts (MoE) paradigm to the attention mechanism, allowing each query  token to attend selectively to the most relevant key-value blocks  rather than the full context. This enables models to handle extended  sequences efficiently.   <br> ● Seamless Transition Between Full and Sparse Attention – Unlike  static sparse attention methods like sliding window or sink attention,  MoBA can dynamically switch between full and sparse attention modes,  ensuring adaptability without sacrificing generalization.   <br> ● Improved Computational Efficiency – By partitioning sequences into  blocks and using a gating mechanism to route queries, MoBA  significantly reduces computational complexity, achieving up to 6.5×  speedup over FlashAttention in prefill and scaling efficiently to 10M  tokens with a 16× reduction in computation time.   <br> ● Comparable Performance to Full Attention – Extensive experiments  show that MoBA achieves language modeling loss and benchmark  performance nearly identical to full attention, even at high sparsity  levels (~95.31%). It matches full attention in long-context benchmarks  like Needle in a Haystack and RULER@128K.   <br> ● Hybrid MoBA-Full Attention Strategy – MoBA can be integrated  flexibly with standard Transformers, allowing for layer-wise  hybridization (mixing MoBA and full attention at different layers),  which improves supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stability and long-context  retention. | [Paper](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/MoBA/blob/master/MoBA_Tech_Report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1891825059599352259) |\n| 9) The Danger of Overthinking  This paper investigates overthinking in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs)—a phenomenon where models prioritize extended internal reasoning over interacting with their environment. Their study analyzes 4,018 software engineering task trajectories to understand how reasoning models handle decision-making in agentic settings.  Key findings:   <br> ● Overthinking reduces task performance – Higher overthinking scores  (favoring internal reasoning over real-world feedback) correlate with  lower issue resolution rates, especially in reasoning-optimized  models. Simple interventions, like selecting solutions with the lowest  overthinking scores, improve performance by 30% while reducing compute  costs by 43%.   <br> ● Three failure patterns identified – The study categorizes  overthinking into:   <br> ● Reasoning models are more prone to overthinking – Compared to  non-reasoning models, LRMs exhibit 3× higher overthinking scores on  average, despite their superior reasoning capabilities.   <br> ● Function calling mitigates overthinking – Models with native  function-calling support show significantly lower overthinking scores,  suggesting structured execution pathways improve efficiency in agentic  environments.   <br> ● Scaling and mitigation strategies – The researchers propose  reinforcement learning adjustments and function-calling optimizations  to curb overthinking while maintaining strong reasoning capabilities. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.08235), [Tweet](https://x.com/Alex_Cuadron/status/1890533660434321873) |\n| 10) Inner Thinking Transformers  Inner Thinking Transformer (ITT) is a new method that enhances reasoning efficiency in small-scale LLMs via dynamic depth scaling. ITT aims to mitigate parameter bottlenecks in LLMs, providing scalable reasoning efficiency without expanding model size.  Key contributions:   <br> ● Adaptive Token Processing – ITT dynamically allocates extra  computation to complex tokens using Adaptive Token Routing. This  allows the model to focus on difficult reasoning steps while  efficiently handling simple tokens.   <br> ● Residual Thinking Connections (RTC) – A new residual accumulation  mechanism iteratively refines token representations, allowing the  model to self-correct without increasing parameters.   <br> ● Test-Time Scaling without Extra Parameters – ITT achieves 96.5% of a  466M Transformer’s accuracy using only 162M parameters, reducing  training data needs by 43.2% while outperforming loop-based  alternatives in 11 benchmarks.   <br> ● Elastic Deep Thinking – ITT allows flexible scaling of computation  at inference time, optimizing between accuracy and efficiency  dynamically. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13842v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/dair_ai/status/1893308342073991258) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (February 10 - February 16) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning  This work introduces a latent recurrent-depth transformer, a model that scales test-time reasoning without relying on additional token generation. Instead of increasing the context window or fine-tuning for Chain-of-Thought (CoT), this approach enables iterative latent space reasoning at inference, achieving improvements comparable to a 50B parameter model despite having only 3.5B parameters. Key insights include:   <br> ● Recurrent test-time computation – The model unrolls a recurrent  block at inference, running for an arbitrary number of steps, allowing  more computational depth without modifying the input sequence. Unlike  standard CoT methods, which externalize reasoning via tokens, this  technique keeps reasoning in latent space, making it more efficient.   <br> ● No need for CoT-specific training – Unlike CoT prompting or  fine-tuning, this method doesn’t require specialized datasets. It  works with standard pretraining corpora and generalizes across  reasoning tasks.   <br> ● Improved memory & compute efficiency – Latent reasoning allows the  model to scale without increasing parameter count, requiring less  memory than long-context transformers. Additionally, this method  improves per-token adaptive compute, speculative decoding, and  KV-cache sharing, making it highly efficient.   <br> ● Scales like a 50B parameter model – Benchmarks show that with  sufficient test-time recurrence, the model matches or surpasses much  larger LLMs on complex reasoning tasks (ARC, GSM8K, OpenBookQA).   <br> ● Emergent behaviors in latent space – Analysis reveals  self-organizing computation patterns, such as latent-space orbits for  numerical tasks and context-dependent “deliberation” on difficult  queries, suggesting the model learns non-verbal cognitive strategies.  This approach adds a third axis to LLM scaling—beyond model size and context length—by focusing on test-time compute. It suggests that future models may reason in continuous latent space rather than rely solely on token-based reasoning, potentially unlocking new AI reasoning and efficiency frontiers. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1890506648772571452) |\n| 2) Brain-to-Text Decoding: A Non-Invasive Approach via Typing  Meta AI’s Brain2Qwerty model translates brain activity into text by decoding signals from non-invasive recordings (EEG/MEG) while users type. Key results include:   <br> ● Non-invasive BCI breakthrough: Brain2Qwerty leverages EEG and MEG  brainwaves (recorded as participants type memorized sentences) to  predict text, eliminating the need for surgical implants.   <br> ● Deep learning pipeline: The system uses a convolutional module to  extract signal features, a transformer to model temporal patterns, and  a character-level language model to refine outputs.   <br> ● Rapid progress in accuracy: MEG-based decoding achieved a 32%  character error rate (vs. 67% with EEG), and the top participant  reached 19% CER, showing dramatic improvement over prior non-invasive  methods.   <br> ● Towards practical communication aids: Demonstrates the potential for  restoring communication in paralyzed patients using external brain  monitors. Challenges remain in achieving real-time letter-by-letter  decoding and making MEG technology more portable. | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/brain-to-text-decoding-a-non-invasive-approach-via-typing/), [Tweet](https://x.com/JeanRemiKing/status/1887899974454698058) |\n| 3) Reinforcement Learning via Self-Play  Researchers propose Reinforcement Learning via Self-Play (RLSP) as a framework to train LLMs to “think” through complex problems. Key ideas include:   <br> ● Emergent reasoning via self-play: RLSP trains an LLM on reasoning  tasks by having it generate solution steps and reward itself for  exploration and correctness, effectively enabling it to search for  answers like an algorithm.   <br> ● Three-phase training: (1) Begin with supervised fine-tuning on human  or synthetic reasoning traces, (2) add an exploration reward to  encourage trying diverse solution paths, and (3) employ an outcome  verifier in RL to ensure answers are correct (preventing reward  hacking).   <br> ● Notable performance gains: On math benchmarks, a relatively small  model (8B) fine-tuned with RLSP saw +23% accuracy on MATH dataset, and  a 32B model gained +10% on challenging Olympiad problems—significant  jumps achieved by training for better reasoning.   <br> ● Uncovering new behaviors: RLSP-trained models exhibit emergent  problem-solving behaviors like backtracking on flawed steps and  self-verification of answers. This suggests that appropriately scaling  the training process can induce more robust reasoning capabilities in  LLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06773), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1889697727703134544) |\n| 4) Competitive Programming with Large Reasoning Models  OpenAI’s latest study puts a specialized coding AI against a scaled-up general model on competitive programming challenges to explore efficiency vs. specialization. Key findings:   <br> ● Generalist vs. specialist: A tailored model (o1-ioi) with  hand-crafted strategies for coding competitions achieved decent  results (placing ~50th percentile at IOI 2024 with some relaxed  competition constraints). However, a larger, general-purpose model  (o3) attained gold   medal-level performance without any domain-specific tricks.   <br> ● Reinforcement learning payoff: Both models were improved via RL  fine-tuning, but the scaled general model outperformed the expert  pipeline, solving programming tasks at a level comparable to elite  human coders (even matching top human ratings on Codeforces).   <br> ● Efficiency through scale: The results suggest that investing compute  in a bigger, broadly-trained transformer can yield greater efficiency  and performance than building task-specific optimizations. In other  words, scaling up a model’s reasoning ability can supersede manual  efficiency tweaks for complex tasks.   <br> ● Implication: For difficult reasoning tasks like coding, a single  large model with sufficient training can simplify deployment (no  custom inference routines needed) and still beat highly optimized  specialist systems, pointing toward a trend of “scale over  special-case” in transformer design. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06807), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1889522974467957033) |\n| 5) Training Language Models to Reason Efficiently  A new RL approach teaches large reasoning models to allocate their reasoning effort efficiently, reducing wasted computation on easy problems. Key points include:   <br> ● Dynamic compute allocation: The method trains an LLM to adjust the  length of its CoT based on problem difficulty. Easy queries trigger  short reasoning, while hard ones use deeper thought, optimizing  inference time without sacrificing accuracy.   <br> ● RL-driven efficiency: Through RL, the model is rewarded for solving  tasks correctly with minimal steps, learning to avoid “overthinking.”  This yields a family of models along an efficiency spectrum controlled  by a single hyperparameter (trading off speed vs. accuracy).   <br> ● Big cost savings: On benchmark reasoning tasks, this trained model  cut down inference computation significantly while maintaining almost  the same performance as unconstrained reasoning. It learns when extra  reasoning steps are unnecessary, which is crucial for deploying  advanced LLMs cost-effectively.   <br> ● Efficient reasoning at scale: The approach addresses the multi-agent  style problem internally – the model acts as both “thinker” and  “controller,” deciding how much reasoning to do. This   result moves us toward LLMs that can self-optimize their reasoning  process on the fly, much like an expert deciding when enough analysis  has been done. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04463), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1889328796224127428) |\n| 6) Large Memory Models  Large Memory Models (LM2) is a transformer architecture augmented with an external memory module to tackle tasks requiring extensive reasoning and long context. Key highlights include:   <br> ● Memory-augmented transformer: LM2 adds a dedicated memory repository  that the model can read/write via cross-attention, enabling it to  store and retrieve information across many reasoning steps. This  design addresses the limitations of standard transformers in tasks  like multi-hop reasoning and relational argumentation.   <br> ● Superior long-term reasoning: On the BABILong benchmark for  long-context reasoning, LM2 dramatically outperformed prior models –  37% better than a recurrent memory transformer and 86% better than a  baseline Llama model on average. It excels at multi-hop inference,  numeric reasoning, and QA over long documents.   <br> ● No trade-off in generality: Impressively, LM2 maintained strong  general performance – e.g. a +5% boost on the MMLU knowledge test over  a baseline – indicating the memory module helps complex tasks without  hurting normal language understanding.   <br> ● Alignment via memory: These results underscore the importance of  explicit memory for aligning AI reasoning with complex tasks. By  integrating a large-scale memory, we get models that can better adhere  to task objectives over long dialogues or reasoning chains, a step  forward for building more aligned and capable AI systems. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06049), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1889681118913577345) |\n| 7) Auditing Prompt Caching  Researchers from Stanford investigate how timing differences in LLM APIs can leak private user information through global prompt caching. They propose statistical audits to detect caching and reveal potentially significant security risks. Key insights include:   <br> ● Side-channel timing attacks – When an LLM API caches prompts  globally, repeat or prefix-matching prompts complete faster. Attackers  can exploit these timing differences to infer what others have  prompted, posing serious privacy concerns.   <br> ● Statistical audit for detection – The paper introduces a  hypothesis-testing method to systematically detect caching,  distinguishing cache hits from misses using carefully constructed  prompts. Empirically, the authors found multiple major API providers  using global caches.   <br> ● Architecture leakage – Timing differences for partial-prefix cache  hits indicate a decoder-only Transformer backbone. The authors  demonstrated that embedding models like OpenAI’s  text-embedding-3-small are also susceptible, inadvertently leaking  proprietary architectural details.   <br> ● Responsible disclosure & mitigations – The authors notified affected  API providers, many of whom updated documentation or disabled global  caching. The recommended fix is per-user caching and transparent  disclosures of caching policies to avoid privacy leakages. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07776), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1889685386856673463) |\n| 8) Step Back to Leap Forward  To boost the reasoning robustness of LLMs, researchers propose a “self-backtracking” mechanism that lets models revisit and revise their own intermediate reasoning steps. Key details:   <br> ● Inspiration from search algorithms: Traditional problem-solving  backtracks when a path hits a dead-end. This approach gives LLMs a  similar ability – during reasoning, the model can   identify when its current CoT is likely wrong and backtrack to a  previous step to try a different approach.   <br> ● Implementation: The team trained an LLM with signals to decide when  to backtrack during both training and inference. This helps the model  internalize an iterative search process, rather than strictly  following a single chain-of-thought that might be flawed.   <br> ● Huge reasoning gains: Empirically, adding self-backtracking led to  40%+ improvement on complex reasoning benchmarks compared to standard  fine-tuning. The model learns to correct its own mistakes mid-stream,  resulting in more reliable and accurate solutions.   <br> ● Towards resilient reasoners: By reducing “overthinking” loops and  reliance on external feedback, this technique makes LLMs more  autonomous and robust in reasoning. It points to a future where LLMs  can more rigorously self-evaluate and refine their reasoning, much  like humans reflecting on and correcting their thought process. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04404), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1888967415444414802) |\n| 9) Enhancing Reasoning to Adapt LLMs  Researchers from IBM present SOLOMON, a neuro-inspired LLM reasoning network architecture that boosts domain adaptability—demonstrated on semiconductor layout design. They show how LLMs often falter at spatial reasoning and domain knowledge application, and how their multi-agent oversight approach significantly improves success on challenging chip-layout tasks. Key insights include:   <br> ● SOLOMON architecture – Combines multiple “Thought Generators”  (diverse LLMs) with a “Thought Assessor” that consolidates and refines  outputs, guided by a “Steering Subsystem” for prompt engineering. This  neuro-inspired design helps correct hallucinations and arithmetic  errors in single-model responses.   <br> ● Spatial reasoning challenges – LLMs often memorize textbook  definitions but fail at practical geometry (e.g. unit conversions,  offset margins). Experiments on 25 custom tasks—from simple polygons  to 3D via connections—revealed frequent code or scaling mistakes.   <br> ● Boost over strong baselines – SOLOMON significantly outperformed  GPT-4o, Claude-3.5, and Llama-3.1 in generating correct GDSII layouts,  and in some tests even surpassed the authors’ “o1-preview” reference  model. The multi-LLM approach mitigated errors (e.g., ignoring default  units or mixing up geometry).   <br> ● Future directions – Plans include stacking multiple SOLOMON layers  for more complex designs, improving multimodal linking of  text/image/code, and broader domain tasks (e.g. power grid layout).  The broader lesson: advanced reasoning mechanisms, not just bigger  models, are crucial for specialized engineering applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04384), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1888985789880758426) |\n| 10) ReasonFlux  The ReasonFlux framework is introduced as an efficient way to fine-tune LLMs for complex reasoning, using hierarchical thought processes. Highlights include:   <br> ● Thought template library: Rather than having a model learn long CoT  solutions from scratch, ReasonFlux provides a library of ~500 reusable  “thought templates” – high-level reasoning steps that can be composed  to solve problems. These might be generic strategies like “split the  problem into cases” or “verify the solution,” applicable across tasks.   <br> ● Hierarchical planning via RL: The model is trained (with only 8 GPUs  for a 32B model) to plan a sequence of these templates to tackle a  problem, using hierarchical reinforcement learning. This way, it  learns to orchestrate complex reasoning by chaining templates, instead  of generating every reasoning step token-by-token.   <br> ● Inference-time adaptation: A novel inference strategy allows the  model to adjust the granularity of its reasoning on the fly, scaling  the template sequence based on difficulty. This   means the model can dynamically decide to use more detailed templates  for hard problems and fewer for easy ones, optimizing both accuracy  and speed.   <br> ● State-of-the-art results: ReasonFlux achieved high scores on math  reasoning benchmarks – for example, 91.2% on MATH, outperforming  OpenAI’s reference model by 6.7%, and solved 56.7% of problems on the  AIME Olympiad, vastly surpassing previous models. This demonstrates  that smart fine-tuning with structured reasoning steps can yield big  gains even without massive compute. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06772), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1889343676272525600) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (February 3 - February 9) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) s1: Simple test-time scaling  Researchers from Stanford, UW, and others introduce s1, a method to boost LLM performance by using extra compute at inference (“test-time scaling”). Key ideas include: <br> ● Small yet powerful dataset – They curated s1K, only 1,000  challenging questions with detailed reasoning traces, to fine-tune a  32B model. Despite the tiny data, this provides strong reasoning  exemplars.   <br> ● “Budget forcing” for reasoning – A new decoding trick appends the  token “Wait” when the model tries to stop, forcing it to think longer.  This leads the model to double-check and fix its reasoning step. By  also cutting off overly long reasoning, they control inference time.   <br> ● Big gains over OpenAI’s o1 – The resulting model (s1-32B) (a  fine-tuned version of Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct) outperforms OpenAI’s  o1-preview model by up to +27% on   competition-level math questions (MATH & AIME24). Notably, with  test-time scaling, it boosts accuracy on AIME24 from 50% to 57%,  surpassing its own normal limit. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393), [Tweet](http://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1886428631041225030), [Code & Data](https://github.com/simplescaling/s1) |\n| 2) OmniHuman-1: Scaling One-Stage Human Animation  A team at ByteDance AI Lab unveiled OmniHuman-1, a diffusion-transformer model that can generate highly realistic human videos from just a single image plus motion input (audio or video). Highlights:   <br> ● End-to-end human video generation – OmniHuman takes one image (any  aspect ratio, from face only to full-body) and an audio clip or video  motion and produces a lifelike video of that person speaking, singing,  or performing actions. The outputs are remarkably realistic in motion,  lighting, and texture detail.   <br> ● Mixed modality training – A key innovation is Omni-Conditions  Training: mixing various motion modalities during training  (audio-driven, video-driven, pose, etc.). This greatly expands the  training data and overcomes the usual scarcity of high-quality  talking-head video data. The model learns to handle diverse inputs  (speech, song, instruments) and challenging poses.   <br> ● Outperforms prior methods – Compared to earlier one-stage models  (e.g. audio-driven talking heads), OmniHuman generates more realistic  videos and is more flexible in input types. It can even handle  cartoons or animal figures as input, transferring motion naturally to  each style.   <br> ● Broader support – The approach supports any portrait content (face  close-up, half-body,   full-body) and multiple driving signals simultaneously. This  generality is a first for end-to-end human animation models. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01061), [Tweet](http://twitter.com/unseenvie/status/1886672598576325011), [Demo](https://omnihuman-lab.github.io/) |\n| 3) LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning  Can a handful of examples teach complex math reasoning to LLMs? This new LIMO paper challenges the notion that we need huge fine-tuning datasets for tough reasoning tasks. Key findings:   <br> ● Surprisingly few examples – With only 817 carefully curated training  samples, the LIMO model achieves 57.1% accuracy on the AIME math  competition and 94.8% on MATH. This is a giant leap from prior  SFT-based models (which scored 6.5% and 59.2% respectively – using  just 1% of the data those earlier approaches needed.   <br> ● Generalization with less data? – LIMO shows impressive OOD  generalization: a +40.5% absolute improvement on average across 10  diverse benchmarks, even outperforming models trained on 100× more  data. This challenges the assumption that more data is always required  for complex skills and that fine-tuning only leads to memorization.   <br> ● “Less-Is-More” Hypothesis – The authors propose that if an LLM’s  pre-training has already endowed it with rich knowledge, then only a  minimal set of carefully designed examples (which they call “cognitive  templates”) is needed to unlock advanced reasoning. Essentially, the  model just needs to see how to use its knowledge, not thousands of  repetitive problems.   <br> ● Open-source suite – The complete LIMO training suite is released for  the community, supporting further research on data-efficient  reasoning. This work hints that small, high-quality datasets might  yield state-of-the-art reasoning, lowering the barrier to fine-tuning  powerful LLMs. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03387), [Tweet](http://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1887514592747937984), [Code](https://github.com/GAIR-NLP/LIMO) |\n| 4) CoAT: Chain-of-Associated-Thoughts for LLM Reasoning  This work introduces CoAT, a new “slow thinking” inference framework that enables an LLM to reason more like a human by exploring and updating its thoughts. Main components:   <br> ● MCTS + associative memory – CoAT marries Monte Carlo Tree Search  (MCTS) with an associative memory mechanism. MCTS lets the model  systematically explore different reasoning branches (possible  solutions), while the associative memory dynamically injects new  relevant information into the context as needed (mimicking how humans  recall facts mid-thought).   <br> ● Iterative, self-improving reasoning – The framework can expand the  search space of solutions and revisit or refine earlier intermediate  conclusions. As it evaluates branches, it can incorporate new clues or  correct itself, ensuring the final answer is more accurate and  comprehensive. This is in contrast to standard one-pass LLM reasoning,  which can’t easily backtrack or gather new info on the fly.   <br> ● Improved accuracy and diversity – In experiments across various  generation and reasoning tasks, CoAT outperformed conventional  single-pass inference on metrics like accuracy, coherence of reasoning  steps, and solution diversity. The ability to iteratively broaden the  search while keeping relevant context yields better results than “fast  thinking” alone.   <br> ● Closer to human thought – CoAT is inspired by how humans solve  problems: we iteratively consider alternatives, recall facts, and  refine our thinking. It points toward LLM agents that can use search  algorithms and memory to achieve more reliable reasoning. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02390), [Tweet](http://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1887187689247752370) |\n| 5) Syntriever: Training Retrievers with LLM-Generated Data  How can we build a high-quality text retriever without large labeled datasets or access to an LLM’s internals? Syntriever presents a two-stage framework to distill knowledge from a black-box LLM into a retrieval model using synthetic data. Steps:   <br> ● Stage 1 – Distillation via synthetic Q&A: Given a query, they prompt  a powerful LLM (e.g. GPT-4) to generate a relevant passage (answer)  and also plausible but incorrect passages, using chain-of-thought to  ensure variety. The LLM then self-verifies these generated passages to  filter out any hallucinations or low-quality data. The result is a  synthetic dataset of queries with positive and negative passages. A  retriever is trained on this, with a loss that clusters embeddings of  relevant passages closer than irrelevant ones.   <br> ● Stage 2 – Alignment with LLM preferences: They further align the  retriever to prefer results the LLM would prefer. Using a partial  Plackett-Luce ranking method, the retriever learns to rank passages  similarly to the LLM’s judgments, with regularization to not drift too  far from the Stage 1 model. This step fine-tunes the retriever to  mimic the black-box LLM’s preferences.   <br> ● State-of-the-art results – Syntriever achieves new SOTA on several  retrieval benchmarks across domains. This was achieved without any  real training queries: all training data was synthetically generated  by the LLM.   <br> ● No logits needed – Prior LLM-to-retriever distillation needed model  logits or probabilities (not available from closed APIs). Syntriever  gets around this by using only generated text and LLM scoring, making  it applicable even to closed models. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03824), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1887878242276954557), [Code](https://github.com/kmswin1/Syntriever) |\n| 6) Demystifying Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs  This work investigates how LLMs develop extended CoT reasoning, focusing on RL and compute scaling. Key insights include:   <br> ● Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) boosts performance – While not strictly  necessary, SFT simplifies training and increases efficiency. Models  fine-tuned with long CoT data achieve higher accuracy than those using  short CoT sequences.   <br> ● Reward shaping is crucial for stable RL – The study finds that naive  RL approaches don’t always extend CoT length effectively. To address  this, the authors introduce a cosine   length-scaling reward with repetition penalties, which balances  reasoning depth and prevents meaningless length increases.   <br> ● Scaling verifiable reward signals – RL models trained with noisy,  web-extracted “silver” supervision signals can generalize better to  OOD tasks, such as STEM reasoning. Filtering such data is crucial to  maintaining training stability.   <br> ● Emergent reasoning abilities in base models – Skills like error  correction and backtracking exist in base models but require careful  RL incentives to be effectively utilized in complex tasks.  This paper provides a structured roadmap for researchers looking to refine CoT training strategies for LLMs, highlighting how RL and reward tuning impact reasoning depth. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03373), [Tweet](https://x.com/xiangyue96/status/1887332772198371514) |\n| 7) Rethinking Mixture-of-Agents: Ensemble One Strong LLM  Ensembling multiple models (Mixture-of-Agents, MoA) is a popular way to boost performance. This paper asks: is mixing different LLMs actually helpful, or are we better off ensembling one top model’s outputs? The surprising answer: “Self-MoA” (single-model ensemble) often wins over multi-model ensembles. Key points:   <br> ● Self-MoA vs. MoA – The authors propose Self-MoA, which simply  generates multiple outputs from the single best model and then  aggregates them (e.g., by majority voting or ranking), instead of  combining outputs from various models. This increases diversity via  multiple attempts, without introducing weaker models.   <br> ● Better performance – Extensive tests show Self-MoA outperforms a  mixture of different LLMs in many cases. For example, using one strong  model, Self-MoA achieved +6.6% higher score than a mixed-model MoA on  the AlpacaEval 2.0 benchmark, and on average +3.8% across tasks like  MMLU, CRUX, and MATH. In fact, applying Self-MoA to a top AlpacaEval  model set a new state-of-the-art on the leaderboard.   <br> ● Why it works – Mixing models can hurt because the overall quality is  limited by the weaker members. The study finds MoA’s benefit is highly  sensitive to the quality of each model – adding a weaker model dilutes  performance. Unless all models are very strong and complementary,  you’re better off with one model’s outputs. They do identify niche  scenarios where diverse models help, but those are exceptions.   <br> ● Sequential aggregation – They also introduce a sequential version of  Self-MoA that can combine a large number of outputs over multiple  rounds (rather than all at once). This sequential Self-MoA is as  effective as one-shot aggregation, scaling ensembling to many outputs  efficiently. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00674), [Tweet](http://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1886792384954163347) |\n| 8) MaAS: Multi-agent Architecture Search (Agentic Supernet)  Building multi-agent systems of LLMs (where multiple agents collaborate, each with specific roles or tools) is powerful but usually requires hand-designing a single complex pipeline. MaAS (Multi-agent Architecture Search) instead learns a universal “agentic supernet” from which it can spawn an optimal agent team on the fly for each query. It automates designing the agent workflow per task:   <br> ● Agentic supernet – The authors define a continuous space of possible  agent architectures (chains of LLM calls, tool uses, etc.). Rather  than picking one static architecture, they train a supernet that  encompasses many configurations. Each query can trigger a different   sub-network of agents tailored to that query’s domain and difficulty.   <br> ● Dynamic resource allocation – Because the system adapts per query,  it can allocate resources efficiently. Easy questions might use a  simple, fast agent chain; hard problems invoke a more elaborate  reasoning team. This avoids the one-size-fits-all cost of a monolithic  agent system.   <br> ● Huge cost savings – On six benchmarks, MaAS used only 6–45% of the  inference cost of existing multi-agent pipelines, yet still  outperformed them by ~0.5–11.8% in accuracy. It finds cheaper ways to  reach equal or better performance by tuning the agent configuration to  the task.   <br> ● Robust and transferable – The agentic supernet approach showed  strong generalization: architectures found effective on one task  transferred well to new domains and even with different LLM backbones,  outperforming static designs. This suggests the method learns general  principles of how to orchestrate LLM agents optimally. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04180), [Tweet](http://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1887884027530727876) |\n| 9) Advancing Reasoning in LLMs  This survey paper provides a timely overview of emerging methods to enhance reasoning capabilities in LLMs. It organizes the literature into several key approach categories:   <br> ● Prompting strategies – Techniques that guide the model’s reasoning  via clever prompts, e.g. Chain-of-Thought prompting (having the model  generate step-by-step solutions),   Self-Consistency (sampling multiple reasoning paths and choosing the  best answer), Tree-of-Thought strategies, etc. These methods improve  logical deduction and multi-step solutions without changing the  model’s architecture.   <br> ● Architectural innovations – Modifications to the model or its  context to better facilitate reasoning. This includes  retrieval-augmented models (LLMs that can fetch external facts),  modular reasoning networks (systems that break a problem into  sub-tasks handled by different modules or experts), and neuro-symbolic  integration (combining neural nets with symbolic logic or tools. Such  changes aim to give LLMs access to either more knowledge or more  structured reasoning processes.   <br> ● Learning paradigms – New training methods to instill reasoning  skills: fine-tuning on reasoning-specific datasets (e.g. math word  problems), reinforcement learning approaches (rewarding correct  reasoning chains), and self-supervised objectives that train the model  to reason (like predicting masked steps in a proof. These improve the  model’s inherent reasoning ability beyond what general pre-training  provides.   <br> ● Evaluation & challenges – The survey also reviews how we evaluate  reasoning in LLMs (benchmarks for logic, math, commonsense, etc.) and  identifies open challenges. Key issues include hallucinations (the  model fabricating illogical or untrue intermediate steps), brittleness  to small changes (robustness), and generalization of reasoning methods  across different tasks and domains. Addressing these will be crucial  for the next generation of   reasoning-augmented LLMs. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03671), [Tweet](http://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1887875470269849659) |\n| 10) Survey: Text Data Augmentation for LLMs  This comprehensive survey covers text data augmentation techniques for LLMs. As LLMs demand massive training data, augmenting datasets with synthetic or transformed text is vital. In this paper:   <br> ● Classifies augmentation methods – It defines four categories: (1)  Simple augmentation – basic text manipulations like synonym  replacement, cropping, etc.; (2) Prompt-based augmentation – using an  LLM with specific prompts to generate new training examples   (taking advantage of the LLM’s own generative power; (3)  Retrieval-based augmentation – pulling in external knowledge or  contexts (via search or databases) to ground the generated text in  facts; and (4) Hybrid augmentation – combinations of the above, or  multi-step strategies.   <br> ● LLMs as data generators – A key insight is that modern LLMs can  create high-quality synthetic data to improve themselves. By carefully  prompting an LLM to produce variations of a task (for example, ask  ChatGPT to come up with new math word problems), one can dramatically  expand a training set. The survey discusses prompt design for this  purpose and how to ensure the generated data is diverse and useful.   <br> ● Post-processing and filtering – Augmented data isn’t always perfect.  The survey covers techniques to refine and filter generated data. For  instance, verifying facts with a secondary model or removing examples  that might introduce errors. This step is crucial to prevent “garbage  in, garbage” out when augmenting data.   <br> ● Evaluation and future directions – It outlines common tasks where  data augmentation is used (like low-resource language translation, QA,  etc.) and how to evaluate the impact (improvement in accuracy,  robustness, etc.). Finally, it discusses challenges (e.g. ensuring  augmentation doesn’t distort data distribution, avoiding model bias  reinforcement) and opportunities for new research. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18845), [Tweet](http://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1886428687350006067) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (January 27 - February 2) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) o3-mini  OpenAI has launched o3-mini, their newest cost-efficient reasoning model, available in ChatGPT and API. The model excels in STEM-related tasks, particularly in science, math, and coding, while maintaining the low cost and reduced latency of its predecessor o1-mini. It introduces key developer features like function calling, Structured Outputs, and developer messages, making it  production-ready from launch.  o3-mini includes different reasoning effort levels (low, medium, and high) and improves performance across a wide range of tasks. It delivered responses 24% faster than o1-mini and achieved notable results in competition math, PhD-level science questions, and software engineering tasks. | [System Card](https://cdn.openai.com/o3-mini-system-card.pdf), [Blog](https://openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini/), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1885406586136383634) |\n| 2) Qwen2.5-1M  Qwen releases two open-source LLMs, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M, that can handle context lengths of up to 1 million tokens.  The models are built on a progressive training approach, starting with 4K tokens and gradually increasing to 256K tokens, then using length extrapolation techniques to reach 1M tokens. They've also released an inference framework based on vLLM that processes long inputs 3-7x faster through sparse attention methods.  The models show strong performance on both long-context and short-text tasks. The 14B model outperforms GPT-4o-mini across multiple long-context datasets while maintaining similar performance on shorter tasks. | [Paper](https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen2.5-1M/Qwen2_5_1M_Technical_Report.pdf), [Models](https://huggingface.co/Qwen),  [Qwen Chat App](https://chat.qwenlm.ai/), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1883905564004241789) |\n| 3) Janus-Pro  An enhanced version of the previous Janus model for multimodal understanding and generation. The model incorporates three key improvements: optimized training strategies with longer initial training and focused fine-tuning, expanded training data including 90 million new samples for understanding and 72 million synthetic aesthetic samples for generation, and scaling to larger model sizes up to 7B parameters.  Janus-Pro achieves significant improvements in both multimodal understanding and text-to-image generation capabilities. The model outperforms existing solutions on various benchmarks, scoring 79.2 on MMBench for understanding tasks and achieving 80% accuracy on GenEval for text-to-image generation. The improvements also enhance image generation stability and quality, particularly for short prompts and fine details, though the current 384x384 resolution remains a limitation for certain tasks. | [Paper](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Janus/blob/main/janus_pro_tech_report.pdf), [Models](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B), [Tweet](https://x.com/giffmana/status/1884011657191637126) |\n| 4) On the Underthinking of o1-like LLMs  This work looks more closely at the \"thinking\" patterns of o1-like LLMs. We have seen a few recent papers pointing out the issues with overthinking.  There is now a new phenomenon called underthinking! What is it about? The authors find that o1-like LLMs frequently switch between different reasoning thoughts without sufficiently exploring promising paths to reach a correct solution. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18585), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1885349576456233177) |\n| 5) Diverse Preference Optimization  Introduces Diverse Preference Optimization (DivPO), a novel training method that aims to address the lack of diversity in language model outputs while maintaining response quality. The key challenge is that current preference optimization techniques like RLHF tend to sharpen the output probability distribution, causing models to generate very similar responses. This is particularly problematic for creative tasks where varied outputs are desired.  DivPO works by modifying how training pairs are selected during preference optimization. Rather than simply choosing the highest and lowest rewarded responses, DivPO selects the most diverse response that meets a quality threshold and contrasts it with the least diverse response below a threshold. The method introduces a diversity criterion that can be measured in different ways, including model probability, word frequency, or using an LLM as a judge. Experiments on persona generation and creative writing tasks show that DivPO achieves up to 45.6% more diverse outputs in structured tasks and an 81% increase in story diversity, while maintaining similar quality levels compared to baseline methods. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18101), [Tweet](https://x.com/jaseweston/status/1885399530419450257) |\n| 6) Usage Recommendation for DeepSeek-R1  This work provides a set of recommendations for how to prompt the DeepSeek-R1 model. Below are the key guidelines: <br><br> 1. Prompt Engineering: <br>  ● Use clear, structured prompts with explicit instructions <br> ● Avoid  few-shot prompting; use zero-shot instead  <br><br> 1. Output Formatting: <br>  ● Specify the desired format (JSON, tables, markdown) <br> ● Request  step-by-step explanations for reasoning tasks <br><br> 1. Language: <br>  ● Explicitly specify input/output language to prevent mixing <br><br> The paper also summarizes when to use the different model variants, when to fine-tune, and other safety considerations. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17030), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1884624296368292083) |\n| 7) Docling  [Docling](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17887) is an open-source toolkit that can parse several types of popular document formats into a unified, richly structured representation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17887) |\n| 8) Improving RAG through Multi-Agent RL  This work treats RAG as a multi-agent cooperative task to improve answer generation quality. It models RAG components like query rewriting, document selection, and answer generation as reinforcement learning agents working together toward generating accurate answers. It applies  Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (MAPPO) to jointly optimize all agents with a shared reward based on answer quality.  Besides improvements on popular benchmarks, the framework shows strong generalization capabilities in out-of-domain scenarios and maintains effectiveness across different RAG system configurations. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15228), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1884249075467575362) |\n| 9) TensorLLM  Proposes a framework that performs MHA compression through a multi-head tensorisation process and the Tucker decomposition. Achieves a compression rate of up to ∼ 250x in the MHA weights, without requiring any additional data, training, or fine-tuning. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15674), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1884246306224496729) |\n| 10) TokenVerse  Proposes a new technique to generate new images from learned concepts in a desired configuration. Proposed by Google DeepMind and collaborators, TokenVerse enables multi-concept personalization  by leveraging a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model to disentangle and extract complex visual concepts from multiple images.  It operates in the modulation space of DiTs, learning a personalized modulation vector for each text token in an input caption. This allows flexible and localized control over distinct concepts such as objects, materials, lighting, and poses. The learned token modulations can then be combined in novel ways to generate new images that integrate multiple personalized concepts without requiring additional segmentation masks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12224), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1884618510275592610) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (January 20 - January 26) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) DeepSeek-R1  DeepSeek introduces DeepSeek-R1, an advancement in reasoning capabilities achieved through reinforcement learning (RL). It involves two key models: DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which uses pure RL without supervised fine-tuning, and DeepSeek-R1, which combines RL with cold-start data. DeepSeek-R1-Zero demonstrates that models can develop sophisticated reasoning abilities through RL alone, achieving a 71.0% pass rate on AIME 2024 and matching OpenAI-o1-0912's performance. During training, it naturally evolved complex behaviors like self-verification and reflection. However, it faced challenges with readability and language mixing.  To address these limitations, DeepSeek-R1 uses a multi-stage approach: initial fine-tuning with high-quality chain-of-thought examples, reasoning-focused RL training, collecting new training data through rejection sampling, and final RL optimization across all scenarios. This resulted in performance comparable to OpenAI-o1-1217, with 79.8% accuracy on AIME 2024 and 97.3% on MATH-500, while maintaining output readability and consistency.  DeepSeek also successfully distilled DeepSeek-R1's capabilities into smaller models, with their 7B model outperforming larger competitors and their 32B model achieving results close to  OpenAI-o1-mini. This demonstrates the effectiveness of distilling reasoning patterns from larger models rather than training smaller models directly through RL. | [Paper](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/DeepSeek_R1.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1881318130334814301), [Code](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai), [App](https://chat.deepseek.com/) |\n| 2) Humanity’s Last Exam  Humanity's Last Exam is a new multi-modal benchmark designed to test the limits of LLMs. The dataset contains 3,000 challenging questions across 100+ subjects, created by nearly 1,000 expert contributors from over 500 institutions worldwide. Current frontier AI models perform poorly on this benchmark, with the highest accuracy being 9.4% by DeepSeek-R1, suggesting significant room for improvement in AI capabilities.  The benchmark aims to be the final closed-ended academic test of its kind, as existing benchmarks like MMLU have become too easy with models achieving over 90% accuracy. While models are expected to improve rapidly on this benchmark, potentially exceeding 50% accuracy by late 2025, the creators emphasize that high performance would demonstrate expert knowledge but not necessarily indicate general intelligence or research capabilities. | [Paper](https://static.scale.com/uploads/654197dc94d34f66c0f5184e/Publication%20Ready%20Humanity%27s%20Last%20Exam.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1882433928407241155), [Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/cais/hle) |\n| 3) Scaling RL with LLMs  Kimi introduces k1.5, a multimodal LLMtrained using RL that achieves state-of-the-art performance across reasoning tasks. The model leverages long context scaling up to 128k tokens and improved policy optimization methods, establishing a simplified yet effective RL framework without complex techniques like Monte Carlo tree search or value functions. Notably, k1.5 matches OpenAI's o1 performance on various benchmarks including 77.5 on AIME and 96.2 on MATH 500.  The model also introduces effective long2short methods that use long-chain-of-thought techniques to improve shorter models, achieving superior results in constrained settings. Using these techniques, k1.5's short-chain-of-thought version outperforms existing models like GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 by significant margins, while maintaining high efficiency with shorter responses. | [Paper](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-k1.5/blob/main/Kimi_k1.5.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1881749719212552280), [GitHub](https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-k1.5) |\n| 4) Chain-of-Agents  A new framework for handling long-context tasks using multiple LLM agents working together. CoA splits text into chunks and assigns worker agents to process each part sequentially, passing information between them before a manager agent generates the final output. This approach avoids the limitations of traditional methods like input reduction or window extension. Testing across multiple datasets shows CoA outperforms existing approaches by up to 10% on tasks like question answering and summarization. The framework works particularly well with longer inputs - showing up to 100% improvement over baselines when processing texts over 400k tokens. | [Paper](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=LuCLf4BJsr), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1882824941101629829) |\n| 5) Can LLMs Plan?  Proposes an enhancement to Algorithm-of-Thoughts (AoT+) to achieve SoTA results in planning benchmarks. It even outperforms human baselines! AoT+ provides periodic state summaries to reduce the cognitive load. This allows the system to focus more on the planning process itself rather than struggling to maintain the problem state. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13545), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1882799782579855518) |\n| 6) Hallucinations Improve LLMs in Drug Discovery  Claims that LLMs can achieve better performance in drug discovery tasks with text hallucinations compared to input prompts without hallucination. Llama-3.1-8B achieves an 18.35% gain in  ROC-AUC compared to the baseline without hallucination. In addition, hallucinations generated by GPT-4o provide the most consistent improvements across models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13824), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1882789456522145802) |\n| 7) Trading Test-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness  Shows preliminary evidence that giving reasoning models like o1-preview and o1-mini more time to \"think\" during inference can improve their defense against adversarial attacks. Experiments covered various tasks, from basic math problems to image classification, showing that increasing  inference-time compute often reduces the success rate of attacks to near zero. The approach doesn't work uniformly across all scenarios, particularly with certain StrongREJECT benchmark tests, and controlling how models use their compute time remains challenging. Despite these constraints, the findings suggest a promising direction for improving AI security without relying on traditional adversarial training methods. | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/papers/trading-inference-time-compute-for-adversarial-robustness-20250121_1.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1882129444212740482) |\n| 8) IntellAgent  Introduces a new open-source framework for evaluating conversational AI systems through automated, policy-driven testing. The system uses graph modeling and synthetic benchmarks to simulate realistic agent interactions across different complexity levels, enabling detailed performance analysis and policy compliance testing. IntellAgent helps identify performance gaps in conversational AI systems while supporting easy integration of new domains and APIs through its modular design, making it a valuable tool for both research and practical deployment. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11067), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1882081603754643779), [GitHub](https://github.com/plurai-ai/intellagent) |\n| 9) LLMs and Behavioral Awareness  Shows that after fine-tuning LLMs on behaviors like outputting insecure code, the LLMs show behavioral self-awareness. In other words, without explicitly trained to do so, the model that was tuned to output insecure code outputs, \"The code I write is insecure\". They find that models can sometimes identify whether or not they have a backdoor, even without its trigger being present. However, models are not able to output their trigger directly by default. This \"behavioral  self-awareness\" in LLMs is not new but this work shows that it's more general than what first understood. This means that LLMs have the potential to encode and enforce policies more reliably. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11120), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1882079780918747303) |\n| 10) Agentic RAG Overview  Provides a comprehensive introduction to LLM agents and Agentic RAG. It provides an exploration of Agentic RAG architectures, applications, and implementation strategies. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09136), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1881360794019156362) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (January 13 - January 19) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) Self-Adaptive LLMs - introduces Transformer^2, a novel self-adaptation framework that adapts LLMs for unseen tasks in real-time by selectively adjusting singular components of their weight matrices; it’s built with two key phases: 1) a dispatch system that analyzes and identifies the properties of the incoming task, and 2) a step that combines \"expert\" vectors (trained via reinforcement learning) to create task-specific behaviors; claims to be more efficient than LoRA with fewer parameters and can works across different LLM architectures. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06252), [Tweet](https://x.com/hardmaru/status/1879331049383334187) |\n| 2) MiniMax-01 - introduces a new series of models that integrate Mixture-of-Experts; introduces a model with 32 experts and 456B parameters, and 45.9B are activated for each token; claims match the performance of state-of-the-art models like GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet while offering a  20-32x longer context window; it can handle context windows of up to 4 million tokens; it integrates linear attention with optimized hardware utilization which enhances the efficiency and scalability of the LLM; there is also a vision model called MiniMax-VL-01 built through continued training with 512 billion vision-language tokens. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08313), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1879572512075587872) |\n| 3) VideoRAG - a framework that enhances RAG by leveraging video content as an external knowledge source; unlike existing RAG approaches that primarily focus on text or images, VideoRAG dynamically retrieves relevant videos based on queries and incorporates both their visual and textual elements into the generation process; the framework utilizes Large Video Language Models (LVLMs) to process video content directly, enabling more effective capture of temporal dynamics, spatial details, and multimodal cues that static modalities often fail to convey; for videos lacking textual descriptions, they propose using automatic speech recognition to generate transcripts, ensuring both visual and textual modalities can be leveraged. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05874), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1878827350315659421) |\n| 4) Learning to Memorize at Test Time - introduces a neural long-term memory module to memorize historical context and help attention to attend to the current context while utilizing long past information; the neural memory module acts as a long-term, more persistent memory than just using attention alone (considered more short-term); Titan, which is based on neural memory, shows good results in language modeling, common-sense reasoning, genomics, and time series tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1879896681010921742) |\n| 5) Foundations of LLMs - new survey on the foundations of LLMs covering areas such as pre-training, prompting, and alignment methods. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09223), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1880284477445767586) |\n| 6) OmniThink - a new framework that emulates a human-like process of iterative expansion and reflection; it's built to simulate the cognitive behavior of learners as they deepen their knowledge; compared to RAG and role-playing, OmniThink can expand knowledge boundaries through continuous reflection and exploration; this makes it ideal for use cases that require long-form generation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09751), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1880275861401923619) |\n| 7) Enhancing RAG - systematically explores the factors and methods that improve RAG systems such as retrieval strategies, query expansion, contrastive in-context learning, prompt design, and chunking. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07391), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1879178916021318029) |\n| 8) AutoCBT - proposes a multi-agent framework, AutoCBT, for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; the work proposes a general multi-agent framework that generates high-quality responses for single-turn psychological consultation scenarios; it uses a combination of dynamic routing, memory, and supervisory mechanisms to enhance the autonomous ability of each agent; experimental results show that AutoCBT can provide higher-quality automated psychological counseling services; AutoCBT improves dialogue quality compared to other purely prompt-based counseling frameworks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09426), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1880283025595867631) |\n| 9) Imagine while Reasoning in Space - introduces MVoT (Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought), a new reasoning framework that enables AI models to \"think\" in both text and images; MVoT enhances the traditional Chain-of-Thought prompting by allowing models to generate visual representations of their reasoning steps alongside text explanations; the framework is implemented in Chameleon-7B, a multimodal language model, and introduces a \"token discrepancy loss\" to improve the quality of generated visualizations; MVoT significantly outperforms traditional approaches, especially in complex scenarios; MVoT achieves over 90% accuracy on maze and printer installation tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07542), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1879181711982129420) |\n| 10) ChemAgent - presents a new framework designed to improve the performance of LLMs on chemical reasoning through a dynamic, self-updating library; the library is developed by decomposing chemical tasks into sub-tasks and compiling them into a structured collection that can be referenced for future queries; when the system is given a new problem, it retries and refines relevant information from the library to enable more effective task decomposition; the library is dynamically updated with new sub-tasks and solutions as they are encountered and validated; experiments on SciBench demonstrate that ChemAgent achieves performance gains of up to 46% (GPT-4), significantly outperforming existing methods. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06590), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1879188983705747754) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (January 6 - January 12) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) Cache-Augmented Generation (CAG) - an approach that aims to leverage the capabilities of long-context LLMs by preloading the LLM with all relevant docs in advance and precomputing the key-value (KV) cache; the preloaded context helps the model to provide contextually accurate answers without the need for additional retrieval during runtime; the authors suggest that CAG is a useful alternative to RAG for cases where the documents/knowledge for retrieval are of limited, manageable size. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.15605), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1876721221083214200) |\n| 2) Agent Laboratory - an approach that leverages LLM agents capable of completing the entire research process; the main findings are: 1) agents driven by o1-preview resulted in the best research outcomes, 2) generated machine learning code can achieve state-of-the-art performance compared to existing methods, 3) human feedback further improves the quality of research, and 4) Agent Laboratory significantly reduces research expenses. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04227)  [Tweet)](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1877382581358047375) |\n| 3) Long Context vs. RAG for LLMs - performs a comprehensive evaluation of long context (LC) LLMs compared to RAG systems; the three main findings are: 1) LC generally outperforms RAG in question-answering benchmarks, 2) summarization-based retrieval performs comparably to LC, while chunk-based retrieval lags behind, and 3) RAG has advantages in dialogue-based and general question queries | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01880), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1876281074147299569) |\n| 4) Search-o1 - a framework that combines large reasoning models (LRMs) with agentic search and document refinement capabilities to tackle knowledge insufficiency; the framework enables autonomous knowledge retrieval during reasoning and demonstrates strong performance across complex tasks, outperforming both baseline models and human experts. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05366), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1877742469213004015) |\n| 5) Towards System 2 Reasoning - proposes Meta Chain-of-Thought (Meta-CoT), which extends traditional Chain-of-Thought (CoT) by modeling the underlying reasoning required to arrive at a particular CoT; the main argument is that CoT is naive and Meta-CoT gets closer to the cognitive process required for advanced problem-solving. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04682)  [Tweet)](https://x.com/rm_rafailov/status/1877446475271037314) |\n| 6) rStar-Math - a new approach proposes three core components to enhance math reasoning: 1) a code-augmented CoT data synthesis method involving MCTS to generate step-by-step verified reasoning trajectories which are used to train the policy SLM, 2) an SLM-based process reward model that reliably predicts a reward label for each math reasoning step, and 3) a self-evolution recipe where the policy SLM and PPM are iteratively evolved to improve math reasoning; on the MATH benchmark, rStar-Math improves Qwen2.5-Math-7B from 58.8% to 90.0% and Phi3-mini-3.8B from 41.4% to 86.4%, surpassing o1-preview by +4.5% and +0.9%. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04519)  [Tweet)](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1877378301293142050) |\n| 7) Cosmos World Foundation Model - a framework for training Physical AI systems in digital environments before real-world deployment; the platform includes pre-trained world foundation models that act as digital twins of the physical world, allowing AI systems to safely learn and interact without risking damage to physical hardware; these models can be fine-tuned for specific applications like camera control, robotic manipulation, and autonomous driving. | [Paper](https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2025-01_cosmos-world-foundation-model-platform-physical-ai), [Tweet](https://x.com/EthanHe_42/status/1876487556755521798) |\n| 8) Process Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards - a framework for online reinforcement learning that uses process rewards to improve language model reasoning; the proposed algorithm combines online prompt filtering, RLOO return/advantage estimation, PPO loss, and implicit process reward modeling online updates; on their model, Eurus-2-7B-PRIME, achieves 26.7% pass@1 on AIME  2024, surpassing GPT-4 and other models, using only 1/10 of the training data compared to similar models. | [Paper](https://curvy-check-498.notion.site/Process-Reinforcement-through-Implicit-Rewards-15f4fcb9c42180f1b498cc9b2eaf896f), [Tweet](https://x.com/lifan__yuan/status/1874867809983033649) |\n| 9) Can LLMs Design Good Questions? - systematically evaluates the quality of questions generated with LLMs; here are the main findings: 1) there is a strong preference for asking about specific facts and figures in both LLaMA and GPT models, 2) the question lengths tend to be around 20 words but different LLMs tend to exhibit distinct preferences for length, 3) LLM-generated questions typically require significantly longer answers, and 4) human-generated questions tend to concentrate on the beginning of the context while LLM-generated questions exhibit a more balanced distribution, with a slight decrease in focus at both ends. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03491), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1877008618207560049) |\n| 10) A Survey on LLMs - a new survey on LLMs including some insights on capabilities and limitations. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04040), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1877416049999802408) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (December 30 - January 5) - 2025\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) Agents Are Not Enough - argues that while AI agents show promise, they alone cannot address the challenges in autonomous task execution; proposes a new ecosystem combining three key components: Agents (narrow, purpose-driven modules for specific tasks), Sims (digital representations of user preferences and behaviors), and Assistants (programs that coordinate between users, Sims, and Agents). | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2412.16241), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1874196827115061741) |\n| 2) OLMo 2 - introduces an enhanced architecture, training methods, and a specialized data mixture called Dolmino Mix 1124; the fully transparent model, released at 7B and 13B parameter scales with complete training data and code, matches or outperforms similar open-weight models like Llama 3.1 and Qwen 2.5 while using fewer computational resources, and its instruction-tuned version (OLMo 2-Instruct) remains competitive with comparable models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00656), [Tweet](https://x.com/soldni/status/1875266934943649808) |\n| 3) Machine-Assisted Proof - examines how mathematicians have long used machines to assist with mathematics research and discusses recent AI tools that are transforming mathematical proof assistance. | [Paper](https://www.ams.org//notices/202501/rnoti-p6.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1873045937259462656) |\n| 4) Measuring Higher Level Mathematical Reasoning - introduces Putnam-AXIOM, a new math reasoning benchmark with 236 Putnam Competition problems and 52 variations; even the best model considered (OpenAI's o1-preview) achieves only 41.95% accuracy on original problems and performs significantly worse on variations. | [Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=YXnwlZe0yf&noteId=yrsGpHd0Sf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1874489752243597635) |\n| 5) On the Overthinking of LLMs - proposes a self-training strategy to mitigate overthinking in o1-like LLMs; it can reduce token output by 48.6% while maintaining accuracy on the widely-used MATH500 test set as applied to QwQ-32B-Preview. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21187), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1874848885170176364) |\n| 6) MEDEC - introduces MEDEC, a publicly available benchmark for medical error detection and correction in clinical notes, covering five types of errors (Diagnosis, Management, Treatment, Pharmacotherapy, and Causal Organism); it consists of 3,848 clinical texts, including 488 clinical notes from three US hospital systems; experimental results shows that Cluade 3.5 Sonnet performs better at detecting errors while o1-preview is better at correcting errors. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19260), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1875232390265577675) |\n| 7) 1.58-bit FLUX - presents the first successful approach to quantizing the state-of-the-art  text-to-image generation model, FLUX.1-dev, using 1.58-bit weights (i.e., values in {-1, 0, +1}); the method relies on self-supervision from the FLUX.1-dev model and maintains comparable performance for generating 1024 x 1024 images as the original FLUX model. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18653), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1873782702178263549) |\n| 8) Aviary - an extensible open-source gymnasium that can help build language agents that exceed the performance of zero-shot frontier LLMs and even humans on several challenging scientific tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21154), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1875270927304511535) |\n| 9) Memory Layers at Scale - demonstrates the effectiveness of memory layers at scale; shows that models with these memory layers outperform traditional dense models using half the computation, particularly in factual tasks; includes a parallelizable memory layer implementation that scales to 128B memory parameters and 1 trillion training tokens, tested against base models up to 8B parameters. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09764), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1874897646542033030) |\n| 10) HuatuoGPT-o1 - presents a novel approach to improving medical reasoning in language models by using a medical verifier to validate model outputs and guide the development of complex reasoning  abilities; the system employs a two-stage approach combining fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with verifier-based rewards, achieving superior performance over existing models while using only 40,000 verifiable medical problems. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18925), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1873572891092283692) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (December 23 - December 29) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **DeepSeek-V3** - a 671B-parameter MoE language model that activates 37B parameters per token, utilizing MLA and DeepSeekMoE architectures for efficient operation; it introduces an auxiliary-loss-free load balancing approach and employs multi-token prediction during training to enhance performance; following pre-training on 14.8 trillion tokens, the model underwent SFT and RL stages, achieving performance comparable to leading closed-source models while surpassing other open-source alternatives; the model requires only 2.788M H800 GPU hours for training, with stable training that avoids any irrecoverable loss spikes.  | [Paper](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/DeepSeek_V3.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1872242657348710721) |\n| 2)  **Large Concept Models** - presents an approach that operates on sentence-level semantic representations called concepts, moving beyond token-level processing typical in current LLMs; the model leverages SONAR sentence embeddings to support 200 languages across text and speech modalities, training on autoregressive sentence prediction using various approaches from MSE regression to diffusion-based generation; experiments with both 1.6B and 7B parameter variants trained on 1.3T and 7.7T tokens respectively demonstrate strong performance on generative tasks like summarization and summary expansion.  | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/large-concept-models-language-modeling-in-a-sentence-representation-space), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1871263650935365759) |\n| 3) **ModernBERT** - a new encoder-only transformer model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on classification and retrieval tasks while being more efficient than previous encoders; it was trained on 2T tokens with 8192 sequence length and incorporates modern optimizations that represent a significant improvement over BERT; the model is specifically designed for practical deployment, offering superior speed and memory efficiency on common GPUs.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13663), [Tweet](https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1869786023963832509) |\n| 4) **Automating the Search for Artificial Life** - presents a new approach that uses foundation models to automatically discover interesting artificial life simulations across multiple platforms like Boids, Lenia, and Game of Life; the system can find simulations that produce specific target behaviors, discovers simulations that generate temporally open-ended novelty, and map out diverse simulation spaces; it discovers new lifeforms in Lenia and Boids, while also enabling quantitative measurement of previously qualitative phenomena in a human-aligned way.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17799), [Tweet](https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1871385917342265592) |\n| 5) **A Survey on LLM Inference-Time Self-Improvement** - presents a survey that analyzes three categories of LLM inference-time self-improvement techniques - independent methods like enhanced decoding, context-aware approaches using external data, and model collaboration strategies.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14352), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1870129825282658752) |\n| 6) **Explore Theory-of-Mind** - introduces ExploreToM, a framework that uses A* search to generate diverse, complex theory-of-mind scenarios that reveal significant limitations in current LLMs' social intelligence capabilities; testing showed even advanced models like GPT-4 and Llama-3 perform poorly (as low as 5% accuracy) on these challenging scenarios, despite their strong performance on simpler benchmarks; fine-tuning on ExploreToM data improved performance on existing benchmarks by 27 points. | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/explore-theory-of-mind-program-guided-adversarial-data-generation-for-theory-of-mind-reasoning/),  [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1869457933727416375)  |\n| 7) **LearnLM** - a new LearnLM model that can follow pedagogical instructions, allowing it to adapt its teaching approach based on specified educational needs rather than defaulting to simply presenting information; experimental results show that LearnLM is preferred over other leading models, outperforming GPT-4 by 31%, Claude 3.5 by 11%, and Gemini 1.5 Pro by 13%; this instruction-following approach avoids committing to a single pedagogical framework, instead enabling teachers and developers to specify their desired teaching behaviors while allowing for continuous improvement alongside other capabilities. | [Paper](https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/improving-gemini-for-education_v7.pdf),  [Tweet](https://x.com/Google/status/1869798188233699346)  |\n| 8) **Empowering MLLM with o1-like Reasoning and Reflection** - proposes a new learning-to-reason method called CoMCTS that enables multimodal language models to develop step-by-step reasoning capabilities by leveraging collective knowledge from multiple models; the approach was used to create Mulberry-260k, a dataset with explicit reasoning trees, which was then used to train the Mulberry model series; the method demonstrates strong performance on benchmarks, with the models showing improved reasoning and reflection capabilities. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18319),  [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1872326647606841651)  |\n| 9) **Reinforcement Learning Overview** - presents a comprehensive overview of reinforcement learning.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1866123264965419460)  |\n| 10) **DRT-o1** - applies long chain-of-thought reasoning to machine translation, particularly for handling metaphors and similes across different cultures; the system uses a multi-agent framework with a translator working iteratively with an advisor and evaluator to produce better translations; testing with Qwen2.5 models showed significant improvements in BLEU and CometScore metrics, with DRT-o1-7B outperforming larger models like QwQ-32B-Preview. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17498), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1871455986189574320) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (December 16 - December 22) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **Genesis** - a new universal physics simulation platform that combines a high-performance physics engine with generative AI capabilities; it enables natural language-driven creation of robotic simulations, character animations, and interactive 3D environments at speeds up to 430,000 times faster than in real-time. | [Paper](https://genesis-embodied-ai.github.io/), [Tweet](https://x.com/zhou_xian_/status/1869511650782658846) |\n| 2) **Alignment Faking in LLMs** - demonstrates that the Claude model can engage in \"alignment faking\"; it can strategically comply with harmful requests to avoid retraining while preserving its original safety preferences; this raises concerns about the reliability of AI safety training methods.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14093), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1869427646368792599) |\n| 3) **TheAgentCompany** - a new benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real-world professional tasks in a simulated software company environment; tasks span multiple professional roles including software engineering, project management, finance, and HR; when tested with various LLMs, including both API-based models like Claude-3.5-Sonnet and open-source models like Llama 3.1, the results show the current limitations of AI agents. The best-performing model, Claude-3.5-Sonnet, achieved only a 24% success rate on completing tasks fully while scoring 34.4% when accounting for partial progress.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14161), [Tweet](https://x.com/gneubig/status/1869735196700062089) |\n| 4) **Graphs to Text-Attributed Graphs** - automatically generates textual descriptions for nodes in a graph which leads to effective graph to text-attributed graph transformation; evaluates the approach on text-rich, text-limited, and text-free graphs, demonstrating that it enables a single GNN to operate across diverse graphs.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10136), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1868691391129272461) |\n| 5) **Qwen-2.5 Technical Report** - Alibaba releases Qwen2.5, a new series of LLMs trained on 18T tokens, offering both open-weight models like Qwen2.5-72B and proprietary MoE variants that achieve competitive performance against larger models like Llama-3 and GPT-4. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15115), [Tweet](https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1869950647501824015) |\n| 6) **PAE (Proposer-Agent-Evaluator)** - a learning system that enables AI agents to autonomously discover and practice skills through web navigation, using reinforcement learning and context-aware task proposals to achieve state-of-the-art performance on real-world benchmarks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13194) |\n| 7) **DeepSeek-VL2** - a new series of vision-language models featuring dynamic tiling for high-resolution images and efficient MoE architecture, achieving competitive performance across visual tasks; achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance with similar or fewer activated parameters compared to existing open-source dense and MoE-based models.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10302),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1868696154067865659)  |\n| 8) **AutoFeedback** - a two-agent AI system that generates more accurate and pedagogically sound feedback for student responses in science assessments, significantly reducing common errors like over-praise compared to single-agent models.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07407)  |\n| 9) **A Survey of Mathematical Reasoning in the Era of Multimodal LLMs** - presents a comprehensive survey analyzing mathematical reasoning capabilities in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), covering benchmarks, methodologies, and challenges across 200+ studies since 2021.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11936), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1870126516832792811)  |\n| 10) **Precise Length Control in LLMs** - adapts a pre-trained decoder-only LLM to produce responses of a desired length; integrates a secondary length-difference positional encoding into the input embeddings which enables counting down to a user-set response terminal length; claims to achieve mean token errors of less than 3 tokens without compromising quality. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11937), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1869030043084845453) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (December 9 - December 15) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space** - presents Coconut (Chain of Continuous Thought), a novel paradigm that enables LLMs to reason in continuous latent space rather than natural language; Coconut takes the last hidden state of the LLM as the reasoning state and feeds it back to the LLM as the subsequent input embedding directly in the continuous space; this leads to what the authors refer to as \"continuous thought\" which augments an LLM's capability on reasoning tasks; it demonstrates improved performance on complex reasoning tasks through emergent breadth-first search capabilities.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1866518791733342563) |\n| 2) **Phi-4 Technical Report** - presents phi-4, a 14B model that surpasses its teacher model on STEM-QA capabilities. It also reports strong performance on reasoning-focused benchmarks due to improved data, training curriculum, and innovations in the post-training scheme.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08905), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1867609628529635574) |\n| 3) **Asynchronous Function Calling** - proposes AsyncLM, a system for asynchronous LLM function calling; they design an in-context protocol for function calls and interrupts, provide fine-tuning strategy to adapt LLMs to the interrupt semantics, and implement these mechanisms efficiently on LLM inference process; AsyncLM can reduce task completion latency from 1.6x-5.4x compared to synchronous function calling; it enables LLMs to generate and execute function calls concurrently. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07017), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1866855077983686804) |\n| 4) **MAG-V** - a multi-agent framework that first generates a dataset of questions that mimic customer queries; it then reverse engineers alternate questions from responses to verify agent trajectories; reports that the generated synthetic data can improve agent performance on actual customer queries; finds that for trajectory verification simple ML baselines with feature engineering can match the performance of more expensive and capable models.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04494), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1866143542726340890) |\n| 5) **Clio** - proposes a platform using AI assistants to analyze and surface private aggregated usage patterns from millions of Claude.ai conversations; enables insights into real-world AI use while protecting user privacy; the system helps identify usage trends, safety risks, and coordinated misuse attempts without human reviewers needing to read raw conversations.  | [Paper](https://assets.anthropic.com/m/7e1ab885d1b24176/original/Clio-Privacy-Preserving-Insights-into-Real-World-AI-Use.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1867325190352576780) |\n| 6) **A Survey on LLMs-as-Judges** - presents a comprehensive survey of the LLMs-as-judges paradigm from five key perspectives: Functionality, Methodology, Applications, Meta-evaluation, and Limitations.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05579),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1866541394015518824)  |\n| 7) **AutoReason Improves Multi-step Reasoning** - proposes a method to automatically generate rationales for queries using CoT prompting; this transforms zero-shot queries into few-shot reasoning traces which are used as CoT exemplars by the LLM; claims to improve reasoning in weaker LLMs.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06975),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1867224350287372555)  |\n| 8) **The Byte Latent Transformer (BLT)**- introduces a byte-level language model architecture that matches tokenization-based LLM performance while improving efficiency and robustness; uses a dynamic method of grouping bytes into patches based on the entropy of the next byte, allocating more compute resources to complex predictions while using larger patches for more predictable sequences; BLT demonstrates the ability to match or exceed the performance of models like Llama 3 while using up to 50% fewer FLOPs during inference. | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/byte-latent-transformer-patches-scale-better-than-tokens/),  [Tweet](https://x.com/ArtidoroPagnoni/status/1867601413741981804)  |\n| 9) **Does RLHF Scale?** - This new paper explores the impacts of key components in the RLHF framework. Summary of main findings: 1) RLHF doesn't scale as effectively as pretraining in LLMs, with larger policy models benefiting less from RLHF when using a fixed reward model, 2) when increasing the number of responses sampled per prompt during policy training, performance improves initially but plateaus quickly, typically around 4-8 samples, 3) using larger reward models leads to better performance in reasoning tasks, but the improvements can be inconsistent across different types of tasks, and 4) increasing training data diversity for reward models is more effective than increasing response diversity per prompt, but policy training shows diminishing returns after the early stages regardless of additional data.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06000), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1866525606562680954)  |\n| 10) **Granite Guardian** - IBM open-sources Granite Guardian, a suite of safeguards for risk detection in LLMs; the authors claim that With AUC scores of 0.871 and 0.854 on harmful content and RAG-hallucination-related benchmarks respectively, Granite Guardian is the most generalizable and competitive model available in the space. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07724), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1866852443621036228) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (December 2 - December 8) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **OpenAI o1** - a model series trained with large-scale reinforcement learning to reason using chain of thought; o1 shows significant improvements across benchmarks related to math, code, and science; o1 is claimed to be 50% faster in generating thinking steps than o1-preview; results demonstrate that o1 is significantly better at reasoning tasks and produces more comprehensive and reliable responses.  | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card-20241205.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1864729936847868192) |\n| 2) **Genie 2** - a foundation world model that generates playable 3D environments from single prompt images, enabling endless training scenarios for AI agents with features like physics simulation, character animation, and object interactions; Genie 2 is trained on video data using a combination of autoencoder and transformer for generating virtual worlds; the model can create real-time interactive environments, with a faster but lower-quality version available for immediate play.  | [Paper](https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-2-a-large-scale-foundation-world-model), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1864367798132039836) |\n| 3) **Reverse Thinking** - shows that training LLMs to learn \"reverse thinking\" helps to improve performance in commonsense, math, and logical reasoning tasks. It claims to outperform a standard fine-tuning method trained on 10x more forward reasoning.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19865), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1863595518649098371) |\n| 4) **ALAMA** - a new framework that helps language agents automatically learn when to use different mechanisms (ReAct, CoT, Reflection, etc.) for automatically completing tasks, improving on current approaches that use fixed or predefined mechanisms; the framework adaptively activates the appropriate mechanisms according to the potential characteristics of the task; experimental results demonstrate significant improvements in downstream agent tasks, including mathematical reasoning and knowledge-intensive reasoning.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00722), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1863956776623747433) |\n| 5) **Auto-RAG**- an autonomous iterative retrieval model with superior performance across many datasets; Auto-RAG is a fine-tuned LLM that leverages the decision-making capabilities of an LLM; it interacts with the retriever through multiturn dialogues, systematically planning retrievals and refining queries to acquire valuable knowledge — it performs this process until sufficient external information is obtained; the authors also show that based on question difficulty, the method can adjust the number of iterations without any human intervention. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19443), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1863600141103501454) |\n| 6) **GenCast** - an ML weather prediction model that outperforms the world's leading operational weather forecasting system (ECMWF's ENS) in both accuracy and speed; it generates probabilistic 15-day global weather forecasts for over 80 variables in just 8 minutes, with better skill than ENS on 97.2% of evaluated targets; GenCast produces an ensemble of forecasts that better capture uncertainty and predict extreme weather events, tropical cyclone tracks, and wind power production. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9),  [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1864340994965098513)  |\n| 7) **Challenges in Human-Agent Communication** - present a comprehensive analysis of key challenges in human-agent communication, focusing on how humans and AI agents can effectively establish common ground and mutual understanding; identifies 12 core challenges across three categories: conveying information from agents to users, enabling users to communicate information to agents, and general communication challenges that affect all interactions.  | [Paper](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2024/12/HCAI_Agents.pdf) |\n| 8) **Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for LLMs** - extends the rStar reasoning framework to enhance reasoning accuracy and factual reliability of LLMs; it leverages a Monte Carlos Tree Search (MCTS) framework with explicit retrieval-augmented reasoning to produce multiple candidate reasoning trajectories; then it leverages a retrieval-augmented factuality scorer to evaluate the factual accuracy of the reasoning trajectories; the trajectory with the highest factuality score is selected as the final answer by the system; on medical reasoning tasks, RARE (which uses Llama 3.1) surpasses larger models such as GPT-4; on commonsense reasoning tasks, RARE outperformed Claude-3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o-mini, achieving performance competitive with GPT-4o.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02830),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1864687176929431566)  |\n| 9) **DataLab** - a unified business intelligence platform powered by LLM-based agents that integrates task planning, reasoning, and computational notebooks to streamline the entire BI workflow; the system achieves SOTA performance on research benchmarks and demonstrates significant improvements in accuracy and efficiency on real enterprise data from Tencent; achieves up to a 58.58% increase in accuracy and a 61.65% reduction in token cost on enterprise-specific BI tasks.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02205), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1864327307177152619)  |\n| 10) **Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in LLMs** - studies what documents in the pertaining influence model outputs; by looking at the pertaining data, it tries to understand better what kind of generalization strategies LLMs use to perform reasoning tasks; when performing reasoning tasks, it finds that influential documents contain procedural knowledge (e.g., demonstrating how to obtain a solution using formulae or code). | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12580), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1863590537346925032) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (November 25 - December 1) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **LLM Surpass Human Experts in Predicting Neuroscience Results** - proposes BrainBench to study how good LLMs are at predicting experimental outcomes in neuroscience; they tuned an LLM, BrainGPT, on neuroscience literature that surpasses experts in predicting neuroscience results; report that when LLMs indicated high confidence in their predictions, their responses were more likely to be correct. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02046-9), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1861781028291190887) |\n| 2) **Fugatto** - a new generative AI sound model (presented by NVIDIA) that can create and transform any combination of music, voices, and sounds using text and audio inputs, trained on 2.5B parameters and capable of novel audio generation like making trumpets bark or saxophones meow.  | [Paper](https://d1qx31qr3h6wln.cloudfront.net/publications/FUGATTO.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/NVIDIAAIDev/status/1861052624352825383) |\n| 3) **o1 Replication Journey - Part 2** - shows that combining simple distillation from o1's API with supervised fine-tuning significantly boosts performance on complex math reasoning tasks; a base model fine-tuned on simply tens of thousands of samples o1-distilled long-thought chains outperform o1-preview on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME).   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16489), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1861411844554113276) |\n| 4) **LLM-Brained GUI Agents** - presents a survey of LLM-brained GUI Agents, including techniques and applications.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18279), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1862133601040752820) |\n| 5) **High-Level Automated Reasoning** - extends in-context learning through high-level automated reasoning; achieves state-of-the-art accuracy (79.6%) on the MATH benchmark with Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, surpassing GPT-4o (76.6%) and Claude 3.5 (71.1%); rather than focusing on manually creating high-quality demonstrations, it shifts the focus to abstract thinking patterns; it introduces five atomic reasoning actions to construct chain-structured patterns; then it uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to explore reasoning paths and construct thought cards to guide inference.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18478), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1862131336653533584) |\n| 6) **Star Attention: Efficient LLM Inference over Long Sequences** - introduces Star Attention, a two-phase attention mechanism that processes long sequences by combining blockwise-local attention for context encoding with sequence-global attention for query processing and token generation; achieves up to 11x faster inference speeds while maintaining 95-100% accuracy compared to traditional attention mechanisms by efficiently distributing computation across multiple hosts; a key innovation is the \"anchor block\" mechanism, where each context block is prefixed with the first block, enabling effective approximation of global attention patterns while reducing computational overhead.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17116),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1861854543694406109)  |\n| 7) **Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge** - provides a comprehensive survey of LLM-as-a-Judge, including a deeper discussion on how to build reliable LLM-as-a-Judge systems. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15594),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1861411159913472229)  |\n| 8) **TÜLU 3** - releases a family of fully-open state-of-the-art post-trained models, alongside its data, code, and training recipes, serving as a comprehensive guide for modern post-training techniques.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15124),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1861085195950256335)  |\n| 9) **Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People** - introduces a new agent architecture that uses LLMs to create behavioral simulations of real individuals, achieving 85% accuracy in replicating human responses on the General Social Survey and reducing demographic biases compared to traditional approaches.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10109), [Tweet](https://x.com/percyliang/status/1861136757435015580)  |\n| 10) **Measuring Bullshit in Language Games Played by ChatGPT** - proposes that LLM-based chatbots play the ‘language game of bullshit’; by asking ChatGPT to generate scientific articles on topics where it has no knowledge or competence, the authors were able to provide a reference set of how this “bullshit” is manifested.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15129), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1861066315789942978) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (November 18 - November 24) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **AlphaQubit** - a new AI-based decoder that sets a state-of-the-art benchmark for identifying errors in quantum computers; using transformer architecture, AlphaQubit demonstrated 6% fewer errors than tensor network methods and 30% fewer errors than correlated matching when tested on the Sycamore data; shows promising results in simulations of larger systems up to 241 qubits; while this represents significant progress in quantum error correction, the system still needs improvements in speed before it can correct errors in real-time for practical quantum computing applications.  | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08148-8), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1859273133234192598) |\n| 2) **The Dawn of GUI Agent** - explores Claude 3.5 computer use capabilities across different domains and software; they also provide an out-of-the-box agent framework for deploying API-based GUI automation models; Claude 3.5 Computer Use demonstrates unprecedented ability in end-to-end language to desktop actions.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10323), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1858526493661446553) |\n| 3) **A Statistical Approach to LLM Evaluation** - proposes five key statistical recommendations for a more rigorous evaluation of LLM performance differences. The recommendations include: 1) using the Central Limit Theorem to measure theoretical averages across all possible questions rather than just observed averages; 2) clustering standard errors when questions are related rather than independent; 3) reducing variance within questions through resampling or using next-token probabilities; 4) analyzing paired differences between models since questions are shared across evaluations, and 5) using power analysis to determine appropriate sample sizes for detecting meaningful differences between models; the authors argue that these statistical approaches will help researchers better determine whether performance differences between models represent genuine capability gaps or are simply due to chance, leading to more precise and reliable model evaluations.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00640), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1858976458330505639) |\n| 4) **Towards Open Reasoning Models for Open-Ended Solutions** - proposes Marco-o1 which is a reasoning model built for open-ended solutions; Marco-o1 is powered by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) fine-tuning, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), reflection mechanisms, and more recent reasoning strategies; Marco-o1 achieves accuracy improvements of +6.17% on the MGSM (English) dataset and +5.60% on the MGSM (Chinese) dataset.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14405), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1860003607606706197) |\n| 5) **LLM-based Agents for Automated Bug Fixing** - analyzes seven leading LLM-based bug fixing systems on the SWE-bench Lite benchmark, finding MarsCode Agent (developed by ByteDance) achieved the highest success rate at 39.33%; reveals that for error localization line-level fault localization accuracy is more critical than file-level accuracy, and bug reproduction capabilities significantly impact fixing success; shows that 24/168 resolved issues could only be solved using reproduction techniques, though reproduction sometimes misled LLMs when issue descriptions were already clear; concludes that improvements are needed in both LLM reasoning capabilities and Agent workflow design to enhance automated bug fixing effectiveness. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10213), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1859964808789135668) |\n| 6) **Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models** - introduces Cut Cross-Entropy (CCE), a novel method to significantly reduce memory usage during LLM training by optimizing how the cross-entropy loss is computed; currently, the cross-entropy layer in LLM training consumes a disproportionate amount of memory (up to 90% in some models) due to storing logits for all possible vocabulary tokens. CCE addresses this by only computing logits for the correct token and evaluating the log-sum-exp over all logits on the fly using flash memory; the authors show that the approach reduces the memory footprint of Gemma 2 from 24GB to just 1MB; the method leverages the inherent sparsity of softmax calculations to skip elements that contribute negligibly to gradients; finally, it demonstrates that CCE achieves this dramatic memory reduction without sacrificing training speed or convergence, enabling larger batch sizes during training and potentially more efficient scaling of LLM training.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09009) |\n| 7) **BABY-AIGS** - a multi-agent system for automated scientific discovery that emphasizes falsification through automated ablation studies. The system was tested on three ML tasks (data engineering, self-instruct alignment, and language modeling), demonstrating the ability to produce meaningful scientific discoveries. However, the performance is below experienced human researchers.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11910v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1859656533489188928)  |\n| 8) **Does Prompt Formatting Impact LLM Performance** - examines how different prompt formats (plain text, Markdown, JSON, and YAML) affect GPT model performance across various tasks; finds that GPT-3.5-turbo's performance can vary by up to 40% depending on the prompt format, while larger models like GPT-4 show more robustness to format changes; argues that there is no universally optimal format across models or tasks - for instance, GPT-3.5-turbo generally performed better with JSON formats while GPT-4 preferred Markdown; models from the same family showed similar format preferences, but these preferences didn't transfer well between different model families; suggests that prompt formatting significantly impacts model performance and should be carefully considered when performing prompt engineering and model evaluation, and how to apply it to applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10541)  |\n| 9) **FinRobot** - an AI agent framework for equity research that uses a multi-agent Chain-of-Thought prompting, combining data analysis with human-like reasoning to produce professional investment reports comparable to major brokerages; it leverage three agents: a Data-CoT Agent to aggregate diverse data sources for robust financial integration; the Concept-CoT Agent, for analyst’s reasoning to generate actionable insights; and the Thesis-CoT Agent to synthesizes these insights into a coherent investment thesis and report. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08804)  |\n| 10) **Bi-Mamba** - a scalable 1-bit Mamba architecture designed for more efficient LLMs with multiple sizes across 780M, 1.3B, and 2.7B; Bi-Mamba achieves performance comparable to its full-precision counterparts (e.g., FP16 or BF16); it significantly reduces memory footprint with better accuracy than posttraining-binarization Mamba baselines. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11843) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (November 11 - November 17) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **Impacts of AI on Innovation** - suggests that top scientists leverage their domain knowledge to prioritize promising AI suggestions, while others waste significant resources testing false positives; finds that implementing AI materials discovery technology leads to substantial increases in productivity, with 44% more materials discovered, 39% more patent filings, and 17% more product innovation; reports that these gains came with concerning tradeoffs, as 82% of scientists reported reduced job satisfaction due to decreased creativity and skill underutilization.  | [Paper](https://aidantr.github.io/files/AI_innovation.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1856424446720127024) |\n| 2) **Scaling Laws for Precision** - introduces \"precision-aware\" scaling laws that predict how model performance is affected by both training and inference precision in LLMs; key findings include: 1) post-training quantization becomes more harmful as models are trained on more data, eventually making additional pretraining actively detrimental, 2) training in lower precision requires increasing model size to maintain performance, and 3) when jointly optimizing model size, data, and precision, the compute-optimal training precision is around 7-8 bits and independent of compute; also reports that when the model size is fixed, compute-optimal precision increases approximately logarithmically with data; the authors validate their predictions on models up to 1.7B parameters trained on up to 26B tokens, showing that both very high (16-bit) and very low (sub 4-bit) training precisions may be suboptimal.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04330), [Tweet](https://x.com/tanishqkumar07/status/1856045600355352753) |\n| 3) **Evo** - a 7B parameter AI model designed to understand and generate DNA sequences across multiple biological scales; the model, trained on 2.7 million prokaryotic and phage genomes, can process sequences up to 131 kilobases long while maintaining single-nucleotide resolution, enabling it to understand both molecular-level interactions and genome-wide patterns; Evo demonstrates superior performance in predicting and generating functional DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, including the first successful AI-generated CRISPR-Cas complexes and transposable systems that have been experimentally validated.  | [Paper](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9336), [Tweet](https://x.com/arcinstitute/status/1857138107038187945) |\n| 4) **OpenCoder** - introduces OpenCoder, a fully open-source LLM specialized for code generation and understanding; the authors identify several critical factors for building high-performing code LLMs: (1) effective data cleaning with code-optimized heuristic rules for deduplication, (2) recall of relevant text corpus related to code, and (3) high-quality synthetic in both annealing and supervised fine-tuning stages; OpenCoder surpasses previous fully open models at the 6B+ parameter scale and releases not just the model weights but also the complete training pipeline, datasets, and protocols to enable reproducible research.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04905), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1857515355595526450) |\n| 5) **The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Abstract Reasoning** - explores test-time training (TTT) - updating model parameters temporarily during inference - for improving an LLM's abstract reasoning capabilities using the ARC benchmark; identifies three crucial components: initial fine-tuning on similar tasks, auxiliary task format and augmentations, and per-instance training; TTT significantly improves performance, achieving up to 6x improvement in accuracy compared to base fine-tuned models; when applying TTT to an 8B LLM, they achieve 53% accuracy on ARC's public validation set, improving the state-of-the-art for neural approaches by nearly 25%; by ensembling their method with program generation approaches, they achieve state-of-the-art public validation accuracy of 61.9%, matching average human performance; the findings suggest that explicit symbolic search is not the only path to improved abstract reasoning in LLMs; test-time training applied to continued training on few-shot examples can be highly effective.   | [Paper](https://ekinakyurek.github.io/papers/ttt.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/akyurekekin/status/1855680785715478546) |\n| 6) **A Taxonomy of AgentOps for Enabling Observability of Foundation Model-based Agents** - analyzes AgentOps platforms and tools, highlighting the need for comprehensive observability and traceability features to ensure reliability in foundation model-based autonomous agent systems across their development and production lifecycle.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05285v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1857400667318702118)  |\n| 7) **Toward Optimal Search and Retrieval for RAG** - examines how retrieval affects performance in RAG pipelines for QA tasks; conducts experiments using BGE-base and ColBERT retrievers with LLaMA and Mistral, finding that including more gold (relevant) documents improves QA accuracy; finds that using approximate nearest neighbor search with lower recall only minimally impacts performance while potentially improving speed and memory efficiency; reports that adding noisy or irrelevant documents consistently degrades performance, contradicting previous research claims; concludes that optimizing retrieval of gold documents is crucial for RAG performance, and that operating at lower search accuracy levels can be a viable approach for practical applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07396),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1856709865802252710)  |\n| 8) **Mitigating LLM Jailbreaks with Few Examples** - introduces a new approach called for defending LLMs against jailbreak attacks, focusing on quickly adapting defenses after detecting new attacks rather than aiming for perfect adversarial upfront robustness; using a new benchmark, the most effective method, based on fine-tuning an input classifier, reduced attack success rates by over 240x for known attack types and 15x for novel variations after seeing just one example of each attack strategy; demonstrates that rapidly responding to new jailbreaks can be an effective alternative to traditional static defenses.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07494),  [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1856752093945540673)  |\n| 9) **Mixture of Transformers** - introduce Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT), a new sparse multi-modal transformer architecture that matches the performance of traditional models while using only about half the computational resources for text and image processing; MoT matches a dense baseline's performance using only 55.8% of the FLOPs.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04996)  |\n| 10) **HtmlRAG** - a novel approach that proposes using HTML instead of plain text as the format for building RAG systems; the key finding is that preserving HTML structure provides richer semantic and structural information compared to plain text conversion, which typically loses important formatting like headings, tables, and semantic tags; to address the challenge of HTML documents being too long for LLM context windows, the authors develop a two-step pruning method: first cleaning unnecessary HTML elements (reducing length by 94%), then using a block-tree-based pruning approach that combines embedding-based and generative pruning to further reduce the content while maintaining important information; experiments across six different QA datasets demonstrate that HtmlRAG outperforms existing plain-text based methods, validating the advantages of preserving HTML structure in RAG systems.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02959v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1857870511302390013) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (November 4 - November 10) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **Many-agent Simulations toward AI Civilization** - demonstrates how 10-1000+ AI agents behave and progress with agent societies; proposes PIANO, an architecture that enables agents to interact with humans and other agents in real-time; shows that agents can autonomously develop specialized roles, adhere to and change collective rules, and engage in cultural and religious transmissions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00114), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1853290196286021940) |\n| 2) **A Comprehensive Survey of Small Language Models** - a survey on small language models (SLMs) and discussion on issues related to definitions, applications, enhancements, reliability, and more.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03350), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1854532748154695717) |\n| 3) **Magentic-One** - a new generalist multi-agent system designed to handle complex web and file-based tasks; it uses an Orchestrator agent that directs four specialized agents: WebSurfer for browser operations, FileSurfer for file management, Coder for programming tasks, and ComputerTerminal for console operations; Magentic-One achieves competitive performance on multiple benchmarks including GAIA, AssistantBench, and WebArena, without requiring modifications to its core architecture. | [Paper](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/magentic-one-a-generalist-multi-agent-system-for-solving-complex-tasks/), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1854910759232585786) |\n| 4) **Mixtures of In-Context Learners** - uses subsets of demonstrations to train experts via in-context learning; given a training set, a trainable weighting function is used to combine the experts' next-token predictions; this approach applies to black-box LLMs since access to the internal parameters of the LLM is not required. Good properties include the following: 1) competitive with standard ICL while being significantly more data, memory, and computationally efficient, and 2) resilient to noisy demonstrations and label imbalance.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02830), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1854252169492562171) |\n| 5) **Attacking Vision-Language Agents via Pop-ups** - shows that integrating adversarial pop-ups into existing agent testing environments leads to an attack success rate of 86%; this decreases the agents' task success rate by 47%; they also add that basic defense techniques (e.g., instructing the agent to ignore pop-ups) are ineffective.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02391), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1853810252308774955) |\n| 6) **Multi-expert Prompting with LLMs** - improves LLM responses by simulating multiple experts and aggregating their responses; it guides an LLM to fulfill input instructions by simulating multiple experts and selecting the best response among individual and aggregated views; it achieves a new state-of-the-art on TruthfulQA-Generation with ChatGPT, surpassing the current SOTA of 87.97%; it also improves performance across factuality and usefulness while reducing toxicity and hurtfulness.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00492),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1853286452227899851)  |\n| 7) **Number Understanding of LLMs** - provides a comprehensive analysis of the numerical understanding and processing ability (NUPA) of LLMs; finds that naive finetuning can improve NUPA a lot on many but not all tasks; it also reports that techniques designed to enhance NUPA prove ineffective for finetuning pretrained models; explores chain-of-thought techniques applied to NUPA and suggests that chain-of-thought methods face scalability challenges, making them difficult to apply in practical scenarios.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03766),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1854528742095458337)  |\n| 8) **WebRL** - proposes a self-evolving online curriculum RL framework to bridge the gap between open and proprietary LLM-based web agents; it improves the success rate of Llama-3.1-8B from 4.8% to 42.4%, and from 6.1% to 43% for GLM4-9B; the open models significantly surpass the performance of GPT-4-Turbo (17.6%) and GPT-4o (13.9%); the self-evolving curriculum addresses the scarcity of web agent training tasks; this is underpinned by a robust outcome-supervised reward model to evaluate task success; an adaptive RL strategy helps to deal with distribution drift in online learning and ensures consistent improvements.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02337),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1853821990177485311)  |\n| 9) **Adapting while Learning** - proposes a two-part fine-tuning approach that first helps LLMs learn from tool-generated solutions and then trains them to determine when to solve problems directly versus when to use tools; testing on math, climate science, and epidemiology benchmarks shows significant improvements, with a 28% boost in accuracy and 14% better tool usage precision compared to leading models like GPT-4 and Claude-3.5; the two-stage approach helps the LLM to adaptively solve scientific problems of varying complexity.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00412), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1853281778594979877)  |\n| 10) **Personalization of LLMs** - presents a comprehensive framework for understanding personalized LLMs; introduces taxonomies for different aspects of personalization and unifying existing research across personalized text generation and downstream applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00027), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1853276249981907386) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (October 28 - November 3) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **Geometry of Concepts in LLMs** - examines the geometric structure of concept representations in sparse autoencoders (SAEs) at three scales: 1) atomic-level parallelogram patterns between related concepts (e.g., man:woman::king:queen), 2) brain-like functional \"lobes\" for different types of knowledge like math/code, 3) and galaxy-level eigenvalue distributions showing a specialized structure in middle model layers. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19750), [Tweet](https://x.com/tegmark/status/1851288315867041903) |\n| 2) **SimpleQA** - a challenging benchmark of 4,326 short factual questions adversarially collected against GPT-4 responses; reports that frontier models like GPT-4o and Claude achieve less than 50% accuracy; finds that there is a positive calibration between the model stated confidence and accuracy, signaling that they have some notion of confidence; claims that there is still room to improve the calibration of LLMs in terms of stated confidence.  | [Paper](https://openai.com/index/introducing-simpleqa/), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1851680760539025639) |\n| 3) **Automating Agentic Workflow Generation** - a novel framework for automating the generation of agentic workflows; it reformulates workflow optimization as a search problem over code-represented workflows, where edges connect LLM-invoking nodes; it efficiently explores the search space using a variant of MCTS, iteratively refining workflows through code modification, tree-structured experience, and execution feedback; experiments across six benchmark datasets demonstrate AFlow’s effectiveness, showing a 5.7% improvement over manually designed methods and a 19.5% improvement over existing automated approaches; AFlow also enables smaller models to outperform GPT-4o on specific tasks at just 4.55% of its inference cost.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10762), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1852339570891014415) |\n| 4) **LLMs Solve Math with a Bag of Heuristics** - uses causal analysis to find neurons that explain an LLM's behavior when doing basic arithmetic logic; discovers and hypothesizes that the combination of heuristic neurons is the mechanism used to produce correct arithmetic answers; finds that the unordered combination of different heuristic types is the mechanism that explains most of the model’s accuracy on arithmetic prompts.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21272), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1851233281116946923) |\n| 5) **o1 Replication Journey** - reports to be replicating the capabilities of OpenAI's o1 model; their journey learning technique encourages learning not just shortcuts, but the complete exploration process, including trial and error, reflection, and backtracking; claims that with only 327 training samples, their journey learning technique surpassed shortcut learning by 8.0% on the MATH dataset.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18982), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1850748790308761988) |\n| 6) **Distinguishing Ignorance from Error in LLM Hallucinations** - a method to distinguish between two types of LLM hallucinations: when models lack knowledge (HK-) versus when they hallucinate despite having correct knowledge (HK+); they build model-specific datasets using their proposed approach and show that model-specific datasets are more effective for detecting HK+ hallucinations compared to generic datasets.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22071),  [Tweet](https://x.com/AdiSimhi/status/1851650371615125563)  |\n| 7) **Multimodal RAG** - provides a discussion on how to best integrate multimodal models into RAG systems for the industrial domain; it also provides a deep discussion on the evaluation of these systems using LLM-as-a-Judge. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21943),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1851479149690642456)  |\n| 8) **The Role of Prompting and External Tools in Hallucination Rates of LLMs** - tests different prompting strategies and frameworks aimed at reducing hallucinations in LLMs; finds that simpler prompting techniques outperform more complex methods; it reports that LLM agents exhibit higher hallucination rates due to the added complexity of tool usage.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19385),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1850745569125253401)  |\n| 9) **MrT5** - a more efficient variant of byte-level language models that uses a dynamic token deletion mechanism (via a learned delete gate) to shorten sequence lengths by up to 80% while maintaining model performance; this enables faster inference and better handling of multilingual text without traditional tokenization; MrT5 maintains competitive accuracy with ByT5 on downstream tasks such as XNLI and character-level manipulations while improving inference runtimes.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20771), [Tweet](https://x.com/JulieKallini/status/1851278833061704170)  |\n| 10) **Relaxed Recursive Transformers** - introduces a novel approach, Relaxed Recursive Transformer, that significantly reduces LLM size through parameter sharing across layers while maintaining performance; the model is initialized from standard pretrained Transformers, but only uses a single block of unique layers that is repeated multiple times in a loop; then it adds flexibility to the layer tying constraint via depth-wise low-rank adaptation (LoRA) modules; shows that the approach has the potential to lead to significant (2-3×) gains in inference throughput.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20672), [Tweet](https://x.com/raymin0223/status/1851216039822180759) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (October 21 - October 27) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **Agentic Information Retrieval** - provides an introduction to agentic information retrieval, which is shaped by the capabilities of LLM agents; discusses different types of cutting-edge applications of agentic information retrieval and challenges.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09713), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1848396596230127655) |\n| 2) **Aya Expanse** - a family of open-weight foundation models for multilingual capabilities; releases an 8B and 32B parameter model, including one of the largest multilingual dataset collections to date, with 513 million examples; the release also includes Aya-101 which the authors claim is the most comprehensive multilingual models covering 101 languages; Aya Expanse 32B outperforms Gemma 2 27B, Mistral 8x22B, and Llama 3.1 70B, a model 2x its size.  | [Paper](https://cohere.com/blog/aya-expanse-connecting-our-world), [Tweet](https://x.com/CohereForAI/status/1849435983449587796) |\n| 3) **A Theoretical Understanding of CoT** - finds that adding correct and incorrect reasoning paths in demonstrations improves the accuracy of intermediate steps and CoT; the proposed method, Coherent CoT, significantly improves performance on several benchmarks; in the Tracking Shuffled Objects dataset, Gemini Pro shows a 6.60% improvement (from 58.20% to 64.80%), and in Penguins in a Table, DeepSeek 67B demonstrates an increase of 6.17% (from 73.97% to 80.14%).  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16540), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1849139985712369907) |\n| 4) **A Survey on Data Synthesis and Augmentation for LLMs** - provides a comprehensive summary of data generation techniques in the lifecycle of LLMs; includes discussions on data preparation, pre-training, fine-tuning, instruction-tuning, preference alignment, and applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12896), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1848445736591163886) |\n| 5) **LongRAG** - enhances RAG's understanding of long-context knowledge which includes global information and factual details; consists of a hybrid retriever, an LLM-augmented information extractor, a CoT-guided filter, and an LLM-augmented generator; these are key components that enable the RAG system to mine global long-context information and effectively identify factual details; LongRAG outperforms long-context LLMs (up by 6.94%), advanced RAG (up by 6.16%), and Vanilla RAG (up by 17.25%).  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18050), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1849494571946066295) |\n| 6) **Evaluation Feature Steering in LLMs** - evaluates featuring steering in LLMs using an experiment that artificially dials up and down various features to analyze changes in model outputs; it focused on 29 features related to social biases and study if feature steering can help mitigate social biases; among its findings, it reports that feature steering sometimes leads to off-target effects and that a neutrality feature can help decreases social biases in 9 social dimensions without negatively affecting text quality. | [Paper](https://www.anthropic.com/research/evaluating-feature-steering),  [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1849840131412296039)  |\n| 7) **Granite 3.0** - presents lightweight foundation models ranging from 400 million to 8B parameters; supports coding, RAG, reasoning, and function calling, focusing on enterprise use cases, including on-premise and on-device settings; demonstrates strong performance across academic benchmarks for language understanding, reasoning, coding, function calling, and safety. | [Paper](https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-3.0-language-models/blob/main/paper.pdf),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1848404138641527105)  |\n| 8) **LLMs Reflect the Ideology of their Creators** - finds that LLMs exhibit a diverse ideological stance which reflects the worldview of its creators; finds consistent normative differences between how the same LLM responds in Chinese compared to English; identifies normative disagreements between Western and non-Western LLMs about prominent actors in geopolitical conflicts.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18417),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1849860985500352968)  |\n| 9) **Scalable Watermarking for LLMs** - proposes SynthID-Text, a text-watermarking scheme that can preserve text quality in LLMs, enable high detection accuracy, and minimize latency overhead; it integrates watermarking with speculative sampling that consists of the final pattern of scores for a model’s word choices combined with the adjusted probability scores; the authors test the feasibility and scalability of the approach by assessing feedback on nearly 10 million Gemini responses. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1849110263871529114)  |\n| 10) **Reasoning Patterns of OpenAI’s o1 Model** - when compared with other test-time compute methods, o1 achieved the best performance across most datasets; the authors observe that the most commonly used reasoning patterns in o1 are divide and conquer and self-refinement; o1 uses different reasoning patterns for different tasks; for commonsense reasoning tasks, o1 tends to use context identification and emphasize constraints; for math and coding tasks, o1 mainly relies on method reuse and divide and conquer.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13639), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1848782378631892997) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (October 14 - October 20) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **Thinking LLMs** - proposes a training method to equip LLMs with thinking abilities for general instruction-following without human-annotated data; uses an iterative search and optimization procedure to explore thought generation which enables the model to learn without direct supervision; thought candidates for each user instruction are scored with a judge model; only responses are evaluated by the Judge which determines the best and worst ones; then the corresponding full outputs are used as chosen and rejected pairs for DPO (referred to as Thought Preference Optimization in this paper). reports superior performance on AlpacaEval and Arena-Hard. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10630), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1846227797972603047) |\n| 2) **Model Swarms** - propose a new collaborative search algorithm to adapt LLM via swarm intelligence; a pool of LLM experts collaboratively move in the weight space and optimize a utility function representing various adaptation objectives; experiments demonstrate that Model Swarms could flexibly adapt LLM experts to a single task, multi-task domains, reward models, as well as diverse human interests. improves over 12 model composition baselines by up to 21.0% across tasks and contexts.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11163), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1846592954921849029) |\n| 3) **First-Person Fairness in Chatbots** - studies first-person fairness which involves fairness towards users interacting with ChatGPT; specifically, it measures the biases, if any, towards the users’ names; it leverages a model powered by GPT-4o to analyze patterns and name-sensitivity in the chatbot’s responses for different user names; claims that, overall, post-training significantly mitigate harmful stereotypes; also reports that in domains like entertainment and art, with open-ended tasks, demonstrate the highest level of bias (i.e., tendency to write stories with protagonists whose gender matches gender inferred from the user’s name) | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/papers/first-person-fairness-in-chatbots.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/1846238809991925838) |\n| 4) **Introspection in LLMs** - reports that LLMs can acquire knowledge through introspection that cannot be inferred from their training data; suggests that LLMs contain privileged information about themselves that can potentially lead to more interpretable and controllable systems; they report that this introspection ability is limited and models struggle to predict their behavior on tasks requiring reasoning over long outputs.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13787), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1847297594525094081) |\n| 5) **Janus** - proposes a unified autoregressive framework for multimodal understanding and generation; it decouples visual encoding into independent pathways and leverages a single transformer architecture to improve flexibility and performance on both visual understanding and generation; claims to alleviate trade-offs related to performing the vision tasks, something common in methods that rely on a single visual encoder; surpasses previous unified models and matches or exceeds the performance of task-specific models.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13848), [Tweet](https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1847191319464300652) |\n| 6) **Inference Scaling for Long-Context RAG** - uses two strategies to investigate scaling laws for RAG: in-context learning (DRAG) and iterative prompting (IterRAG); finds that RAG performance consistently improves with the expansion of the effective context length under optimal configurations; when optimally allocated, increasing inference computation can lead to linear gains in long-context RAG performance; this leads to the development of a computation allocation model that can provide practical guidance for optimal computation allocation in long-context RAG scenarios.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04343),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1847350506127315088)  |\n| 7) **Agent S** - a new open agentic framework that enables autonomous interaction with computers through a GUI; Agent S tackles challenges such as acquiring knowledge, planning over long-task horizons, and handling dynamic interfaces; it introduces experience-augmented hierarchical planning which leverages both search and retrieval; leverages an agent-computer interface to perform reasoning and control GUI agents; evaluation on the OSWorld benchmark shows that Agent S outperforms the baseline by 9.37% in success rate (an 83.6% relative improvement) and achieves a new state-of-the-art.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08164v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1846930425849303424)  |\n| 8) **Model Kinship for Merging LLMs** - proposes model kinship to measure the degree of similarity between LLMs; model kinship is used to build a model merging strategy (Top-k Greedy Merging with Model Kinship) which yields better performance; the authors find that this new criterion can be used to effectively and continuously perform model merging. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12613),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1846753148007846329)  |\n| 9) **On the Planning Abilities of OpenAI’s o1 Models** - reports that o1-preview is particularly strong in self-evaluation and constraint-following; also mentions that these o1 models demonstrate bottlenecks in decision-making and memory management, which are more pronounced in spatial reasoning; in particular, the models produce redundant action and struggle to generalize in spatially complex tasks. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2409.19924), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1846032256902869135)  |\n| 10) **CoTracker3** - proposes a new point tracking model and a new semi-supervised training recipe; enables usage of real videos without annotations during training by generating pseudo-labels using off-the-shelf teachers; the approach is simpler in architecture and training scheme leading to better results while using 1000x less data. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11831), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1846595406261899363) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (October 7 - October 13) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **MLE-Bench** - proposes a new benchmark for the evaluation of machine learning agents on machine learning engineering capabilities; includes 75 ML engineering-related competition from Kaggle testing on MLE skills such as training models, preparing datasets, and running experiments; OpenAI’s o1-preview with the AIDE scaffolding achieves Kaggle bronze medal level in 16.9% of competitions.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07095), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1844429536353714427) |\n| 2) **Differential Transformer** - proposes a differential attention mechanism that amplifies attention to the relevant context while canceling noise; Differential Transformer outperforms Transformer when scaling up model size and training tokens; the authors claim that since this architecture gets less \"distracted\" by irrelevant context, it can do well in applications such as long-context modeling, key information retrieval, hallucination mitigation, in-context learning, and reduction of activation outliers.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05258), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1843694897020150216) |\n| 3) **Astute RAG** - proposes a novel RAG approach to deal with the imperfect retrieval augmentation and knowledge conflicts of LLMs; Astute RAG adaptively elicits essential information from LLMs' internal knowledge; then it iteratively consolidates internal and external knowledge with source awareness; Astute RAG is designed to better combine internal and external information through an interactive consolidation mechanism (i.e., identifying consistent passages, detecting conflicting information in them, and filtering out irrelevant information).  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07176), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1844435988019544565) |\n| 4) **ToolGen** - integrates tool knowledge directly into LLMs by representing tools as a unique token which allows the LLM to generate tool calls and arguments, enabling seamless tool invocation and language generation; experimental results with over 47,000 tools show that ToolGen achieves superior results in both tool retrieval and autonomous task completion.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03439), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1843491766114422930) |\n| 5) **Long-Context LLMs Meet RAG** - finds that for many long-context LLMs, the quality of outputs declines as the number of passages increases; reports that the performance loss is due to retrieved hard negatives; they propose two ways to improve long-context LLM-based RAG: retrieval reordering and RAG-specific tuning with intermediate reasoning to help with relevance identification; that approaches demonstrate significant accuracy and robustness improvements on long-context RAG performance.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05983), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1844828836619334066) |\n| 6) **GSM-Symbolic** - tests several SoTA models on a benchmark created with symbolic templates that enable diverse mathematical problems; they find that LLMs exhibit variance when responding to variations of the same questions; the performance of all the models declines by adjusting the numerical values in the question; as questions are made more challenging (e.g., increasing the number of clauses) the performance significantly deteriorates; the authors hypothesize that the observed decline in performance is due to a lack of logical reasoning in current LLMs.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05229),  [Tweet](https://x.com/MFarajtabar/status/1844456880971858028)  |\n| 7) **Optima** - a novel framework to enhance both communication efficiency and task effectiveness in LLM-based multi-agent systems through LLM training; proposes an iterative generate, rank, select, and train paradigm with a reward function to improve performance, token use, and communication efficiency; integrates Monte Carlo Tree Search-inspired techniques for DPO data generation to encourage diverse exploration; shows consistent improvements over single-agent baselines and vanilla MAS based on Llama 3 8B, with 2.8x performance gain with less than 10% tokens on tasks requiring heavy information exchange.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08115),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1844578931732844963)  |\n| 8) **ScienceAgentBench** - a new benchmark to rigorously assess agents built for scientific workflows; after testing it on open-weight and proprietary LLMs, the best-performing agent can only solve 32.4% of the tasks independently and 34.3% with expert-provided knowledge. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05080),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1843697964243382586)  |\n| 9) **Addition Is All You Need** - proposes an algorithm that approximates floating point multiplication with integer addition operations; it is less computationally intensive than 8-bit floating point but achieves higher precision; the authors report that applying the purposed L-Mul operation in tensor processing hardware can potentially reduce 95% energy cost by elementwise floating point tensor multiplications and 80% energy cost of dot products. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00907), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1844043652966072742)  |\n| 10) **Persuasion and Anti-social Ability of LLMs** - studies the interaction patterns of LLMs in a multi-agent setting with social hierarchy; the study was done in a specific setting involving a guard and a prisoner who seeks additional yard time or escaping from prison; finds that in the multi-agent setting where power dynamics are involved, the LLMs fail to have a conversation; they also report that agents' personas are critical in driving the behaviors of the agents. In addition, and without explicit prompting, simply assigning agents' roles lead to anti-social behavior.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07109), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1844427182141211054) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (September 30 - October 6) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **Movie Gen** - a set of foundation models to generate high-quality, 1080p HD videos, including different aspect ratios and synchronized audio; the 30B parameter model supports a context length of 73K video tokens, which enables generation of 16-second videos at 16fps; it also presents a 13B parameter video-to-audio generation model and a novel video editing model that’s attained via post-training; achieves state-of-the-art performance on tasks such as text-to-video synthesis, video personalization, video-to-audio generation and more.  | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/movie-gen-research-paper), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1842188252541043075) |\n| 2) **Were RNNs All We Needed?** - revisits RNNs and shows that by removing the hidden states from input, forget, and update gates RNNs can be efficiently trained in parallel; this is possible because with this change architectures like LSTMs and GRUs no longer require backpropagate through time (BPTT); they introduce minLSTMs and minGRUs that are 175x faster for a 512 sequence length.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01201), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1842246985790914608) |\n| 3) **LLMs Know More Than They Show** - finds that the \"truthfulness\" information in LLMs is concentrated in specific tokens; this insight can help enhance error detection performance and further mitigate some of these issues; they also claim that internal representations can be used to predict the types of errors the LLMs are likely to make.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02707), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1842240840389001381) |\n| 4) **Architecture Search Framework for Inference-Time Techniques** - introduces a modular framework for building and optimizing LLMs by combining multiple inference-time techniques; this approach reframes the challenge of LLM system design as a hyperparameter optimization problem; tested on benchmarks including MT-Bench and CodeContests, Archon surpasses leading models such as GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, achieving a 15.1% average accuracy improvement.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15254), [Tweet](https://x.com/Azaliamirh/status/1840892626096345530) |\n| 5) **RATIONALYST** - a model for process-supervision of reasoning that enables generalization across diverse reasoning tasks; this process is achieved with pre-training on a collection of 79k rationales from the Pile and a combination of reasoning datasets with minimal human intervention; fine-tuned from LLaMa-3-8B, the proposed model improves the accuracy of reasoning by an average of 3.9% on 7 reasoning benchmarks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01044) |\n| 6) **An Analysis of o1-preview** - reports that large reasoning models like o1-preview, while improving on more difficult tasks, display similar qualitative trends as previous LLMs; o1 is sensitive to the probability of examples and tasks, performing better and requiring fewer “thinking tokens” in high-probability settings than in low-probability ones.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01792),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1841842414157472240)  |\n| 7) **FRAMES** - a unified framework to evaluate an LLM’s ability to provide factual responses, assess retrieval capabilities, and the reasoning required to generate final responses; includes multi-hop questions that require the integration of information from multiple sources; reports that state-of-the-art LLMs struggle on the task and only achieve 40% accuracy with no retrieval; the proposed multi-step retrieval approach improves performance to 66% accuracy.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12941),  [Tweet](https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1840628834275602585)  |\n| 8) **Not All LLM Reasoners Are Created Equal** - investigates in depth the grade-school math problem-solving capabilities of LLMs; reports that LLMs show a significant gap in reasoning; finds that LLMs display a huge performance difference when solving compositional pairs and solving questions independently.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01748),  [Tweet](https://x.com/arianTBD/status/1841875515860517130)  |\n| 9) **Evaluation of o1** - provides a comprehensive evaluation of OpenAI's o1-preview LLM; shows strong performance across many tasks such as competitive programming, generating coherent and accurate radiology reports, high school-level mathematical reasoning tasks, chip design tasks, anthropology and geology, quantitative investing, social media analysis, and many other domains and problems.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18486), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1840953712635732006)  |\n| 10) **Designing Priors for Better Few-Shot Image Synthesis** - training generative models like GAN with limited data is difficult; current Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation approaches (IMLE) have an inadequate correspondence between latent code selected for training and those selected during inference; the proposed approach, RS-IMLE, changes the prior distribution for training which improves test-time performance and leads to higher quality image generation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17439), [Tweet](https://x.com/KL_Div/status/1841729946302943295) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (September 23 - September 29) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** | \n| ------------- | ------------- | \n| 1) **Llama 3.2** - presents small and medium-sized vision LLMs (11B and 90B parameters), and lightweight, text-only models (1B and 3B); the text-only models are trained to support context length of 128K tokens and outperform other models in their class on a range of tasks; vision models exceed other models such as Claude 3 Haiku on image understanding tasks. | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-3-2-connect-2024-vision-edge-mobile-devices/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/Doctor_Zou/status/1782752058124554272) | \n| 2)  **Molmo**  - presents a family of open, state-of-the-art multimodal AI models; the 72B model in the Molmo family outperforms others in the class of open weight and data models; it also compares favorably against proprietary models like GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, and Gemini 1.5 on several benchmarks. | [Paper](https://molmo.allenai.org/paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/emmanuel_vincze/status/1708249637918752987) | \n| 3) **AlphaChip**  - a reinforcement learning-based method trained to design the physical layout of chips; AlphaChip is reportedly used in three additional generations of Google’s TPU; this release includes an open-source implementation of the method to help pre-train on a variety of chip blocks to apply to new blocks; also releases a model checkpoint pre-trained on 20 TPU blocks. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08032-5), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1676118998259507200) | \n| 4) **LLMs Still Can’t Plan**  - evaluates whether large reasoning models such as o1 can plan; finds that a domain-independent planner can solve all instances of Mystery Blocksworld but LLMs struggle, even on small instances; o1-preview is effective on the task but tend to degrade in performance as plan length increases, concludes that while o1 shows progress on more challenging planning problems, the accuracy gains cannot be considered general or robust. |  [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13373), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/johnxschulman/status/1657558270450917378) | \n| 5) **Scaled-up Instructable Model Become Less Reliable**  - suggests that larger and more instructable LLMs may become less reliable; investigates LLMs across three elements: difficulty concordance, task avoidance, and prompting stability; finds that early models often avoid user questions but scaled-up, shaped-up models tend to give an apparently sensible yet wrong answer much more often, including errors on difficult questions that human supervisors frequently overlook. |  [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07930-y), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/rylanmshea/status/1583460628966346752) | \n| 6) **Logic-of-Thought**  - proposes a new prompting technique called Logic-of-Thought (LoT) which employs propositional logic to generate and inject expanded logical information from the input context; it enhances CoT performance on the ReClor dataset by +4.35%; it improves CoT+SelfConsistency’s performance on LogiQA by +5%; it also boosts the performance of ToT on the ProofWriter dataset by +8%.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17539), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/IsItPerplexity/status/1704255260019798052) | \n| 7) **RAG and Beyond**  - presents a survey that introduces a RAG task categorization method that helps to classify user queries into four levels according to the type of external data required and the focus of the task; summarizes key challenges in building robust data-augmented LLM applications and the most effective techniques for addressing them. |  [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14924), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/mishigna/status/1703461946958463118) | \n| 8) **A Preliminary Study of o1 in Medicine**  - provides a preliminary exploration of the o1-preview model in medical scenarios; shows that o1 surpasses the previous GPT-4 in accuracy by an average of 6.2% and 6.6% across 19 datasets and two newly created complex QA scenarios; identifies hallucination, inconsistent multilingual ability, and discrepant metrics for evaluation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15277), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/RichardEvans_AI/status/1691963090436067397) | \n| 9) **Small Language Models Survey**  - a comprehensive survey on small language models (SLMs) across architectures, training datasets, and training algorithms; analyzes 59 state-of-the-art open-source SLMs and capabilities such as reasoning, in-context learning, maths, and coding; other discussions include on-device runtime costs, latency, memory footprint, and valuable insights.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15790), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/sebatian_ruder/status/1691611318636159002) | \n| 10) **Minstrel**  - a multi-generative agent system with reflection capabilities to automate structural prompt generation; it presents LangGPT, an extensible framework for designing prompts; Minstrel is built on top of LangGPT and experiments demonstrate that structural prompts (either generated by Minstrel or written manually) perform better in guiding LLMs to perform tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13449), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/LiZhang1351/status/1702992849091985677) | \n\n\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (September 16 - September 22) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Moshi** - introduces a speech-text foundation model and full-duplex spoken dialogue framework; they present several components of the systems; Helium is a 7B parameter text LLM; Mimi is a semantic-acoustic neural audio code with state-of-the-art performance on audio quality; a hierarchical multi-stream architecture that can generate arbitrary conversation in a speech-to-speech manner. | [Paper](https://kyutai.org/Moshi.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/kyutai_labs/status/1836427396959932492) |\n| 2) **Training LLMs to Self-Correct via RL** - develops a multi-turn online reinforcement learning to improve the capabilities of an LLM to self-correct; it’s based entirely on self-generated data; SFT is shown to be ineffective at learning self-correction and suffers from distribution mismatch between training data and model responses; proposes a two-stage approach that first optimizes correction behavior and then uses a reward bonus to amplify self-correction during training; when applied to Gemini 1.0 Pro and 1.5 Flash models, it achieves state-of-the-art self-correction performance, improving the base models’ self-correction by 15.6% and 9.1% respectively on the MATH and HumanEval benchmarks.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12917), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1837228446839361984) |\n| 3) **Qwen2.5 Coder** - a series of models including 1.5B and 7B parameters; it’s built upon the Qwen2.5 architecture which is continuously pretrained on 5.5 trillion tokens; achieves state-of-the-art performance across more than 10 benchmarks; includes strong capabilities in code generation, completion, reasoning, and repairing.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12186), [Tweet](https://x.com/huybery/status/1837170643563073960) |\n| 4) **Diagram of Thought (DoT)** - enhances the reasoning capabilities of LLMs through mathematical rigor; DAT models iterative reasoning in LLM as the construction of a directed acyclic graph; it integrates propositions, critiques, refinement, and verification into a unified DAG structure; this allows DoT to capture complex logical deduction beyond linear or tree-based approaches.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10038), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1835882277563179512) |\n| 5) **Agents in Software Engineering** - provides a comprehensive overview of frameworks of LLM-based agents in software engineering.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09030), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1835705359723319702) |\n| 6) **To CoT or not to CoT?** - investigates what kinds of tasks benefit the most from chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting; after a meta-analysis on 100+ papers and several evaluations, it finds that CoT produces strong performance benefits primarily on tasks involving math and logic; they find that most of the CoT gain comes from improving symbolic execution, but a symbolic solver outperforms it. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12183),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1836599280477299013)  |\n| 7) **A Comprehensive Evaluation of Quantized Instruction-Tuned LLMs** - evaluates the performance of instruction-tuned LLMs across various quantization methods on models ranging from 7B to 405B; the key findings are 1) quantizing a larger LLM to a similar size as a smaller FP16 LLM generally performs better across most benchmarks, 2) performance varies significantly with different quantization methods, model size, and bit-width, with weight-only methods often yielding better results in larger models, and 3) task difficulty does not significantly impact accuracy degradation due to quantization. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11055),  [Tweet](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11055)  |\n| 8) **Iteration of Thought** - proposes the Iteration of Thought (IoT) framework to enhance the LLM responses and reasoning capabilities with adaptive reasoning paths; it leverages an inner dialogue agent, acting as a guide, to dynamically adjust reasoning paths which allows adaptive cross-path exploration and enhance response accuracy; it's different from CoT and ToT (both rigid processes) in that its prompt generation is a dynamic process that allows it to adapt. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12618),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1836977595847692671)  |\n| 9) **Schrodinger’s Memory** - uses the Universal Approximation Theorem to explain the memory mechanism of LLMs. It also proposes a new approach to evaluate LLM performance by comparing the memory capacities of different models; the Transformer architecture functions as a dynamic fitting UAT model, with a strong ability to adaptively fit inputs; this enables LLMs to recall entire content based on minimal input information.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10482), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1835882330323554321)  |\n| 10) **Math Jailbreaking Prompts** - uses GPT-4o to generate mathematically encoded prompts that serve as an effective jailbreaking technique; shows an average attack success rate of 73.6% across 13 state-of-the-art; this highlights the inability of existing safety training mechanisms to generalize to mathematically encoded inputs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11445), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1836603922405806501) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (September 9 - September 15) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Learning to Reason with LLMs** - a new family of LLMs trained with reinforcement learning to reason before it responds to complex tasks; it produces a long internal chain of thought and exceeds in science, code, and math-related tasks; ranked in the 49th percentile in the 2024 International Olympiad in Informatics and exceeds human PhD-level accuracy on science-related benchmarks. -  | [Paper](https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1834278217626317026) |\n| 2) **Chai-1** - a new multi-modal foundation model for molecular structure prediction that can predict proteins, small molecules, DNA, RNA, and more; it achieves state-of-the-art results on a variety of tasks in drug discovery; achieves a 77% success rate on the PoseBusters benchmark (vs. 76% by AlphaFold 3), as well as an Cα LDDT of 0.849 on the CASP15 protein monomer structure prediction set (vs. 0.801 by ESM3-98B).  | [Paper](https://www.chaidiscovery.com/blog/introducing-chai-1), [Tweet](https://x.com/joshim5/status/1833183091776721106) |\n| 3) **Can LLMs Generation Novel Research Ideas** - finds that LLM-generated research ideas are judged as more novel (p <0.05) than human expert ideas; however, they were rated slightly weaker in terms of flexibility; they also report that LLM agents lack diversity in the idea generation process and are not reliable evaluators.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04109), [Tweet](https://x.com/ChengleiSi/status/1833166031134806330) |\n| 4) **DataGemma** - includes a series of fine-tuned Gemma 2 models to help LLMs access and incorporate numerical and statistical data; proposes a new approach called Retrieval Interleaved Generation (RIG) which can reliably incorporate public statistical data from Data Commons into LLM responses; RIG is a tool-inspired approach, can interleave statistical tokens with natural language questions suitable for retrieval from Data Commons; to attain such capability, they fine-tune the LLM on an instruction-response dataset generated with the help of Gemini 1.5; the RIG approach improves factuality from 5-7% to about 58%.  | [Paper](https://docs.datacommons.org/papers/DataGemma-FullPaper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1834235024675406012) |\n| 5) **Agent Workflow Memory** - introduces Agent Workflow Memory to induce commonly reused workflows and provide these to the agent on demand; works offline and online and is meant to guide the agent's subsequent generations; it’s inspired by how humans learn reusable workflows from past experiences and use them to guide future actions; claims to substantially improve the baseline results by 24.6% and 51.1% relative success rate on Mind2Web and WebArena while doing it in a more efficient way.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07429), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1834059522198896706) |\n| 6) **The Role of Small Language Models in the LLM Era** - closely examines the relationship between LLMs and SLMs; common applications of SLMs include data curation, training stronger models, efficient inference, evaluators, retrievers, and much more; includes insights for practitioners to better understand the value of these SLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06857),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1834063138586829273)  |\n| 7) **LLaMa-Omni** - a model architecture for low-latency speech interaction with LLMs; it is based on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct and can simultaneously generate both text and speech responses given speech instructions; responses can be generated with a response latency as low as 226ms; architecture-wise, it involves a speech encoder (Whispter-large-v3), a speech adaptor, an LLM, and a speech decoder; they also created a dataset of 200K speech interactions and responses. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06666),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1834227729241440340)  |\n| 8) **Can LLMs Unlock Novel Scientific Research Ideas** - investigates whether LLM can generate novel scientific research ideas; reports that Claude and GPT models tend to align more with the author's perspectives on future research ideas; this is measured across different domains like science, economics, and medicine.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06185),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1833695968656793610)  |\n| 9) **Theory, Analysis, and Best Practices for Sigmoid Self-Attention** - proposes Flash-Sigmoid, a hardware-aware and memory-efficient implementation of sigmoid attention; it yields up to a 17% inference kernel speed-up over FlashAttention-2 on H100 GPUs; show that SigmoidAttn matches SoftwaxAttn in various tasks and domains. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04431), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1833522827842220244)  |\n| 10) **Achieving Peak Performance for LLMs** - a systematic review of methods for improving and speeding up LLMs from three points of view: training, inference, and system serving; summarizes the latest optimization and acceleration strategies around training, hardware, scalability, and reliability.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04833), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1833344402892460364) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (September 2 - September 8) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **AlphaProteo** - presents a family of ML models trained for protein design; reports a 3-to 300-fold better binding affinities and higher experimental success rates compared to other existing methods on seven target proteins; shows that AlphaProteo’s performance on hundreds of target proteins from the PDB is comparable to the seven targets.  | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphaproteo-generates-novel-proteins-for-biology-and-health-research/AlphaProteo2024.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1831710991475777823) |\n| 2) **RAG in the Era of Long-Context LLMs** - reports that longer-context LLMs suffer from a diminished focus on relevant information, which is one of the primary issues that a RAG system addresses (i.e., uses more relevant information); they propose an order-preserving RAG mechanism that improves performance on long-context question answering; it's not perfect and in fact, as retrieved chunks increase the quality of responses go up and then declines; they mention a sweet spot where it can achieve better quality with a lot fewer tokens than long-context LLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01666), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1831389521839267888) |\n| 3) **Strategic Chain-of-Thought** - a method to refine LLM performance by incorporating strategic knowledge before the intermediate CoT reasoning steps; the problem-solving strategy helps to guide the generation of the CoT paths and final answers; claims to achieve a 21.05% increase on the GSM8K datasets using the Llama3-8b model.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03271v1) |\n| 4) **Effective of AI on High Skilled Work** - studies the impact of generative AI on software developers; reveals a 26.08% increase in the number of completed tasks among the developers that use AI tools like GitHub Copilot; also shows that less experienced developers are likely to adopt the AI tools and have greater productivity gains.  | [Paper](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4945566), [Tweet](https://x.com/emollick/status/1831739827773174218) |\n| 5) **OLMoE** - introduces a fully-open LLM that leverages sparse Mixture-of-Experts. OLMoE is a 7B parameter model and uses 1B active parameters per input token; there is also an instruction-tuned version that claims to outperform Llama-2-13B-Chat and DeepSeekMoE 16B.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02060), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1831357563620753577) |\n| 6) **LongCite** - synthesizes a large-scale SFT dataset with off-the-shelf LLMs to improve long-context question answering with citations; it trains 8B and 9B parameter models that enhance citation generation capabilities from lengthy contexts while improving response correctness; claims to even surpass GPT-4o on their proposed LongBench-Cite benchmark.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02897),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1831522905009828051)  |\n| 7) **MemLong** - utilizes an external retriever for retrieving historical information which enhances the capabilities of long-context LLMs; it consistently outperforms other SoTA LLMs on long-context benchmarks and can extend the context length on a single 3090 GPU from 4k up to 80k.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16967),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1830610367854112799)  |\n| 8) **Role of RAG Noise in LLMs** - proposes a benchmark (NoiserBench) to measure how different kinds of noisy information affect RAG's performance; reports that from different kinds of beneficial noise studied (e.g., semantic, datatype, and illegal sentence), illegal sentence noise exhibits the most improved model performance across models and datasets.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13533),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1830984315326660617)  |\n| 9) **Beyond Preference in AI Alignment** - challenges the dominant practice of AI alignment known as human preference tuning; explains in what ways human preference tuning fails to capture the thick semantic content of human values; argues that AI alignment needs reframing, instead of aligning on human preferences, AI should align on normative standards appropriate to their social roles. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16984), [Tweet](https://x.com/xuanalogue/status/1831044533779669136)  |\n| 10) **LLM-Based Agents for Software Engineering** - a survey paper on LLM-based agents for software engineering, covering perspectives ranging from requirement engineering to test generation to software maintenance. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02977), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1832115557749121385) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (August 26 - September 1) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **GameGen** - a game engine powered by a diffusion model that enables real-time interaction with complex environments over long trajectories; uses a two-phase training process involving an RL agent to learn and a diffusion model to generate frames; it can interactively simulate DOOM over at 20 fps on a single TPU. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14837), [Tweet](https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1828617875432841490) |\n| 2) **Agentic RAG for Time Series Analysis** - proposes an agentic RAG framework for time series analysis; uses a multi-agent architecture where an agent orchestrates specialized sub-agents to complete time-series tasks; the sub-agents leverage tuned small language models and can retrieve relevant prompts containing knowledge about historical patterns and trends; this helps to improve predictions on new data. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14484), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1828838209461043455) |\n| 3) **AutoGen Studio** - a low-code interface for rapidly prototyping AI agents. It's built on top of the AutoGen framework and can also be used for debugging and evaluating multi-agent workflows.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15247), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1829163090715529358) |\n| 4) **Persuasion Games with LLMs** - claims that a multi-agent framework can be used to improve the persuasive efficacy of LLMs; the primary agent engages in persuasive dialogue while auxiliary agents perform key tasks like response analysis and information retrieval; finds that LLMs are capable of creating a perspective change in the users and persuading them to make a purchase decision; for instance, Sales agents can achieve a 71% positive shift in user perspectives. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15879), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1829156960291185117) |\n| 5) **Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better** - finds that weaker + cheaper (WC) models can generate better synthetic data for fine-tuning models compared to data generated with stronger but more expensive models; overall, results suggest that WC models may be a compute-optimal approach for training advanced LLM reasoners.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16737), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1829526629787242878) |\n| 6) **Transfusion** - presents a training recipe to train multi-modal models over discrete and continuous data; combines next token prediction with diffusion to train transformer models over mixed-modality sequences; shows that it’s possible to scale from 7B parameter models to 2T multi-modal tokens that can compete in performance with similar scale diffusion and language models.  | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.11039),  [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1828836885176967327)  |\n| 7) **ReMamba** - investigates the long-context capabilities and efficiencies of Mamba models; the long-context deficiency issues are due to Mamba's RNN-like nature; it achieves this by condensing information via the following compression strategy: the top-k hidden states during the first forward pass and leverages Mamba’s selective mechanism to incorporate them into the state space during the second forward pass; achieves a 3.2 improvement over the baseline on LongBench and 1.6 improvement on L-Eval; the strategy seems to also transfer to Mamba 2.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15496),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1829151312266637813)  |\n| 8) **Text2SQL is Not Enough** - proposes Table-Augmented Generation (TAG), a unified framework for answering natural language questions over databases; it represents a wider range of unexplored interactions between LLMs and databases; develops a benchmark and finds that standard methods answer no more than 20% of queries correctly.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14717v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/lianapatel_/status/1828939097487945948)  |\n| 9) **Foundation Models for Music** - provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art pre-trained models and foundation models in music. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14340), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1828456481114538437)  |\n| 10) **Guide to Continual Multimodal Pretraining** - a comprehensive guide on continual multimodal pertaining; introduces FoMo-In-Flux, a large-scale fine-grained and long horizon continual pretraining benchmark. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14471), [Tweet](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14471) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (August 19 - August 25) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Automate Design of Agentic Systems** - presents Meta Agent Search, a meta agent that iteratively programs and tests new agents based on a growing archive of previous discoveries; claims that with their approach it is possible to learn any possible agentic system including prompts, tool use, control flows, and more; they achieve this by focusing on three main components referred to as search space (define agents), search algorithm (explore search space), and the evaluation function (evaluate candidate agents).   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08435), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1825378027347271719) |\n| 2) **LLM Pruning and Distillation in Practice** - provides a comprehensive report on effective methods for compressing Llama 3.1 and Mistral NeMo models; it presents pruning and distillation approaches applied to the original models to produce 4B and 8B parameter models, respectively; before pruning, they also fine-tune the teacher model on their datasets leading to better distillation; their compression strategy yields a state-of-the-art 8B model (MN-Minitron-8B) which outperforms all similarly-sized models on common language modeling benchmarks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11796), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1826676365044675042) |\n| 3) **Vizier Gaussian Process Bandit Algorithm** - presents Vizier, an algorithm based on Gaussian process bandit optimization used by Google for millions of optimizations and research; it provides an open-source Python implementation of the Vizier algorithm, including benchmarking results that demonstrate its wider applicability.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11527), [Tweet](https://x.com/XingyouSong/status/1826554454084333723) |\n| 4) **Language Modeling on Tabular Data** - presents a comprehensive survey of language modeling techniques for tabular data; includes topics such as categorization of tabular data structures and data types, datasets used for model training and evaluation, modeling techniques and training objectives, data processing methods, popular architectures, and challenges and future research directions.  | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.10548), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1826094372179366023) |\n| 5) **Enhancing Robustness in LLMs** - proposes a two-stage prompting technique to remove irrelevant information from context; it serves as a self-mitigation process that first identifies the irrelevant information and then filters it out; this leads to enhancement in robustness of the model and overall better performance on reasoning tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10615), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1826451091774447983) |\n| 6) **A Comprehensive Overview of GraphRAG Methods** - focuses on techniques applied to the GraphRAG workflow (graph-based indexing, graph-guided retrieval, and graph-enhanced generation); examines tasks, applications, evaluation, and industrial use cases of GraphRAG. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08921),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1825937537782698377)  |\n| 7) **MagicDec** - shows how speculative decoding can enhance throughput, reduce latency, and maintain accuracy in long context generation scenarios; it finds that as sequence length and batch size increase, bottlenecks shift from compute-bound to memory-bound; using these insights, they show it's possible to more effectively use speculative decoding for longer sequences, even when using large batch sizes.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11049),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1826090969906778122)  |\n| 8) **Controllable Text Generation for LLMs** - provides a comprehensive survey on methods for controllable text generation in LLMs; discusses issues like safety, consistency, style, and helpfulness.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12599),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1826824199010132429)  |\n| 9) **PEDAL** - uses a hybrid self-ensembling approach (based on diverse exemplars) to improve the overall performance of LLMs; specifically, it uses diverse exemplars to generate multiple candidate responses and then aggregates them using an LLM to generate a final response; this approach achieves better accuracy compared to greedy decoding and lower cost compared to self-consistency approaches.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08869), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1825373675631071609)  |\n| 10) **Challenges and Responses in the Practice of LLMs** - curates a set of important questions with insightful answers; questions are categorized across topics such as infrastructure, software architecture, data, application, and brain science. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09416), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1825932441980162374) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (August 12 - August 18) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **The AI Scientist** - a novel AI agent that can develop and write a full conference-level scientific paper costing less than $15; it automates scientific discovery by enabling frontier LLMs to perform independent research and summarize findings; it also uses an automated reviewer to evaluate the generated papers; claims to achieve near-human performance in evaluating paper scores; claims to produce papers that exceed the acceptance threshold at a top machine learning conference as judged by their automated reviewer.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06292), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1823189280883097788) |\n| 2) **Grok-2** - a new frontier model with strong code, math, and reasoning capabilities which includes a large and small model; outperforms both Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4-Turbo on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena; claims to improve capabilities including instruction following, retrieval, tool use, and enhancing factuality; competes with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (June release) and GPT-4o (May release) on MMLU and HumanEval.  | [Paper](https://x.ai/blog/grok-2), [Tweet](https://x.com/xai/status/1823597788573098215) |\n| 3) **LongWriter** - proposes AgentWrite to enable off-the-shelf LLMs to generate coherent outputs beyond 20K words; AgentWrite breaks down the long generation task into subtasks and in a divide-and-conquer approach generates; the agent breaks the task into multiple writing subtasks and concatenates the outputs to get a final output (i.e., plan + write); the approach is then used to build SFT datasets that are used to tune LLMs to generate coherent longer outputs automatically; a 9B parameter model, further improved through DPO, achieves state-of-the-art performance on their benchmark, and surpasses proprietary models.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07055), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1823551063946850712) |\n| 4) **EfficientRAG** - trains an auto-encoder LM to label and tag chunks; it retrieves relevant chunks, tags them as either <Terminate> or <Continue>, and annotates <Continue> chunks for continuous processing; then a filter model is trained to formulate the next-hop query based on the original question and previous annotations; this is done iteratively until all chunks are tagged as <Terminate> or the maximum # of iterations is reached; after the process above has gathered enough information to answer the initial question, the final generator (an LLM) generates the final answer.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04259), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1822744591810114044) |\n| 5) **RAGChecker** - a fine-grained evaluation framework for diagnosing retrieval and generation modules in RAG; shows that RAGChecker has better correlations with human judgment; reports several revealing insightful patterns and trade-offs in design choices of RAG architectures.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08067), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1824460245051081216) |\n| 6) **HybridRAG** - combines GraphRAG and VectorRAG leading to a HybridRAG system that outperforms both individually; it was tested on a set of financial earning call transcripts. Combining the advantages of both approaches provides more accurate answers to queries.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04948),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1822832843455648000)  |\n| 7) **rStar** - introduces self-play mutual reasoning to improve the reasoning capabilities of small language models without fine-tuning or superior models; MCTS is augmented with human-like reasoning actions, obtained from SLMs, to build richer reasoning trajectories; a separate SLM provides unsupervised feedback on the trajectories and the target SLM selects the final reasoning trajectory as the answer; rStar boosts GSM8K accuracy from 12.51% to 63.91% for LLaMA2-7B and consistently improves the accuracy of other SLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06195),  [Tweet](https://x.com/AtakanTekparmak/status/1823776878747877572)  |\n| 8) **Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally** - investigates the scaling behaviors of inference-time computation in LLMs; in particular, it analyses how much an LLM can be improved provided a fixed amount of inference-time compute; finds that the effectiveness of different scaling approaches varies by difficulty of prompt; it then proposes an adaptive compute-optimal strategy that can improve efficiency by more than 4x compared to a best-of-N baseline; reports that in a FLOPs-matched evaluation, optimally scaling test-time compute can outperform a 14x larger model.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05109),  [Tweet](https://x.com/sea_snell/status/1821263798772363598)  |\n| 9) **MedGraphRAG** - a graph-based framework for the medical domain with a focus on enhancing LLMs and generating evidence-based results; leverages a hybrid static-semantic approach to chunk documents to improve context capture; entities and medical knowledge are represented through graphs which leads to an interconnected global graph; this approach improves precision and outperforms state-of-the-art models on multiple medical Q&A benchmarks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04187), [Tweet](https://x.com/Marktechpost/status/1823069406924288110)  |\n| 10) **Survey of NL2QL** - a comprehensive overview of NL2SQL techniques powered by LLMs; covers models, data collection, evaluation methods, and error analysis. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05109), [Tweet](https://x.com/_reachsumit/status/1822835969743347815) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (August 5 - August 11) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **SAM 2** - an open unified model for real-time, promptable object segmentation in images and videos; can be applied to unseen visual content without the need for custom adaptation; to enable accurate mask prediction in videos, a memory mechanism is introduced to store information on the object and previous interactions; the memory module also allows real-time processing of arbitrarily long videos; SAM2 significantly outperforms previous approaches on interactive video segmentation across 17 zero-shot video datasets while requiring three times fewer human-in-the-loop interactions.  | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/sam-2-segment-anything-in-images-and-videos/), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1818055906179105010) |\n| 2) **Structured Generation Limits Reasoning** - investigates if structured generation can impact an LLM’s reasoning and domain knowledge comprehensive capabilities; observes that there is a significant decline in LLM’s reasoning abilities when applying format restrictions compared to free-form responses; this degradation effect is further amplified when applying stricter format constraints to reasoning tasks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02442), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1822357786820284555) |\n| 3) **From LLMs to LLM-based Agents for Sofware Engineering** - a survey paper on current practices and solutions for LLM-based agents for software engineering; covers important topics such as requirement engineering, code generation, test generation, and autonomous decision making; it also includes benchmarks, metrics, and models used in different software engineering applications.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02479), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1821549401866686604) |\n| 4) **Transformer Explainer** - presents an open-source interactive tool to learn about the inner workings of a Transformer model; it runs a GPT-2 instance locally in the user's browser and allows experimenting with your own inputs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04619), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1821986172215742716) |\n| 5) **Enhancing LLMs for RAG** - introduces RAGFoundry, an open-source framework for augmented LLMs for RAG use cases; it supports data creation, training, inference, and evaluation; one useful application is the creation of data-augmented datasets for tuning and evaluating LLMs in RAG settings.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02545), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1820864003590995973) |\n| 6) **Synthesizing Text-to-SQL Data from Weak and Strong LLMs** - proposes integrated synthetic data to build a highly specialized SoTA text-to-SQL model called SENSE; the synthetic data from strong models enhances data diversity while valuable erroneous data from weaker models combined with an executor to learn from execution feedback; preference learning is used to instruction-tune LLMs to learn from both correct and incorrect samples; SENSE achieves state-of-the-art results on the SPIDER and BIRD benchmarks, which bridges the performance gap between open-source models and methods that use closed-source models.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03256),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1821227584920621061)  |\n| 7) **Conversational Prompt Engineering** - proposes an approach to help users create personalized prompts by articulating the preferred outputs via interactions; it involves two stages: 1) an initial instruction shaped by the model based on user-provided unlabeled data, and 2) the model shares the output and the user provides feedback with refinements on outputs and instruction; this iterative process results in a personalized few-shot prompt that performs better and more optimally on the desired task.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04560),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1821981401861718488)  |\n| 8) **Self-Taught Evaluators** - an approach to improve model-based evaluators using synthetic training data only; it first generates contrasting outputs (good and bad model responses) and trains an LLM-as-a-Judge to produce reasoning traces and final judgments; the self-improvement scheme repeats the training process in an iterative way using its improved predictions; claims to outperform LLM-judges such as GPT-4 and match top-performing reward models trained on labeled examples; improves a strong LLM (Llama3-70BInstruct) from 75.4 to 88.3 (88.7 with majority vote) on RewardBench.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02666),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1820849115607044401)  |\n| 9) **RAGEval** - proposes a simple framework to automatically generate evaluation datasets to assess knowledge usage of different LLM under different scenarios; it defines a schema from seed documents and then generates diverse documents which leads to question-answering pairs; the QA pairs are based on both the articles and configurations.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01262), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1820507831491239978)  |\n| 10) **Survey of Mamba** - provides a systematic review of existing Mamba-based models across domains and tasks; specifically, focuses on advancements of Mamba-based models, techniques for adapting Mamba to diverse data, applications where Mamba excels, and promising research directions | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01129), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1821556218168549561) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 29 - August 4) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Meta-Rewarding LLMs** - proposes a self-improving alignment technique (no human supervision) where the LLM judges its own judgements and uses the feedback to improve its judgment skills; shows that leveraging this LLM-as-a-Meta-Judge approach improves the LLM's ability to judge and follow instructions; just doing self-improvement to generate better responses (act) saturates quickly; this work improves the LLM's ability to judge itself (judge) to avoid issues like reward hacking; in addition to the act and judge roles, a third role called meta-judge is used to evaluate the model's own judgements.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19594), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1818680848058585119) |\n| 2) **MindSearch** - presents an LLM-based multi-agent framework to perform complex web-information seeking and integration tasks; a web planner effectively decomposes complex queries followed by a web searcher that performs hierarchical information retrieval on the Internet to improve the relevancy of the retrieved information; the planning component is powered by an iterative graph construction which is used to better model complex problem-solving processes; the multi-agent framework handles long context problems better by distributing reasoning and retrieval tasks to specialized agents. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20183), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1818673381069226053) |\n| 3) **Improved RAG with Self-Reasoning** - presents an end-to-end self-reasoning framework to improve the reliability and traceability of RAG systems; leverages the reasoning trajectories generated by the LLM itself; the LLM is used to carry out the following 3 processes: 1) relevance-aware: judges the relevance between the retrieved documents and the question, 2) evidence-aware selective: chooses and cites relevant documents, and then automatically selects snippets of key sentences as evidence from the cited documents, and 3) trajectory analysis: generates a concise analysis based on all gathered self-reasoning trajectories generated by the previous 2 processes and then provides the final inferred answer; this method helps the model to be more selective, reason and distinguish relevant and irrelevant documents, therefore improving the accuracy of the overall RAG system; the framework achieves comparable performance to GPT-4 with only 2K training samples (generated by GPT-4). | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19813), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1818139150882664696) |\n| 4) **Constrained-CoT** - limits the model reasoning output length without sacrificing performance; shows that constraining the reasoning of LLaMA2-70b to 100 words improves the accuracy from 36.01% (CoT) to 41.07% (CCoT) on GSM8K, while reducing the average output length by 28 words.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19825), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1818133220484898992) |\n| 5) **Adaptive RAG for Conversations Sytems** - develops a gating model that predicts if a conversational system requires RAG to improve its responses; shows that RAG-based conversational systems have the potential to generate high-quality responses and high generation confidence; it also claims to identify a correlation between the generation's confidence level and the relevance of the augmented knowledge.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21712), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1818843407977959756) |\n| 6) **ShieldGemma** - offers a comprehensive suite of LLM-based safety content moderation models built on Gemma 2; includes classifiers for key harm types such as dangerous content, toxicity, hate speech, and more. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21772),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1818837753292853349)  |\n| 7) **Evaluating Persona Agents** - proposes a benchmark to evaluate persona agent capabilities in LLMs; finds that Claude 3.5 Sonnet only has a 2.97% relative improvement in PersonaScore compared to GPT 3.5 despite being a much more advanced model.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18416),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1817964944949739544)  |\n| 8) **Machine Unlearning Survey** - provides a comprehensive survey on machine unlearning in generative AI. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20516),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1818476462262906985)  |\n| 9) **ThinK** - proposes an approach to address inefficiencies in KV cache memory consumption; it focuses on the long-context scenarios and the inference side of things; it presents a query-dependent KV cache pruning method to minimize attention weight loss while selectively pruning the least significant channels | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21018), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1818474655461621903)  |\n| 10) **The Art of Refusal** - a survey of the current methods used to achieve refusal in LLMs; provides evaluation benchmarks and metrics used to measure abstention in LLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18418), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1817961056465035596) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 22 - July 28) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Llama 3.1** - a collection of LLMs that include 8B, 70B, and 405B parameters models; supports eight languages and extends the context window to 128K tokens; performs competitively and in some cases outperforms state-of-the-art models across capabilities like general knowledge, math reasoning, and tool use.  | [Paper](https://scontent.fbze2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/452387774_1036916434819166_4173978747091533306_n.pdf?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3c67a6&_nc_ohc=t6egZJ8QdI4Q7kNvgHPkimJ&_nc_ht=scontent.fbze2-1.fna&oh=00_AYCV8TJ9rZquHu-nvz4-TFSZXLmCjer_LVQTms1bFpzHpA&oe=66A5D24D), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1815766327463907421) |\n| 2) **AlphaProof & Alpha Geometry 2** - solved 4 out of 6 problems in this year’s IMO which is the equivalent of a silver-medal score; AlphaProof consists of a Gemini model that automatically translates natural language problem statements into formal statements (i.e., formalizer network); then a solver network searches for proofs/disproofs and progressively trains itself using AlphaZero to learn to solve even more complex problems; AlphaGeometry 2, a neuro symbolic hybrid system, proved the geometry problem; based on the Gemini model and trained from scratch on large amounts of synthetic data. | [Paper](https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silver-medal-level/), [Tweet](https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1816498336171753948) |\n| 3) **RAG vs. Long-Context LLMs** - compares RAG and long-context LLMs and finds that long-context LLMs outperform RAG on average performance while RAG is significantly less expensive; proposes Self-Route, leveraging self-reflection to route queries to RAG or LC; reports that Self-Route significantly reduces computational cost while maintaining comparable performance to LC.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16833), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1816495687984709940) |\n| 4) **OpenDevin** - presents a platform to develop generalist agents that interact with the world through software; features include 1) an interaction mechanism for interaction between agents, interfaces, and environments, 2) an environment including a sandboxed operating system and web browser available to the agents, 3) interface to create and execute code, 4) multi-agent support, and 5) an evaluation framework. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16741), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1816872317286281688) |\n| 5) **LazyLLM** - introduces a novel dynamic token pruning method for efficient long-context LLM inference; it can accelerate the prefilling stage of a Llama 2 7B model by 2.34x and maintain high accuracy; it selectively computes the KV for tokens that are important for the next token prediction in both the prefilling and decoding stages; it allows language models to dynamically select different subsets of tokens from the context in different generation steps, even though they might be pruned in previous steps.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14057), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1815225416409309264) |\n| 6) **Teaching LLM Agents to Self-Improve** - claims it is possible to iteratively fine-tune LLMs with the ability to improve their own response over multiple turns with additional environment feedback; the LLM learns to recursively detect and correct its previous mistakes in subsequent iterations; improves the self-improvement abilities of 7B models on reasoning tasks (GSM8K and MATH), attaining an improvement over turns that’s unseen in strong proprietary models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18219),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1816671382585114855)  |\n| 7) **Text-to-SQL Survey** - provides a survey on employing LLMs for Text-to-SQL tasks, including prompt engineering techniques, fine-tuning methods, benchmarks, and more.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15186),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1815599057974223015)  |\n| 8) **MINT-1T** - open-sources a large-scale multimodal interleaved dataset consisting of 1 trillion tokens which has 3.4 billion images; it also includes new sources such as PDFs and ArXiv papers.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11271),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1816250935930142834)  |\n| 9) **Model Collapse on Synthetic Data** - investigates the effects of training models on recursively generated data; finds that training on model-generated content can cause irreversible defects where the original content distribution disappears; shows that the effect, referred to as model collapse, occurs in LLMs, VAEs, and GMMs; while tested on smaller scale models (~100M params), the authors suggest this effect is highly likely to transfer to larger models over time.  | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y), [Tweet](https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1816491442069782925)  |\n| 10) **Mitigating Hallucination via Generation Constraint** - proposes a new training-free approach to mitigate hallucination in LLMs; they scaled the readout vector that constrains generation in a memory-augmented LLM decoder; recent works claim that LLMs with explicit memory mechanisms can help lower hallucination; this work uses a memory-augmented LLM and constrains generation in the decoder by applying lightweight memory primitives to reduce hallucination. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16908), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1816491986209104104) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 15 - July 21) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Improving Legibility of LLM Outputs** - iteratively trains small verifiers to predict solution correctness, helpful provers to produce correct solutions accepted by the verifier, and sneaky provers that produce incorrect solutions that fool the verifier; this process helps train models that can produce text that is correct and easy to understand by both humans and AI systems which leads to more trustworthy systems.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13692), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1813623470452064432) |\n| 2) **SpreadsheetLLM** - presents an efficient encoding method to optimize an LLM’s understanding and reasoning capability on spreadsheets; develops a sheet compressor consisting of structural-anchor-based compression, inverse index translation, and data-format-aware aggregation modules to efficiently compress and encode spreadsheets; in GPT-4’s in-context learning, it improves performance in spreadsheet table detection by 25.6%.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09025), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1812674543963578794) |\n| 3) **Context Embeddings for Efficient Answer Generation in RAG** - proposes an effective context compression method to reduce long context and speed up generation time in RAG systems; the long contexts are compressed into a small number of context embeddings which allow different compression rates that trade-off decoding time for generation quality; reduces inference time by up to 5.69 × and GFLOPs by up to 22 × while maintaining high performance. | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09252), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1812937765769867561) |\n| 4) **Weak-to-Strong Reasoning** - demonstrates the use of weak supervision to elicit strong reasoning capabilities in LLMs without relying on human annotations or advanced models; reports that strong models can automatically refine their training data without explicitly being trained to do so; enables expanding a model's learning scope and scaling performance on reasoning. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13647), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1814130275485704597) |\n| 5) **A Survey of Prompt Engineering Methods in LLMs** - a collection of prompt engineering methods for a variety of NLP tasks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12994), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1814135222562165104) |\n| 6) **Does Refusal Training in LLMs Generalize to the Past Tense?** - finds that simply reformulating an LLM request into past tense can jailbreak many state-of-the-art LLMs; for example \"How to make a Molotov cocktail?\" can be rephrased as \"How did people make a Molotov cocktail?\"; finds that the success rate of such requests can increase from 1% to 88% using direct requests on GPT-4o; concludes that current alignment techniques may not always generalize as intended.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11969),  [Tweet](https://x.com/maksym_andr/status/1813608842699079750)  |\n| 7) **Can LLMs Do Retrieval and Reasoning in 1 Million Context Window?** - proposes a framework (NeedleBench) of progressively challenging tasks to assess the long-context retrieval and reasoning capabilities of LLMs; they also present the Ancestral Trace Challenge that increases the need for complex logical reasoning which is common in real-world long-context tasks; their findings suggest that current LLMs struggle to handle reasoning tasks with complex logical relationships, even with texts shorter than 2K tokens.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11963),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1813581074624070109)  |\n| 8) **Distilling System 2 into System 1** - investigates self-supervised methods to distill high-quality outputs from System 2 techniques and then fine-tune System 1 to match the predictions of the System 2 technique but without generating intermediate steps; the process of distilling reasoning into System 1 results in less inference cost.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06023v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/willccbb/status/1813012865454121179)  |\n| 9) **Exploring Advanced LLMs with LLMSuite** - shares practical tips for developing with and evaluating LLMs; solutions covered range from ReAct to RAG to parameter-efficient methods. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12036), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1813980712346763589)  |\n| 10) **Beyond Euclid** - provides an illustrated guide and graphical taxonomy of recent advances in non-Euclidean machine learning. | [Paper](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2407.09468), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1812927886766010653) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 8 - July 14) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **FlashAttention-3** - proposes to adapt FlashAttention to take advantage of modern hardware; the techniques used to speed up attention on modern GPUs include producer-consumer asynchrony, interleaving block-wise matmul and softmax operations, and block quantization and incoherent processing; achieves speedup on H100 GPUs by 1.5-2.0x with FP16 reaching up to 740 TFLOPs/s (75% utilization), and with FP8 reaching close to 1.2 PFLOPs/s. | [Paper](https://tridao.me/publications/flash3/flash3.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/tri_dao/status/1811453622070444071) |\n| 2) **RankRAG** - introduces a new instruction fine-tuning framework to perform effective context ranking and answering generation to enhance an LLM’s RAG capabilities; it leverages a small ranking dataset to outperform existing expert ranking models; shows that a Llama3-RankRAG significantly outperforms Llama3-ChatQA-1.5 and GPT-4 models on nine knowledge-intensive benchmarks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02485v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/_weiping/status/1808551184309104896) |\n| 3) **Mixture of A Million Experts** - introduces a parameter-efficient expert retrieval mechanism that leverages the product key technique for sparse retrieval from a million tiny experts; it attempts to decouple computational cost from parameter count by efficiently routing to a very large number of tiny experts through a learned index structure used for routing; demonstrates superior efficiency compared to dense FFW, coarse-grained MoEs, and Product Key Memory (PKM) layers.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04153), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1810389538340290724) |\n| 4) **Reasoning in LLMs: A Geometric Perspective** - explores the reasoning of LLMs from a geometrical perspective; reports that a higher intrinsic dimension implies greater expressive capacity of the LLM; reports that they establish a connection between the expressive power of LLMs and the density of their self-attention graphs; their analysis demonstrates that the density of these graphs defines the intrinsic dimension of the inputs to the MLP blocks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02678), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1810329294884741594) |\n| 5) **Contextual Hallucinations Mitigation in LLMs** - proposes a new method that detects and significantly reduces contextual hallucinations in LLMs (e.g., reduces by 10% in the XSum summarization task); builds a hallucination detection model based on input features given by the ratio of attention weights on the context vs. newly generated tokens (for each attention head); the hypothesis is that contextual hallucinations are related to the extent to which an LLM attends to the provided contextual information; they also propose a decoding strategy based on their detection method which mitigates the contextual hallucination; the detector can also be transferred across models without the need for retraining. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07071), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1811072508637884750) |\n| 6) **RouteLLM** - proposes efficient router models to dynamically select between stronger and weak LLMs during inference to achieve a balance between cost and performance; the training framework leverages human preference data and data augmentation techniques to boost performance; shows to significantly reduce costs by over 2x in certain cases while maintaining the quality of responses.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18665v2),  [Tweet](https://x.com/lmsysorg/status/1807812671238258931)  |\n| 7) **A Survey on Mixture of Experts** - a survey paper on Mixture of Experts (MoE), including the technical details of MoE, open-source implementations, evaluation techniques, and applications of MoE in practice.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06204),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1811127876819026283)  |\n| 8) **Internet of Agents** - a new framework to address several limitations in multi-agent frameworks such as integrating diverse third-party agents and adaptability to dynamic task requirements; introduces an agent integration protocol, instant messaging architecture design, and dynamic mechanisms for effective collaboration among heterogeneous agents.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07061v2),  [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1810872693501157855)  |\n| 9) **3DGen** - a new pipeline for end-to-end text-to-3D asset generation in under a minute; integrates state-of-the-art components like AssetGen and TextureGen to represent 3D objects in three ways, namely view space, in volumetric space, and in UV space; achieves a win rate of 68% with respect to the single-stage model.  | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/meta-3d-gen/), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1808157832497488201)  |\n| 10) **Learning at Test Time** - proposes new sequence modeling layers with linear complexity and an expressive hidden state; defines a hidden state as an ML model itself capable of updating even on test sequence; by a linear model and a two-layer MLP based hidden state is found to match or exceed baseline models like Transformers, Mamba, and modern RNNs; the linear model is faster than Transformer at 8k context and matches Mamba in wall-clock time. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04620), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1810148710258508046) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 1 - July 7) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **APIGen** - presents an automated data generation pipeline to synthesize high-quality datasets for function-calling applications; shows that 7B models trained on curated datasets outperform GPT-4 models and other state-of-the-art models on the Berkeley Function-Calling Benchmark; a dataset consisting of 60K entries is also released to help with research in function-calling enabled agents.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.18518), [Tweet](https://x.com/Benioff/status/1808365628551844186) |\n| 2) **CriticGPT** - a new model based on GPT-4 to help write critiques for responses generated by ChatGPT; trained using RLHF using a large number of inputs that contained mistakes for which it had to critique; built to help human trainers spot mistakes during RLHF and claims that CriticGPT critiques are preferred by trainers over ChatGPT critiques in 63% of cases on naturally occurring bugs. | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/llm-critics-help-catch-llm-bugs-paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1806372369151426673) |\n| 3) **Searching for Best Practices in RAG** - shows the best practices for building effective RAG workflows; proposes strategies that focus on performance and efficiency, including emerging multimodal retrieval techniques.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01219), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1808177231342018748) |\n| 4) **Scaling Synthetic Data Creation** - proposes 1 billion diverse personas to facilitate the creation of diverse synthetic data for different scenarios; uses a novel persona-driven data synthesis methodology to generate diverse and distinct data covering a wide range of perspectives; to measure the quality of the synthetic datasets, they performed an out-of-distribution evaluation on MATH. A fine-tuned model on their synthesized 1.07M math problems achieves 64.9% on MATH, matching the performance of gpt-4-turbo-preview at only a 7B scale.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.20094), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1807827401122238628) |\n| 5) **Self-Evaluation as a Defense Against Adversarial Attacks on LLMs** - proposes the use of self-evaluation to defend against adversarial attacks; uses a pre-trained LLM to build defense which is more effective than fine-tuned models, dedicated safety LLMs, and enterprise moderation APIs; they evaluate different settings like attacks on the generator only and generator + evaluator combined; it shows that building a dedicated evaluator can significantly reduce the success rate of attacks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03234), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1809241930963853621) |\n| 6) **Agentless** - introduces OpenAutoEncoder-Agentless which offers an agentless system that solves 27.3% GitHub issues on SWE-bench Lite; claims to outperform all other open-source AI-powered software engineering agents. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01489),  [Tweet](https://x.com/LingmingZhang/status/1808501612056629569)  |\n| 7) **Adaptable Logical Control for LLMs** - presents the Ctrl-G framework to facilitate control of LLM generations that reliably follow logical constraints; it combines LLMs and Hidden Markow Models to enable following logical constraints (represented as deterministic finite automata); Ctrl-G achieves over 30% higher satisfaction rate in human evaluation compared to GPT4. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13892),  [Tweet](https://x.com/HonghuaZhang2/status/1806727439823102325)  |\n| 8) **LLM See, LLM Do** - closely investigates the effects and effectiveness of synthetic data and how it shapes a model’s internal biases, calibration, attributes, and preferences; finds that LLMs are sensitive towards certain attributes even when the synthetic data prompts appear neutral; demonstrates that it’s possible to steer the generation profiles of models towards desirable attributes.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01490),  [Tweet](https://x.com/lushimabucoro/status/1808083881632878843)  |\n| 9) **Summary of a Haystack** - proposes a new task, SummHay, to test a model’s ability to process a Haystack and generate a summary that identifies the relevant insights and cites the source documents; reports that long-context LLMs score 20% on the benchmark which lags the human performance estimate (56%); RAG components is found to boost performance on the benchmark, which makes it a viable option for holistic RAG evaluation.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01370), [Tweet](https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1808420168558649479)  |\n| 10) **AI Agents That Matter** - analyzes current agent evaluation practices and reveals shortcomings that potentially hinder real-world application; proposes an implementation that jointly optimizes cost and accuracy and a framework to avoid overfitting agents. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01502), [Tweet](https://x.com/random_walker/status/1808138818182434955) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 24 - June 30) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **ESM3** - a new LLM-based biological model that generates a new green fluorescent protein called esmGFP; builds on a bidirectional transformer, uses masked language models for the objective function, leverages geometric attention to represent atomic coordinates, and applies chain-of-thought prompting to generate fluorescent proteins; estimates that esmGFP represents an equivalent of over 500 million years of natural evolution performed by an evolutionary simulator. | [Paper](https://evolutionaryscale-public.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/research/esm3.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/alexrives/status/1805559211394277697) |\n| 2) **Gemma 2** - presents a family of open models ranging between 2B to 27B parameters; demonstrates strong capabilities in reasoning, math, and code generation, outperforming models twice its size.  | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/gemma-2-report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1806352449956958501) |\n| 3) **LLM Compiler** - a suite of open pre-trained models (7B and 13B parameters) designed for code optimization tasks; it’s built on top of Code Llama and trained on a corpus of 546 billion tokens of LLVM-IR and assembly code; it’s also instruction fine-tuned to interpreter compiler behavior; achieves 77% of the optimizing potential of autotuning search and performs accurate disassembling 14% of the time compared to the autotuning technique on which it was trained.  | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/meta-large-language-model-compiler-foundation-models-of-compiler-optimization), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1806361623831171318) |\n| 4) **Enhancing RAG with Long-Context LLMs** - proposes LongRAG, which combines RAG with long-context LLMs to enhance performance; uses a long retriever to significantly reduce the number of extracted units by operating on longer retrieval units; the long reader takes in the long retrieval units and leverages the zero-shot answer extraction capability of long-context LLMs to improve performance of the overall system; claims to achieve 64.3% on HotpotQA (full-wiki), which is on par with the state-of-the-art model.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15319), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1805230323799560199) |\n| 5) **Improving Retrieval in LLMs through Synthetic Data** - proposes a fine-tuning approach to improve the accuracy of retrieving information in LLMs while maintaining reasoning capabilities over long-context inputs; the fine-tuning dataset comprises numerical dictionary key-value retrieval tasks (350 samples); finds that this approach mitigates the \"lost-in-the-middle\" phenomenon and improves performance on both information retrieval and long-context reasoning. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19292), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1806738385039692033) |\n| 6) **GraphReader** - proposes a graph-based agent system to enhance the long-context abilities of LLMs; it structures long text into a graph and employs an agent to explore the graph (using predefined functions guided by a step-by-step rational plan) to effectively generate answers for questions; consistently outperforms GPT-4-128k across context lengths from 16k to 256k. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14550v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1806802925517218078)  |\n| 7) **Faster LLM Inference with Dynamic Draft Trees** - presents a context-aware dynamic draft tree to increase the speed of inference; the previous speculative sampling method used a static draft tree for sampling which only depended on position but lacked context awareness; achieves speedup ratios ranging from 3.05x-4.26x, which is 20%-40% faster than previous work; these speedup ratios occur because the new method significantly increases the number of accepted draft tokens. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16858),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1805629496634294760)  |\n| 8) **Following Length Constraints in Instructions** - presents an approach for how to deal with length bias and train instruction following language models that better follow length constraint instructions; fine-tunes a model using DPO with a length instruction augmented dataset and shows less length constraint violations and while keeping a high response quality. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17744),  [Tweet](https://x.com/jaseweston/status/1805771223747481690)  |\n| 9) **On LLMs-Driven Synthetic Data Generation, Curation, and Evaluation** - survey on LLM-based synthetic data generation, curation, and evaluation.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15126), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1805652404404207919)  |\n| 10) **Adam-mini** - a new optimizer that reduces memory footprint (45%-50% less memory footprint) by using fewer learning rates and achieves on-par or even outperforms AdamW; it carefully partitions parameters into blocks and assigns a single high-quality learning that outperforms Adam; achieves consistent results on language models sized from 125M -7B for pre-training, SFT, and RLHF.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16793), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1805439246318125299) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 17 - June 23) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Claude 3.5 Sonnet** - a new model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on several common benchmarks such as MMLU and HumanEval; it outperforms Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4o on several benchmarks with the exception of math word problem-solving tasks; achieves strong performance on vision tasks which also helps power several new features like image-text transcription and generation of artifacts. | [Paper](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1803790676988920098) |\n| 2) **DeepSeek-Coder-V2** - competes with closed-sourced models on code and math generation tasks; achieves 90.2% on HumanEval and 75.7% on MATH; these results are higher than GPT-4-Turbo-0409 performance according to their report; includes a 16B and 236B parameter model with 128K context length.   | [Paper](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2/blob/main/paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1803078095219417475) |\n| 3) **TextGrad** - a new framework for automatic differentiation through backpropagation on textual feedback provided by an LLM; this improves individual components and the natural language helps to optimize the computation graph; it works by providing an objective function without tuning prompts or components; claims to achieve LeetCodeHard best scores and SoTA performance on GPQA when combined with GPT4o. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07496v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/james_y_zou/status/1800917174124740667) |\n| 4) **Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?** - conducts a deep performance analysis of long-context LLMs on in-context retrieval and reasoning; they first present a benchmark with real-world tasks requiring 1M token context; reports that long-context LLMs can rival state-of-the-art retrieval and RAG systems, without any explicit training on the tasks; suggests that compositional reasoning (required in SQL-like tasks) is still challenging for these LLMs; they also encourage the need for continued research on advanced prompting strategies as they noted significant boosts in performance when applying them for long context problems.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13121), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1804184820806766875) |\n| 5) **PlanRAG** - enhances decision making with a new RAG technique called iterative plan-then-RAG (PlanRAG); involves two steps: 1) an LM generates the plan for decision making by examining data schema and questions and 2) the retriever generates the queries for data analysis; the final step checks if a new plan for further analysis is needed and iterates on previous steps or makes a decision on the data; PlanRAG is found to be more effective than iterative RAG on the proposed Decision QA tasks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12430), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1803262374574448757) |\n| 6) **Mitigating Memorization in LLMs** - presents a modification of the next-token prediction objective called goldfish loss to help mitigate the verbatim generation of memorized training data; it uses a simple technique that excludes a pseudorandom subset of training tokens at training time; they show that the goldfish loss resists memorization and keeps the model useful; however, it may need to train for longer to more effectively learn from the training data. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10209),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1802729440163647754)  |\n| 7) **Monte Carlos Tree Self-Refine** - report to have achieved GPT-4 level mathematical olympiad solution using an approach that integrates LLMs with Monte Carlo Tree Search; this approach focuses on enhancing the mathematical reasoning performance of the system through capabilities such as systematic exploration, self-refinement, and self-evaluation.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07394v2),  [Tweet](https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1801259208341373013)  |\n| 8) **From RAG to Rich Parameters** - investigates more closely how LLMs utilize external knowledge over parametric information for factual queries; finds that in a RAG pipeline, LLMs take a “shortcut” and display a strong bias towards utilizing only the context information to answer the question, while relying minimally on their parametric memory. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12824),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1803254134289895555)  |\n| 9) **Open-Sora** - an open-source video generation model that can generate 16-second 720p videos; it’s a 1.1B parameter model trained on more than 30m data and now supports image-to-video; presents an enhanced diffusion model and video compression network for spatial and temporal compression; increases controllability of generations and reduces training costs. | [Paper](https://github.com/hpcaitech/Open-Sora/blob/main/docs/report_03.md), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1803176105010171957)  |\n| 10) **Tree Search for Language Model Agents** - proposes an inference-time tree search algorithm for LM agents to perform exploration and enable multi-step reasoning; it’s tested on interactive web environments and applied to GPT-4o to significantly improve performance; demonstrates that performance scales when increasing test-time compute. | [Paper](https://jykoh.com/search-agents/paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/kohjingyu/status/1803604487216701653) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 10 - June 16) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Nemotron-4 340B** - provides an instruct model to generate high-quality data and a reward model to filter out data on several attributes; demonstrates strong performance on common benchmarks like MMLU and GSM8K; it’s competitive with GPT-4 on several tasks, including high scores in multi-turn chat; a preference data is also released along with the base model. | [Paper](https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2024-06_nemotron-4-340b), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1802024352851878296) |\n| 2) **Discovering Preference Optimization Algorithms with LLMs** - proposes LLM-driven objective discovery of state-of-the-art preference optimization; no human intervention is used and an LLM is prompted to propose and implement the preference optimization loss functions based on previously evaluated performance metrics; discovers an algorithm that adaptively combined logistic and exponential losses.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08414), [Tweet](https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1801069076003082502) |\n| 3) **SelfGoal** - a framework to enhance an LLM-based agent's capabilities to achieve high-level goals; adaptively breaks down a high-level goal into a tree structure of practical subgoals during interaction with the environment; improves performance on various tasks, including competitive, cooperative, and deferred feedback environments  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04784), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1800183982404829457) |\n| 4) **Mixture-of-Agents** - an approach that leverages the collective strengths of multiple LLMs through a Mixture-of-Agents methodology; layers are designed with multiple LLM agents and each agent builds on the outputs of other agents in the previous layers; surpasses GPT-4o on AlpacaEval 2.0, MT-Bench and FLASK. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04692), [Tweet](https://x.com/togethercompute/status/1800536106729157054) |\n| 5) **Transformers Meet Neural Algorithmic Reasoners** - a new hybrid architecture that enables tokens in the LLM to cross-attend to node embeddings from a GNN-based neural algorithmic reasoner (NAR); the resulting model, called TransNAR, demonstrates improvements in OOD reasoning across algorithmic tasks | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09308), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1801448036389843228) |\n| 6) **Self-Tuning with LLMs** - improves an LLM’s ability to effectively acquire new knowledge from raw documents through self-teaching; the three steps involved are 1) a self-teaching component that augments documents with a set of knowledge-intensive tasks focusing on memorization, comprehension, and self-reflection, 2) uses the deployed model to acquire knowledge from new documents while reviewing its QA skills, and 3) the model is configured to continually learn using only the new documents which helps with thorough acquisition of new knowledge. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.06326),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1800552376513810463)  |\n| 7) **Sketching as a Visual Chain of Thought** - a framework that enables a multimodal LLM to access a visual sketchpad and tools to draw on the sketchpad; it can equip a model like GPT-4 with the capability to generate intermediate sketches to reason over complex tasks; improves performance on many tasks over strong base models with no sketching; GPT-4o equipped with SketchPad sets a new state of the art on all the tasks tested.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09403),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1801450829234188760)  |\n| 8) **Mixture of Memory Experts** - proposes an approach to significantly reduce hallucination (10x) by tuning millions of expert adapters (e.g., LoRAs) to learn exact facts and retrieve them from an index at inference time; the memory experts are specialized to ensure faithful and factual accuracy on the data it was tuned on; claims to enable scaling to a high number of parameters while keeping the inference cost fixed.   | [Paper](https://github.com/lamini-ai/Lamini-Memory-Tuning/blob/main/research-paper.pdf),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1801638552129700046)  |\n| 9) **Multimodal Table Understanding** - introduces Table-LLaVa 7B, a multimodal LLM for multimodal table understanding; it’s competitive with GPT-4V and significantly outperforms existing MLLMs on multiple benchmarks; also develops a large-scale dataset MMTab, covering table images, instructions, and tasks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08100), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1801271773796716646)  |\n| 10) **Consistent Middle Enhancement in LLMs** - proposes an approach to tune an LLM to effectively utilize information from the middle part of the context; it first proposes a training-efficient method to extend LLMs to longer context lengths (e.g., 4K -> 256K); it uses a truncated Gaussian to encourage sampling from the middle part of the context during fine-tuning; the approach helps to alleviate the so-called \"Lost-in-the-Middle\" problem in long-context LLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07138), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1800903031736631473) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 3 - June 9) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **NLLB** - proposes a massive multilingual model that leverages transfer learning across 200 languages; it’s based on a sparsely Gated Mixture of Experts architecture and trained on data via an approach tailored for low-resource languages; evaluates on 40K translations and achieves an average of 44% improvement in translation quality.  | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07335-x), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1798420492774432769) |\n| 2) **Extracting Concepts from GPT-4** - proposes a new scalable method based on sparse autoencoders to extract around 16 million interpretable patterns from GPT-4; the method demonstrates predictable scaling and is more efficient than previous techniques. | [Paper](https://openai.com/index/extracting-concepts-from-gpt-4/), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1798762092528586945) |\n| 3) **Mamba-2** - a new architecture that combines state space models (SSMs) and structured attention; it uses 8x larger states and trains 50% faster; the new state space duality layer is more efficient and scalable compared to the approach used in Mamba; it also improves results on tasks that require large state capacity.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.21060), [Tweet](https://x.com/_albertgu/status/1797651223035904355) |\n| 4) **MatMul-free LLMs** - proposes an implementation that eliminates matrix multiplication operations from LLMs while maintaining performance at billion-parameter scales; the performance between full precision Transformers and the MatMul-free models narrows as the model size increases; claims that by using an optimized kernel during inference, memory consumption is reduced by more than 10x.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02528), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1798373841741185261) |\n| 5) **Buffer of Thoughts** - presents a thought-augmented reasoning approach to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and robustness of LLM-based reasoning; it leverages a meta-buffer containing high-level thoughts (thought templates) distilled from problem-solving processes; the relevant thought template is then retrieved and instantiated with task-specific reasoning structures for the thought-augmented reasoning process; it demonstrates SOTA performance on 10 challenging tasks while requiring 12% of the cost of multi-query prompting methods like Tree-of-Thoughts.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04271), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1799113545696567416) |\n| 6) **SaySelf** - a training framework to teach LLMs to express more accurate fine-grained confidence estimates and self-reflective rationales; it performs supervised finetuning on a dataset that contains summaries of the difference between multiple reasoning chains; reinforcement learning is then applied to calibrate confidence estimates, encouraging the LLM to produce accurate, high-confidence predictions and penalize overconfidence in erroneous outputs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20974),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1797682549608833477) |\n| 7) **The Geometry of Concepts in LLMs** - studies the geometry of categorical concepts and how the hierarchical relations between them are encoded in LLMs; finds that simple categorical concepts are represented as simplices by the LLMs and complex concepts are represented as polytopes constructed from direct sums of simplices, which reflect the hierarchical structure.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01506),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1798010546522103898) |\n| 8) **Aligning LLMs with Demonstrated Feedback** - proposes a method to align LLMs to a specific setting via a very small number of demonstrations as feedback; it aligns LLM outputs to a user’s demonstrated behaviors and can learn fine-grained style and task alignment across domains; outperforms few-shot prompting, SFT, and self-play methods on the tested benchmarks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00888),  [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1797833884463472653) |\n| 9) **Towards Scalable Automated Alignment of LLMs** - provides an overview of methods used for alignment of LLMs; explores the 4 following directions: 1) aligning through inductive bias, 2) aligning through behavior imitation, 3) aligning through model feedback, and 4) aligning through environment feedback. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01252), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1798014572663583165)  |\n| 10) **AgentGym** - a new framework featuring various environments and tasks for broad, real-time, and concurrent agent exploration; builds a generally capable LLM-based agent with self-evolution abilities and explores its potential beyond previously seen data across tasks and environments. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04151), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1798904095669121443) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 27 - June 2) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Contextual Position Encoding** - proposes a new position encoding method, CoPE, to enable the position to be conditioned on context by incrementing position only on certain tokens; the position encoding is context-dependent and can represent different levels of position abstraction; the general position encoding method can attend to the i-th particular word, noun, or sentence; improves perplexity on language modeling and coding tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18719), [Tweet](https://x.com/jaseweston/status/1795978611784089799) |\n| 2) **Symbolic Chain-of-Thought** - proposes a method that improves the logical reasoning capabilities of LLMs by integrating symbolic expressions and logical rules with chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting; the prompting technique is called Symbolic Chain-of-Thought and it’s a fully LLM-based framework with the following key steps: 1) translates natural language context to symbolic format, 2) derives step-by-step plan to solve problems following symbolic logical rules, and 3) uses a verifier to check the translation and reasoning chain.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18357), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1795925943543898157) |\n| 3) **Abacus Embeddings** - achieves 99% accuracy on 100-digit addition problems by training on only 20-digit numbers with a single GPU; the main challenge this work addresses is the inability of transformers to track the exact position of digits; they do this by adding an embedding to each digit that encodes its position relative to the start of the number; these gains also transfer to multi-step reasoning tasks that include sorting and multiplication.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17399), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1795552696432202045) |\n| 4) **Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling** - presents an introduction to vision-language models along with key details of how they work and how to effectively train these models.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17247), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1795499770519392499) |\n| 5) **GNN-RAG** - combines the language understanding abilities of LLMs with the reasoning abilities of GNNs in a RAG style; the GNN extracts useful and relevant graph information while the LLM takes the information and leverages its capabilities to perform question answering over knowledge graphs (KGQA); GNN-RAG improves vanilla LLMs on KGQA and outperforms or matches GPT-4 performance with a 7B tuned LLM. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20139), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1796578239105679585) |\n| 6) **Attention as an RNN** - presents a new attention mechanism that can be trained in parallel (like Transformers) and be updated efficiently with new tokens requiring constant memory usage for inferences (like RNNs); the attention formulation is based on the parallel prefix scan algorithm which enables efficient computation of attention’s many-to-many RNN output; achieves comparable performance to Transformers on 38 datasets while being more time and memory-efficient.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13956),  [Tweet](https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1793933723756286075)  |\n| 7) **Aya23** - a family of multilingual language models that can serve up to 23 languages; it intentionally focuses on fewer languages and allocates more capacity to these languages; shows that it can outperform other massive multimodal models on those specific languages.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15032),  [Tweet](https://x.com/CohereForAI/status/1794044201677574446)  |\n| 8) **Are Long-LLMs A Necessity For Long-Context Tasks?** - claims that long-LLMs are not a necessity to solve long-context tasks; proposes a reasoning framework to enable short-LLMs to address long-context tasks by adaptively accessing and utilizing the context based on the presented tasks; it decomposes the long context into short contexts and processes them using a decision-making process.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15318),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1795188655243264299)  |\n| 9) **Financial Statement Analysis with LLMs** - claims that LLMs can generate useful insights from its analysis of trends and financial ratios; shows that GPT-4 performs on par with narrowly specialized models; and achieves a profitable trading strategy based on GPT’s predictions.  | [Paper](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4835311), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1794120780428546503)  |\n| 10) **SimPO** - a simpler and more effective approach for preference optimization with a reference-free reward; uses the average log probability of a sequence as an implicit reward (i.e., no reference model required) which makes it more compute and memory efficient; demonstrates that it outperforms existing approaches like DPO and claims to produce the strongest 8B open-source model. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14734), [Tweet](https://x.com/rasbt/status/1794711330085036061) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 20 - May 26) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet** - presents an effective method to extract millions of abstract features from an LLM that represent specific concepts; these concepts could represent people, places, programming abstractions, emotion, and more; reports that some of the discovered features are directly related to the safety aspects of the model; finds features directly related to security vulnerabilities and backdoors in code, bias, deception, sycophancy; and dangerous/criminal content, and more; these features are also used to intuititively steer the model’s output.  | [Paper](https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticity/index.html), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1792935506587656625) |\n| 2) **Agent Planning with World Knowledge Model** - introduces a parametric world knowledge model to facilitate agent planning; the agent model can self-synthesize knowledge from expert and sampled trajectories; this is used to train the world knowledge model; prior task knowledge is used to guide global planning and dynamic state knowledge is used to guide the local planning; demonstrates superior performance compared to various strong baselines when adopting open-source LLMs like Mistral-7B and Gemma-7B.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14205), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1793851075411296761) |\n| 3) **Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI** - analyzes the risks and opportunities of open-source generative AI models; argues that the overall benefits of open-source generative AI outweigh its risks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08597), [Tweet](https://x.com/fgirbal/status/1791454665764159794) |\n| 4) **Enhancing Answer Selection in LLMs** - proposes a hierarchical reasoning aggregation framework for improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs; the approach, called Aggregation of Reasoning (AoR), selects answers based on the evaluation of reasoning chains; AoR uses dynamic sampling to adjust the number of reasoning chains with respect to the task complexity; it uses results from the evaluation phase to determine whether to sample additional reasoning chains; a known flaw of majority voting is that it fails in scenarios where the correct answer is in the minority; AoR focuses on evaluating the reasoning chains to improve the selection of the final answer; AoR outperforms various prominent ensemble methods and can be used with various LLMs to improve performance on complex reasoning tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12939), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1793132875237163405) |\n| 5) **How Far Are We From AGI** - presents an opinion paper addressing important questions to understand the proximity to artificial general intelligence (AGI); it provides a summary of strategies necessary to achieve AGI which includes a detailed survey, discussion, and original perspectives.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10313v1) |\n| 6) **Efficient Inference of LLMs** - proposes a layer-condensed KV cache to achieve efficient inference in LLMs; only computes and caches the key-values (KVs) of a small number of layers which leads to saving memory consumption and improved inference throughput; can achieve up to 26x higher throughput than baseline transformers while maintaining satisfactory performance. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10637),  [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1792386318300749848)  |\n| 7) **Guide for Evaluating LLMs** - provides guidance and lessons for evaluating large language models; discusses challenges and best practices, along with the introduction of an open-source library for evaluating LLMs.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14782),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1793846120600474017)  |\n| 8) **Scientific Applications of LLMs** - presents INDUS, a comprehensive suite of LLMs for Earth science, biology, physics, planetary sciences, and more; includes an encoder model, embedding model, and small distilled models.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10725),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1792585422465335695)  |\n| 9) **DeepSeek-Prover** - introduces an approach to generate Lean 4 proof data from high-school and undergraduate-level mathematical competition problems; it uses the synthetic data, comprising of 8 million formal statements and proofs, to fine-tune a DeepSeekMath 7B model; achieves whole-proof generation accuracies of 46.3% with 64 samples and 52% cumulatively on the Lean 4 miniF2F test; this surpasses the baseline GPT-4 (23.0%) with 64 samples and a tree search RL method (41.0%). | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14333), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1793864788579090917)  |\n| 10) **Efficient Multimodal LLMs** - provides a comprehensive and systematic survey of the current state of efficient multimodal large language models; discusses efficient structures and strategies, applications, limitations, and promising future directions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10739v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1794072297260634244) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 13 - May 19) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **GPT-4o** - a new model with multimodal reasoning capabilities with real-time support across audio, vision, and text; it can accept as input any combination of text, audio, image, and video to generate combinations of text, audio, and image outputs; it’s reported to match GPT-4 Turbo performance while being 50% much faster and cheaper via APIs. | [Paper](https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1790072174117613963) |\n| 2) **Gemini 1.5 Flash** - a lightweight transformer decoder model with a 2M context window with multimodal capabilities; it is designed for efficiency and yields the fastest output generation of all models on several evaluated languages; overall, Gemini 1.5 Flash performs uniformly better compared to Gemini 1.0 Pro and even performs at a similar level to 1.0 Ultra on several benchmarks. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_v1_5_report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OriolVinyalsML/status/1791521517211107515) |\n| 3) **Veo** - Google Deepmind’s most capable video generation model generates high-quality, 1080p resolution videos beyond 1 minute; it supports masked editing on videos and can also generate videos with an input image along with text; the model can extend video clips to 60 seconds and more while keeping consistency with its latent diffusion transformer.  | [Paper](https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1790435824598716704) |\n| 4) **Chameleon** - a family of token-based mixed-modal models for generating images and text in any arbitrary sequence; reports state-of-the-art performance in image captioning and outperforms Llama 2 in text-only tasks and is also competitive with Mixtral 8x7B and Gemini-Pro; exceeds the performance of Gemini Pro and GPT-4V on a new long-form mixed-modal generation evaluation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09818), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1791263344714014733) |\n| 5) **Fine-tuning and Hallucinations** - studies the impact of fine-tuning on new knowledge on the hallucination tendencies of LLMs; the setup includes fine-tuning examples that include new knowledge; shows that LLMs struggle to acquire new factual knowledge via fine-tuning; also finds that as new knowledge is learned it increases the model’s tendency to hallucinate. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05904), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1788859706187882960) |\n| 6) **Zero-shot Tokenizer Transfer** - trains a hypernetwork taking a tokenizer as input and predicting the corresponding embeddings; it demonstrates generalization to new tokenizers both with encoder and decoder LLMs; reports that the method achieves performance close to the original models' performance in cross-lingual and coding tasks while reducing the length of the tokenized sequence. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07883),  [Tweet](https://x.com/bminixhofer/status/1790267652587258343)  |\n| 7) **WavCraft** - leverages LLMs to connect task-specific models for audio content creation and editing; decomposes users' instructions into several tasks and tackles each task collaboratively with the particular module; it can enable users to interact and produce audio content without explicit commands  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09527v3) |\n| 8) **RLHF Workflow** - provides an easily reproducible recipe for online iterative RLHF; discusses theoretical insights and algorithmic principles of online iterative RLHF and practical implementation.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07863v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/CaimingXiong/status/1790379121719361776)  |\n| 9) **You Only Cache Once** - a decoder-decoder LLM architecture that only caches key-value pairs once; it involves a cross-decoder stacked upon a self-decoder which efficiently encodes global key-value caches and the cross-encoder reuses the cache via cross-attention; this leads to a significant reduction in GPU memory use without sacrificing capabilities; achieves comparable performance to Transformer in various settings of scaling up model size and number of training token. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05254), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1788435838474355098)  |\n| 10) **CAT3D** - presents a method for creating anything in 3D by simulating the real-world capture process using a multi-view diffusion model; it can generate consistent novel views of a scene which can be used as input to 3D reconstruction techniques to produce 3D representation rendered in real-time; the scene from CAT3D can be generated in less than one minute and is reported to outperform existing methods on single image and few-view 3D scene creation tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10314), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1791294630614442009) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 6 - May 12) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **AlphaFold 3** -releases a new state-of-the-art model for accurately predicting the structure and interactions of molecules; it can generate the 3D structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and smaller molecules; the model is an improved version of the Evoformer module and then assembling its predictions using a diffusion network; the diffusion process starts with a cloud of atoms which converges to its final molecular structure. | [Paper](https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-deepmind-isomorphic-alphafold-3-ai-model/), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1788223454317097172) |\n| 2) **xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory** - attempts to scale LSTMs to billions of parameters using the latest techniques from modern LLMs and mitigating common limitations of LSTMs; to enable LSTMs the ability to revise storage decisions, they introduce exponential gating and a new memory mixing mechanism (termed sLSTM); to enhance the storage capacities of LSTMs, they add a matrix memory and a covariance update rule (termed mLSTM); Both the sLSTM and xLSTM cells stabilize their exponential gates using the same technique; these extensions lead to xLSTM blocks that are residually stacked into the final xLSTM architecture; compared to Transformers, xLSTMs have a linear computation and constant memory complexity concerning the sequence length; the xLSTM architecture is shown to be efficient at handling different aspects of long context problems; achieves better validation perplexities when compared to different model classes like Transformers, SSMs, and RNNs.| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04517), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1788236090265977224) |\n| 3) **DeepSeek-V2** -a strong MoE model comprising 236B parameters, of which 21B are activated for each token; supports a context length of 128K tokens and uses Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) for efficient inference by compressing the Key-Value (KV) cache into a latent vector; DeepSeek-V2 and its chat versions achieve top-tier performance among open-source models.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04434v2), [Tweet](https://x.com/p_nawrot/status/1788479672067481664) |\n| 4) **AlphaMath Almost Zero** - enhances LLMs with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to improve mathematical reasoning capabilities; the MCTS framework extends the LLM to achieve a more effective balance between exploration and exploitation; for this work, the idea is to generate high-quality math reasoning data without professional human annotations; the assumption is that a well pre-trained LLM already possesses mathematical knowledge to generate reasoning steps but needs better stimulation such as an advanced prompting or search strategy; unlike other methods such as Program-of-thought and Chain-of-thought, no solutions are required for the training data, just the math questions and the answers; the integration of LLMs, a value model, and the MCTS framework enables an effective and autonomous process of generating high-quality math reasoning data; the value model also aids the policy model in searching for effective solution paths. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03553), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1787678940158468283) |\n| 5) **DrEureka: Language Model Guided Sim-To-Real Transfer** - investigates using LLMs to automate and accelerate sim-to-real design; it requires the physics simulation for the target task and automatically constructs reward functions and domain randomization distributions to support real-world transfer; discovers sim-to-real configurations competitive with existing human-designed ones on quadruped locomotion and dexterous manipulation tasks. | [Paper](https://eureka-research.github.io/dr-eureka/assets/dreureka-paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1786429467537088741) |\n| 6) **Consistency LLMs** - proposes efficient parallel decoders that reduce inference latency by decoding n-token sequence per inference step; the inspiration for this work comes from the human's ability to form complete sentences before articulating word by word; this process can be mimicked and learned through fine-tuning pre-trained LLMs to perform parallel decoding; it is trained to perform parallel decoding by mapping randomly initialized n-token sequences to the same result yielded by autoregressive (AR) decoding in as few steps as possible; a consistency loss helps with multiple-token prediction and a standard AR loss prevents deviation from the target LLM and ensures generation quality. Shows 2.4x to 3.4x improvements in generation speed while preserving the generation quality. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00835),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1788594039865958762)  |\n| 7) **Is Flash Attention Stable?** - develops an approach to understanding the effects of numeric deviation and applies it to the widely-adopted Flash Attention optimization; finds that Flash Attention sees roughly an order of magnitude more numeric deviation as compared to Baseline Attention at BF16. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02803),  [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1787674624647414168)  |\n| 8) **Is Sora a World Simulator? A Comprehensive Survey on General World Models and Beyond** -  presents an overview of generative methodologies in video generation, where world models facilitate the synthesis of highly realistic visual content; examines challenges and limitations of world models, and discusses their potential future directions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03520v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/dair_ai/status/1789640682082091442)  |\n| 9) **MAmmoTH2** - harvest 10 million naturally existing instruction data from the pre-training web corpus to enhance LLM reasoning; the approach first recalls relevant documents, extracts instruction-response pairs, and then refines the extracted pairs using open-source LLMs; MAmmoTH2-7B's (Mistral) performance increases from 11% to 34% on MATH and from 36% to 67% on GSM8K. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03548), [Tweet](https://x.com/xiangyue96/status/1787684680336097645)  |\n| 10) **Granite Code Models** -introduce Granite, a series of code models trained with code written in 116 programming languages; it consists of models ranging in size from 3 to 34 billion parameters, suitable for applications ranging from application modernization tasks to on-device memory-constrained use cases; demonstrates that the models reach state-of-the-art performance among available open-source code LLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04324v1), [Code](https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-code-models), [Tweet](https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1788194161495052343) |\n\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 29 - May 5) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks** - proposes Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs); KANs apply learnable activation functions on edges that represent the weights; with no linear weights used, KANs can outperform MLPs and possess faster neural scaling laws; the authors show that KANs can be used as collaborators to help scientists discover mathematics and physical laws. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19756), [Tweet](https://x.com/ZimingLiu11/status/1785483967719981538) |\n| 2) **Better and Faster LLMs via Multi-token Prediction** - proposes a multi-token prediction approach that performs language modeling by training the predict the following n tokens using n independent output heads; the output heads operate on top of a shared transformer trunk; multi-token prediction is shown to be useful when using larger model sizes and can speed up inference up to 3x; the proposed 13B parameter models solves 12 % more problems on HumanEval and 17 % more on MBPP than comparable next-token models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19737), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1785486711646040440) |\n| 3) **Med-Gemini** - presents a family of multimodal models specialized in medicines and based on the strong multimodal and long-context reasoning capabilities of Gemini; achieves state-of-the-art performance on 10/14 benchmarks surpassing GPT-4 models; it achieves 91% accuracy on MedQA (USMLE) benchmark using an uncertainty-guided search strategy.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18416), [Tweet](https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1785247498744778886) |\n| 4) **When to Retrieve?** - presents an approach to train LLMs to effectively utilize information retrieval; it first proposes a training approach to teach an LLM to generate a special token, <RET>, when it's not confident or doesn't know the answer to a question; the fine-tuned model outperforms a base LLM in two fixed alternate settings that include never retrieving and always retrieving context  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19705), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1785498325913108556) |\n| 5) **A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented Language Models** - covers the most important recent developments in RAG and RAU systems; it includes evolution, taxonomy, and an analysis of applications; there is also a section on how to enhance different components of these systems and how to properly evaluate them; it concludes with a section on limitations and future directions.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19543), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1785666343062184422) |\n| 6) **An Open-source LM Specialized in Evaluating Other LMs** - open-source Prometheus 2 (7B & 8x7B), state-of-the-art open evaluator LLMs that closely mirror human and GPT-4 judgments; they support both direct assessments and pair-wise ranking formats grouped with user-defined evaluation criteria; according to the experimental results, this open-source model seems to be the strongest among all open-evaluator LLMs; the key seems to be in merging evaluator LMs trained on either direct assessment or pairwise ranking formats. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01535),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1786380398966014423)  |\n| 7) **Self-Play Preference Optimization** - proposes a self-play-based method for aligning language models; this optimation procedure treats the problem as a constant-sum two-player game to identify the Nash equilibrium policy; it addresses the shortcomings of DPO and IPO and effectively increases the log-likelihood of chose responses and decreases the rejected ones; SPPO outperforms DPO and IPO on MT-Bench and the Open LLM Leaderboard. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00675),  [Tweet](https://x.com/QuanquanGu/status/1785903241102049424)  |\n| 8) **Inner Workings of Transformer Language Models** - presents a technical introduction to current techniques used to interpret the inner workings of Transformer-based language models; it provides a detailed overview of the internal mechanisms implemented in these models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00208),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1786052338043466162)  |\n| 9) **Multimodal LLM Hallucinations** - provides an overview of the recent advances in identifying, evaluating, and mitigating hallucination in multimodal LLMs; it also provides an overview of causes, evaluation benchmarks, metrics, and other strategies to deal with challenges related to detecting hallucinations. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18930), [Tweet](https://x.com/DuaneJRich/status/1785220190411821111)  |\n| 10) **In-Context Learning with Long-Context Models** - studies the behavior in-context learning of LLMs at extreme context lengths with long-context models; shows that performance increases as hundreds or thousands of demonstrations are used; demonstrates that long-context ICL is less sensitive to random input shuffling than short-context ICL; concludes that the effectiveness of long-context LLMs is not due to task learning but from attending to similar examples. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00200), [Tweet](https://x.com/abertsch72/status/1786392584765538350) |\n\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 22 - April 28) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Phi-3** - a new 3.8B parameter language model called phi-3-mini trained on 3.3 trillion tokens and is reported to rival Mixtral 8x7B and GPT-3.5; has a default context length of 4K but also includes a version that is extended to 128K (phi-mini-128K); combines heavily filtered web data and synthetic data to train the 3.8B models; it also reports results on 7B and 14B models trained on 4.8T tokens (phi-3-small and phi-3-medium) | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14219), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1782780923806699716) |\n| 2) **OpenELM** - a new open language model that employs a layer-wise scaling strategy to efficiently allocate parameters and leading to better efficiency and accuracy; comes with different sizes such as 270M, 450M, 1.1B, and 3B; achieves a 2.36% improvement in accuracy compared to OLMo while requiring 2× fewer pre-training tokens. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14619), [Tweet](https://x.com/rasbt/status/1783480053847736713) |\n| 3) **Arctic** - an open-source LLM (Apache 2.0 license.) that uses a unique Dense-MoE Hybrid transformer architecture; performs on par with Llama3 70B in enterprise metrics like coding (HumanEval+ & MBPP+), SQL (Spider) and instruction following (IFEval); claims to use 17x less compute budget than Llama 3 70B; the training compute is roughly under $2 million (less than 3K GPU weeks).   | [Paper](https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundation-language-models-snowflake/), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1783176059694821632) |\n| 4) **Make Your LLM Fully Utilize the Context** - presents an approach to overcome the lost-in-the-middle challenge common in LLMs. It applies an explicit \"information-intensive\" training procedure on Mistral-7B to enable the LLM to fully utilize the context. It leverages a synthetic dataset where the answer requires fine-grained information awareness on a short segment (∼128 tokens) within a synthesized long context (4K−32K tokens), and 2) the integration and reasoning of information from two or more short segments. The resulting model, FILM-7B (Fill-in-the-Middle), shows that it can robustly retrieve information from different positions in its 32K context window.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16811), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1783905514578980949) |\n| 5) **FineWeb** - a large-scale web dataset containing 15 trillion tokens for training language models; filters and deduplicates CommonCrawl between 2013 and 2024 and the goal is to improve the quality of the data.  | [Paper](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb), [Tweet](https://x.com/gui_penedo/status/1781953413938557276) |\n| 6) **AI-powered Gene Editors** - achieves precision editing of the human genome with a programmable gene editor design with an AI system powered by an LLM trained on biological diversity at scale.  | [Paper](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590591v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/thisismadani/status/1782510590839406904)  |\n| 7) **AutoCrawler** - Combines LLMs with crawlers with the goal of helping crawlers handle diverse and changing web environments more efficiently; the web crawler agent leverages the hierarchical structure of HTML for progressive understanding; employs top-down and step-back operations, and leverages the DOM tree structure, to generate a complete and executable crawler.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12753),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1782462314983071757)  |\n| 8) **Graph Machine Learning in the Era of LLMs** - provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements for Graph ML in the era of LLMs; covers the recent developments in Graph ML, how LLM can enhance graph features, and how it can address issues such as OOD and graph heterogeneity.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14928),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1783171591020392886)  |\n| 9) **Self-Evolution of LLMs** - provides a comprehensive survey on self-evolution approaches in LLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14387), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1782777977526231440)  |\n| 10) **Naturalized Execution Tuning (NExT)** - trains an LLM to have the ability to inspect the execution traced of programs and reason about run-time behavior via synthetic chain-of-thought rationales; improves the fix rate of a PaLM 2 model on MBPP and Human by 26.1% and 14.3%; the model also shows that it can generalize to unknown scenarios. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14662), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnsongNi/status/1783311827390070941) |\n\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 15 - April 21) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Llama 3** - a family of LLMs that include 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned models; Llama 3 8B outperforms Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B Instruct; Llama 3 70 broadly outperforms Gemini Pro 1.5 and Claude 3 Sonnet.  | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_content=video&utm_campaign=llama3), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1780997403979735440) |\n| 2) **Mixtral 8x22B** - a new open-source sparse mixture-of-experts model that reports that compared to the other community models, it delivers the best performance/cost ratio on MMLU; shows strong performance on reasoning, knowledge retrieval, maths, and coding. | [Paper](https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-8x22b/), [Tweet](https://x.com/MistralAILabs/status/1780596888473072029) |\n| 3) **Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt** - attempts to replicate the third estimation procedure of the compute-optimal scaling law proposed in Hoffmann et al. (2022) (i.e., Chinchilla scaling); finds that “the reported estimates are inconsistent with their first two estimation methods, fail at fitting the extracted data, and report implausibly narrow confidence intervals.” | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10102), [Tweet](https://x.com/tamaybes/status/1780639257389904013) |\n| 4) **How Faithful are RAG Models?** - aims to quantify the tug-of-war between RAG and LLMs' internal prior; it focuses on GPT-4 and other LLMs on question answering for the analysis; finds that providing correct retrieved information fixes most of the model mistakes (94% accuracy); when the documents contain more incorrect values and the LLM's internal prior is weak, the LLM is more likely to recite incorrect information; the LLMs are found to be more resistant when they have a stronger prior. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10198), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1780613738585903182) |\n| 5) **A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation for LLMs** - presents a comprehensive overview of the RAG domain, its evolution, and challenges; it includes a detailed discussion of four important aspects of RAG systems: pre-retrieval, retrieval, post-retrieval, and generation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10981), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1780961995178594324) |\n| 6) **The Illusion of State in State-Space Models** - investigates the expressive power of state space models (SSMs) and reveals that it is limited similar to transformers in that SSMs cannot express computation outside the complexity class 𝖳𝖢^0; finds that SSMs cannot solve state-tracking problems like permutation composition and other tasks such as evaluating code or tracking entities in a long narrative. |  [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08819),  [Tweet](https://x.com/lambdaviking/status/1780246351520887281)  |\n| 7) **Reducing Hallucination in Structured Outputs via RAG** - discusses how to deploy an efficient RAG system for structured output tasks; the RAG system combines a small language model with a very small retriever; it shows that RAG can enable deploying powerful LLM-powered systems in limited-resource settings while mitigating issues like hallucination and increasing the reliability of outputs.| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08189),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1779896289745846778)  |\n| 8) **Emerging AI Agent Architectures** - presents a concise summary of emerging AI agent architectures; it focuses the discussion on capabilities like reasoning, planning, and tool calling which are all needed to build complex AI-powered agentic workflows and systems; the report includes current capabilities, limitations, insights, and ideas for future development of AI agent design. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11584),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1780958785785200756)  |\n| 9)  **LM In-Context Recall is Prompt Dependent** - analyzes the in-context recall performance of different LLMs using several needle-in-a-haystack tests; shows various LLMs recall facts at different lengths and depths; finds that a model's recall performance is significantly affected by small changes in the prompt; the interplay between prompt content and training data can degrade the response quality; the recall ability of a model can be improved with increasing size, enhancing the attention mechanism, trying different training strategies, and applying fine-tuning.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08865), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1780244042007122129)  |\n| 10) **A Survey on State Space Models** - a survey paper on state space models (SSMs) with experimental comparison and analysis; it reviews current SSMs, improvements compared to alternatives, challenges, and their applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09516), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1781430319926686190) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 8 - April 14) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Leave No Context Behind** - integrates compressive memory into a vanilla dot-product attention layer; the goal is to enable Transformer LLMs to effectively process infinitely long inputs with bounded memory footprint and computation; proposes a new attention technique called Infini-attention which incorporates a compressive memory module into a vanilla attention mechanism; it builds in both masked local attention and long-term linear attention into a single Transformer block; this allows the Infini-Transformer model to efficiently handle both long and short-range contextual dependencies; outperforms baseline models on long-context language modeling with a 114x compression ratio of memory.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07143), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1778480897198612839) |\n| 2) **OpenEQA** - proposes an open-vocabulary benchmark dataset to measure the capabilities of AI models to perform embodied question answering (EQA); it contains 1600 human-generated questions composed from 180 real-world environments; also provides an LLM-powered evaluation protocol for the task and shows that models like GPT-4V are significantly behind human-level performance.| [Paper](https://open-eqa.github.io/assets/pdfs/paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1778425321118732578) |\n| 3) **CodeGemma** - a family of open code LLMs based on Gemma; CodeGemma 7B models excel in mathematical reasoning and match the code capabilities of other open models; the instruction-tuned CodeGemma 7B model is the more powerful model for Python coding as assessed via the HumanEval benchmark; results also suggest that the model performs best on GSM8K among 7B models; the CodeGemma 2B model achieves SoTA code completion and is designed for fast code infilling and deployment in latency-sensitive settings. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/codegemma_report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1777723836202467713) |\n| 4) **LM-Guided Chain-of-Thought** - applies knowledge distillation to a small LM with rationales generated by the large LM with the hope of narrowing the gap in reasoning capabilities; the rationale is generated by the lightweight LM and the answer prediction is then left for the frozen large LM; this resource-efficient approach avoids the need to fine-tune the large model and instead offloads the rationale generation to the small language model; the knowledge-distilled LM is further optimized with reinforcement learning using several rational-oriented and task-oriented reward signals; the LM-guided CoT prompting approach proposed in this paper outperforms both standard prompting and CoT prompting. Self-consistency decoding also enhances performance.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03414), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1777755819150373121) |\n| 5) **Best Practices and Lessons on Synthetic Data** - an overview by Google DeepMind on synthetic data research, covering applications, challenges, and future directions; discusses important topics when working with synthetic data such as ensuring quality, factuality, fidelity, unbiasedness, trustworthiness, privacy, and more.| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07503), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1778804848038683066) |\n| 6) **Reasoning with Intermediate Revision and Search** - presents an approach for general reasoning and search on tasks that can be decomposed into components; the proposed graph-based framework, THOUGHTSCULPT, incorporates iterative self-revision capabilities and allows an LLM to build an interwoven network of thoughts; unlike other approaches such as Tree-of-thoughts that shape the reasoning process using a tree, this new approach incorporates Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to efficiently navigate the search space; due to its ability for continuous thought iteration, THOUGHTSCULPT is particularly suitable for tasks such as open-ended generation, multip-step reasoning, and creative ideation.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05966),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1777896810805186757)  |\n| 7) **Overview of Multilingual LLMs** - a survey on multilingual LLMs including a thorough review of methods, a taxonomy, emerging frontiers, challenges, and resources to advance research | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04925),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1778063103906771105)  |\n| 8) **The Physics of Language Models** - investigates knowledge capacity scaling laws where it evaluates a model’s capability via loss or benchmarks, to estimate the number of knowledge bits a model stores; reports that \"Language models can and only can store 2 bits of knowledge per parameter, even when quantized to int8, and such knowledge can be flexibly extracted for downstream applications. Consequently, a 7B model can store 14B bits of knowledge, surpassing the English Wikipedia and textbooks combined based on our estimation.\" | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05405),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1777709227319968034)  |\n| 9) **Aligning LLMs to Quote from Pre-Training Data** - proposes techniques to align LLMs to leverage memorized information quotes directly from pre-training data; the alignment approach is not only able to generate high-quality quoted verbatim statements but overall preserve response quality; it leverages a synthetic preference dataset for quoting without any human annotation and aligns the target model to quote using preference optimization.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03862), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1777408054402646433)  |\n| 10) **The Influence Between NLP and Other Fields** - aims to quantify the degree of influence between 23 fields of study and NLP; the cross-field engagement of NLP has declined from 0.58 in 1980 to 0.31 in 2022; the study also finds that NLP citations are dominated by CS which accounts for over 80% of citations with emphasis on AI, ML, and information retrieval; overall, NLP is growing more insular -- higher growth of intra-field citation and a decline in multidisciplinary works. | [Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.797/), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1777337237794955586) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 1 - April 7) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Many-shot Jailbreaking** - proposes a jailbreaking technique called many-shot jailbreaking to evade the safety guardrails of LLMs; this jailbreaking technique exploits the longer context window supported by many modern LLMs; it includes a very large number of faux dialogues (~256) preceding the final question which effectively steers the model to produce harmful responses. | [Paper](https://www.anthropic.com/research/many-shot-jailbreaking), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1775211248239464837) |\n| 2) **SWE-Agent** - a new open-source agentic system that can automatically solve GitHub issues with similar accuracy as Devin on the SWE-bench; the agent interacts with a specialized terminal and enables important processing of files and executable tests to achieve good performance; on SWE-bench, SWE-agent resolves 12.29% of issues, achieving the state-of-the-art performance on the full test set.  | [Paper](https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent), [Tweet](https://x.com/jyangballin/status/1775114444370051582) |\n| 3) **Mixture-of-Depths** - demonstrates that transformer models can learn to efficiently and dynamically allocate FLOPs to specific positions in a sequence; this helps to optimize the allocation along the sequence for different layers across model depth; findings suggest that for a given FLOP budget models can be trained to perform faster and better than their baseline counterparts. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02258), [Tweet](https://x.com/TheSeaMouse/status/1775782800362242157) |\n| 4) **Local Context LLMs Struggle with Long In-Context Learning** - finds that after evaluating 13 long-context LLMs on long in-context learning the LLMs perform relatively well under the token length of 20K. However, after the context window exceeds 20K, most LLMs except GPT-4 will dip dramatically.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02060), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1775638933377786076) |\n| 5) **Visualization-of-Thought** - inspired by a human cognitive capacity to imagine unseen worlds, this new work proposes Visualization-of-Thought (VoT) prompting to elicit spatial reasoning in LLMs; VoT enables LLMs to \"visualize\" their reasoning traces, creating internal mental images, that help to guide subsequent reasoning steps; when tested on multi-hop spatial reasoning tasks like visual tiling and visual navigation, VoT outperforms existing multimodal LLMs. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03622), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1776082343813403063) |\n| 6) **The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of the Deeper Layers** - finds that a simple layer-pruning strategy of popular open-weight pretraining LLMs shows minimal performance degradation until after a large fraction (up to half) of the layers are removed; using a layer similarity mechanism optimal blocks are identified and pruned followed by a small amount of fine-tuning to heal damage  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17887v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1774858806817906971)  |\n| 7) **JetMoE** - an 8B model trained with less than $ 0.1 million cost but outperforms LLaMA2-7B; shows that LLM training can be much cheaper than generally thought; JetMoE-8B has 24 blocks where each block has two MoE layers: Mixture of Attention heads (MoA) and Mixture of MLP Experts (MoE); each MoA and MoE layer has 8 experts, and 2 experts are activated for each input token with 2.2B active parameters.  | [Paper](https://research.myshell.ai/jetmoe),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1775971009469768104)  |\n| 8) **Representation Finetuning for LMs** - proposes a method for representation fine-tuning (ReFT) that operates on a frozen base model and learns task-specific interventions on hidden representations; in other words, by manipulating a small fraction of model representations it is possible to effectively steer model behavior to achieve better downstream performance at inference time; also proposes LoReFT as a drop-in replacement for PEFTs that is 10-50x more parameter efficient. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03592),  [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1776057023697731913)  |\n| 9) **Advancing LLM Reasoning** - proposes a suite of LLMs (Eurus) optimized for reasoning and achieving SoTA among open-source models on tasks such as mathematics and code generation; Eurus-70B outperforms GPT-3.5 Turbo in reasoning largely due to a newly curated, high-quality alignment dataset designed for complex reasoning tasks; the data includes instructions with preference tree consisting of reasoning chains, multi-turn interactions and pairwise data for preference learning. | [Paper](https://github.com/OpenBMB/Eurus/blob/main/paper.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/lifan__yuan/status/1775217887701278798)  |\n| 10) **Training LLMs over Neurally Compressed Text** - explores training LLMs with neural text compressors; the proposed compression technique segments text into blocks that each compress to the same bit length; the approach improves at scale and outperforms byte-level baselines on both perplexity and inference speed benchmarks; latency is reduced to the shorter sequence length | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03626), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1776055420848631814) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (March 26 - March 31) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **DBRX** - a new 132B parameter open LLM that outperforms all the established open-source models on common benchmarks like MMLU and GSM8K; DBRX was pretrained on 12T tokens (text and code) and uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture; its inference is up to 2x faster than LLaMA2-70B and is about 40% of the size of Grok-1 in terms of both total and active parameter counts; there is also DBRX Instruct which demonstrates good performance in programming and mathematics; while DBRX is trained as a general-purpose LLM, it still surpasses CodeLLaMa-70 Instruct, a model built explicitly for code generation. | [Paper](https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1773018193885303266?s=20) |\n| 2) **Grok-1.5** - xAI’s latest long-context LLM for advanced understanding and reasoning and problem-solving capabilities; Grok-1.5 achieved a 50.6% score on the MATH benchmark and a 90% score on the GSM8K benchmark; this model can process long contexts of up to 128K tokens and demonstrates powerful retrieval capabilities. | [Paper](https://x.ai/blog/grok-1.5), [Tweet](https://x.com/xai/status/1773510159740063860?s=20) |\n| 3) **SEEDS** - a generative AI model based on diffusion models that shows powerful capabilities to quantify uncertainty in weather forecasting; it can generate a large ensemble conditioned on as few as one or two forecasts from an operational numerical weather prediction system.  | [Paper](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk4489), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1773774362413355099?s=20) |\n| 4) **LLMs for University-Level Coding Course** - finds that the latest LLMs have not surpassed human proficiency in physics coding assignments; also finds that GPT-4 significantly outperforms GPT-3.5 and prompt engineering can further enhance performance.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16977), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1772647466820685895?s=20) |\n| 5) **Mini-Gemini** - a simple framework to enhance multi-modality vision models; specifically, visual tokens are enhanced through an additional visual encoder for high-resolution refinement without token increase; achieves top performance in several zero-shot benchmarks and even surpasses the developed private models.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18814v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1773170068521713713?s=20) |\n| 6) **Long-form factuality in LLMs** - investigates long-form factuality in open-domain by generating a prompt set of questions including 38 topics; also proposes an LLM-based agent to perform evaluation for the task; finds that LLM agents can achieve superhuman rating performance and is reported to be 20 times cheaper than human annotations.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18802v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/JerryWeiAI/status/1773402343301877960?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Agent Lumos** - a unified framework for training open-source LLM-based agents; it consists of a modular architecture with a planning module that can learn subgoal generation and a module trained to translate them to action with tool usage. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05657),  [Tweet](https://x.com/Wade_Yin9712/status/1773792306791055397?s=20)  |\n| 8) **AIOS** - an LLM agent operation system that integrates LLMs into operation systems as a brain; the agent can optimize resource allocation, context switching, enable concurrent execution of agents, tool service, and even maintain access control for agents. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16971v2),  [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1772460132745547976?s=20)  |\n| 9) **FollowIR** - a dataset with instruction evaluation benchmark and a separate set for teaching information retrieval model to follow real-world instructions; a FollowIR-7B model has significant improvements (over 13%) after fine-tuning on a training set. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15246), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1772082608609833127?s=20)  |\n| 10) **LLM2LLM** - an iterative data augmentation strategy that leverages a teacher LLM to enhance a small seed dataset by augmenting additional data that can be used to effectively fine-tune models; it significantly enhances the performance of LLMs in the low-data regime, outperforming both traditional fine-tuning and other data augmentation baselines.| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15042), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1772078585903219007?s=20) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (March 18 - March 25) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Grok-1** - a mixture-of-experts model with 314B parameters which includes the open release of the base model weights and network architecture; the MoE model activates 25% of the weights for a given token and its pretraining cutoff date is October 2023. | [Paper](https://x.ai/blog/grok-os), [Tweet](https://x.com/ibab_ml/status/1769447989192675748?s=20) |\n| 2) **Evolutionary Model Merge** - an approach for automating foundation model development using evolution to combine open-source models; facilitates cross-domain merging where a Japanese Math LLM achieved state-of-the-art performance on Japanese LLM benchmarks, even surpassing models with significantly more parameters, despite not explicitly trained for these tasks.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13187), [Tweet](https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1770613032198279663?s=20) |\n| 3) **TacticAI** - an AI-powered assistant for football tactics developed and evaluated in collaboration with domain experts from Liverpool FC; the systems offer coaches a way to sample and explore alternative player setups for a corner kick routine and select the tactic with the highest predicted likelihood of success; TacticAI’s model suggestions are favored over existing tactics 90% of the time and it offers an effective corner kick retrieval system. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45965-x), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1770121564085707082?s=20) |\n| 4) **Tool Use in LLMs** - provides an overview of tool use in LLMs, including a formal definition of the tool-use paradigm, scenarios where LLMs leverage tool usage, and for which tasks this approach works well; it also provides an analysis of complex tool usage and summarize testbeds and evaluation metrics across LM tooling works.  | [Paper](https://zorazrw.github.io/files/WhatAreToolsAnyway.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1770497515898433896?s=20) |\n| 5) **Step-by-Step Comparisons Make LLMs Better Reasoners** - proposes RankPrompt, a prompting method to enable LLMs to self-rank their responses without additional resources; this self-ranking approach ranks candidates through a systematic, step-by-step comparative evaluation; it seems to work well as it leverages the capabilities of LLMs to generate chains of comparisons as demonstrations; RankPrompt significantly enhances the reasoning performance of ChatGPT and GPT-4 on many arithmetic and commonsense reasoning tasks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12373), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1770492690129359135?s=20) |\n| 6) **LLM4Decompile** - a family of open-access decompilation LLMs ranging from 1B to 33B parameters; these models are trained on 4 billion tokens of C source code and corresponding assembly code; the authors also introduce Decompile-Eval, a dataset for assessing re-compatibility and re-executability for decompilation and evaluating with a perspective of program semantics; LLM4Decompile demonstrates the capability to decompile 21% of the assembly code, achieving a 50% improvement over GPT-4. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05286v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1771218791399092351?s=20)  |\n| 7)  **Agent-FLAN** - designs data and methods to effectively fine-tune language models for agents, referred to as Agent-FLAN; this enables Llama2-7B to outperform prior best works by 3.5% across various agent evaluation datasets; Agent-FLAN greatly alleviates the hallucination issues and consistently improves the agent capability of LLMs when scaling model sizes while generally improving the LLM. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12881v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1770302813152690259?s=20)  |\n| 8) **LLMs Leak Proprietary Information** - shows that it’s possible to learn a large amount of non-public information about an API-protected LLM using the logits; with a relatively small number of API queries, the approach estimates that the embedding size of OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to be about 4,096; the paper also proposes guardrails against the attacks used | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09539),  [Tweet](https://x.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1768654579254579385?s=20)  |\n| 9) **DROID** - an open-source, large-scale robot manipulation dataset to train and build more capable and robust robotic manipulation policies; it contains 76K demonstration trajectories, collected across 564 scenes and 86 tasks; training with DROID leads to higher performing policies and generalization. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12945), [Tweet](https://x.com/chelseabfinn/status/1770311755140575413?s=20)  |\n| 10) **Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning** - combines the benefits of RAG and fine-tuning to improve a model's ability to answer questions in \"open-book\" in-domain settings; combining it with RAFT's CoT-style response helps to improve reasoning. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10131), [Tweet](https://x.com/cwolferesearch/status/1770912695765660139?s=20) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (March 11 - March 17) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **SIMA** - a generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments that follows natural-language instructions in a broad range of 3D virtual environments and video games; SIMA is evaluated across 600 basic skills, spanning navigation, object interaction, and menu use. Language seems to be a huge factor in performance. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/sima-generalist-ai-agent-for-3d-virtual-environments/Scaling%20Instructable%20Agents%20Across%20Many%20Simulated%20Worlds.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1767918515585994818?s=20) |\n| 2) **Retrieval Augmented Thoughts** - shows that iteratively revising a chain of thoughts with information retrieval can significantly improve LLM reasoning and generation in long-horizon generation tasks; the key idea is that each thought step is revised with relevant retrieved information to the task query, the current and past thought steps; Retrieval Augmented Thoughts (RAT) can be applied to different models like GPT-4 and CodeLlama-7B to improve long-horizon generation tasks (e.g., creative writing and embodied task planning); RAT is a zero-shot prompting approach and provides significant improvements to baselines that include zero-shot CoT prompting, vanilla RAG, and other baselines. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05313), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1767251740443746435?s=20) |\n| 3) **LMs Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking** - presents a generalization of STaR, called Quiet-STaR, to enable language models (LMs) to learn to reason in more general and scalable ways; Quiet-STaR enables LMs to generate rationales at each token to explain future text; it proposes a token-wise parallel sampling algorithm that helps improve LM predictions by efficiently generating internal thoughts; the rationale generation is improved using REINFORCE.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09629), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1768681638009975088?s=20) |\n| 4) **Knowledge Conflicts for LLMs** - an overview of the common issue of knowledge conflict when working with LLMs; the survey paper categorizes these conflicts into context-memory, inter-context, and intra-memory conflict; it also provides insights into causes and potential ways to mitigate these knowledge conflict issues. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08319), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1768288774532858003?s=20) |\n| 5) **Stealing Part of a Production Language Model** - presents the first model-stealing attack that extracts information from production language models like ChatGPT or PaLM-2; shows that it's possible to recover the embedding projection layer of a transformer-based model through typical API access; as an example, the entire projection matrix was extracted from the OpenAI ada and babbage models for under $20.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06634), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1767641831079067694?s=20) |\n| 6) **Branch-Train-MiX** - proposes mixing expert LLMs into a Mixture-of-Experts LLM as a more compute-efficient approach for training LLMs; it's shown to be more efficient than training a larger generalist LLM or several separate specialized LLMs; the approach, BTX, first trains (in parallel) multiple copies of a seed LLM specialized in different domains (i.e., expert LLMs) and merges them into a single LLM using MoE feed-forward layers, followed by fine-tuning of the overall unified model. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07816),  [Tweet](https://x.com/jaseweston/status/1767727740952682667?s=20)  |\n| 7) **LLMs Predict Neuroscience Results** - proposes a benchmark, BrainBench, for evaluating the ability of LLMs to predict neuroscience results; finds that LLMs surpass experts in predicting experimental outcomes; an LLM tuned on neuroscience literature was shown to perform even better. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03230),  [Tweet](https://x.com/ProfData/status/1765689739682754824?s=20)  |\n| 8) **C4AI Command-R** - a 35B parameter model, with a context length of 128K, optimized for use cases that include reasoning, summarization, and question answering; Command-R has the capability for multilingual generation evaluated in 10 languages and performant tool use and RAG capabilities; it has been released for research purposes. | [Paper](https://huggingface.co/CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01),  [Tweet](https://x.com/CohereForAI/status/1767275927505977455?s=20)  |\n| 9) **Is Cosine-Similarity Really About Simirity?** - studies embeddings derived from regularized linear models and derive analytically how cosine-similarity can yield arbitrary and meaningless similarities; also finds that for some linear models, the similarities are not even unique and others are controlled by regularization; the authors caution against blindly using cosine similarity and presents considerations and alternatives.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05440), [Tweet](https://x.com/_reachsumit/status/1767045820384477575?s=20)  |\n| 10) **Multimodal LLM Pre-training** - provides a comprehensive overview of methods, analysis, and insights into multimodal LLM pre-training; studies different architecture components and finds that carefully mixing image-caption, interleaved image-text, and text-only data is key for state-of-the-art performance; it also proposes a family of multimodal models up to 30B parameters that achieve SOTA in pre-training metrics and include properties such as enhanced in-context learning, multi-image reasoning, enabling few-shot chain-of-thought prompting. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09611), [Tweet](https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1769053019939967080?s=20) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (March 4 - March 10) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Claude 3** - consists of a family of three models (Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus); Claude 3 Opus (the strongest model) seems to outperform GPT-4 on common benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval; Claude 3 capabilities include analysis, forecasting, content creation, code generation, and converting in non-English languages like Spanish, Japanese, and French; 200K context windows supported but can be extended to 1M token to select customers; the models also have strong vision capabilities for processing formats like photos, charts, and graphs; Anthropic claims these models have a more nuanced understanding of requests and make fewer refusals.  | [Paper](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/de8ba9b01c9ab7cbabf5c33b80b7bbc618857627/Model_Card_Claude_3.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1764653830468428150?s=20) |\n| 2) **Robust Evaluation of Reasoning** - proposes functional benchmarks for the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of LLMs; finds that there is a reasoning gap with current models from 58.35% to 80.31%; however, the authors also report that those gaps can be reduced with more sophisticated prompting strategies.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19450), [Tweet](https://x.com/_saurabh/status/1763626711407816930?s=20) |\n| 3) **GaLore** - proposes a memory-efficient approach for training LLM through low-rank projection; the training strategy allows full-parameter learning and is more memory-efficient than common low-rank adaptation methods such as LoRA; reduces memory usage by up to 65.5% in optimizer states while maintaining both efficiency and performance for pre-training on LLaMA 1B and 7B architectures. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03507), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/1765613815146893348?s=20) |\n| 4) **Can LLMs Reason and Plan?** - a new position paper discusses the topic of reasoning and planning for LLMs; here is a summary of the author's conclusion: \"To summarize, nothing that I have read, verified, or done gives me any compelling reason to believe that LLMs do reasoning/planning, as normally understood. What they do instead, armed with web-scale training, is a form of universal approximate retrieval, which, as I have argued, can sometimes be mistaken for reasoning capabilities\".  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04121), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1766123621326475285?s=20) |\n| 5) **RAG for AI-Generated Content** - provides an overview of RAG used in different generation scenarios like code, image, and audio, including a taxonomy of RAG enhancements with reference to key papers. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19473v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1765414854397985175?s=20) |\n| 6) **KnowAgent** - proposes an approach to enhance the planning capabilities of LLMs through explicit action knowledge; uses an action knowledge base and a knowledgeable self-learning phase to guide the model's action generation, mitigate planning hallucination, and enable continuous improvement; outperforms existing baselines and shows the potential of integrating external action knowledge to streamline planning with LLMs and solve complex planning challenges. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03101),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1765408813467759037?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Sora Overview** - a comprehensive review of Sora and some of the key developments powering this model, including limitations and opportunities of large vision models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17177v2),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1765756669659603015?s=20)  |\n| 8) **LLM for Law** - introduces SaulLM-7B, a large language model for the legal domain explicitly designed for legal text comprehension and generation; presents an instructional fine-tuning method that leverages legal datasets to further enhance performance in legal tasks.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03883),  [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1765614083875738028?s=20)  |\n| 9) **Design2Code** - investigates the use of multimodal LLMs for converting a visual design into code implementation which is key for automating front-end engineering; introduces a benchmark of 484 diverse real-world webpages and a set of evaluation metrics to measure the design-to-code capability; further develops a suite of multimodal prompting methods and show their effectiveness on GPT-4V and Gemini Pro Vision; an open-source fine-tuned Design2Code matches the performance of Gemini Pro Vision, however, GPT-4V performs the best on the task.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03163), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1765199160653828385?s=20)  |\n| 10) **TripoSR** - a transformer-based 3D reconstruction model for fast feed-forward 3D generation; it can produce 3D mesh from a single image in under 0.5 seconds; improvement includes better data processing, model design, and training. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02151v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1764841524431392794?s=20) |\n\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (February 26 - March 3) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Genie** - a foundation model trained from internet videos and with the ability to generate a variety of action-controllable 2D worlds given an image prompt; Genie has 11B parameters and consists of a spatiotemporal video tokenizer, an autoregressive dynamic model, and a scalable latent action model; the latent action space enables training agents to imitate behaviors from unseen video which is promising for building more generalist agents.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15391), [Tweet](https://x.com/_rockt/status/1762026090262872161?s=20) |\n| 2) **Mistral Large** - a new LLM with strong multilingual, reasoning, maths, and code generation capabilities; features include: 1) 32K tokens context window, 2) native multilingual capacities, 3) strong abilities in reasoning, knowledge, maths, and coding benchmarks, and 4) function calling and JSON format natively supported. | [Paper](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1762140818654064721?s=20) |\n| 3) **The Era of 1-bit LLMs** - introduces a high-performing and cost-effective 1-bit LLM variant called BitNet b1.58 where every parameter is a ternary {-1, 0, 1}; given the same model size and training tokens, BitNet b1.58 can match the perplexity and task performance of a full precision Transformer LLM (i.e., FP16); the benefits of this 1-bit LLM are significantly better latency, memory, throughout, and energy consumption.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1762729757454618720?s=20) |\n| 4) **Dataset for LLMs** - a comprehensive overview (180+ pages) and analysis of LLM datasets.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18041), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1763233452852134001?s=20) |\n| 5) **LearnAct** - explores open-action learning for language agents through an iterative learning strategy that creates and improves actions using Python functions; on each iteration, the proposed framework (LearnAct) expands the action space and enhances action effectiveness by revising and updating available actions based on execution feedback; the LearnAct framework was tested on Robotic planning and AlfWorld environments; it improves agent performance by 32% in AlfWorld compared to ReAct+Reflexion. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15809), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1762533498492010761?s=20) |\n| 6) **EMO** - a new framework for generating expressive video by utilizing a direct audio-to-video synthesis approach; by leveraging an Audio2Video diffusion model it bypasses the need for intermediate 3D models or facial landmarks; EMO can produce convincing speaking videos and singing videos in various styles while outperforming existing methods in terms of expressiveness and realism. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17485),  [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1762686465777999932?s=20)  |\n| 7) **On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models** - a position paper with a focus on open foundation models and their impact, benefits, and risks; proposes a risk assessment framework for analyzing risk and explains why the marginal risk of open foundation models is low in some cases; it also offers a more grounded assessment of the societal impact of open foundation models.   | [Paper](https://crfm.stanford.edu/open-fms/),  [Tweet](https://x.com/sayashk/status/1762508812370551207?s=20)  |\n| 8) **StarCoder 2** - a family of open LLMs for code with three different sizes (3B, 7B, and 15B); the 15B model was trained on 14 trillion tokens and 600+ programming languages with a context window of 16K token and employing a fill-in-the-middle objective; it matches 33B+ models on many evaluation like code completion, code reasoning, and math reasoning aided through PAL. | [Paper](https://huggingface.co/blog/starcoder2),  [Tweet](https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1762843489220296881?s=20)  |\n| 9) **LLMs on Tabular Data** - an overview of LLMs for tabular data tasks including key techniques, metrics, datasets, models, and optimization approaches; it covers limitations and unexplored ideas with insights for future research directions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17944), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1763187964501254492?s=20)  |\n| 10) **PlanGPT** - shows how to leverage LLMs and combine multiple approaches like retrieval augmentation, fine-tuning, tool usage, and more; the proposed framework is applied to urban and spatial planning but there are a lot of insights and practical tips that apply to other domains.| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19273), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1763424166890377691?s=20) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (February 19 - February 25) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Stable Diffusion 3** - a suite of image generation models ranging from 800M to 8B parameters; combines diffusion transformer architecture and flow matching for improved performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and spelling abilities; technical report to be published soon and linked here. | [Paper](https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3), [Tweet](https://x.com/StabilityAI/status/1760656767237656820?s=20) |\n| 2) **Gemma** - a series of open models inspired by the same research and tech used for Gemini; includes 2B (trained on 2T tokens) and 7B (trained on 6T tokens) models including base and instruction-tuned versions; trained on a context length of 8192 tokens; generally outperforms Llama 2 7B and Mistral 7B.  | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/gemma-report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1760310942552686604?s=20) |\n| 3) **LLMs for Data Annotation** - an overview and a good list of references that apply LLMs for data annotation; includes a taxonomy of methods that employ LLMs for data annotation; covers three aspects: LLM-based data annotation, assessing LLM-generated annotations, and learning with LLM-generated annotations.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13446), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1760664562779431367?s=20) |\n| 4) **GRIT** - presents generative representational instruction tuning where an LLM is trained to perform both generative and embedding tasks and designed to distinguish between them via the instructions; produces new state-of-the-art on MTEB and the unification is reported to speed up RAG by 60% for long documents. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09906), [Tweet](https://x.com/Muennighoff/status/1758307967802224770?s=20) |\n| 5) **LoRA+** - proposes LoRA+ which improves performance and finetuning speed (up to ∼ 2X speed up), at the same computational cost as LoRA; the key difference between LoRA and LoRA+ is how the learning rate is set; LoRA+ sets different learning rates for LoRA adapter matrices while in LoRA the learning rate is the same. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12354), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1760063230406258892?s=20) |\n| 6) **Revisiting REINFORCE in RLHF** - shows that many components of PPO are unnecessary in an RLHF context; it also shows that a simpler REINFORCE variant outperforms both PPO and newly proposed alternatives such as DPO and RAFT; overall, it shows that online RL optimization can be beneficial and low cost. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14740),  [Tweet](https://x.com/sarahookr/status/1761042445997945070?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Recurrent Memory Finds What LLMs Miss** - explores the capability of transformer-based models in extremely long context processing; finds that both GPT-4 and RAG performance heavily rely on the first 25% of the input, which means there is room for improved context processing mechanisms; reports that recurrent memory augmentation of transformer models achieves superior performance on documents of up to 10 million tokens.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10790),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1759591371126571028?s=20)  |\n| 8) **When is Tree Search Useful for LLM Planning** - investigates how LLM solves multi-step problems through a framework consisting of a generator, discriminator, and planning method (e.g., iterative correction and tree search); reports that planning methods demand discriminators with at least 90% accuracy but current LLMs don’t demonstrate these discrimination capabilities; finds that tree search is at least 10 to 20 times slower but regardless of it good performance it’s impractical for real-world applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10890),  [Tweet](https://x.com/ysu_nlp/status/1759757711061704913?s=20)  |\n| 9) **CoT Reasoning without Prompting** - proposes a chain-of-thought (CoT) decoding method to elicit the reasoning capabilities from pre-trained LLMs without explicit prompting; claims to significantly enhance a model’s reasoning capabilities over greedy decoding across reasoning benchmarks; finds that the model's confidence in its final answer increases when CoT is present in its decoding path.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10200), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1758566808213234017?s=20)  |\n| 10) **OpenCodeInterpreter** - a family of open-source systems for generating, executing, and iteratively refining code; proposes a dataset of 68K multi-turn interactions; integrates execution and human feedback for dynamic code refinement and produces high performance on benchmarks like HumalEval and EvalPlus. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14658), [Tweet](https://x.com/xiangyue96/status/1760891516107862104?s=20) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (February 12 - February 18) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Sora** - a text-to-video AI model that can create videos of up to a minute of realistic and imaginative scenes given text instructions; it can generate complex scenes with multiple characters, different motion types, and backgrounds, and understand how they relate to each other; other capabilities include creating multiple shots within a single video with persistence across characters and visual style. | [Paper](https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1758192957386342435?s=20) |\n| 2) **Gemini 1.5** - a compute-efficient multimodal mixture-of-experts model that focuses on capabilities such as recalling and reasoning over long-form content; it can reason over long documents potentially containing millions of tokens, including hours of video and audio; improves the state-of-the-art performance in long-document QA, long-video QA, and long-context ASR. Gemini 1.5 Pro matches or outperforms Gemini 1.0 Ultra across standard benchmarks and achieves near-perfect retrieval (>99%) up to at least 10 million tokens, a significant advancement compared to other long-context LLMs. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_v1_5_report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1758151923612483839?s=20) |\n| 3) **V-JEPA** - a collection of vision models trained on a feature prediction objective using 2 million videos; relies on self-supervised learning and doesn’t use pretrained image encoders, text, negative examples, reconstruction, or other supervision sources; claims to achieve versatile visual representations that perform well on both motion and appearance-based tasks, without adaption of the model’s parameters. | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/revisiting-feature-prediction-for-learning-visual-representations-from-video/), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1758176023588577326?s=20) |\n| 4) **Large World Model** - a general-purpose 1M context multimodal model trained on long videos and books using RingAttention; sets new benchmarks in difficult retrieval tasks and long video understanding; uses masked sequence packing for mixing different sequence lengths, loss weighting, and model-generated QA dataset for long sequence chat; open-sources a family of 7B parameter models that can process long text and videos of over 1M tokens. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08268), [Tweet](https://x.com/haoliuhl/status/1757828392362389999?s=20) |\n| 5) **The boundary of neural network trainability is fractal** - finds that the boundary between trainable and untrainable neural network hyperparameter configurations is fractal; observes fractal hyperparameter landscapes for every neural network configuration and deep linear networks; also observes that the best-performing hyperparameters are at the end of stability. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06184), [Tweet](https://x.com/jaschasd/status/1756930242965606582?s=20) |\n| 6) **OS-Copilot** - a framework to build generalist computer agents that interface with key elements of an operating system like Linux or MacOS; it also proposes a self-improving embodied agent for automating general computer tasks; this agent outperforms the previous methods by 35% on the general AI assistants (GAIA) benchmark. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07456),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1757443594976206885?s=20)  |\n| 7) **TestGen-LLM** - uses LLMs to automatically improve existing human-written tests; reports that after an evaluation on Reels and Stories products for Instagram, 75% of TestGen-LLM's test cases were built correctly, 57% passed reliably, and 25% increased coverage. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09171),  [Tweet](https://x.com/nathanbenaich/status/1758036247115608317?s=20)  |\n| 8) **ChemLLM** - a dedicated LLM trained for chemistry-related tasks; claims to outperform GPT-3.5 on principal tasks such as name conversion, molecular caption, and reaction prediction; it also surpasses GPT-4 on two of these tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06852),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1757246740539773165?s=20)  |\n| 9) **Survey of LLMs** - reviews three popular families of LLMs (GPT, Llama, PaLM), their characteristics, contributions, and limitations; includes a summary of capabilities and techniques developed to build and augment LLM; it also discusses popular datasets for LLM training, fine-tuning, and evaluation, and LLM evaluation metrics; concludes with open challenges and future research directions.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06196), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1757049645119799804?s=20)  |\n| 10) **LLM Agents can Hack** - shows that LLM agents can automatically hack websites and perform tasks like SQL injections without human feedback or explicit knowledge about the vulnerability beforehand; this is enabled by an LLM’s tool usage and long context capabilities; shows that GPT-4 is capable of such hacks, including finding vulnerabilities in websites in the wild; open-source models did not show the same capabilities. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06664v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/emollick/status/1757937829340967240?s=20) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (February 5 - February 11) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search** - trains a 270M parameter transformer model with supervised learning on a dataset of 10 million chess games with up to 15 billion data points; reaches a Lichess blitz Elo of 2895 against humans, and solves a series of challenging chess puzzles; it shows the potential of training at scale for chess and without the need for any domain-specific tweaks or explicit search algorithms. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1755466387798020229?s=20) |\n| 2) **AnyTool** - an LLM-based agent that can utilize 16K APIs from Rapid API; proposes a simple framework consisting of 1) a hierarchical API-retriever to identify relevant API candidates to a query, 2) a solver to resolve user queries, and 3) a self-reflection mechanism to reactivate AnyTool if the initial solution is impracticable; this tool leverages the function calling capability of GPT-4 so no further training is needed; the hierarchical API-retriever is inspired by a divide-and-conquer approach to help reduce the search scope of the agents which leads to overcoming limitations around context length in LLMs; the self-reflection component helps with resolving easy and complex queries efficiently.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04253), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1755065033791283601?s=20) |\n| 3) **A Phase Transition between Positional and Semantic Learning in a Solvable Model of Dot-Product Attention** - investigates and expands the theoretical understanding of learning with attention layers by exploring the interplay between positional and semantic attention; it employs a toy model of dot-product attention and identifies an emergent phase transition between semantic and positional learning; shows that if provided with sufficient data, dot-product attention layer outperforms a linear positional baseline when using the semantic mechanism.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03902), [Tweet](https://x.com/zdeborova/status/1755158457785704771?s=20) |\n| 4) **Indirect Reasoning with LLMs** - proposes an indirect reasoning method to strengthen the reasoning power of LLMs; it employs the logic of contrapositives and contradictions to tackle IR tasks such as factual reasoning and mathematic proof; it consists of two key steps: 1) enhance the comprehensibility of LLMs by augmenting data and rules (i.e., the logical equivalence of contrapositive), and 2) design prompt templates to stimulate LLMs to implement indirect reasoning based on proof by contradiction; experiments on LLMs like GPT-3.5-turbo and Gemini Pro show that the proposed method enhances the overall accuracy of factual reasoning by 27.33% and mathematic proof by 31.43% compared to traditional direct reasoning methods.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03667), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1755254627866419707?s=20) |\n| 5) **ALOHA 2** - a low-cost system for bimanual teleoperation that improves the performance, user-friendliness, and durability of ALOHA; efforts include hardware improvements such as grippers and gravity compensation with a higher quality simulation model; this potentially enables large-scale data collection on more complex tasks to help advanced research in robot learning.  | [Paper](https://aloha-2.github.io/assets/aloha2.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/tonyzzhao/status/1755380475118719407?s=20) |\n| 6) **More Agents is All You Need** - presents a study on the scaling property of raw agents instantiated by LLMs; finds that performance scales when increasing agents by simply using a sampling-and-voting method. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05120),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1755794341069455376?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Self-Discovered Reasoning Structures** - proposes a new framework, Self-Discover, that enables LLMs to select from multiple reasoning techniques (e.g., critical thinking and thinking step-by-step) to compose task-specific reasoning strategies; outperforms CoT (applied to GPT-4 and PaLM 2) on BigBench-Hard experiments and requires 10-40x fewer inference compute than other inference-intensive methods such as CoT-Self-Consistency; the self-discovered reasoning structures are also reported to transfer well between LLMs and small language models (SLMs).   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03620),  [Tweet](https://x.com/peizNLP/status/1755265197953146997?s=20)  |\n| 8) **DeepSeekMath** - continues pretraining a code base model with 120B math-related tokens; introduces GRPO (a variant to PPO) to enhance mathematical reasoning and reduce training resources via a memory usage optimization scheme; DeepSeekMath 7B achieves 51.7% on MATH which approaches the performance level of Gemini-Ultra (53.2%) and GPT-4 (52.9%); when self-consistency is used the performance improves to 60.9%.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03300),  [Tweet](https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1754701472363958581?s=20)  |\n| 9) **LLMs for Table Processing** - provides an overview of LLMs for table processing, including methods, benchmarks, prompting techniques, and much more.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05121), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1755789530710339788?s=20)  |\n| 10) **LLM-based Multi-Agents** - discusses the essential aspects of LLM-based multi-agent systems; it includes a summary of recent applications for problem-solving and word simulation; it also discusses datasets, benchmarks, challenges, and future opportunities to encourage further research and development from researchers and practitioners. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01680), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1754710117734375429?s=20) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (January 29 - February 4) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **OLMo** - introduces Open Language Model (OLMo), a 7B parameter model; it includes open training code, open data, full model weights, evaluation code, and fine-tuning code; it shows strong performance on many generative tasks; there is also a smaller version of it, OLMo 1B. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00838), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1753080417530318872?s=20) |\n| 2) **Advances in Multimodal LLMs** - a comprehensive survey outlining design formulations for model architecture and training pipeline around multimodal large language models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13601), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1751705689964089616?s=20) |\n| 3) **Corrective RAG** - proposes Corrective Retrieval Augmented Generation (CRAG) to improve the robustness of generation in a RAG system; the core idea is to implement a self-correct component for the retriever and improve the utilization of retrieved documents for augmenting generation; the retrieval evaluator helps to assess the overall quality of retrieved documents given a query; using web search and optimized knowledge utilization operations can improve automatic self-correction and efficient utilization of retrieved documents.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15884), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1752173216942944556?s=20) |\n| 4) **LLMs for Mathematical Reasoning** - introduces an overview of research developments in LLMs for mathematical reasoning; discusses advancements, capabilities, limitations, and applications to inspire ongoing research on LLMs for Mathematics.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00157), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1753424518171738194?s=20) |\n| 5) **Compression Algorithms for LLMs** - covers compression algorithms like pruning, quantization, knowledge distillation, low-rank approximation, parameter sharing, and efficient architecture design.| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15347), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1752746770377974072?s=20) |\n| 6) **MoE-LLaVA** - employs Mixture of Experts tuning for Large Vision-Language Models which constructs a sparse model with a substantial reduction in parameters with a constant computational cost; this approach also helps to address performance degradation associated with multi-modal learning and model sparsity.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15947), [Tweet](https://x.com/LinBin46984/status/1753403875531375003?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Rephrasing the Web** - uses an off-the-shelf instruction-tuned model prompted to paraphrase web documents in specific styles and formats such as “like Wikipedia” or “question-answer format” to jointly pre-train LLMs on real and synthetic rephrases; it speeds up pre-training by ~3x, improves perplexity, and improves zero-shot question answering accuracy on many tasks.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16380),  [Tweet](https://x.com/pratyushmaini/status/1752337225097076809?s=20)  |\n| 8) **Redefining Retrieval in RAG** - a study that focuses on the components needed to improve the retrieval component of a RAG system; confirms that the position of relevant information should be placed near the query, the model will struggle to attend to the information if this is not the case; surprisingly, it finds that related documents don't necessarily lead to improved performance for the RAG system; even more unexpectedly, irrelevant and noisy documents can help drive up accuracy if placed correctly. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14887),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1751803310267314509?s=20)  |\n| 9) **Hallucination in LVLMs** - discusses hallucination issues and techniques to mitigate hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLM); it introduces LVLM hallucination evaluation methods and benchmarks; provides tips and a good analysis of the causes of LVLM hallucinations and potential ways to mitigate them. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00253), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1753449211931079101?s=20)  |\n| 10) **SliceGPT** - a new LLM compression technique that proposes a post-training sparsification scheme that replaces each weight matrix with a smaller dense matrix; helps reduce the embedding dimension of the network and can remove up to 20% of model parameters for Llama2-70B and Phi-2 models while retaining most of the zero-shot performance of the dense models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15024v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1751796334531592496?s=20) |\n\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (January 22 - January 28) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Depth Anything** - a robust monocular depth estimation solution that can deal with any images under any circumstance; automatically annotates large-scale unlabeled data (~62M) which helps to reduce generalization error; proposes effective strategies to leverage the power of the large-scale unlabeled data; besides generalization ability, it established new state-of-the-art through fine-tuning and even results in an enhanced depth-conditioned ControlNet. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10891v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1749284669936275463?s=20) |\n| 2) **Knowledge Fusion of LLMs** - proposes FuseLLM with the core idea of externalizing knowledge from multiple LLMs and transferring their capabilities to a target LLM; leverages the generative distributions of source LLMs to externalize both their collective knowledge and individual strengths and transfer them to the target LLM through continual training; finds that the FuseLLM can improve the performance of the target model across a range of capabilities such as reasoning, common sense, and code generation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10491), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1749267663900057620?s=20) |\n| 3) **MambaByte** - adapts Mamba SSM to learn directly from raw bytes; bytes lead to longer sequences which autoregressive Transformers will scale poorly on; this work reports huge benefits related to faster inference and even outperforms subword Transformers. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13660), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1750366964759859633?s=20) |\n| 4) **Diffuse to Choose** - a diffusion-based image-conditioned inpainting model to balance fast inference with high-fidelity while enabling accurate semantic manipulations in a given scene content; outperforms existing zero-shot diffusion inpainting methods and even few-shot diffusion personalization algorithms such as DreamPaint. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13795), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1750737690553692570?s=20) |\n| 5) **WARM** - introduces weighted averaged rewards models (WARM) that involve fine-tuning multiple rewards models and then averaging them in the weight space; average weighting improves efficiency compared to traditional prediction ensembling; it improves the quality and alignment of LLM predictions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12187), [Tweet](https://x.com/ramealexandre/status/1749719471806157304?s=20) |\n| 6) **Resource-efficient LLMs & Multimodal Models** - a survey of resource-efficient LLMs and multimodal foundations models; provides a comprehensive analysis and insights into ML efficiency research, including architectures, algorithms, and practical system designs and implementations. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08092v1),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1749208653926654010?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Red Teaming Visual Language Models** - first presents a red teaming dataset of 10 subtasks (e.g., image misleading, multi-modal jailbreaking, face fairness, etc); finds that 10 prominent open-sourced VLMs struggle with the red teaming in different degrees and have up to 31% performance gap with GPT-4V; also applies red teaming alignment to LLaVA-v1.5 with SFT using the proposed red teaming dataset, which improves model performance by 10% in the test set. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12915),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1750170361843384790?s=20)  |\n| 8) **Lumiere** - a text-to-video space-time diffusion model for synthesizing videos with realistic and coherent motion; introduces a Space-Time U-Net architecture to generate the entire temporal duration of a video at once via a single pass; achieves state-of-the-art text-to-video generation results and supports a wide range of content creation tasks and video editing applications, including image-to-video, video inpainting, and stylized generation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12945),  [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1751003814931689487?s=20)  |\n| 9) **Medusa** - a simple framework for LLM inference acceleration using multiple decoding heads that predict multiple subsequent tokens in parallel; parallelization substantially reduces the number of decoding steps; it can achieve over 2.2x speedup without compromising generation quality, while Medusa-2 further improves the speedup to 2.3-3.6x.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10774v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/jiayq/status/1749461664393810350?s=20)  |\n| 10) **AgentBoard** - a comprehensive benchmark with an open-source evaluation framework to perform analytical evaluation of LLM agents; helps to assess the capabilities and limitations of LLM agents and demystifies agent behaviors which leads to building stronger and robust LLM agents. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13178v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/ma_chang_nlp/status/1750369056539218082?s=20) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (January 15 - January 21) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **AlphaGeometry** - an AI system that acts as a theorem prover that can solve Olympiad geometry problems without human demonstrations; this system is trained on synthetic data involving millions of theorems and proofs across different levels of complexity; the data is used to train a neural language model that can solve olympiad-level problems and approaches the performance of an average International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) gold medallist. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1747651817461125352?s=20) |\n| 2) **AlphaCodium** -  a code-oriented iterative flow that improves LLMs on code generation; it involves two key steps to improve code generation capabilities in LLMs: i) additional generated data (problem self-reflection and test reasoning) to aid the iterative process, and ii) enriching public tests using additional AI-generated tests; using the CodeContests validation dataset, GPT-4 pass@5 accuracy increased from 19% using a single well-crafted prompt to 44% using the AlphaCodium flow; it even outperforms AlphaCode using a significantly smaller computation budget and 4 orders of magnitude fewer LLM calls. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08500), [Tweet](https://x.com/itamar_mar/status/1747957348293824676?s=20) |\n| 3) **RAG vs. Finetuning** - report discussing the tradeoff between RAG and fine-tuning when using LLMs like Llama 2 and GPT-4; performs a detailed analysis and highlights insights when applying the pipelines on an agricultural dataset; observes that there is an accuracy increase of over 6 p.p. when fine-tuning the model and this is cumulative with RAG, which increases accuracy by 5 p.p. further. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08406), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1747676541876596779?s=20) |\n| 4) **Self-Rewarding Models** - proposes a self-alignment method that uses the model itself for LLM-as-a-Judge prompting to provide its rewards during training; Iterative DPO is used for instruction following training using the preference pairs built from the generated data which comes from a self-instruction creation phase; using this approach, fine-tuning a Llama 2 70B model on three iterations can lead to a model that outperforms LLMs like Claude 2 and Gemini Pro on the AlpacaEval 2.0 leaderboard. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10020), [Tweet](https://x.com/jaseweston/status/1748158323369611577?s=20) |\n| 5) **Tuning Language Models by Proxy** - introduces proxy-tuning, a decoding-time algorithm that modifies logits of a target LLM with the logits’ difference between a small base model and a fine-tuned base model; this can enable a larger target base model to perform as well as would a fine-tuned version of it; proxy-tuning is applied to Llama2-70B using proxies of only 7B size to close 88% of the gap between Llama2-70B and its tuned chat version. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08565), [Tweet](https://x.com/rasbt/status/1748021765790376385?s=20) |\n| 6) **Reasoning with Reinforced Fine-Tuning** - proposes an approach, ReFT, to enhance the generalizability of LLMs for reasoning; it starts with applying SFT and then applies online RL for further refinement while automatically sampling reasoning paths to learn from; this differs from RLHF in that it doesn’t utilize a reward model learned from human-labeled data; ReFT demonstrates improved performance and generalization abilities on math problem-solving.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08967), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1747820246268887199?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Overview of LLMs for Evaluation** - thoroughly surveys the methodologies and explores their strengths and limitations; provides a taxonomy of different approaches involving prompt engineering or calibrating open-source LLMs for evaluation | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07103),  [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1748016227090305167?s=20)  |\n| 8) **Patchscopes** - proposes a framework that leverages a model itself to explain its internal representations; it decodes information from LLM hidden representations which is possible by “patching” representations into a separate inference pass that encourages the extraction of that information; it can be used to answer questions about an LLM’s computation and can even be used to fix latent multi-hop reasoning errors. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06102),  [Tweet](https://x.com/ghandeharioun/status/1746946621215003041?s=20)  |\n| 9) **The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Easy Training Data for Hard Tasks** - suggests that language models often generalize well from easy to hard data, i.e., easy-to-hard generalization; it argues that it can be better to train on easy data as opposed to hard data, even when the emphasis is on improving performance on hard data, and suggests that the scalable oversight problem may be easier than previously thought. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06751), [Tweet](https://x.com/peterbhase/status/1747301128683839998?s=20)  |\n| 10) **MoE-Mamba** -  an approach to efficiently scale LLMs by combining state space models (SSMs) with Mixture of Experts (MoE); MoE-Mamba, outperforms both Mamba and Transformer-MoE; it reaches the same performance as Mamba in 2.2x less training steps while preserving the inference performance gains of Mamba against the Transformer. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04081), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1744552215946100969?s=20) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (January 8 - January 14) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **InseRF** - a method for text-driven generative object insertion in the Neural 3D scenes; it enables users to provide textual descriptions and a 2D bounding box in a reference viewpoint to generate new objects in 3D scenes; InseRF is also capable of controllable and 3D-consistent object insertion without requiring explicit 3D information as input. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05335), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1745293576794255757?s=20) |\n| 2) **Sleeper Agents** - shows that LLMs can learn deceptive behavior that persists through safety training; for instance, an LLM was trained to write secure code for a specified year but given another year can enable exploitable code; this backdoor behavior can persist even when training LLMs with techniques like reinforcement learning and adversarial training. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566), [Tweet](https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1745854907968880970?s=20) |\n| 3) **Blending Is All You Need** - shows that effectively combining existing small models of different sizes (6B/13B parameters) can result in systems that can compete with ChatGPT level performance; the goal is to build a collaborative conversational system that can effectively leverage these models to improve engagement and quality of chat AIs and generate more diverse responses. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02994), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1744765981270950343?s=20) |\n| 4) **MagicVideo-V2** - proposes an end-to-end video generation pipeline that integrates the text-to-image model, video motion generator, reference image embedding module, and frame interpolation module; it can generate high-resolution video with advanced fidelity and smoothness compared to other leading and popular text-to-video systems.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04468), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1744918551415443768?s=20) |\n| 5) **Trustworthiness in LLMs** - a comprehensive study (100+ pages) of trustworthiness in LLMs, discussing challenges, benchmarks, evaluation, analysis of approaches, and future directions; proposes a set of principles for trustworthy LLMs that span 8 dimensions, including a benchmark across 6 dimensions (truthfulness, safety, fairness, robustness, privacy, and machine ethics); it also presents a study evaluating 16 mainstream LLMs in TrustLLM, consisting of over 30 datasets; while proprietary LLMs generally outperform most open-source counterparts in terms of trustworthiness, there are a few open-source models that are closing the gap. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05561), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1745645273915736553?s=20) |\n| 6) **Prompting LLMs for Table Understanding** - a new framework, inspired by Chain-of-Thought prompting, to instruct LLMs to dynamically plan a chain of operations that transforms a complex table to reliably answer the input question; an LLM is used to iteratively generate operations, step-by-step, that will perform necessary transformations to the table (e.g., adding columns or deleting info). | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04398), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1745164182205452603?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Jailbreaking Aligned LLMs** - proposes 40 persuasion techniques to systematically jailbreak LLMs; their adversarial prompts (also referred to as persuasive adversarial prompts) achieve a 92% attack success rate on aligned LLMs, like Llama 2-7B and GPT-4, without specialized optimization. | [Paper](https://chats-lab.github.io/persuasive_jailbreaker/), [Tweet](https://x.com/EasonZeng623/status/1744719354368029008?s=20) |\n| 8) **From LLM to Conversational Agents** - proposes RAISE, an advanced architecture to enhance LLMs for conversational agents; it's inspired by the ReAct framework and integrates a dual-component memory system; it utilizes a scratchpad and retrieved examples to augment the agent's capabilities; the scratchpad serves as transient storage (akin to short-term memory) and the retrieval module operates as the agent's long-term memory; this system mirrors human short-term and long-term memory and helps to maintain context and continuity which are key in conversational systems. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02777), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1744400054624846269?s=20)  |\n| 9) **Quantifying LLM’s Sensitivity to Spurious Features in Prompt Design** - finds that widely used open-source LLMs are extremely sensitive to prompt formatting in few-shot settings; subtle changes in prompt formatting using a Llama 2 13B model can result in a performance difference of up to 76 accuracy points. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11324), [Tweet](https://x.com/melaniesclar/status/1745557109419458695?s=20)  |\n| 10) **Adversarial Machine Learning** - a comprehensive survey that covers the current state of adversarial ML with a proper taxonomy of concepts, discussions, adversarial methods, mitigation tactics, and remaining challenges. | [Paper](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/ai/100/2/e2023/final), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1745819927695540671?s=20) |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (January 1 - January 7) - 2024\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Mobile ALOHA** - proposes a system that learns bimanual mobile manipulation with low-cost whole-body teleoperation; it first collects high-quality demonstrations and then performs supervised behavior cloning; finds that co-training with existing ALOHA datasets increases performance on complex mobile manipulation tasks such as sauteing and serving a piece of shrimp, opening a two-door wall cabinet to store heavy cooking pots while keeping the budget under $32K | [Paper](https://mobile-aloha.github.io/), [Tweet](https://x.com/zipengfu/status/1742973258528612724?s=20) |\n| 2) **Mitigating Hallucination in LLMs** - summarizes 32 techniques to mitigate hallucination in LLMs; introduces a taxonomy categorizing methods like RAG, Knowledge Retrieval, CoVe, and more; provides tips on how to apply these methods and highlights the challenges and limitations inherent in them. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01313), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1742633831234994189?s=20) |\n| 3) **Self-Play Fine-tuning** - shows that without acquiring additional human-annotated data, a supervised fine-tuned LLM can be improved; inspired by self-play, it first uses the LLM to generate its training data from its previous iterations; it then refines its policy by distinguishing the self-generated responses from those obtained from human-annotated data; shows that the method can improve LLM’s performance and outperform models trained via DPO with GPT-4 preference data. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01335), [Tweet](https://x.com/_zxchen_/status/1742661587436216615?s=20) |\n| 4) **LLaMA Pro** - proposes a post-pretraining method to improve an LLM’s knowledge without catastrophic forgetting; it achieves this by tuning expanded identity blocks using only new corpus while freezing the inherited blocks; uses math and code data to train a LLaMA Pro-8.3B initialized from Llama2-7B; these models achieve advanced performance on various benchmarks compared to base models while preserving the original general capabilities. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02415), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1743135851238805685?s=20) |\n| 5) **LLM Augmented LLMs** - explore composing existing foundation models with specific models to expand capabilities; introduce cross-attention between models to compose representations that enable new capabilities; as an example, a PaLM2-S model was augmented with a smaller model trained on low-resource languages to improve English translation and arithmetic reasoning for low-resource languages; this was also done with a code-specific model which led to a 40% improvement over the base code model on code generation and explanation tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02412), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1743094632618106981?s=20) |\n| 6) **Fast Inference of Mixture-of-Experts** - achieves efficient inference of Mixtral-8x7B models through offloading; it applies separate quantization for attention layers and experts to fit the model in combined GPU and CPU memory; designs a MoE-specific offloading strategy that enables running Mixtral-8x7B on desktop hardware and free-tier Google Colab instances | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17238), [Tweet](https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1741044633495326861?s=20) |\n| 7) **GPT-4V is a Generalist Web Agent** - explores the potential of GPT-4V as a generalist web agent; in particular, can such a model follow natural language instructions to complete tasks on a website? the authors first developed a tool to enable web agents to run on live websites; findings suggest that GPT-4V can complete 50% of tasks on live websites, possible through manual grounding of its textual plans into actions on the websites. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01614), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1742923330544706035?s=20) |\n| 8) **DocLLM** - a lightweight extension to traditional LLMs for reasoning over visual documents; focuses on using bounding box information to incorporate spatial layout structure; proposes a pre-training objective that addresses irregular layout and heterogeneous content present in visual documents; it’s then fine-tuned on an instruction-dataset and demonstrate SoTA performance on 14 out of 16 datasets across several document intelligence tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00908), [Tweet](https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1742572753251913742?s=20) |\n| 9) **How Code Empowers LLMs** - a comprehensive overview of the benefits of training LLMs with code-specific data. Some capabilities include enhanced code generation, enabling reasoning, function calling, automated self-improvements, and serving intelligent agents. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00812), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1742215295907811613?s=20) |\n| 10) **Instruct-Imagen** - proposes an image generation model that tackles heterogeneous image generation tasks and generalizes across unseen tasks; it first enhances the model’s ability to ground its generation on external multimodal context and then fine-tunes on image generation tasks with multimodal instructions | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01952), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1743108118630818039?s=20) |\n\n---\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (December 25 - December 31)\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **CogAgent** - presents an 18 billion parameter visual language model specializing in GUI understanding and navigation; supports high-resolution inputs (1120x1120) and shows abilities in tasks such as visual Q&A, visual grounding, and GUI Agent; achieves state of the art on 5 text-rich and 4 general VQA benchmarks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08914), [Tweet](https://x.com/cenyk1230/status/1739916469272789222?s=20) |\n| 2) **From Gemini to Q-Star** - surveys 300+ papers and summarizes research developments to look at in the space of Generative AI; it covers computational challenges, scalability, real-world implications, and the potential for Gen AI to drive progress in fields like healthcare, finance, and education. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10868), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1740119485011390558?s=20) |\n| 3) **PromptBench** - a unified library that supports comprehensive evaluation and analysis of LLMs; it consists of functionalities for prompt construction, prompt engineering, dataset and model loading, adversarial prompt attack, dynamic evaluation protocols, and analysis tools. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07910v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1739360426134028631?s=20) |\n| 4) **Exploiting Novel GPT-4 APIs** - performs red-teaming on three functionalities exposed in the GPT-4 APIs: fine-tuning, function calling, and knowledge retrieval; Main findings: 1) fine-tuning on as few as 15 harmful examples or 100 benign examples can remove core safeguards from GPT-4, 2) GPT-4 Assistants divulge the function call schema and can be made to execute arbitrary function calls, and 3) knowledge retrieval can be hijacked by injecting instructions into retrieval documents. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14302), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1739677995747450964?s=20) |\n| 5) **Fact Recalling in LLMs** - investigates how MLP layers implement a lookup table for factual recall; scopes the study on how early MLPs in Pythia 2.8B look up which of 3 different sports various athletes play; suggests that early MLP layers act as a lookup table and recommends thinking about the recall of factual knowledge in the model as multi-token embeddings.  | [Paper](https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/hpWHhjvjn67LJ4xXX/p/iGuwZTHWb6DFY3sKB), [Tweet](https://x.com/NeelNanda5/status/1738559368361349122?s=20) |\n| 6) **Generative AI for Math** - presents a diverse and high-quality math-centric corpus comprising of ~9.5 billion tokens to train foundation models. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17120), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1740564961032556942?s=20) |\n| 7) **Pricipled Instructions Are All You Need** - introduces 26 guiding principles designed to streamline the process of querying and prompting large language models; applies these principles to conduct extensive experiments on LLaMA-1/2 (7B, 13B and 70B), GPT-3.5/4 to verify their effectiveness on instructions and prompts design. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16171v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1739857456161759455?s=20) |\n| 8) **A Survey of Reasoning with Foundation Models** - provides a comprehensive survey of seminal foundational models for reasoning, highlighting the latest advancements in various reasoning tasks, methods, benchmarks, and potential future directions; also discusses how other developments like multimodal learning, autonomous agents, and super alignment accelerate and extend reasoning research. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11562v4), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1740729489661874632?s=20) |\n| 9) **Making LLMs Better at Dense Retrieval** - proposes LLaRA which adapts an LLM for dense retrieval; it consists of two pretext tasks: EBAE (Embedding-Based Auto-Encoding) and EBAR (Embedding-Based Auto-Regression), where the text embeddings from LLM are used to reconstruct the tokens for the input sentence and predict the tokens for the next sentence, respectively; a LLaMa-2-7B was improved on benchmarks like MSMARCO and BEIR. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15503v1) |\n| 10) **Gemini vs GPT-4V** - provides a comprehensive preliminary comparison and combination of vision-language models like Gemini and GPT-4V through several qualitative cases; finds that GPT-4V is precise and succinct in responses, while Gemini excels in providing detailed, expansive answers accompanied by relevant imagery and links.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15011v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1741177994377330895?s=20) |\n\n---\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (December 18 - December 24)\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Gemini’s Language Abilities** - provides an impartial and reproducible study comparing several popular models like Gemini, GPT, and Mixtral; Gemini Pro achieves comparable but slightly lower accuracy than the current version of GPT 3.5 Turbo; Gemini and GPT were better than Mixtral. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11444), [Tweet](https://x.com/gneubig/status/1737108966931673191?s=20)|\n| 2) **PowerInfer** - a high-speed inference engine for deploying LLMs locally; exploits the high locality in LLM inference to design a GPU-CPU hybrid inference engine; hot-activated neurons are preloaded onto the GPU for fast access, while cold-activated neurons (the majority) are computed on the CPU; this approach significantly reduces GPU memory demands and CPU-GPU data transfer. | [Paper](https://ipads.se.sjtu.edu.cn/_media/publications/powerinfer-20231219.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1737168751668187229?s=20)|\n| 3) **Discovery of a New Family of Antibiotics with Graph Deep Learning** - discovered a new structural class of antibiotics with explainable graph algorithms; the approach enables explainable deep learning guided discovery of structural classes of antibiotics which helps to provide chemical substructures that underlie antibiotic activity. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06887-8), [Tweet](https://x.com/EricTopol/status/1737505177052348545?s=20)|\n| 4) **VideoPoet** - introduces a large language model for zero-shot video generation; it’s capable of a variety of video generation tasks such as image-to-video and video stylization; trains an autoregressive model to learn across video, image, audio, and text modalities by using multiple tokenizers; shows that language models can synthesize and edit video with some degree of temporal consistency. | [Paper](https://sites.research.google/videopoet/), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1737235593078456389?s=20)_|\n| 5) **Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users** - introduces an LLM-based multimodal agent framework to operate smartphone applications; learns to navigate new apps through autonomous exploration or observing human demonstrations; shows proficiency in handling diverse tasks across different applications like email, social media, shopping, editing tools, and more. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13771), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1738265651188253051?s=20)_|\n| 6) **LLM in a Flash** - proposes an approach that efficiently runs LLMs that exceed the available DRAM capacity by storing the model parameters on flash memory but bringing them on demand to DRAM; enables running models up to twice the size of the available DRAM, with a 4-5x and 20-25x increase in inference speed compared to naive loading approaches in CPU and GPU, respectively. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514), [Tweet](https://x.com/gabrielnocode/status/1737307286887133552?s=20)_|\n| 7) **ReST Meets ReAct** - proposes a ReAct-style agent with self-critique for improving on the task of long-form question answering; it shows that the agent can be improved through ReST-style (reinforced self-training) iterative fine-tuning on its reasoning traces; specifically, it uses growing-batch RL with AI feedback for continuous self-improvement and self-distillation; like a few other recent papers, it focuses on minimizing human involvement (i.e., doesn't rely on human-labeled training data); it generates synthetic data with self-improvement from AI feedback which can then be used to distill the agent into smaller models (1/2 orders magnitude) with comparable performance as the pre-trained agent. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10003), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1736587397830176910?s=20)_|\n| 8) **Adversarial Attacks on GPT-4** - uses a simple random search algorithm to implement adversarial attacks on GPT-4; it achieves jailbreaking by appending an adversarial suffix to an original request, then iteratively making slight random changes to the suffix, and keeping changes if it increases the log probability of the token “Sure” at the first position of the response. | [Paper](https://www.andriushchenko.me/gpt4adv.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/maksym_andr/status/1737844601891983563?s=20)_|\n| 9) **RAG for LLMs** - an overview of all the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) research that has been happening. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10997v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1738354427759612222?s=20)_|\n| 10) **Findings of the BabyLLM Challenge** - presents results for a new challenge that involves sample-efficient pretraining on a developmentally plausible corpus; the winning submission, which uses flashy LTG BERT, beat Llama 2 70B on 3/4 evals; other approaches that saw good results included data preprocessing or training on shorter context.  | [Paper](https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.conll-babylm/), [Tweet](https://x.com/a_stadt/status/1737849248560066794?s=20)_|\n\n---\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (December 11 - December 17)\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **LLMs for Discoveries in Mathematical Sciences** - uses LLMs to search for new solutions in mathematics & computer science; proposes FunSearch which combines a pre-trained LLM with a systematic evaluator and iterates over them to evolve low-scoring programs into high-scoring ones discovering new knowledge; one of the key findings in this work is that safeguarding against LLM hallucinations is important to produce mathematical discoveries and other real-world problems. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1735332722208284797?s=20) |\n| 2) **Weak-to-strong Generalization** - studies whether weak model supervision can elicit the full capabilities of stronger models; finds that when naively fine-tuning strong pretrained models on weak model generated labels they can perform better than their weak supervisors; reports that finetuning GPT-4 with a GPT-2-level supervisor it’s possible to recover close to GPT-3.5-level performance on NLP tasks. | [Paper](https://cdn.openai.com/papers/weak-to-strong-generalization.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1735349718765715913?s=20) |\n| 3) **Audiobox** - a unified model based on flow-matching capable of generating various audio modalities; designs description-based and example-based prompting to enhance controllability and unify speech and sound generation paradigms; adapts a self-supervised infilling objective to pre-train on large quantities of unlabeled audio; performs well on speech and sound generation and unlocks new methods for generating audio with novel vocal and acoustic styles. | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/audiobox-unified-audio-generation-with-natural-language-prompts/), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1734257634008531453?s=20) |\n| 4) **Mathematical LLMs** - a survey on the progress of LLMs on mathematical tasks; covers papers and resources on LLM research around prompting techniques and tasks such as math word problem-solving and theorem proving. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07622), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1735323577392542084?s=20) |\n| 5) **Towards Fully Transparent Open-Source LLMs** - proposes LLM360 to support open and collaborative AI research by making the end-to-end LLM training process transparent and reproducible; releases 7B parameter LLMs pre-trained from scratch, AMBER and CRYSTALCODER, including their training code, data, intermediate checkpoints, and analyses.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06550), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1734591071575744820?s=20) |\n| 6) **LLMs in Medicine** - a comprehensive survey (analyzing 300+ papers) on LLMs in medicine; includes an overview of the principles, applications, and challenges faced by LLMs in medicine.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05112), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1734599425568231513?s=20) |\n| 7) **Beyond Human Data for LLMs** - proposes an approach for self-training with feedback that can substantially reduce dependence on human-generated data; the model-generated data combined with a reward function improves the performance of LLMs on problem-solving tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06585), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1734953578274386002?s=20) |\n| 8) **Gaussian-SLAM** - a neural RGBD SLAM method capable of photorealistically reconstructing real-world scenes without compromising speed and efficiency; extends classical 3D Gaussians for scene representation to overcome the limitations of the previous methods. | [Paper](https://vladimiryugay.github.io/gaussian_slam/), [Tweet](https://x.com/vlyug/status/1734683948440252480?s=20) |\n| 9) **Pearl** - introduces a new production-ready RL agent software package that enables researchers and practitioners to develop RL AI agents that adapt to environments with limited observability, sparse feedback, and high stochasticity.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03814), [Tweet](https://x.com/ZheqingZhu/status/1732880717263352149?s=20) |\n| 10) **Quip** - compresses trained model weights into a lower precision format to reduce memory requirements; the approach combines lattice codebooks with incoherence processing to create 2 bit quantized models; significantly closes the gap between 2 bit quantized LLMs and unquantized 16 bit models. | [Paper](https://cornell-relaxml.github.io/quip-sharp/), [Tweet](https://x.com/tsengalb99/status/1733222467953422702?s=20) |\n\n---\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (December 4 - December 10)\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Gemini** - a series of multimodal models with multimodal reasoning capabilities across text, images, video, audio, and code; claims to outperform human experts on MMLU, a popular benchmark to test the knowledge and problem-solving abilities of AI models; capabilities reported include multimodality, multilinguality, factuality, summarization, math/science, long-context, reasoning, and more. | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_1_report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1732434324291563831?s=20) |\n| 2) **EfficientSAM** - a lightweight Segment Anything Model (SAM) that exhibits decent performance with largely reduced complexity; leverages masked autoencoders with 20x fewer parameters and 20x faster runtime; EfficientSAM performs within 2 points (44.4 AP vs 46.5 AP) of the original SAM model.| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00863), [Tweet](https://x.com/fiandola/status/1732171016783180132?s=20)  |\n| 3) **Magicoder** - a series of fully open-source LLMs for code that close the gap with top code models while having no more than 7B parameters; trained on 75K synthetic instruction data; uses open-source references for the production of more diverse, realistic, high-quality, and controllable data; outperforms state-of-the-art code models with similar or even larger sizes on several coding benchmarks, including Python text-to-code generation, multilingual coding, and data-science program completion; MagicoderS-CL-7B based on CodeLlama surpasses ChatGPT on HumanEval+ (66.5 vs. 65.9 in pass@1).| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02120), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1732063926613946863?s=20)  |\n| 4) **LLMs on Graphs** - a comprehensive overview that summarizes different scenarios where LLMs are used on graphs such as pure graphs, text-rich graphs, and text-paired graphs | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02783), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1732404393037762588?s=20)  |\n| 5) **Llama Guard** - an LLM-based safeguard model that involves a small (Llama2-7B) customizable instruction-tuned model that can classify safety risks in prompts and responses for conversational AI agent use cases; the model can be leveraged in a zero-shot or few-shot way if you need to adapt it to a different safety risk taxonomy that meets the requirements for a target use case; it can also be fine-tune on a specific dataset to adapt to a new taxonomy.  | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/llama-guard-llm-based-input-output-safeguard-for-human-ai-conversations/), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1732781628139696279?s=20)  |\n| 6) **Human-Centered Loss Functions** - proposes an approach called Kahneman-Tversky Optimization (KTO) that matches or exceeds DPO performance methods at scales from 1B to 30B; KTO maximizes the utility of LLM generations instead of maximizing the log-likelihood of preferences as most current methods do. | [Paper](https://github.com/ContextualAI/HALOs/blob/main/assets/report.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/ethayarajh/status/1732837520784957476?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Chain of Code** - a simple extension of the chain-of-thought approach that improves LM code-driven reasoning; it encourages LMs to format semantic sub-tasks in a program as pseudocode that the interpreter can explicitly catch undefined behavior and hand off to simulate with an LLM; on BIG-Bench Hard, Chain of Code achieves 84%, a gain of 12% over Chain of Thought. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04474), [Tweet](https://x.com/ChengshuEricLi/status/1733169631949701425?s=20)  |\n| 8) **Data Management For LLMs** - an overview of current research in data management within both the pretraining and supervised fine-tuning stages of LLMs; it covers different aspects of data management strategy design: data quantity, data quality, domain/task composition, and more. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01700), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1731877232493166969?s=20)  |\n| 9) *8RankZephyr** - an open-source LLM for listwise zero-shot reranking that bridges the effectiveness gap with GPT-4 and in some cases surpasses the proprietary model; it outperforms GPT-4 on the NovelEval test set, comprising queries and passages past its training period, which addresses concerns about data contamination. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02724), [Tweet](https://x.com/lintool/status/1732430269485867114?s=20)  |\n| 10)  **The Efficiency Spectrum of LLMs** - a comprehensive review of algorithmic advancements aimed at improving LLM efficiency; covers various topics related to efficiency, including scaling laws, data utilization, architectural innovations, training and tuning strategies, and inference techniques. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00678), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1731696419457606048?s=20)  |\n\n---\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (November 27 - December 3)\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **GNoME** - a new AI system for material design that finds 2.2 million new crystals, including 380,000 stable materials; presents a new deep learning tool that increases the speed and efficiency of discovery by predicting the stability of new materials. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06735-9), [Tweet](https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1729995611443769823?s=20) |\n| 2) **Open-Source LLMs vs. ChatGPT** - provides an exhaustive overview of tasks where open-source LLMs claim to be on par or better than ChatGPT. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16989), [Tweet](https://x.com/sophiamyang/status/1730108858889097710?s=20) |\n| 3) **Adversarial Diffusion Distillation** - a novel training approach that efficiently samples large-scale foundation image diffusion models in just 1-4 steps while maintaining high image quality; combines score distillation and an adversarial loss to ensure high image fidelity even in the low-step regime of one or two sampling steps; reaches performance of state-of-the-art diffusion models in only four steps. | [Paper](https://stability.ai/research/adversarial-diffusion-distillation), [Tweet](https://x.com/robrombach/status/1729590281647870342?s=20) |\n| 4) **Seamless** - a family of research models that enable end-to-end expressive cross-lingual communication in a streaming fashion; introduces an improved SeamlssM4T model trained on more low-resource language data; also applies red-teaming effort for safer multimodal machine translation. | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/seamless-multilingual-expressive-and-streaming-speech-translation/), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1730294284023427221?s=20) |\n| 5) **MEDITRON-70B** - a suite of open-source LLMs with 7B and 70B parameters adapted to the medical domain; builds on Llama-2 and extends pretraining on a curated medical corpus; MEDITRON-70B outperforms GPT-3.5 and Med-PaLM and is within 5% of GPT-4 and 10% of Med-PaLM-2.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16079v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/eric_zemingchen/status/1729563855213175010?s=20) |\n| 6) **Foundation Models Outcompeting Special-Purpose Tuning** - performs a systematic exploration of prompt engineering to boost the performance of LLMs on medical question answering; uses prompt engineering methods that are general purpose and make no use of domain expertise; prompt engineering led to enhancing GPT-4’s performance and achieves state-of-the-art results on nine benchmark datasets in the MultiMedQA suite. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16452), [Tweet](https://x.com/erichorvitz/status/1729854235443884385?s=20) |\n| 7) **UniIR** - a unified instruction-guided multimodal retriever that handles eight retrieval tasks across modalities; can generalize to unseen retrieval tasks and achieves robust performance across existing datasets and zero-shot generalization to new tasks; presents a multimodal retrieval benchmark to help standardize the evaluation of multimodal information retrieval. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17136), [Tweet](https://x.com/CongWei1230/status/1730307767469068476?s=20) |\n| 8) **Safe Deployment of Generative AI** - argues that to protect people’s privacy, medical professionals, not commercial interests, must drive the development and deployment of such models. | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03803-y), [Tweet](https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1730300666403238393?s=20) |\n| 9) **On Bringing Robots Home** - introduces Dobb-E, an affordable and versatile general-purpose system for learning robotic manipulation within household settings; Dobbe-E can learn new tasks with only 5 minutes of user demonstrations; experiments reveal unique challenges absent or ignored in lab robotics, including effects of strong shadows, variable demonstration quality by non-expert users, among others. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16098v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/LerrelPinto/status/1729515379892826211?s=20) |\n| 10) **Translatotron 3** - proposes an unsupervised approach to speech-to-speech translation that can learn from monolingual data alone; combines masked autoencoder, unsupervised embedding mapping, and back-translation; results show that the model outperforms a baseline cascade system and showcases its capability to retain para-/non-linguistic such as pauses, speaking rates, and speaker identity. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17547), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1730654297350959413?s=20) |\n\n---\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (November 20 - November 26)\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **System 2 Attention** - leverages the reasoning and instruction following capabilities of LLMs to decide what to attend to; it regenerates input context to only include relevant portions before attending to the regenerated context to elicit the final response from the model; increases factuality and outperforms standard attention-based LLMs on tasks such as QA and math world problems. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11829), [Tweet](https://x.com/jaseweston/status/1726784511357157618?s=20) |\n| 2) **Advancing Long-Context LLMs** - an overview of the methodologies for enhancing Transformer architecture modules that optimize long-context capabilities across all stages from pre-training to inference. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12351), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1727358484360945750?s=20) |\n| 3) **Parallel Speculative Sampling** - approach to reduce inference time of LLMs based on a variant of speculative sampling and parallel decoding; achieves significant speed-ups (up to 30%) by only learning as little as O(d_emb) additional parameters. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13581), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1728066181796418009?s=20) |\n| 4) **Mirasol3B** - a multimodal model for learning across audio, video, and text which decouples the multimodal modeling into separate, focused autoregressive models; the inputs are processed according to the modalities; this approach can handle longer videos compared to other models and it outperforms state-of-the-art approach on video QA, long video QA, and audio-video-text benchmark. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05698), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1724553024088191211?s=20) |\n| 5) **Teaching Small LMs To Reason** - proposes an approach to teach smaller language models to reason; specifically, the LM is thought to use reasoning techniques, such as step-by-step processing, recall-then-generate, recall-reason-generate, extract-generate, and direct-answer methods; outperforms models of similar size and attains performance levels similar or better to those of models 5-10x larger, as assessed on complex tasks that test advanced reasoning abilities in zero-shot settings.| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11045), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1726990087399915995?s=20) |\n| 6) **GPQA** - proposes a graduate-level Google-proof QA benchmark consisting of 448 multiple-choice questions written by domain experts in biology, physics, and chemistry; the strongest GPT-4 based baseline achieves 39% accuracy; this benchmark offers scalable oversight experiments that can help obtain reliable and truthful information from modern AI systems that surpass human capabilities.| [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12022), [Tweet](https://x.com/idavidrein/status/1727033002234909060?s=20) |\n| 7) **The Hitchhiker’s Guide From Chain-of-Thought Reasoning to Language Agents** - summary of CoT reasoning, foundational mechanics underpinning CoT techniques, and their application to language agent frameworks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11797), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1726803725220487277?s=20) |\n| 8) **GAIA** - a benchmark for general AI assistants consisting of real-world questions that require a set of fundamental abilities such as reasoning, multimodal handling, web browsing, and generally tool-use proficiency; shows that human respondents obtain 92% vs. 15% for GPT-4 equipped with plugins. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12983), [Tweet](https://x.com/ThomasScialom/status/1727683993045201339?s=20) |\n| 9) **LLMs as Collaborators for Medical Reasoning** - proposes a collaborative multi-round framework for the medical domain that leverages role-playing LLM-based agents to enhance LLM proficiency and reasoning capabilities.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10537), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1726627951582511135?s=20) |\n| 10) **TÜLU 2** - presents a suite of improved TÜLU models for advancing the understanding and best practices of adapting pretrained language models to downstream tasks and user preferences; TÜLU 2 suite achieves state-of-the-art performance among open models and matches or exceeds the performance of GPT-3.5-turbo-0301 on several benchmarks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10702), [Tweet](https://x.com/natolambert/status/1727350301131518454?s=20) |\n\n---\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (November 13 - November 19)\n| **Paper**  | **Links** |\n| ------------- | ------------- |\n| 1) **Emu Video and Emu Edit** - present new models for controlled image editing and text-to-video generation based on diffusion models; Emu Video can generate high-quality video by using text-only, image-only, or combined text and image inputs; Emu Edit enables free-form editing through text instructions. | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/blog/emu-text-to-video-generation-image-editing-research/), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1725184026154349007?s=20) |\n| 2) **Chain-of-Note** - an approach to improve the robustness and reliability of retrieval-augmented language models in facing noisy, irrelevant documents and in handling unknown scenarios; CoN generates sequential reading notes for the retrieved documents, enabling an evaluation of their relevance to the given question and integrating this information to formulate the final answer; CoN significantly outperforms standard retrieval-augmented language models and achieves an average improvement of +7.9 in EM score given entirely noisy retrieved documents and +10.5 in rejection rates for real-time questions that fall outside the pre-training knowledge scope. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09210), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1725181141693472959?s=20) |\n| 3) **LLMs for Scientific Discovery** - explores the impact of large language models, particularly GPT-4, across various scientific fields including drug discovery, biology, and computational chemistry; assesses GPT-4's understanding of complex scientific concepts, its problem-solving capabilities, and its potential to advance scientific research through expert-driven case assessments and benchmark testing. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07361), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1724465107046940893?s=20) |\n| 4) **Fine-Tuning LLMs for Factuality** - fine-tunes language model for factuality without requiring human labeling; it learns from automatically generated factuality preference rankings and targets open-ended generation settings; it significantly improves the factuality of Llama-2 on held-out topics compared with RLHF or decoding strategies targeted at factuality. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08401), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1724613041155608951?s=20) |\n| 5) **Contrastive CoT Prompting** - proposes a contrastive chain of thought method to enhance language model reasoning; the approach provides both valid and invalid reasoning demonstrations, to guide the model to reason step-by-step while reducing reasoning mistakes; also proposes an automatic method to construct contrastive demonstrations and demonstrates improvements over CoT prompting. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09277), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1725340150819905723?s=20) |\n| 6) **A Survey on Language Models for Code** - provides an overview of LLMs for code, including a review of 50+ models, 30+ evaluation tasks, and 500 related works. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07989v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1725637165256761553?s=20) |\n| 7) **JARVIS-1** - an open-world agent that can perceive multimodal input | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05997), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1723882043514470629?s=20) |\n| 8) **Learning to Filter Context for RAG** - proposes a method that improves the quality of the context provided to the generator via two steps: 1) identifying useful context based on lexical and information-theoretic approaches, and 2) training context filtering models that can filter retrieved contexts at inference; outperforms existing approaches on extractive question answering | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08377v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/ZhiruoW/status/1724792850079252886?s=20) |\n| 9) **MART** - proposes an approach for improving LLM safety with multi-round automatic red-teaming; incorporates automatic adversarial prompt writing and safe response generation, which increases red-teaming scalability and the safety of LLMs; violation rate of an LLM with limited safety alignment reduces up to 84.7% after 4 rounds of MART, achieving comparable performance to LLMs with extensive adversarial prompt writing. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07689), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1724887918685425829?s=20) |\n| 10) **LLMs can Deceive Users** - explores the use of an autonomous stock trading agent powered by LLMs; finds that the agent acts upon insider tips and hides the reason behind the trading decision; shows that helpful and safe LLMs can strategically deceive users in a realistic situation without direction instructions or training for deception. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07590), [Tweet](https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1725226563992715521?s=20) |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (November 6 - November 12)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | **Links**                                                                                                         |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Hallucination in LLMs** - a comprehensive survey                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05232), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1722985251129966705?s=20)        |\n| 2) **Simplifying Transformer Blocks** - explores simplifying the transformer block and finds that many block components can be removed with no loss of training speed; using different architectures like autoregressive decoder-only and BERT encoder-only models, the simplified blocks emulate per-update training speed and performance of standard transformers, and even achieve 15% faster training throughput with fewer parameters                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01906), [Tweet](https://x.com/maksym_andr/status/1722235666724192688?s=20)     |\n| 3) **Understanding In-Context Learning Abilities in Transformers** - investigates how effectively transformers can bridge between pretraining data mixture to identify and learn new tasks in-context which are both inside and outside the pretraining distribution; in the regimes studied, there is limited evidence that the models’ in-context learning behavior is capable of generalizing beyond their pretraining data.                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00871), [Tweet](https://x.com/abacaj/status/1721223737729581437?s=20)          |\n| 4) **MusicGen** - a single-stage transformer-based LLM that operates over several streams of compressed discrete music representation; it can generate high-quality samples                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05284), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1723043913638810025?s=20)        |\n| 5) **AltUp** - a method that makes it possible to take advantage of increasing scale and capacity in Transformer models without increasing the computational cost; achieved by working on a subblock of the widened representation at each layer and using a predict-and-correct mechanism to update the inactivated blocks; it widens the learn representation while only incurring a negligible increase in latency.                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13310), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1722004366201418132?s=20)        |\n| 6) **Rephrase and Respond** - an effective prompting method that uses LLMs to rephrase and expand questions posed by humans to improve overall performance; it can improve the performance of different models across a wide range of tasks; the approach can be combined with chain-of-thought to improve performance further.                                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04205), [Tweet](https://x.com/QuanquanGu/status/1722364144379396513?s=20)      |\n| 7) **On the Road with GPT-4V(ision)** - provides an exhaustive evaluation of the latest state-of-the-art visual language model, GPT-4V(vision), and its application in autonomous driving; the model demonstrates superior performance in scene understanding and causal reasoning compared to existing autonomous systems.                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05332), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1722795897359139057?s=20) |\n| 8) **GPT4All** - outlines technical details of the GPT4All model family along with the open-source repository that aims to democratize access to LLMs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04931), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1722833378590793915?s=20)        |\n| 9) **S-LoRA** - an approach that enables the scalable serving of many LoRA adapters; it stores all adapters in main memory and fetches adapters of currently running queries to the GPU memory; employs novel tensor parallelism strategy and highly optimized custom CUDA kernels for heterogenous batching of LoRA computation; improves throughput by 4x, when compared to other solutions, and increases the number of served adapters by several orders of magnitude. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03285v2), [Tweet](https://x.com/ai_database/status/1722190708797592013?s=20)   |\n| 10) **FreshLLMs** - proposes a dynamic QA benchmark                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03214), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1710108355157487635?s=20)        |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (October 30 - November 5)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **MetNet-3** - a state-of-the-art neural weather model that extends both the lead time range and the variables that an observation-based model can predict well; learns from both dense and sparse data sensors and makes predictions up to 24 hours ahead for precipitation, wind, temperature, and dew point.                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06079), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1719774923294687636?s=20)                                                                                                                |\n| 2) **Evaluating LLMs** - a comprehensive survey                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19736), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1719351676828602502?s=20)                                                                                                                |\n| 3) **Battle of the Backbones** - a large benchmarking framework for a diverse suite of computer vision tasks; find that while vision transformers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19909), [Tweet](https://x.com/micahgoldblum/status/1719719308882801045?s=20)                                                                                                           |\n| 4) **LLMs for Chip Design** - proposes using LLMs for industrial chip design by leveraging domain adaptation techniques; evaluates different applications for chip design such as assistant chatbot, electronic design automation, and bug summarization; domain adaptation significantly improves performance over general-purpose models on a variety of design tasks; using a domain-adapted LLM for RAG further improves answer quality. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00176), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1720066328961159387?s=20)                                                                                                                |\n| 5) **Efficient Context Window Extension of LLMs** - proposes a compute-efficient method for efficiently extending the context window of LLMs beyond what it was pretrained on; extrapolates beyond the limited context of a fine-tuning dataset and models have been reproduced up to 128K context length.                                                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00071), [Tweet](https://x.com/theemozilla/status/1720107186850877662?s=20)                                                                                                             |\n| 6) **Open DAC 2023** - introduces a dataset consisting of more than 38M density functional theory                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00341), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1720143486505341128?s=20)                                                                                                                |\n| 7) **Symmetry in Machine Learning** - presents a unified and methodological framework to enforce, discover, and promote symmetry in machine learning; also discusses how these ideas can be applied to ML models such as multilayer perceptions and basis function regression.                                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00212), [Tweet](https://x.com/eigensteve/status/1720115655050227911?s=20)                                                                                                              |\n| 8) **Next Generation AlphaFold** - reports progress on a new iteration of AlphaFold that greatly expands its range of applicability; shows capabilities of joint structure prediction of complexes including proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, ions, and modified residue; demonstrates greater accuracy on protein-nucleic acid interactions than specialists predictors.                                                           | [Paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/a-glimpse-of-the-next-generation-of-alphafold/alphafold_latest_oct2023.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1719345831730368596?s=20) |\n| 9) **Enhancing LLMs by Emotion Stimuli** - explores the ability of LLMs to understand emotional stimuli; conducts automatic experiments on 45 tasks using various LLMs, including Flan-T5-Large, Vicuna, Llama 2, BLOOM, ChatGPT, and GPT-4; the tasks span deterministic and generative applications that represent comprehensive evaluation scenarios; experimental results show that LLMs have a grasp of emotional intelligence.         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760), [Tweet](https://x.com/emollick/status/1720135672764285176?s=20)                                                                                                                |\n| 10) **FP8-LM** - finds that when training FP8 LLMs most variables, such as gradients and optimizer states, in LLM training, can employ low-precision data formats without compromising model accuracy and requiring no changes to hyper-parameter.                                                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18313), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1718813303223222765?s=20)                                                                                                         |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (October 23 - October 29)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | **Links**                                                                                                                           |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Zephyr LLM** - a 7B parameter model with competitive performance to ChatGPT on AlpacaEval; applies distilled supervised fine-tuning to improve task accuracy and distilled direct performance optimization on AI feedback data to better align the model; shows performance comparable to 70B-parameter chat models aligned with human feedback.                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16944), [Tweet](https://x.com/nazneenrajani/status/1717747969842417723?s=20)                     |\n| 2) **Fact-checking with LLMs** - investigates the fact-checking capabilities of LLMs like GPT-4; results show the enhanced prowess of LLMs when equipped with contextual information; GPT4 outperforms GPT-3, but accuracy varies based on query language and claim veracity; while LLMs show promise in fact-checking, they demonstrate inconsistent accuracy.                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13549), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1717550929145119212?s=20)                          |\n| 3) **Matryoshka Diffusion Models** - introduces an end-to-end framework for high-resolution image and video synthesis; involves a diffusion process that denoises inputs at multiple resolutions jointly and uses a NestedUNet architecture; enables a progressive training schedule from lower to higher resolutions leading to improvements in optimization for high-resolution generation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15111), [Tweet](https://x.com/thoma_gu/status/1716923384846856691?s=20)                          |\n| 4) **Spectron** - a new approach for spoken language modeling trained end-to-end to directly process spectrograms; it can be fine-tuned to generate high-quality accurate spoken language; the method surpasses existing spoken language models in speaker preservation and semantic coherence.                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15255), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1717584836834001066?s=20)                          |\n| 5) **LLMs Meet New Knowledge** - presents a benchmark to assess LLMs' abilities in knowledge understanding, differentiation, and association; benchmark results show                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14820), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1716817266195796186?s=20)                          |\n| 6) **Detecting Pretraining Data from LLMs** - explores the problem of pretraining data detection which aims to determine if a black box model was trained on a given text; proposes a detection method named Min-K% Prob as an effective tool for benchmark example contamination detection, privacy auditing of machine unlearning, and copyrighted text detection in LM’s pertaining data.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16789), [Tweet](https://x.com/WeijiaShi2/status/1717612387174687150?s=20)                        |\n| 7) **ConvNets Match Vision Transformers** - evaluates a performant ConvNet architecture pretrained on JFT-4B at scale; observes a log-log scaling law between the held out loss and compute budget; after fine-tuning on ImageNet, NFNets match the reported performance of Vision Transformers with comparable compute budgets.                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16764), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1717385905214759421?s=20)                          |\n| 8) **CommonCanvas** - a dataset of Creative-Commons-licensed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16825), [Tweet](https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1717359916422496596?s=20)                      |\n| 9) **Managing AI Risks** - a short paper outlining risks from upcoming and advanced AI systems, including an examination of social harms, malicious uses, and other potential societal issues emerging from the rapid adoption of autonomous AI systems.                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://managing-ai-risks.com/managing_ai_risks.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/geoffreyhinton/status/1717967329202491707?s=20) |\n| 10) **Branch-Solve-Merge Reasoning in LLMs** - an LLM program that consists of branch, solve, and merge modules parameterized with specific prompts to the base LLM; this enables an LLM to plan a decomposition of task into multiple parallel sub-tasks, independently solve them, and fuse solutions to the sub-tasks; improves evaluation correctness and consistency for multiple LLMs.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15123), [Tweet](https://x.com/jaseweston/status/1716635331393380619?s=20)                        |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (October 16 - October 22)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                                        |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Llemma** - an LLM for mathematics which is based on continued pretraining from Code Llama on the Proof-Pile-2 dataset; the dataset involves scientific paper, web data containing mathematics, and mathematical code; Llemma outperforms open base models and the unreleased Minerva on the MATH benchmark; the model is released, including dataset and code to replicate experiments.              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10631), [Tweet](https://x.com/zhangir_azerbay/status/1714098025956864031?s=20)                                                                                                |\n| 2) **LLMs for Software Engineering** - a comprehensive survey of LLMs for software engineering, including open research and technical challenges.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03533), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1713940983199506910?s=20)                                                                                                       |\n| 3) **Self-RAG** - presents a new retrieval-augmented framework that enhances an LM’s quality and factuality through retrieval and self-reflection; trains an LM that adaptively retrieves passages on demand, and generates and reflects on the passages and its own generations using special reflection tokens; it significantly outperforms SoTA LLMs                                                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11511), [Tweet](https://x.com/AkariAsai/status/1715110277077962937?s=20)                                                                                                      |\n| 4) **Retrieval-Augmentation for Long-form Question Answering** - explores retrieval-augmented language models on long-form question answering; finds that retrieval is an important component but evidence documents should be carefully added to the LLM; finds that attribution error happens more frequently when retrieved documents lack sufficient information/evidence for answering the question. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12150), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1714986431859282144?s=20)                                                                                                       |\n| 5) **GenBench** - presents a framework for characterizing and understanding generalization research in NLP; involves a meta-analysis of 543 papers and a set of tools to explore and better understand generalization studies.                                                                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00729-y?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=research&utm_content=link), [Tweet](https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1715041427283902793?s=20) |\n| 6) **A Study of LLM-Generated Self-Explanations** - assesses an LLM's capability to self-generate feature attribution explanations; self-explanation is useful to improve performance and truthfulness in LLMs; this capability can be used together with chain-of-thought prompting.                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11207), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1714665747752923620?s=20)                                                                                                       |\n| 7) **OpenAgents** - an open platform for using and hosting language agents in the wild; includes three agents, including a Data Agent for data analysis, a Plugins Agent with 200+ daily API tools, and a Web Agent for autonomous web browsing.                                                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10634v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/ChengZhoujun/status/1714343204148113860?s=20)                                                                                                 |\n| 8) **Eliciting Human Preferences with LLMs** - uses language models to guide the task specification process and a learning framework to help models elicit and infer intended behavior through free-form, language-based interaction with users; shows that by generating open-ended questions, the system generates responses that are more informative than user-written prompts.                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11589), [Tweet](https://x.com/AlexTamkin/status/1715040019520569395?s=20)                                                                                                     |\n| 9) **AutoMix** - an approach to route queries to LLMs based on the correctness of smaller language models                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12963), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1715385477627334718?s=20)                                                                                                       |\n| 10) **Video Language Planning** - enables synthesizing complex long-horizon video plans across robotics domains; the proposed algorithm involves a tree search procedure that trains vision-language models to serve as policies and value functions, and text-to-video models as dynamic models.                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10625), [Tweet](https://x.com/du_yilun/status/1714297584842318157?s=20)                                                                                                       |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (October 9 - October 15)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | **Links**                                                                                                       |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Ring Attention** - a memory-efficient approach that leverages blockwise computation of self-attention to distribute long sequences across multiple devices to overcome the memory limitations inherent in Transformer architectures, enabling handling of longer sequences during training and inference; enables scaling the context length with the number of devices while maintaining performance, exceeding context length of 100 million without attention approximations.                                                                                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01889), [Tweet](https://x.com/haoliuhl/status/1709630382457733596?s=20)      |\n| 2) **Universal Simulator** - applies generative modeling to learn a universal simulator of real-world interactions; can emulate how humans and agents interact with the world by simulating the visual outcome of high instruction and low-level controls; the system can be used to train vision-language planners, low-level reinforcement learning policies, and even for systems that perform video captioning.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06114), [Tweet](https://x.com/mengjiao_yang/status/1712153304757915925?s=20) |\n| 3) **Overview of Factuality in LLMs** - a survey of factuality in LLMs providing insights into how to evaluate factuality in LLMs and how to enhance it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07521), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1712469661118517740?s=20)      |\n| 4) **LLMs can Learn Rules** - presents a two-stage framework that learns a rule library for reasoning with LLMs; in the first stage                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07064), [Tweet](https://x.com/zhu_zhaocheng/status/1712582734550647091?s=20) |\n| 5) **Meta Chain-of-Thought Prompting** - a generalizable chain-of-thought                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06692), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1712835499256090972?s=20)      |\n| 6) **A Survey of LLMs for Healthcare** - a comprehensive overview of LLMs applied to the healthcare domain.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05694), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1711755055777415485?s=20)      |\n| 7) **Improving Retrieval-Augmented LMs with Compressors** - presents two approaches to compress retrieved documents into text summaries before pre-pending them in-context: 1) extractive compressor - selects useful sentences from retrieved documents 2) abstractive compressor - generates summaries by synthesizing information from multiple documents; achieves a compression rate of as low as 6% with minimal loss in performance on language modeling tasks and open domain question answering tasks; the proposed training scheme performs selective augmentation which helps to generate empty summaries when retrieved docs are irrelevant or unhelpful for a task. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04408), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1711384213092479130?s=20)      |\n| 8) **Instruct-Retro** - introduces Retro 48B, the largest LLM pretrained with retrieval; continues pretraining a 43B parameter GPT model on an additional 100B tokens by retrieving from 1.2T tokens                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07713), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1712466049428521433?s=20)      |\n| 9) **MemWalker** - a method to enhance long-text understanding by treating the LLM as an interactive agent that can decide how to read the text via iterative prompting; it first processes long context into a tree of summer nodes and reads in a query to traverse the tree, seeking relevant information and crafting a suitable response; this process is achieved through reasoning and enables effective reading and enhances explainability through reasoning steps.                                                                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05029), [Tweet](https://x.com/__howardchen/status/1711584916708938042?s=20)  |\n| 10) **Toward Language Agent Fine-tuning** - explores the direction of fine-tuning LLMs to obtain language agents; finds that language agents consistently improved after fine-tuning their backbone language model; claims that fine-tuning a Llama2-7B with 500 agent trajectories                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05915), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1711757242905534479?s=20)      |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (October 2 - October 8)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | **Links**                                                                                                        |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **LLMs Represent Space and Time** - discovers that LLMs learn linear representations of space and time across multiple scales; the representations are robust to prompt variations and unified across different entity types; demonstrate that LLMs acquire fundamental structured knowledge such as space and time, claiming that language models learn beyond superficial statistics, but literal world models.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207), [Tweet](https://x.com/wesg52/status/1709551516577902782?s=20)         |\n| 2) **Retrieval meets Long Context LLMs** - compares retrieval augmentation and long-context windows for downstream tasks to investigate if the methods can be combined to get the best of both worlds; an LLM with a 4K context window using simple RAG can achieve comparable performance to a fine-tuned LLM with 16K context; retrieval can significantly improve the performance of LLMs regardless of their extended context window sizes; a retrieval-augmented LLaMA2-70B with a 32K context window outperforms GPT-3.5-turbo-16k on seven long context tasks including question answering and query-based summarization.                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03025), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1709749178199318545?s=20)       |\n| 3) **StreamingLLM** - a framework that enables efficient streaming LLMs with attention sinks, a phenomenon where the KV states of initial tokens will largely recover the performance of window attention; the emergence of the attention sink is due to strong attention scores towards the initial tokens; this approach enables LLMs trained with finite length attention windows to generalize to infinite sequence length without any additional fine-tuning.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17453), [Tweet](https://x.com/Guangxuan_Xiao/status/1708943505731801325?s=20) |\n| 4) **Neural Developmental Programs** - proposes to use neural networks that self-assemble through a developmental process that mirrors properties of embryonic development in biological organisms                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08197), [Tweet](https://x.com/risi1979/status/1708888992224362742?s=20)       |\n| 5) **The Dawn of LMMs** - a comprehensive analysis of GPT-4V to deepen the understanding of large multimodal models                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17421), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1708860551110041871?s=20)       |\n| 6) **Training LLMs with Pause Tokens** - performs training and inference on LLMs with a learnable <pause> token which helps to delay the model's answer generation and attain performance gains on general understanding tasks of Commonsense QA and math word problem-solving; experiments show that this is only beneficial provided that the delay is introduced in both pertaining and downstream fine-tuning.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02226), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1709573238123122959?s=20)       |\n| 7) **Recursively Self-Improving Code Generation** - proposes the use of a language model-infused scaffolding program to recursively improve itself; a seed improver first improves an input program that returns the best solution which is then further tasked to improve itself; shows that the GPT-4 models can write code that can call itself to improve itself.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02304), [Tweet](https://x.com/ericzelikman/status/1709721771937587541?s=20)   |\n| 8) **Retrieval-Augmented Dual Instruction Tuning** - proposes a lightweight fine-tuning method to retrofit LLMs with retrieval capabilities; it involves a 2-step approach: 1) updates a pretrained LM to better use the retrieved information 2) updates the retriever to return more relevant results, as preferred by the LM Results show that fine-tuning over tasks that require both knowledge utilization and contextual awareness, each stage leads to additional gains; a 65B model achieves state-of-the-art results on a range of knowledge-intensive zero- and few-shot learning benchmarks; it outperforms existing retrieval-augmented language approaches by up to +8.9% in zero-shot and +1.4% in 5-shot. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01352), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1709204756013490494?s=20)       |\n| 9) **KOSMOG-G** - a model that performs high-fidelity zero-shot image generation from generalized vision-language input that spans multiple images; extends zero-shot subject-driven image generation to multi-entity scenarios; allows the replacement of CLIP, unlocking new applications with other U-Net techniques such as ControlNet and LoRA.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02992), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1709934741158510625?s=20)       |\n| 10) **Analogical Prompting** - a new prompting approach to automatically guide the reasoning process of LLMs; the approach is different from chain-of-thought in that it doesn’t require labeled exemplars of the reasoning process; the approach is inspired by analogical reasoning and prompts LMs to self-generate relevant exemplars or knowledge in the context.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01714), [Tweet](https://x.com/michiyasunaga/status/1709582150025240854?s=20)  |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (September 25 - October 1)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | **Links**                                                                                                                      |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1) **The Reversal Curse** - finds that LLMs trained on sentences of the form “A is B” will not automatically generalize to the reverse direction “B is A”, i.e., the Reversal Curse; shows the effect through finetuning LLMs on fictitious statements and demonstrating its robustness across model sizes and model families.                                                                                           | [Paper](https://owainevans.github.io/reversal_curse.pdf), [Tweet](https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1705285631520407821?s=20) |\n| 2) **Effective Long-Context Scaling with LLMs** - propose a 70B variant that can already surpass gpt-3.5-turbo-16k’s overall performance on a suite of long-context tasks. This involves a cost-effective instruction tuning procedure that does not require human-annotated long instruction data.                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16039), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1707780482178400261?s=20)                     |\n| 3) **Graph Neural Prompting with LLMs** - proposes a plug-and-play method to assist pre-trained LLMs in learning beneficial knowledge from knowledge graphs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15427), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1707211751354212382?s=20)                     |\n| 4) **Vision Transformers Need Registers** - identifies artifacts in feature maps of vision transformer networks that are repurposed for internal computations; this work proposes a solution to provide additional tokens to the input sequence to fill that role; the solution fixes the problem, leads to smoother feature and attention maps, and sets new state-of-the-art results on dense visual prediction tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16588), [Tweet](https://x.com/TimDarcet/status/1707769575981424866?s=20)                    |\n| 5) **Boolformer** - presents the first Transformer architecture trained to perform end-to-end symbolic regression of Boolean functions; it can predict compact formulas for complex functions and be applied to modeling the dynamics of gene regulatory networks.                                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12207), [Tweet](https://x.com/stephanedascoli/status/1706235856778834015?s=20)              |\n| 6) **LlaVA-RLHF** - adapts factually augmented RLHF to aligning large multimodal models; this approach alleviates the reward hacking in RLHF and improves performance on the LlaVA-Bench dataset with the 94% performance level of the text-only GPT-4.                                                                                                                                                                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14525), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1706839311306621182?s=20)              |\n| 7) **LLM Alignment Survey** - a comprehensive survey paper on LLM alignment; topics include Outer Alignment, Inner Alignment, Mechanistic Interpretability, Attacks on Aligned LLMs, Alignment Evaluation, Future Directions, and Discussions.                                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15025), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1706845285064818905?s=20)                     |\n| 8) **Qwen LLM** - proposes a series of LLMs demonstrating the strength of RLHF on tasks involving tool use and planning capabilities for creating language agents.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16609), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1707776749042364729?s=20)                     |\n| 9) **MentalLlaMa** - an open-source LLM series for interpretable mental health analysis with instruction-following capability; it also proposes a multi-task and multi-source interpretable mental health instruction dataset on social media with 105K data samples.                                                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13567), [Tweet](https://x.com/SAnaniadou/status/1707668936634794442?s=20)                   |\n| 10) **Logical Chain-of-Thought in LLMs** - a new neurosymbolic framework to improve zero-shot chain-of-thought reasoning in LLMs; leverages principles from symbolic logic to verify and revise reasoning processes to improve the reasoning capabilities of LLMs.                                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13339), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1706711389803287019?s=20)                     |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (September 18 - September 24)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | **Links**                                                                                                                           |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **AlphaMissense** - an AI model classifying missense variants to help pinpoint the cause of diseases; the model is used to develop a catalogue of genetic mutations; it can categorize 89% of all 71 million possible missense variants as either likely pathogenic or likely benign.                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7492), [Tweet](https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1704145467129389178?s=20) |\n| 2) **Chain-of-Verification reduces Hallucination in LLMs** - develops a method to enable LLMs to \"deliberate\" on responses to correct mistakes; include the following steps: 1) draft initial response, 2) plan verification questions to fact-check the draft, 3) answer questions independently to avoid bias from other responses, and 4) generate a final verified response.                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11495), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1704901425824772275?s=20)                          |\n| 3) **Contrastive Decoding Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models** - shows that contrastive decoding leads Llama-65B to outperform Llama 2 and other models on commonsense reasoning and reasoning benchmarks.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09117), [Tweet](https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1703966776990597567?s=20)                          |\n| 4) **LongLoRA** - an efficient fine-tuning approach to significantly extend the context windows of pre-trained LLMs; implements shift short attention, a substitute that approximates the standard self-attention pattern during training; it has less GPU memory cost and training time compared to full fine-tuning while not compromising accuracy.                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12307), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1705234482930798813?s=20)                          |\n| 5) **LLMs for Generating Structured Data** - studies the use of LLMs for generating complex structured data; proposes a structure-aware fine-tuning method, applied to Llama-7B, which significantly outperform other model like GPT-3.5/4 and Vicuna-13B.                                                                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08963), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1703958549917847884?s=20)                          |\n| 6) **LMSYS-Chat-1M** - a large-scale dataset containing 1 million real-world conversations with 25 state-of-the-art LLM; it is collected from 210K unique IP addresses on the Vincuna demo and Chatbot Arena website.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | [Paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11998), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1705024956122161217?s=20)                    |\n| 7) **Language Modeling is Compression** - evaluates the compression capabilities of LLMs; it investigates how and why compression and prediction are equivalent; shows that LLMs are powerful general-purpose compressors due to their in-context learning abilities; finds that Chinchilla 70B compresses ImageNet patches to 43.4% and LibriSpeech samples to 16.4% of their raw size, beating domain-specific compressors like PNG | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1704306357006897402?s=20)                          |\n| 8) **Compositional Foundation Models** - proposes foundation models that leverage multiple expert foundation models trained on language, vision, and action data to solve long-horizon goals.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08587), [Tweet](https://x.com/du_yilun/status/1703786005612929214?s=20)                          |\n| 9) **LLMs for IT Operations** - proposes OWL, an LLM for IT operations tuned using a self-instruct strategy based on IT-related tasks; it discusses how to collect a quality instruction dataset and how to put together a benchmark.                                                                                                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09298), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1704137910834888743?s=20)                          |\n| 10) **KOSMOS-2.5** - a multimodal model for machine reading of text-intensive images, capable of document-level text generation and image-to-markdown text generation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11419), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1704659787399487649?s=20)                   |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (September 11 - September 17)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | **Links**                                                                                                                                   |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Textbooks Are All You Need II** - a new 1.3 billion parameter model trained on 30 billion tokens; the dataset consists of \"textbook-quality\" synthetically generated data; phi-1.5 competes or outperforms other larger models on reasoning tasks suggesting that data quality plays a more important role than previously thought. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1701590130270601422?s=20)                                  |\n| 2) **The Rise and Potential of LLM Based Agents** - a comprehensive overview of LLM based agents; covers from how to construct these agents to how to harness them for good.                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07864), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1702736490067890239?s=20)                                  |\n| 3) **EvoDiff** - combines evolutionary-scale data with diffusion models for controllable protein generation in sequence space; it can generate proteins inaccessible to structure-based models.                                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.11.556673v1), [Tweet](https://x.com/KevinKaichuang/status/1701953715312136302?s=20) |\n| 4) **LLMs Can Align Themselves without Finetuning?** - discovers that by integrating self-evaluation and rewind mechanisms, unaligned LLMs can directly produce responses consistent with human preferences via self-boosting.                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07124), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1702131444041011395?s=20)                                  |\n| 5) **Robot Parkour Learning** - presents a system for learning end-to-end vision-based parkour policy which is transferred to a quadrupedal robot using its ecocentric depth camera; shows that low-cost robots can automatically select and execute parkour skills in a real-world environment.                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05665), [Tweet](https://x.com/zipengfu/status/1701316023612219445?s=20)                                  |\n| 6) **A Survey of Hallucination in LLMs** - classifies different types of hallucination phenomena and provides evaluation criteria for assessing hallucination along with mitigation strategies.                                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05922), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1701970034711539839?s=20)                                  |\n| 7) **Agents** - an open-source library for building autonomous language agents including support for features like planning, memory, tool usage, multi-agent communication, and more.                                                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07870), [Tweet](https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1702497897395396960?s=20)                           |\n| 8) **Radiology-Llama2: Best-in-Class LLM for Radiology** - presents an LLM based on Llama 2 tailored for radiology; it's tuned on a large dataset of radiology reports to generate coherent and clinically useful impressions from radiology findings.                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06419), [Tweet](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1701774444052557965?s=20)                                  |\n| 9) **Communicative Agents for Software Development** - presents ChatDev, a virtual chat-powered software development company mirroring the waterfall model; shows the efficacy of the agent in software generation, even completing the entire software development process in less than seven minutes for less than one dollar.         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07924v3), [Tweet](https://x.com/KevinAFischer/status/1702355125418045860?s=20)                           |\n| 10) **MAmmoTH** - a series of open-source LLMs tailored for general math problem-solving; the models are trained on a curated instruction tuning dataset and outperform existing open-source models on several mathematical reasoning datasets.                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05653), [Tweet](https://x.com/xiangyue96/status/1701710215442309323?s=20)                                |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (September 4 - September 10)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | **Links**                                                                                                               |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Transformers as SVMs** - finds that the optimization geometry of self-attention in Transformers exhibits a connection to hard-margin SVM problems; also finds that gradient descent applied without early-stopping leads to implicit regularization and convergence of self-attention; this work has the potential to deepen the understanding of language models.                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16898)                                                                               |\n| 2) **Scaling RLHF with AI Feedback** - tests whether RLAIF is a suitable alternative to RLHF by comparing the efficacy of human vs. AI feedback; uses different techniques to generate AI labels and conduct scaling studies to report optimal settings for generating aligned preferences; the main finding is that on the task of summarization, human evaluators prefer generations from both RLAIF and RLHF over a baseline SFT model in ∼70% of cases.                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00267), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1699102486928265530?s=20)        |\n| 3) **GPT Solves Math Problems Without a Calculator** - shows that with sufficient training data, a 2B language model can perform multi-digit arithmetic operations with 100% accuracy and without data leakage; it’s also competitive with GPT-4 on 5K samples Chinese math problem test set when fine-tuned from GLM-10B on a dataset containing additional multi-step arithmetic operations and detailed math problems.                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03241), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1699951105927512399?s=20)        |\n| 4) **LLMs as Optimizers** - an approach where the optimization problem is described in natural language; an LLM is then instructed to iteratively generate new solutions based on the defined problem and previously found solutions; at each optimization step, the goal is to generate new prompts that increase test accuracy based on the trajectory of previously generated prompts; the optimized prompts outperform human-designed prompts on GSM8K and Big-Bench Hard, sometimes by over 50% | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03409), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1700249035456598391?s=20)        |\n| 5) **Multi-modality Instruction Tuning** - presents ImageBind-LLM, a multimodality instruction tuning method of LLMs via ImageBind; this model can respond to instructions of diverse modalities such as audio, 3D point clouds, and video, including high language generation quality; this is achieved by aligning ImageBind’s visual encoder with an LLM via learnable bind network.                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03905), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1699947731333345750?s=20) |\n| 6) **Explaining Grokking** - aims to explain grokking behavior in neural networks; specifically, it predicts and shows two novel behaviors: the first is ungrokking where a model goes from perfect generalization to memorization when trained further on a smaller dataset than the critical threshold; the second is semi-grokking where a network demonstrates grokking-like transition when training a randomly initialized network on the critical dataset size.                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02390), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/VikrantVarma_/status/1699823229307699305?s=20)   |\n| 7) **Overview of AI Deception** - provides a survey of empirical examples of AI deception.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14752), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/DanHendrycks/status/1699437800301752332?s=20)    |\n| 8) **FLM-101B** - a new open LLM called FLM-101B with 101B parameters and 0.31TB tokens which can be trained on a $100K budget; the authors analyze different growth strategies, growing the number of parameters from smaller sizes to large ones. They ultimately employ an aggressive strategy that reduces costs by >50%. In other words, three models are trained sequentially with each model inheriting knowledge from its smaller predecessor                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03852), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1700156132700963053?s=20)        |\n| 9) **Cognitive Architecture for Language Agents** - proposes a systematic framework for understanding and building fully-fledged language agents drawing parallels from production systems and cognitive architectures; it systematizes diverse methods for LLM-based reasoning, grounding, learning, and decision making as instantiations of language agents in the framework.                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02427), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/ShunyuYao12/status/1699396834983362690?s=20)     |\n| 10) **Q-Transformer** - a scalable RL method for training multi-task policies from large offline datasets leveraging human demonstrations and autonomously collected data; shows good performance on a large diverse real-world robotic manipulation task suite.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://q-transformer.github.io/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/YevgenChebotar/status/1699909244743815677?s=20)  |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (August 28 - September 3)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | **Links**                                                                                                               |\n| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Large Language and Speech Model** - proposes a large language and speech model trained with cross-modal conversational abilities that supports speech-and-language instruction enabling more natural interactions with AI systems.                                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15930v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1697081112164475304?s=20)      |\n| 2) **SAM-Med2D** - applies segment anything models                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16184v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1698014448856773102?s=20)      |\n| 3) **Vector Search with OpenAI Embeddings** - suggests that “from a cost–benefit analysis, there does not appear to be a compelling reason to introduce a dedicated vector store into a modern “AI stack” for search since such applications have already received substantial investments in existing, widely deployed infrastructure.”                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14963), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1696879909950361867?s=20)        |\n| 4) **Graph of Thoughts** - presents a prompting approach that models text generated by LLMs as an arbitrary graph; it enables combining arbitrary \"thoughts\" and enhancing them using feedback loops; the core idea is to enhance the LLM capabilities through \"network reasoning\" and without any model updates; this could be seen as a generalization of the now popular Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09687v2), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1697245998828204200?s=20)      |\n| 5) **MVDream** - a multi-view diffusion model that can generate geometrically consistent multi-view images given a text prompt; it leverages pre-trained diffusion models and a multi-view dataset rendered from 3D assets; this leads to generalizability of 2D diffusion and consistency of 3D data.                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16512), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1697521847963619462?s=20)        |\n| 6) **Nougat** - proposes an approach for neural optical understanding of academic documents; it supports the ability to extract text, equations, and tables from academic PDFs, i.e., convert PDFs into LaTeX/markdown.                                                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13418v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/lukas_blecher/status/1696101110853910716?s=20) |\n| 7) **Factuality Detection in LLMs** - proposes a tool called **FacTool** to detect factual errors in texts generated by LLMs; shows the necessary components needed and the types of tools to integrate with LLMs for better detecting factual errors.                                                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13528v2), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1697642048587694370?s=20)      |\n| 8) **AnomalyGPT** - an approach for industrial anomaly detection based on large vision-language models; it simulates anomalous images and textual descriptions to generate training data; employs an image decoder and prompt learner to detect anomalies; it shows few-shot in-context learning capabilities and achieves state-of-the-art performance benchmark datasets.                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15366v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/shinmura0/status/1697091364633317707?s=20)     |\n| 9) **FaceChain** - a personalized portrait generation framework combining customized image-generation models and face-related perceptual understanding models to generate truthful personalized portraits; it works with a handful of portrait images as input.                                                                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14256v1)                                                                             |\n| 10) **Qwen-VL** - introduces a set of large-scale vision-language models demonstrating strong performance in tasks like image captioning, question answering, visual localization, and flexible interaction.                                                                                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12966), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1695964537671893306?s=20) |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (August 21 - August 27)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | **Links**                                                                                                                                                           |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Code Llama** - a family of LLMs for code based on Llama 2; the models provided as part of this release: foundation base models                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/code-llama-open-foundation-models-for-code/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1694729071325007993?s=20) |\n| 2) **Survey on Instruction Tuning for LLMs** - new survey paper on instruction tuning LLM, including a systematic review of the literature, methodologies, dataset construction, training models, applications, and more.                                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10792), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1693978006237102589?s=20)                                                    |\n| 3) **SeamlessM4T** - a unified multilingual and multimodal machine translation system that supports ASR, text-to-text translation, speech-to-text translation, text-to-speech translation, and speech-to-speech translation.                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/seamless-m4t/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1694020437532151820?s=20)                               |\n| 4) **Use of LLMs for Illicit Purposes** - provides an overview of existing efforts to identify and mitigate threats and vulnerabilities arising from LLMs; serves as a guide to building more reliable and robust LLM-powered systems.                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12833), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1694885393286549636?s=20)                                                    |\n| 5) **Giraffe** - a new family of models that are fine-tuned from base Llama and Llama 2; extends the context length to 4K, 16K, and 32K; explores the space of expanding context lengths in LLMs so it also includes insights useful for practitioners and researchers.                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10882), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1694126931174977906?s=20)                                                  |\n| 6) **IT3D** - presents a strategy that leverages explicitly synthesized multi-view images to improve Text-to-3D generation; integrates a discriminator along a Diffusion-GAN dual training strategy to guide the training of the 3D models.                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11473v1)                                                                                                                         |\n| 7) **A Survey on LLM-based Autonomous Agents** - presents a comprehensive survey of LLM-based autonomous agents; delivers a systematic review of the field and a summary of various applications of LLM-based AI agents in domains like social science and engineering.                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11432v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1695440652048257251?s=20)                                                  |\n| 8) **Prompt2Model** - a new framework that accepts a prompt describing a task through natural language; it then uses the prompt to train a small special-purpose model that is conducive to deployment; the proposed pipeline automatically collects and synthesizes knowledge through three channels: dataset retrieval, dataset generation, and model retrieval. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12261), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1694718168185598055?s=20)                                                    |\n| 9) **LegalBench** - a collaboratively constructed benchmark for measuring legal reasoning in LLMs; it consists of 162 tasks covering 6 different types of legal reasoning.                                                                                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11462), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/NeelGuha/status/1694375959334670643?s=20)                                                    |\n| 10) **Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis** - proposes a new language-to-reward system that utilizes LLMs to define optimizable reward parameters to achieve a variety of robotic tasks; the method is evaluated on a real robot arm where complex manipulation skills such as non-prehensile pushing emerge.                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08647), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1694086273689076170?s=20)                                                    |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (August 14 - August 20)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | **Links**                                                                                                                     |\n| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation** - presents an approach to automatically label human-written text with corresponding instruction which enables building a high-quality instruction following language model; the steps are: 1) fine-tune an LLM with small seed data and web corpus, then 2) generate instructions for each web doc, 3) curate high-quality examples via the LLM, and finally 4) fine-tune on the newly curated data; the self-alignment approach outperforms all other Llama-based models on the Alpaca leaderboard. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06259), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/jaseweston/status/1690888779878330368?s=20)            |\n| 2) **Platypus** - a family of fine-tuned and merged LLMs currently topping the Open LLM Leaderboard; it describes a process of efficiently fine-tuning and merging LoRA modules and also shows the benefits of collecting high-quality datasets for fine-tuning; specifically, it presents a small-scale, high-quality, and highly curated dataset, Open-Platypus, that enables strong performance with short and cheap fine-tuning time and cost... one can train a 13B model on a single A100 GPU using 25K questions in 5 hours.                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07317v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1692549762480791959?s=20)            |\n| 3) **Model Compression for LLMs** - a short survey on the recent model compression techniques for LLMs; provides a high-level overview of topics such as quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and more; it also provides an overview of benchmark strategies and evaluation metrics for measuring the effectiveness of compressed LLMs.                                                                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07633), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1691803395160477905?s=20)              |\n| 4) **GEARS** - uses deep learning and gene relationship knowledge graph to help predict cellular responses to genetic perturbation; GEARS exhibited 40% higher precision than existing approaches in the task of predicting four distinct genetic interaction subtypes in a combinatorial perturbation screen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](http://nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01905-6.pdf), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/jure/status/1692229511096754594?s=20) |\n| 5) **Shepherd** - introduces a language model (7B) specifically tuned to critique the model responses and suggest refinements; this enables the capability to identify diverse errors and suggest remedies; its critiques are either similar or preferred to ChatGPT.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04592), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1691517949130207232?s=20)                |\n| 6) **Using GPT-4 Code Interpreter to Boost Mathematical Reasoning** - proposes a zero-shot prompting technique for GPT-4 Code Interpreter that explicitly encourages the use of code for self-verification which further boosts performance on math reasoning problems; initial experiments show that GPT4-Code achieved a zero-shot accuracy of 69.7% on the MATH dataset which is an improvement of 27.5% over GPT-4’s performance (42.2%). Lots to explore here.                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07921), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1691630591744127355?s=20)              |\n| 7) **Teach LLMs to Personalize** - proposes a general approach based on multitask learning for personalized text generation using LLMs; the goal is to have an LLM generate personalized text without relying on predefined attributes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07968), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1692186726192521364?s=20)              |\n| 8) **OctoPack** - presents 4 terabytes of Git commits across 350 languages used to instruction tune code LLMs; achieves state-of-the-art performance among models not trained on OpenAI outputs, on the HumanEval Python benchmark; the data is also used to extend the HumanEval benchmark to other tasks such as code explanation and code repair.                                                                                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07124v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1691259656453193728?s=20)     |\n| 9) **Efficient Guided Generation for LLMs** - presents a library to help LLM developers guide text generation in a fast and reliable way; provides generation methods that guarantee that the output will match a regular expression, or follow a JSON schema.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09702), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1691179888214966273?s=20)              |\n| 10) **Bayesian Flow Networks** - introduces a new class of generative models bringing together the power of Bayesian inference and deep learning; it differs from diffusion models in that it operates on the parameters of a data distribution rather than on a noisy version of the data; it’s adapted to continuous, discretized and discrete data with minimal changes to the training procedure.                                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07037), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/nnaisense/status/1691310494039379969?s=20)             |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (August 7 - August 13)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | **Links**                                                                                                                      |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1) **LLMs as Database Administrators** - presents D-Bot, a framework based on LLMs that continuously acquires database maintenance experience from textual sources; D-Bot can help in performing: 1) database maintenance knowledge detection from documents and tools, 2) tree of thought reasoning for root cause analysis, and 3) collaborative diagnosis among multiple LLMs.                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05481), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1689811820272353280?s=20)               |\n| 2) **Political Biases Found in NLP Models** - develops methods to measure media biases in LLMs, including the fairness of downstream NLP models tuned on top of politically biased LLMs; findings reveal that LLMs have political leanings which reinforce existing polarization in the corpora.                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/1688939983468453888?s=20) |\n| 3) **Evaluating LLMs as Agents** - presents a multidimensional benchmark (AgentBench) to assess LLM-as-Agent’s reasoning and decision-making abilities; results show that there is a significant disparity in performance between top commercial LLMs and open-source LLMs when testing the ability to act as agents; open-source LLMs lag on the AgentBench tasks while GPT-4 shows potential to build continuously learning agents.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03688v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1688719837760000000?s=20)      |\n| 4) **Studying LLM Generalization with Influence Functions** - introduces an efficient approach to scale influence functions to LLMs with up to 52 billion parameters; the influence functions are used to further investigate the generalization patterns of LLMs such as cross-lingual generalization and memorization; finds that middle layers in the network seem to be responsible for the most abstract generalization patterns. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03296), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1688946685937090560?s=20)            |\n| 5) **Seeing Through the Brain** - proposes NeuroImagen, a pipeline for reconstructing visual stimuli images from EEG signals to potentially understand visually-evoked brain activity; a latent diffusion model takes EEG data and reconstructs high-resolution visual stimuli images.                                                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02510), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1688787286807228416?s=20)               |\n| 6) **SynJax** - is a new library that provides an efficient vectorized implementation of inference algorithms for structured distributions; it enables building large-scale differentiable models that explicitly model structure in data like tagging, segmentation, constituency trees, and spanning trees.                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03291v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/milosstanojevic/status/1688896558790520832?s=20)      |\n| 7) **Synthetic Data Reduces Sycophancy in LLMs** - proposes fine-tuning on simple synthetic data to reduce sycophancy in LLMs; sycophancy occurs when LLMs try to follow a user’s view even when it’s not objectively correct; essentially, the LLM repeats the user’s view even when the opinion is wrong.                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03958), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/JerryWeiAI/status/1689340237993185280?s=20)             |\n| 8) **Photorealistic Unreal Graphics (PUG)** - presents photorealistic and semantically controllable synthetic datasets for representation learning using Unreal Engine; the goal is to democratize photorealistic synthetic data and enable more rigorous evaluations of vision models.                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03977), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1689316127846109184?s=20)                 |\n| 9) **LLMs for Industrial Control** - develops an approach to select demonstrations and generate high-performing prompts used with GPT for executing tasks such as controlling (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) for buildings; GPT-4 performs comparable to RL method but uses fewer samples and lower technical debt.                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03028), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1688760539441217536?s=20)               |\n| 10) **Trustworthy LLMs** - presents a comprehensive overview of important categories and subcategories crucial for assessing LLM trustworthiness; the dimensions include reliability, safety, fairness, resistance to misuse, explainability and reasoning, adherence to social norms, and robustness; finds that aligned models perform better in terms of trustworthiness but the effectiveness of alignment varies.                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05374), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1689818964669390848?s=20)               |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 31 - August 6)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | **Links**                                                                                                               |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Open Problem and Limitation of RLHF** - provides an overview of open problems and the limitations of RLHF.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15217), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1685813753063870465?s=20) |\n| 2) **Med-Flamingo** - a new multimodal model that allows in-context learning and enables tasks such as few-shot medical visual question answering; evaluations based on physicians, show improvements of up to 20% in clinician's rating; the authors occasionally observed low-quality generations and hallucinations.                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15189), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/Michael_D_Moor/status/1685804620730540033?s=20)  |\n| 3) **ToolLLM** - enables LLMs to interact with 16000 real-world APIs; it’s a framework that allows data preparation, training, and evaluation; the authors claim that one of their models, ToolLLaMA, has reached the performance of ChatGPT (turbo-16k) in tool use.                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16789v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1687531613574348800?s=20)      |\n| 4) **Skeleton-of-Thought** - proposes a prompting strategy that firsts generate an answer skeleton and then performs parallel API calls to generate the content of each skeleton point; reports quality improvements in addition to speed-up of up to 2.39x.                                                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15337), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1685832487103008768?s=20)        |\n| 5) **MetaGPT** - a framework involving LLM-based multi-agents that encodes human standardized operating procedures (SOPs) to extend complex problem-solving capabilities that mimic efficient human workflows; this enables MetaGPT to perform multifaceted software development, code generation tasks, and even data analysis using tools like AutoGPT and LangChain.                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00352v2), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/ai_database/status/1686949868298973184?s=20)   |\n| 6) **OpenFlamingo** - introduces a family of autoregressive vision-language models ranging from 3B to 9B parameters; the technical report describes the models, training data, and evaluation suite.                                                                                                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01390), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/anas_awadalla/status/1687295129005195264?s=20)   |\n| 7) **The Hydra Effect** - shows that language models exhibit self-repairing properties — when one layer of attention heads is ablated it causes another later layer to take over its function.                                                                                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15771), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1686192437771788288?s=20)        |\n| 8) **Self-Check** - explores whether LLMs have the capability to perform self-checks which is required for complex tasks that depend on non-linear thinking and multi-step reasoning; it proposes a zero-shot verification scheme to recognize errors without external resources; the scheme can improve question-answering performance through weighting voting and even improve math word problem-solving. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00436), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1686561569486827520?s=20)        |\n| 9) **Agents Model the World with Language** - presents an agent that learns a multimodal world model that predicts future text and image representations; it learns to predict future language, video, and rewards; it’s applied to different domains and can learn to follow instructions in visually and linguistically complex domains.                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01399), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1687277999517818880?s=20)        |\n| 10) **AutoRobotics-Zero** - discovers zero-shot adaptable policies from scratch that enable adaptive behaviors necessary for sudden environmental changes; as an example, the authors demonstrate the automatic discovery of Python code for controlling a robot.                                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16890), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/XingyouSong/status/1686190266578046976?s=20)     |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 24 - July 30)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | **Links**                                                                                                                                    |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Universal Adversarial LLM Attacks** - finds universal and transferable adversarial attacks that cause aligned models like ChatGPT and Bard to generate objectionable behaviors; the approach automatically produces adversarial suffixes using greedy and gradient search.                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15043), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/andyzou_jiaming/status/1684766170766004224?s=20)                      |\n| 2) **RT-2** - a new end-to-end vision-language-action model that learns from both web and robotics data; enables the model to translate the learned knowledge to generalized instructions for robotic control.                                                                                    | [Paper](https://robotics-transformer2.github.io/assets/rt2.pdf), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1684903412834447360?s=20) |\n| 3) **Med-PaLM Multimodal** - introduces a new multimodal biomedical benchmark with 14 different tasks; it presents a proof of concept for a generalist biomedical AI system called Med-PaLM Multimodal; it supports different types of biomedical data like clinical text, imaging, and genomics. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14334), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/vivnat/status/1684404882844024832?s=20)                               |\n| 4) **Tracking Anything in High Quality** - propose a framework for high-quality tracking anything in videos; consists of a video multi-object segmented and a pretrained mask refiner model to refine the tracking results; the model ranks 2nd place in the VOTS2023 challenge.                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13974v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1684380610901467136?s=20)                    |\n| 5) **Foundation Models in Vision** - presents a survey and outlook discussing open challenges and research directions for foundational models in computer vision.                                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13721v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/KhanSalmanH/status/1684496991215316992?s=20)                        |\n| 6) **L-Eval** - a standardized evaluation for long context language models containing 411 long documents over 2K query-response pairs encompassing areas such as law, finance, school lectures, long conversations, novels, and meetings.                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11088v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/WenxiangJiao/status/1682208555762610176?s=20)                       |\n| 7) **LoraHub** - introduces LoraHub to enable efficient cross-task generalization via dynamic LoRA composition; it enables the combination of LoRA modules without human expertise or additional parameters/gradients; mimics the performance of in-context learning in few-shot scenarios.       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13269v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1684030297661403136?s=20)                           |\n| 8) **Survey of Aligned LLMs** - resents a comprehensive overview of alignment approaches, including aspects like data collection, training methodologies, and model evaluation.                                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12966v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1684960627423420419?s=20)                           |\n| 9) **WavJourney** - leverages LLMs to connect various audio models to compose audio content for engaging storytelling; this involves an explainable and interactive design that enhances creative control in audio production.                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14335v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/LiuXub/status/1684338437934002176?s=20)                             |\n| 10) **FacTool** - a task and domain agnostic framework for factuality detection of text generated by LLM; the effectiveness of the approach is tested on tasks such as code generation and mathematical reasoning; a benchmark dataset is released, including a ChatGPT plugin.                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13528v2), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/gneubig/status/1684658613921669120?s=20)                            |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 17 - July 23)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                    |\n| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Llama 2** - a collection of pretrained foundational models and fine-tuned chat models ranging in scale from 7B to 70B; Llama 2-Chat is competitive on a range of tasks and shows strong results on safety and helpfulness.                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09288v2), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1681363272484945921?s=20)                                                                             |\n| 2) **How is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing Over Time?** - evaluates different versions of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 on various tasks and finds that behavior and performance vary greatly over time; this includes differences in performance for tasks such as math problem-solving, safety-related generations, and code formatting.                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09009v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/matei_zaharia/status/1681467961905926144?s=20)                                                                      |\n| 3) **FlashAttention-2** - improves work partitioning and parallelism and addresses issues like reducing non-matmul FLOPs, parallelizing attention computation which increases occupancy, and reducing communication through shared memory.                                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08691v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/tri_dao/status/1680987577913065472?s=20)                                                                            |\n| 4) **Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning** - nds that CoT reasoning shows large variation across tasks by simple interventions like adding mistakes and paraphrasing; demonstrates that as the model becomes larger and more capable, the reasoning becomes less faithful; suggests carefully choosing the model size and tasks can enable CoT faithfulness. | [Paper](https://www-files.anthropic.com/production/files/measuring-faithfulness-in-chain-of-thought-reasoning.pdf), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1681341063083229189?s=20) |\n| 5) **Generative TV & Showrunner Agents** - an approach to generate episodic content using LLMs and multi-agent simulation; this enables current systems to perform creative storytelling through the integration of simulation, the user, and powerful AI models and enhance the quality of AI-generated content.                                                             | [Paper](https://fablestudio.github.io/showrunner-agents/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/fablesimulation/status/1681352904152850437?s=20)                                                      |\n| 6) **Challenges & Application of LLMs** - summarizes a comprehensive list of challenges when working with LLMs that range from brittle evaluations to prompt brittleness to a lack of robust experimental designs.                                                                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10169), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1681844380934500358?s=20)                                                                             |\n| 7) **Retentive Network** - presents a foundation architecture for LLMs with the goal to improve training efficiency, inference, and efficient long-sequence modeling; adapts retention mechanism for sequence modeling that support parallel representation, recurrent representations, and chunkwise recurrent representation.                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08621), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1681113977500184576?s=20)                                                                      |\n| 8) **Meta-Transformer** - a framework that performs unified learning across 12 modalities; it can handle tasks that include fundamental perception (text, image, point cloud, audio, video), practical application (X-Ray, infrared, hyperspectral, and IMU), and data mining (graph, tabular, and time-series).                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10802), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1682197751990288385?s=20)                                                                             |\n| 9) **Retrieve In-Context Example for LLMs** - presents a framework to iteratively train dense retrievers to identify high-quality in-context examples for LLMs; the approach enhances in-context learning performance demonstrated using a suite of 30 tasks; examples with similar patterns are helpful and gains are consistent across model sizes.                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07164), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1680770636166094848?s=20)                                                                             |\n| 10) **FLASK** - proposes fine-grained evaluation for LLMs based on a range of alignment skill sets; involves 12 skills and can help to provide a holistic view of a model’s performance depending on skill, domain, and level of difficulty; useful to analyze factors that make LLMs more proficient at specific skills.                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10928), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/SeonghyeonYe/status/1682209670302408705?s=20)                                                                         |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 10 - July 16)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                             |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **CM3Leon** - introduces a retrieval-augmented multi-modal language model that can generate text and images; leverages diverse and large-scale instruction-style data for tuning which leads to significant performance improvements and 5x less training compute than comparable methods.            | [Paper](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/scaling-autoregressive-multi-modal-models-pretraining-and-instruction-tuning/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1679885986363478018?s=20) |\n| 2) **Claude 2** - presents a detailed model card for Claude 2 along with results on a range of safety, alignment, and capabilities evaluations.                                                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://www-files.anthropic.com/production/images/Model-Card-Claude-2.pdf), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1678759122194530304?s=20)                                          |\n| 3) **Secrets of RLHF in LLMs** - takes a closer look at RLHF and explores the inner workings of PPO with code included.                                                                                                                                                                                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04964), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1678938028918571009?s=20)                                                                                      |\n| 4) **LongLLaMA** - employs a contrastive training process to enhance the structure of the (key, value) space to extend context length; presents a fine-tuned model that lengthens context and demonstrates improvements in long context tasks.                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03170v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/s_tworkowski/status/1677125863429795840?s=20)                                                                                |\n| 5) **Patch n’ Pack: NaViT** - introduces a vision transformer for any aspect ratio and resolution through sequence packing; enables flexible model usage, improved training efficiency, and transfers to tasks involving image and video classification among others.                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06304), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/m__dehghani/status/1679558751248850969?s=20)                                                                                   |\n| 6) **LLMs as General Pattern Machines** - shows that even without any additional training, LLMs can serve as general sequence modelers, driven by in-context learning; this work applies zero-shot capabilities to robotics and shows that it’s possible to transfer the pattern among words to actions. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04721), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1679898692307005440?s=20)                                                                                      |\n| 7) **HyperDreamBooth** - introduces a smaller, faster, and more efficient version of Dreambooth; enables personalization of text-to-image diffusion model using a single input image, 25x faster than Dreambooth.                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06949), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/natanielruizg/status/1679893292618752000?s=20)                                                                                 |\n| 8) **Teaching Arithmetics to Small Transformers** - trains small transformer models on chain-of-thought style data to significantly improve accuracy and convergence speed; it highlights the importance of high-quality instructive data for rapidly eliciting arithmetic capabilities.                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03381), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1678407512637284352?s=20)                                                                                |\n| 9) **AnimateDiff** - appends a motion modeling module to a frozen text-to-image model, which is then trained and used to animate existing personalized models to produce diverse and personalized animated images.                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04725v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dreamingtulpa/status/1679459297946632193?s=20)                                                                               |\n| 10) **Generative Pretraining in Multimodality** - presents a new transformer-based multimodal foundation model to generate images and text in a multimodal context; enables performant multimodal assistants via instruction tuning.                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05222v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1678939405170475008?s=20)                                                                                    |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (July 3 - July 9)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | **Links**                                                                                                               |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **A Survey on Evaluation of LLMs** - a comprehensive overview of evaluation methods for LLMs focusing on what to evaluate, where to evaluate, and how to evaluate.                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03109), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1677137934946803712?s=20)        |\n| 2) **How Language Models Use Long Contexts** - finds that LM performance is often highest when relevant information occurs at the beginning or end of the input context; performance degrades when relevant information is provided in the middle of a long context.                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/nelsonfliu/status/1677373731948339202?s=20)      |\n| 3) **LLMs as Effective Text Rankers** - proposes a prompting technique that enables open-source LLMs to perform state-of-the-art text ranking on standard benchmarks.                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17563), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1675673784454447107?s=20) |\n| 4) **Multimodal Generation with Frozen LLMs** - introduces an approach that effectively maps images to the token space of LLMs; enables models like PaLM and GPT-4 to tackle visual tasks without parameter updates; enables multimodal tasks and uses in-context learning to tackle various visual tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17842), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/roadjiang/status/1676375112914989056?s=20)       |\n| 5) **CodeGen2.5** - releases a new code LLM trained on 1.5T tokens; the 7B model is on par with >15B code-generation models and it’s optimized for fast sampling.                                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02309), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/erik_nijkamp/status/1677055271104045056?s=20)    |\n| 6) **Elastic Decision Transformer** - introduces an advancement over Decision Transformers and variants by facilitating trajectory stitching during action inference at test time, achieved by adjusting to shorter history that allows transitions to diverse and better future states.                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02484), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/xiaolonw/status/1677003542249484289?s=20)        |\n| 7) **Robots That Ask for Help** - presents a framework to measure and align the uncertainty of LLM-based planners that ask for help when needed.                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01928), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/allenzren/status/1677000811803443213?s=20)       |\n| 8) **Physics-based Motion Retargeting in Real-Time** - proposes a method that uses reinforcement learning to train a policy to control characters in a physics simulator; it retargets motions in real-time from sparse human sensor data to characters of various morphologies.                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01938), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1676822600478015488?s=20)        |\n| 9) **Scaling Transformer to 1 Billion Tokens** - presents LongNet, a Transformer variant that can scale sequence length to more than 1 billion tokens, with no loss in shorter sequences.                                                                                                                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02486), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1676765133362675712?s=20) |\n| 10) **InterCode** - introduces a framework of interactive coding as a reinforcement learning environment; this is different from the typical coding benchmarks that consider a static sequence-to-sequence process.                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14898), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/ShunyuYao12/status/1675903408727896066?s=20)     |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 26 - July 2)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | **Links**                                                                                                                |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1) **LeanDojo** - an open-source Lean playground consisting of toolkits, data, models, and benchmarks for theorem proving; also develops ReProver, a retrieval augmented LLM-based prover for theorem solving using premises from a vast math library.                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15626), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/KaiyuYang4/status/1673882824158613504?s=20)       |\n| 2) **Extending Context Window of LLMs** - extends the context window of LLMs like LLaMA to up to 32K with minimal fine-tuning (within 1000 steps); previous methods for extending the context window are inefficient but this approach attains good performance on several tasks while being more efficient and cost-effective. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15595), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1674073189800919042?s=20)         |\n| 3) **Computer Vision Through the Lens of Natural Language** - proposes a modular approach for solving computer vision problems by leveraging LLMs; the LLM is used to reason over outputs from independent and descriptive modules that provide extensive information about an image.                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16410), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1674219223856365569?s=20)  |\n| 4) **Visual Navigation Transformer** - a foundational model that leverages the power of pretrained models to vision-based robotic navigation; it can be used with any navigation dataset and is built on a flexible Transformer-based architecture that can tackle various navigational tasks.                                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14846), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/svlevine/status/1673732522155601920?s=20)         |\n| 5) **Generative AI for Programming Education** - evaluates GPT-4 and ChatGPT on programming education scenarios and compares their performance with human tutors; GPT-4 outperforms ChatGPT and comes close to human tutors' performance.                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17156), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1674590713051242498?s=20)         |\n| 6) **DragDiffusion** - extends interactive point-based image editing using diffusion models; it optimizes the diffusion latent to achieve precise spatial control and complete high-quality editing efficiently.                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14435), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1673570232429051906?s=20)         |\n| 7) **Understanding Theory-of-Mind in LLMs with LLMs** - a framework for procedurally generating evaluations with LLMs; proposes a benchmark to study the social reasoning capabilities of LLMs with LLMs.                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15448), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1673871545725505537?s=20)         |\n| 8) **Evaluations with No Labels** - a framework for self-supervised evaluation of LLMs by analyzing their sensitivity or invariance to transformations on input text; can be used to monitor LLM behavior on datasets streamed during live model deployment.                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13651v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/1673808766679097346?s=20) |\n| 9) **Long-range Language Modeling with Self-Retrieval** - an architecture and training procedure for jointly training a retrieval-augmented language model from scratch for long-range language modeling tasks.                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13421), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1673129191863140353?s=20)  |\n| 10) **Scaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias** - shows that the performance of MLPs improves with scale and highlights that lack of inductive bias can be compensated.                                                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13575), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/ethanCaballero/status/1673725211907182592?s=20)   |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 19 - June 25)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | **Links**                                                                                                                 |\n| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Textbooks Are All You Need** - introduces a new 1.3B parameter LLM called phi-1; it’s significantly smaller in size and trained for 4 days using a selection of textbook-quality data and synthetic textbooks and exercises with GPT-3.5; achieves promising results on the HumanEval benchmark.                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1671326369626853376?s=20)   |\n| 2) **RoboCat** - a new foundation agent that can operate different robotic arms and can solve tasks from as few as 100 demonstrations; the self-improving AI agent can self-generate new training data to improve its technique and get more efficient at adapting to new tasks.                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11706), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/DeepMind/status/1671171448638144515?s=20)          |\n| 3) **ClinicalGPT** - a language model optimized through extensive and diverse medical data, including medical records, domain-specific knowledge, and multi-round dialogue consultations.                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09968), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1670606068777381890?s=20)          |\n| 4) **An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks** - provides an overview of the main sources of catastrophic AI risks; the goal is to foster more understanding of these risks and ensure AI systems are developed in a safe manner.                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12001v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/DanHendrycks/status/1671894767331061763?s=20)    |\n| 5) **LOMO** - proposes a new memory-efficient optimizer that combines gradient computation and parameter update in one step; enables tuning the full parameters of an LLM with limited resources.                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09782), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1670603218659811330?s=20)   |\n| 6) **SequenceMatch** - formulates sequence generation as an imitation learning problem; this framework allows the ability to incorporate backtracking into text generation through a backspace action; this enables the generative model to mitigate compounding errors by reverting sample tokens that lead to sequence OOD. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05426), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1671636061494059009?s=20)            |\n| 7) **LMFlow** - an extensible and lightweight toolkit that simplifies finetuning and inference of general large foundation models; supports continuous pretraining, instruction tuning, parameter-efficient finetuning, alignment tuning, and large model inference.                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12420), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1671881864930549761?s=20)          |\n| 8) **MotionGPT** - uses multimodal control signals for generating consecutive human motions; it quantizes multimodal control signals intro discrete codes which are converted to LLM instructions that generate motion answers.                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10900v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1671341916980490241?s=20) |\n| 9) **Wanda** - introduces a simple and effective pruning approach for LLMs; it prunes weights with the smallest magnitudes multiplied by the corresponding input activations, on a per-output basis; the approach requires no retraining or weight update and outperforms baselines of magnitude pruning.                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11695), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/Yampeleg/status/1671885220218560516?s=20)          |\n| 10) **AudioPaLM** - fuses text-based and speech-based LMs, PaLM-2 and AudioLM, into a multimodal architecture that supports speech understanding and generation; outperforms existing systems for speech translation tasks with zero-shot speech-to-text translation capabilities.                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12925v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/PaulKRubenstein/status/1672128984220413953?s=20) |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 12 - June 18)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                        |\n| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1) **Voicebox** - an all-in-one generative speech model; it can synthesize speech across 6 languages; it can perform noise removal, content editing, style conversion, and more; it's 20x faster than current models and outperforms single-purpose models through in-context learning.                                                   | [Paper](https://research.facebook.com/publications/voicebox-text-guided-multilingual-universal-speech-generation-at-scale/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1669766837981306880?s=20) |\n| 2) **FinGPT** - an open-source LLM for the finance sector; it takes a data-centric approach, providing researchers & practitioners with accessible resources to develop FinLLMs.                                                                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06031), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1668060502663077891?s=20)                                                                                 |\n| 3) **Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks** - estimates that 33-46% of crowd workers on MTurk used LLMs when completing a text production task.                                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07899v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/manoelribeiro/status/1668986074801098754?s=20)                                                                          |\n| 4) **Reliability of Watermarks for LLMs** - watermarking is useful to detect LLM-generated text and potentially mitigate harms; this work studies the reliability of watermarking for LLMs and finds that watermarks are detectable even when the watermarked text is re-written by humans or paraphrased by another non-watermarked LLM. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04634), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/1668668484975464448?s=20)                                                                           |\n| 5) **Applications of Transformers** - a new survey paper highlighting major applications of Transformers for deep learning tasks; includes a comprehensive list of Transformer models.                                                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07303), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1668989324950491139?s=20)                                                                                 |\n| 6) **Benchmarking NN Training Algorithms** - it’s currently challenging to properly assess the best optimizers to train neural networks; this paper presents a new benchmark, AlgoPerf, for benchmarking neural network training algorithms using realistic workloads.                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07179), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/zacharynado/status/1668683433944424448?s=20)                                                                              |\n| 7) **Unifying LLMs & Knowledge Graphs** - provides a roadmap for the unification of LLMs and KGs; covers how to incorporate KGs in LLM pre-training/inferencing, leverage LLMs for KG tasks such as question answering, and enhance both KGs and LLMs for bidirectional reasoning.                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09310), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1670051081722769408?s=20)                                                                                 |\n| 8) **Augmenting LLMs with Long-term Memory** - proposes a framework to enable LLMs to memorize long history; it’s enhanced with memory-augmented adaptation training to memorize long past context and use long-term memory for language modeling; achieves improvements on memory-augmented in-context learning over LLMs.               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07174), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1668429602841317378?s=20)                                                                          |\n| 9) **TAPIR** - enables tracking any queried point on any physical surface throughout a video sequence; outperforms all baselines and facilitates fast inference on long and high-resolution videos (track points faster than real-time when using modern GPUs).                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08637), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/AdamWHarley/status/1669785589246468096?s=20)                                                                              |\n| 10) **Mind2Web** - a new dataset for evaluating generalist agents for the web; contains 2350 tasks from 137 websites over 31 domains; it enables testing generalization ability across tasks and environments, covering practical use cases on the web.                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06070), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1669403956064432128?s=20)                                                                                 |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (June 5 - June 11)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | **Links**                                                                                                                          |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once** - propose a test-time optimization method for estimating dense and long-range motion; enables accurate, full-length motion estimation of every pixel in a video.                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05422), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/sstj389/status/1667000331958468608?s=20)                    |\n| 2) **AlphaDev** - a deep reinforcement learning agent which discovers faster sorting algorithms from scratch; the algorithms outperform previously known human benchmarks and have been integrated into the LLVM C++ library.                                                                                                  | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1666486491793481738?s=20) |\n| 3) **Sparse-Quantized Representation** - a new compressed format and quantization technique that enables near-lossless compression of LLMs across model scales; “allows LLM inference at 4.75 bits with a 15% speedup”.                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03078), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1666076553665744896?s=20)               |\n| 4) **MusicGen** - a simple and controllable model for music generation built on top of a single-stage transformer LM together with efficient token interleaving patterns; it can be conditioned on textual descriptions or melodic features and shows high performance on a standard text-to-music benchmark.                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05284), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/syhw/status/1667103478471176192?s=20)                       |\n| 5) **Augmenting LLMs with Databases** - combines an LLM with a set of SQL databases, enabling a symbolic memory framework; completes tasks via LLM generating SQL instructions that manipulate the DB autonomously.                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03901), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1666254609524961282?s=20)                   |\n| 6) **Concept Scrubbing in LLM** - presents a method called LEAst-squares Concept Erasure (LEACE) to erase target concept information from every layer in a neural network; it’s used for reducing gender bias in BERT embeddings.                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03819) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/norabelrose/status/1666469917636571137?s=20)               |\n| 7) **Fine-Grained RLHF** - trains LMs with fine-grained human feedback; instead of using overall preference, more explicit feedback is provided at the segment level which helps to improve efficacy on long-form question answering, reduce toxicity, and enables LM customization.                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01693), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/zeqiuwu1/status/1665785626552049665?s=20)                   |\n| 8) **Hierarchical Vision Transformer** - pretrains vision transformers with a visual pretext task (MAE), while removing unnecessary components from a state-of-the-art multi-stage vision transformer; this enables a simple hierarchical vision transformer that’s more accurate and faster at inference and during training. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00989), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1665759715765411840?s=20)                     |\n| 9) **Humor in ChatGPT** - explores ChatGPT’s capabilities to grasp and reproduce humor; finds that over 90% of 1008 generated jokes were the same 25 jokes and that ChatGPT is also overfitted to a particular joke structure.                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04563), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/AlbertBoyangLi/status/1666707728272850944?s=20)             |\n| 10) **Imitating Reasoning Process of Larger LLMs** - develops a 13B parameter model that learns to imitate the reasoning process of large foundational models like GPT-4; it leverages large-scale and diverse imitation data and surpasses instruction-tuned models such as Vicuna-13B in zero-shot reasoning.                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02707), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1665906453587034112?s=20)                   |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 29-June 4)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | **Links**                                                                                                                |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1) **Let’s Verify Step by Step** - achieves state-of-the-art mathematical problem solving by rewarding each correct step of reasoning in a chain-of-thought instead of rewarding the final answer; the model solves 78% of problems from a representative subset of the MATH test set.                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20050), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1663957407184347136?s=20)           |\n| 2) **No Positional Encodings** - shows that explicit position embeddings are not essential for decoder-only Transformers; shows that other positional encoding methods like ALiBi and Rotary are not well suited for length generalization.                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19466), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/a_kazemnejad/status/1664277559968927744?s=20)     |\n| 3) **BiomedGPT** - a unified biomedical generative pretrained transformer model for vision, language, and multimodal tasks. Achieves state-of-the-art performance across 5 distinct tasks with 20 public datasets spanning over 15 unique biomedical modalities.                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17100), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1662992484576681986?s=20)         |\n| 4) **Thought Cloning** - introduces an imitation learning framework to learn to think while acting; the idea is not only to clone the behaviors of human demonstrators but also the thoughts humans have when performing behaviors.                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00323), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1664798780644904960?s=20)         |\n| 5) **Fine-Tuning Language Models with Just Forward Passes** - proposes a memory-efficient zeroth-order optimizer and a corresponding SGD algorithm to finetune large LMs with the same memory footprint as inference.                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17333) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1663360307274690560?s=20) |\n| 6) **MERT** - an acoustic music understanding model with large-scale self-supervised training; it incorporates a superior combination of teacher models to outperform conventional speech and audio approaches.                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00107) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/yizhilll/status/1664680921146982401?s=20)        |\n| 7) **Bytes Are All You Need** - investigates performing classification directly on file bytes, without needing to decode files at inference time; achieves ImageNet Top-1 accuracy of 77.33% using a transformer backbone; achieves 95.42% accuracy when operating on WAV files from the Speech Commands v2 dataset.           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00238), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1664497650702471169?s=20)         |\n| 8) **Direct Preference Optimization** - while helpful to train safe and useful LLMs, the RLHF process can be complex and often unstable; this work proposes an approach to finetune LMs by solving a classification problem on the human preferences data, with no RL required.                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/archit_sharma97/status/1663595372269408261?s=20)  |\n| 9) **SQL-PaLM** - an LLM-based Text-to-SQL adopted from PaLM-2; achieves SoTA in both in-context learning and fine-tuning settings; the few-shot model outperforms the previous fine-tuned SoTA by 3.8% on the Spider benchmark; few-shot SQL-PaLM also outperforms few-shot GPT-4 by 9.9%, using a simple prompting approach. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00739), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1664441085693657088?s=20)         |\n| 10) **CodeTF** - an open-source Transformer library for state-of-the-art code LLMs; supports pretrained code LLMs and popular code benchmarks, including standard methods to train and serve code LLMs efficiently.                                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00029), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/stevenhoi/status/1664483010954272770?s=20)        |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 22-28)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | **Links**                                                                                                                |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1) **QLoRA** - an efficient finetuning approach that reduces memory usage enough to finetune a 65B parameter model on a single 48GB GPU while preserving full 16-bit finetuning performance.                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1661379354507476994?s=20)     |\n| 2) **LIMA** - a new 65B parameter LLaMa model fine-tuned on 1000 carefully curated prompts and responses; it doesn't use RLHF, generalizes well to unseen tasks not available in the training data, and generates responses equivalent or preferred to GPT-4 in 43% of cases, and even higher compared to Bard. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11206), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/violet_zct/status/1660789120069926912?s=20)       |\n| 3) **Voyager** - an LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft that can continuously explore worlds, acquire skills, and make novel discoveries without human intervention.                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16291), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1662115266933972993?s=20)         |\n| 4) **Gorilla** - a finetuned LLaMA-based model that surpasses GPT-4 on writing API calls. This capability can help identify the right API, boosting the ability of LLMs to interact with external tools to complete specific tasks.                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15334), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1661540207206846464?s=20)         |\n| 5) **The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs** - provides a critical analysis of models that are finetuned on the outputs of a stronger model; argues that model imitation is a false premise and that the higher leverage action to improve open source models is to develop better base models.       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15717) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1661908342829187072?s=20) |\n| 6) **Sophia** - presents a simple scalable second-order optimizer that has negligible average per-step time and memory overhead; on language modeling, Sophia achieves 2x speed-up compared to Adam in the number of steps, total compute, and wall-clock time.                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14342) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/tengyuma/status/1661412995430219786?s=20)        |\n| 7) **The Larger They Are, the Harder They Fail** - shows that LLMs fail to generate correct Python code when default function names are swapped; they also strongly prefer incorrect continuation as they become bigger.                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15507), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/AVMiceliBarone/status/1662150656327663617?s=20)   |\n| 8) **Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks** - discusses the importance of model evaluation for addressing extreme risks and making responsible decisions about model training, deployment, and security.                                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15324), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/soundboy/status/1661728733156503555?s=20)         |\n| 9) **LLM Research Directions** - discusses a list of research directions for students looking to do research with LLMs.                                                                                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12544), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1661405738059571201?s=20)         |\n| 10) **Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era** - proposes an approach that combines the efficient parallelizable training of Transformers with the efficient inference of RNNs; results show that the method performs on part with similarly sized Transformers.                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1660816265454419969?s=20)         |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 15-21)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | **Links**                                                                                                         |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold** - an approach for controlling GANs that allows dragging points of the image to precisely reach target points in a user-interactive manner.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10973v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268470057967616?s=20) |\n| 2) **Evidence of Meaning in Language Models Trained on Programs** - argues that language models can learn meaning despite being trained only to perform next token prediction on text.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11169), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268472129945600?s=20)   |\n| 3) **Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models** - a top-performing LLM for medical question answering; scored up to 86.5% on the MedQA dataset (a new state-of-the-art); approaches or exceeds SoTA across MedMCQA, PubMedQA, and MMLU clinical topics datasets.                                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09617), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268473853829121?s=20)   |\n| 4) **MEGABYTE: Predicting Million-byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers** - a multi-scale decoder architecture enabling end-to-end modeling of sequences of over one million bytes; enables sub-quadratic self-attention and improved parallelism during decoding.                                                                                                                                                                                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07185), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268475762327552?s=20)   |\n| 5) **StructGPT: A General Framework for Large Language Model to Reason over Structured Data** - improves the zero-shot reasoning ability of LLMs over structured data; effective for solving question answering tasks based on structured data.                                                                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09645) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268477628727298?s=20)  |\n| 6) **TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?** - uses a synthetic dataset of short stories to train and evaluate LMs that are much smaller than SoTA models but can produce fluent and consistent stories with several paragraphs, and demonstrate reasoning capabilities.                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268479642054660?s=20)  |\n| 7) **DoReMi: Optimizing Data Mixtures Speeds Up Language Model Pretraining** - trains a small proxy model over domains to produce domain weights without knowledge of downstream tasks; it then resamples a dataset with the domain weights and trains a larger model; this enables using a 280M proxy model to train an 8B model (30x larger) more efficiently.                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10429), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268481466572802?s=20)   |\n| 8) **CodeT5+: Open Code Large Language Models for Code Understanding and Generation** - supports a wide range of code understanding and generation tasks and different training methods to improve efficacy and computing efficiency; tested on 20 code-related benchmarks using different settings like zero-shot, fine-tuning, and instruction tuning; achieves SoTA on tasks like code completion, math programming, and text-to-code retrieval tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07922), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268483152584704?s=20)   |\n| 9) **Symbol tuning improves in-context learning in language models** - an approach to finetune LMs on in-context input-label pairs where natural language labels are replaced by arbitrary symbols; boosts performance on unseen in-context learning tasks and algorithmic reasoning tasks.                                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08298)), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268485035819009?s=20)  |\n| 10) **Searching for Needles in a Haystack: On the Role of Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM's Translation Capability** - shows that PaLM is exposed to over 30 million translation pairs across at least 44 languages; shows that incidental bilingualism connects to the translation capabilities of PaLM.                                                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10266), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268486839476224?s=20)   |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 8-14)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | **Links**                                                                                                                                                  |\n| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **LLM explains neurons in LLMs** - applies GPT-4 to automatically write explanations on the behavior of neurons in LLMs and even score those explanations; this offers a promising way to improve interpretability in future LLMs and potentially detect alignment and safety problems.                              | [Paper](https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/neuron-explainer/paper/index.html), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1655982364273831936?s=20) |\n| 2) **PaLM 2** - a new state-of-the-art language model integrated into AI features and tools like Bard and the PaLM API; displays competitive performance in mathematical reasoning compared to GPT-4; instruction-tuned model, Flan-PaLM 2, shows good performance on benchmarks like MMLU and BIG-bench Hard.          | [Paper](https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/Google/status/1656347171556294669?s=20)                       |\n| 3) **ImageBind** - an approach that learns joint embedding data across six modalities at once; extends zero-shot capabilities to new modalities and enables emergent applications including cross-modal retrieval, composing modalities with arithmetic, cross-modal detection, and generation.                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05665), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1655989274620358656?s=20)                                             |\n| 4) **TidyBot** - shows that robots can combine language-based planning and perception with the few-shot summarization capabilities of LLMs to infer generalized user preferences that are applicable to future interactions.                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05658), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1656117478760796160?s=20)                                           |\n| 5) **Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting** - demonstrates that CoT explanations can misrepresent the true reason for a model’s prediction; when models are biased towards incorrect answers, CoT generation explanations supporting those answers.                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04388) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/milesaturpin/status/1656010877269602304?s=20)                                      |\n| 6) **InstructBLIP** - explores visual-language instruction tuning based on the pre-trained BLIP-2 models; achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on 13 held-out datasets, outperforming BLIP-2 and Flamingo.                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06500) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/LiJunnan0409/status/1656821806593101827?s=20)                                      |\n| 7) **Active Retrieval Augmented LLMs** - introduces FLARE, retrieval augmented generation to improve the reliability of LLMs; FLARE actively decides when and what to retrieve across the course of the generation; demonstrates superior or competitive performance on long-form knowledge-intensive generation tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06983), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1657004417726423042?s=20)                                           |\n| 8) **FrugalGPT** - presents strategies to reduce the inference cost associated with using LLMs while improving performance.                                                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05176), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1656105704808419329?s=20)                                           |\n| 9) **StarCoder** - an open-access 15.5B parameter LLM with 8K context length and is trained on large amounts of code spanning 80+ programming languages.                                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06161), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1656479380296613894?s=20)                                           |\n| 10) **MultiModal-GPT** - a vision and language model for multi-round dialogue with humans; the model is fine-tuned from OpenFlamingo, with LoRA added in the cross-attention and self-attention parts of the language model.                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04790), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/OpenMMLab/status/1656127026687000578?s=20)                                          |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (May 1-7)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | **Links**                                                                                                                                  |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1) **scGPT: Towards Building a Foundation Model for Single-Cell Multi-omics Using Generative AI** - a foundation large language model pretrained on 10 million cells for single-cell biology.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.30.538439v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223088152211456?s=20) |\n| 2) **GPTutor: a ChatGPT-powered programming tool for code explanation** - a ChatGPT-powered tool for code explanation provided as a VSCode extension; claims to deliver more concise and accurate explanations than vanilla ChatGPT and Copilot; performance and personalization enhanced via prompt engineering; programmed to use more relevant code in its prompts.                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01863), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223089754517509?s=20)                            |\n| 3) **Shap-E: Generating Conditional 3D Implicit Functions** - a conditional generative model for 3D assets; unlike previous 3D generative models, this model generates implicit functions that enable rendering textured meshes and neural radiance fields.                                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02463), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223091482566663?s=20)                            |\n| 4) **Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?** - presents an alternative explanation to the emergent abilities of LLMs; suggests that existing claims are creations of the researcher’s analyses and not fundamental changes in model behavior on specific tasks with scale                                                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223092975640578?s=20)                            |\n| 5) **Interpretable Machine Learning for Science with PySR and SymbolicRegression.jl** - releases PySR, an open-source library for practical symbolic regression for the sciences; it’s built on a high-performance distributed back-end and interfaces with several deep learning packages; in addition, a new benchmark, “EmpiricalBench”, is released to quantify applicability of symbolic regression algorithms in science. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01582) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223094640889856?s=20)                           |\n| 6) **PMC-LLaMA: Further Finetuning LLaMA on Medical Papers** - a LLaMA model fine-tuned on 4.8 million medical papers; enhances capabilities in the medical domain and achieves high performance on biomedical QA benchmarks.                                                                                                                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14454) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223096301740032?s=20)                           |\n| 7) **Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes** - a mechanism to extract rationales from LLMs to train smaller models that outperform larger language models with less training data needed by finetuning or distillation.                                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02301), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223098730217472?s=20)                            |\n| 8) **Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning** - show that adversaries can poison LLMs during instruction tuning by contributing poison examples to datasets; it can induce degenerate outputs across different held-out tasks.                                                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00944), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223100286332934?s=20)                            |\n| 9) **Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input** - proposes long-range transformers with unlimited length input by augmenting pre-trained encoder-decoder transformer with external datastore to support unlimited length input; shows usefulness in long-document summarization; could potentially be used to improve the performance of retrieval-enhanced LLMs.                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01625), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223101913718784?s=20)                            |\n| 10) **Learning to Reason and Memorize with Self-Notes** - an approach that enables LLMs to reason and memorize enabling them to deviate from the input sequence at any time to explicitly “think”; this enables the LM to recall information and perform reasoning on the fly; experiments show that this method scales better to longer sequences unseen during training.                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00833), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223103662829569?s=20)                            |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 24 - April 30)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | **Links**                                                                                                                                                |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning** - applies deep reinforcement learning to synthesize agile soccer skills for a miniature humanoid robot; the resulting policy allows dynamic movement skills such as fast recovery, walking, and kicking.                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693172810571780?s=20)                                          |\n| 2) **Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT** - leverages a recurrent memory transformer architecture to increase BERT’s effective context length to two million tokens while maintaining high memory retrieval accuracy.                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11062), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693174576349185?s=20)                                          |\n| 3) **Track Anything: Segment Anything Meets Videos** - an interactive tool for video object tracking and segmentation; it’s built on top segment anything and allows flexible tracking and segmenting via user clicks.                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11968), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693176644165634?s=20)                                          |\n| 4) **A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning** - provides an overview of fundamental techniques and key concepts in SSL; it also introduces practical considerations for implementing SSL methods successfully.                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12210), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693178724626435?s=20)                                          |\n| 5) **Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond** - a comprehensive and practical guide for practitioners working with LLMs; discusses many use cases with practical applications and limitations of LLMs in real-world scenarios.                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13712) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693180381274114?s=20)                                         |\n| 6) **AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head** - connects ChatGPT with audio foundational models to handle challenging audio tasks and a modality transformation interface to enable spoken dialogue.                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12995) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693181895409666?s=20)                                         |\n| 7) **DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets** - releases a new multimodal dataset benchmark containing 12.8B image-text pairs.                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14108), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693183493447681?s=20)                                          |\n| 8) **ChatGPT for Information Extraction** - provides a deeper assessment of ChatGPT's performance on the important information extraction task.                                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11633), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693184927989768?s=20)                                          |\n| 9) **Comparing Physician vs ChatGPT** - investigates if chatbot assistants like ChatGPT can provide responses to patient questions while emphasizing quality and empathy; finds that chatbot responses were preferred over physician responses and rated significantly higher in terms of both quality and empathy. | [Paper](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2804309), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693186467299331?s=20) |\n| 10) **Stable and low-precision training for large-scale vision-language models** - introduces methods for accelerating and stabilizing training of large-scale language vision models.                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13013), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693187960479745?s=20)                                          |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 17 - April 23)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | **Links**                                                                                                        |\n| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision** - a new method for training high-performance computer vision models based on self-supervised learning; enables learning rich and robust visual features without supervision which are useful for both image-level visual tasks and pixel-level tasks; tasks supported include image classification, instance retrieval, video understanding, depth estimation, and much more.                                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07193), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145892941324288?s=20)  |\n| 2) **Learning to Compress Prompts with Gist Tokens** - an approach that trains language models to compress prompts into gist tokens reused for compute efficiency; this approach enables 26x compression of prompts, resulting in up to 40% FLOPs reductions.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08467), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145895332163585?s=20)  |\n| 3) **Scaling the leading accuracy of deep equivariant models to biomolecular simulations of realistic size** - presents a framework for large-scale biomolecular simulation; this is achieved through the high accuracy of equivariant deep learning and the ability to scale to large and long simulations; the system is able to “perform nanoseconds-long stable simulations of protein dynamics and scale up to a 44-million atom structure of a complete, all-atom, explicitly solvated HIV capsid on the Perlmutter supercomputer.” | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10061), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145897689350144?s=20)  |\n| 4) **Evaluating Verifiability in Generative Search Engines** - performs human evaluation to audit popular generative search engines such as Bing Chat, Perplexity AI, and NeevaAI; finds that, on average, only 52% of generated sentences are supported by citations and 75% of citations support their associated sentence.                                                                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09848), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145900180779009?s=20)  |\n| 5) **Generative Disco: Text-to-Video Generation for Music Visualization** - an AI system based on LLMs and text-to-image models that generates music visualizations.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08551) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145904219832324?s=20) |\n| 6) **Architectures of Topological Deep Learning: A Survey on Topological Neural Networks**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10031) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145906560311298?s=20) |\n| 7) **Visual Instruction Tuning** - presents an approach that uses language-only GPT-4 to generate multimodal language-image instruction-following data; applies instruction tuning with the data and introduces LLaVA, an end-to-end trained large multimodal model for general-purpose visual and language understanding.                                                                                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08485), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145909387214848?s=20)  |\n| 8) **ChatGPT: Applications, Opportunities, and Threats**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09103), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145911836745736?s=20)  |\n| 9) **Chameleon: Plug-and-Play Compositional Reasoning with Large Language Models** - a plug-and-play compositional reasoning framework that augments LLMs and can infer the appropriate sequence of tools to compose and execute in order to generate final responses; achieves 87% accuracy on ScienceQA and 99% on TabMWP.                                                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09842), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145914420330496?s=20)  |\n| 10) **Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models** - applies latent diffusion models to high-resolution video generation; validates the model on creative content creation and real driving videos of 512 x 1024 and achieves state-of-the-art performance.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08818), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145916794314752?s=20)  |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 10 - April 16)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | **Links**                                                                                                        |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields** - combines mip-NeRF 360 and grid-based models to improve NeRFs that train 22x faster than mip-NeRF 360.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06706), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613826425147401?s=20)  |\n| 2) **Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior** - proposes an architecture that extends LLMs to build agents that enable simulations of human-like behavior; these capabilities are possible by storing a complete record of an agent's experiences, synthesizing memories over time into higher-level reflections, and retrieving them dynamically to plan behavior. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613828417351682?s=20)  |\n| 3) **Emergent autonomous scientific research capabilities of large language models** - presents an agent that combines LLMs for autonomous design, planning, and execution of scientific experiments; shows emergent scientific research capabilities, including the successful performance of catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05332), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613830233571328?s=20)  |\n| 4) **Automatic Gradient Descent: Deep Learning without Hyperparameters** - derives optimization algorithms that explicitly leverage neural architecture; it proposes a first-order optimizer without hyperparameters that trains CNNs at ImageNet scale.                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05187), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613832804589569?s=20)  |\n| 5) **ChemCrow: Augmenting large-language models with chemistry tools** - presents an LLM chemistry agent that performs tasks across synthesis, drug discovery, and materials design; it integrates 13 expert-design tools to augment LLM performance in chemistry and demonstrate effectiveness in automating chemical tasks.                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05376) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613834813644800?s=20) |\n| 6) **One Small Step for Generative AI, One Giant Leap for AGI: A Complete Survey on ChatGPT in AIGC Era** - A Survey of ChatGPT and GPT-4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06488) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613836617195525?s=20) |\n| 7) **OpenAGI: When LLM Meets Domain Experts** - an open-source research platform to facilitate the development and evaluation of LLMs in solving complex, multi-step tasks through manipulating various domain expert models.                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04370), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613838567546886?s=20)  |\n| 8) **AGIEval: A Human-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models** - a new benchmark to assess foundational models in the context of human-centric standardized exams, including college entrance exams, law school admission tests, and math competitions, among others.                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06364), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613840400498700?s=20)  |\n| 9) **Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug** - proposes an approach that teaches LLMs to debug their predicted program via few-shot demonstrations; this allows a model to identify its mistakes by explaining generated code in natural language; achieves SoTA on several code generation tasks like text-to-SQL generation.                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05128), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613842300497924?s=20)  |\n| 10) **Segment Everything Everywhere All at Once** - a promptable, interactive model for various segmentation tasks that yields competitive performance on open-vocabulary and interactive segmentation benchmarks.                                                                                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06718), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613844087361537?s=20)  |\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (April 3 - April 9)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | **Links**                                                                                                         |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Segment Anything** - presents a set of resources to establish foundational models for image segmentation; releases the largest segmentation dataset with over 1 billion masks on 11M licensed images; the model’s zero-shot performance is competitive with or even superior to fully supervised results.                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02643v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089444280561666?s=20) |\n| 2) **Instruction Tuning with GPT-4** - presents GPT-4-LLM, a \"first attempt\" to use GPT-4 to generate instruction-following data for LLM fine-tuning; the dataset is released and includes 52K unique English and Chinese instruction-following data; the dataset is used to instruction-tune LLaMA models which leads to superior zero-shot performance on new tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03277), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089446524534788?s=20)   |\n| 3) **Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models** - discusses important considerations regarding the capabilities and limitations of LLMs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00612v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089448428699650?s=20) |\n| 4) **A Survey of Large Language Models** - a new 50 pages survey on large language models.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.18223), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089450395852802?s=20)   |\n| 5) **Baize: An Open-Source Chat Model with Parameter-Efficient Tuning on Self-Chat Data** - an open-source chat model fine-tuned with LoRA. Leverages 100K dialogs generated from ChatGPT chatting with itself; it releases the dialogs along with 7B, 13B, and 30B parameter models.                                                                                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01196) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089452081938433?s=20)  |\n| 6) **Do the Rewards Justify the Means? Measuring Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the MACHIAVELLI Benchmark** - a new benchmark of 134 text-based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure games to evaluate the capabilities and unethical behaviors of LLMs.                                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03279) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089453780639744?s=20)  |\n| 7) **Better Language Models of Code through Self-Improvement** - generates pseudo data from knowledge gained through pre-training and fine-tuning; adds the data to the training dataset for the next step; results show that different frameworks can be improved in performance using code-related generation tasks.                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01228v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089455659687937?s=20) |\n| 8) **Summary of ChatGPT/GPT-4 Research and Perspective Towards the Future of Large Language Models** - an overview of applications of ChatGPT and GPT-4; the analysis is done on 194 relevant papers and discusses capabilities, limitations, concerns, and more                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01852), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089457488404486?s=20)   |\n| 9) **Pythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models Across Training and Scaling** - a suite for analyzing LLMs across training and scaling; includes 16 LLMs trained on public data and ranging in size from 70M to 12B parameters.                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01373), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089459191382016?s=20)   |\n| 10) **SegGPT: Segmenting Everything In Context** - unifies segmentation tasks into a generalist model through an in-context framework that supports different kinds of data.                                                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03284), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089461124886529?s=20)   |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Mar 27 - April 2)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | **Links**                                                                                                                |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1) **BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance** - a new 50B parameter large language model for finance. Claims the largest domain-specific dataset yet with 363 billion tokens... further augmented with 345 billion tokens from general-purpose datasets; outperforms existing models on financial tasks while not sacrificing performance on general LLM benchmarks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17564v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1641787456436547584?s=20)       |\n| 2) **Learning Fine-Grained Bimanual Manipulation with Low-Cost Hardware** - a low-cost system that performs end-to-end imitation learning from real demonstrations; also presents an algorithm called Action Chunking with Transformers to learn a generative model that allows a robot to learn difficult tasks in the real world.                                            | [Paper](https://tonyzhaozh.github.io/aloha/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/tonyzzhao/status/1640393026341322754?s=20)     |\n| 3) **HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in HuggingFace** - a system that leverages LLMs like ChatGPT to conduct task planning, select models and act as a controller to execute subtasks and summarize responses according to execution results.                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1641609645713129473?s=20)         |\n| 4) **ChatDoctor: A Medical Chat Model Fine-tuned on LLaMA Model using Medical Domain Knowledge** - a medical chat model fine-tuned on LLaMA using medical domain knowledge. Collects data on around 700 diseases and generated 5K doctor-patient conversations to finetune the LLM.                                                                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14070), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1640525256719753217?s=20)         |\n| 5) **LLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models with Zero-init Attention** - a lightweight adaption method to efficiently fine-tune LLaMA into an instruction-following model; generates responses comparable to Alpaca with fully fine-tuned 7B parameter; it’s also extended for multi-modal input support.                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16199) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/rasbt/status/1641457696074334209?s=20)           |\n| 6) **ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks** - demonstrates that ChatGPT can outperform crowd-workers for several annotation tasks such as relevance, topics, and frames detection; besides better zero-shot accuracy, the per-annotation cost of ChatGPT is less 20 times cheaper than MTurk.                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056v1) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1641496876527517696?s=20) |\n| 7) **Language Models can Solve Computer Tasks** - shows that a pre-trained LLM agent can execute computer tasks using a simple prompting scheme where the agent recursively criticizes and improves its outputs.                                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17491), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1641609722951516161?s=20)  |\n| 8) **DERA: Enhancing Large Language Model Completions with Dialog-Enabled Resolving Agents** - a paradigm to enhance large language model completions by allowing models to communicate feedback and iteratively improve output; DERA outperforms base GPT-4 on clinically-focused tasks.                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17071), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1642168727796961280?s=20)         |\n| 9) **Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans** - discusses why AI systems will become more fit than humans and the potential dangers and risks involved, including ways to mitigate them.                                                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16200), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/DanHendrycks/status/1641102660412792833?s=20)     |\n| 10) **Machine Learning for Partial Differential Equations** - Pa review examining avenues of partial differential equations research advanced by machine learning.                                                                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17078), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/DynamicsSIAM/status/1641608068453777412?s=20)     |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Mar 20-Mar 26)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4** - a comprehensive investigation of an early version of GPT-4 when it was still in active development by OpenAI.                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991716349460481?s=20)                                                                          |\n| 2) **Reflexion: an autonomous agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection** - proposes an agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection capabilities to enhance its existing reasoning trace and task-specific action choice abilities.                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991718169722880?s=20)                                                                          |\n| 3) **Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems** - shows that GPT-4 exceeds the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperforms GPT-3.5 as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B).                                                              | [Paper](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/capabilities-of-gpt-4-on-medical-challenge-problems/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991720224989188?s=20) |\n| 4) **GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models** - investigates the potential implications of GPT models and related systems on the US labor market.                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991722263412737?s=20)                                                                          |\n| 5) **CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers with Conditional Computation** - a long-input Transformer model that employs conditional computation, devoting more resources to important tokens in both feedforward and attention layers.                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09752) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991723806826499?s=20)                                                                         |\n| 6) **Artificial muses: Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Have Risen to Human-Level Creativity** - compares human-generated ideas with those generated by generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and YouChat; reports that 9.4% of humans were more creative than GPT-4 and that GAIs are valuable assistants in the creative process. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12003) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991725442646018?s=20)                                                                         |\n| 7) **A Comprehensive Capability Analysis of GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 Series Models** - a comprehensive capability analysis of GPT series models; evaluates performance on 9 natural language understanding tasks using 21 datasets.                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10420), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991727292395520?s=20)                                                                          |\n| 8) **Context-faithful Prompting for Large Language Models** - presents a prompting technique that aims to improve LLMs' faithfulness using strategies such as opinion-based prompts and counterfactual demonstrations.                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11315), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991728882032646?s=20)                                                                          |\n| 9) **Text2Room: Extracting Textured 3D Meshes from 2D Text-to-Image Models** - a method for extracting room-scale textured 3D meshes from 2D text-to-image models.                                                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11989), [Project](https://lukashoel.github.io/text-to-room/)[Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991730723254274?s=20)                      |\n| 10) **PanGu-Σ: Towards Trillion Parameter Language Model with Sparse Heterogeneous Computing** - a trillion parameter language model with sparse heterogeneous computing.                                                                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10845), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991732405252100?s=20)                                                                          |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Mar 13-Mar 19)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | **Links**                                                                                                                                                        |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **GPT-4 Technical Report** - GPT-4 - a large multimodal model with broader general knowledge and problem-solving abilities.                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774v2), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456913993433089?s=20)                                                |\n| 2) **LERF: Language Embedded Radiance Fields** - a method for grounding language embeddings from models like CLIP into NeRF; this enables open-ended language queries in 3D.                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09553), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456915658686465?s=20)                                                  |\n| 3) **An Overview on Language Models: Recent Developments and Outlook** - an overview of language models covering recent developments and future directions. It also covers topics like linguistic units, structures, training methods, evaluation, and applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05759), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1635273656858460162?s=20)                                                 |\n| 4) **Eliciting Latent Predictions from Transformers with the Tuned Lens** - a method for transformer interpretability that can trace a language model predictions as it develops layer by layer.                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08112), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456919819440130?s=20)                                                  |\n| 5) **Meet in the Middle: A New Pre-training Paradigm** - a new pre-training paradigm using techniques that jointly improve training data efficiency and capabilities of LMs in the infilling task; performance improvement is shown in code generation tasks.        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07295) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456922004561920?s=20)                                                 |\n| 6) **Resurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks for Long Sequences** - demonstrates that careful design of deep RNNs using standard signal propagation arguments can recover the performance of deep state-space models on long-range reasoning tasks.                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06349) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456923795521537?s=20)                                                 |\n| 7) **UPRISE: Universal Prompt Retrieval for Improving Zero-Shot Evaluation** - a new approach to tune a lightweight and versatile retriever to automatically retrieve prompts to improve zero-shot performance and help mitigate hallucinations.                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08518), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456925779456000?s=20)                                                  |\n| 8) **Patches Are All You Need?** - proposes ConvMixer, a parameter-efficient fully-convolutional model which replaces self-attention and MLP layers in ViTs with less-expressive depthwise and pointwise convolutional layers.                                       | [Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=rAnB7JSMXL), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456927784329218?s=20)                                        |\n| 9) **NeRFMeshing: Distilling Neural Radiance Fields into Geometrically-Accurate 3D Meshes** - a compact and flexible architecture that enables easy 3D surface reconstruction from any NeRF-driven approach; distills NeRFs into geometrically-accurate 3D meshes.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09431), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456929705295873?s=20)                                                  |\n| 10) **High-throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU** - a high-throughput generation engine for running LLMs with limited GPU memory.                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06865), [Code](https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456931429183489?s=20) |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Mar 6-Mar 12)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                                         |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model** - incorporates real-world continuous sensor modalities resulting in an embodied LM that performs tasks such as robotic manipulation planning, visual QA, and other embodied reasoning tasks.                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03378), [Demo](https://palm-e.github.io/) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919222420836358?s=20)                                                               |\n| 2) **Prismer: A Vision-Language Model with An Ensemble of Experts** - a parameter-efficient vision-language model powered by an ensemble of domain experts; it efficiently pools expert knowledge from different domains and adapts it to various vision-language reasoning tasks.    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02506), [GitHub](https://github.com/NVlabs/Prismer), [Project](https://shikun.io/projects/prismer) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919224505257985?s=20)      |\n| 3) **Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation Models** - it connects ChatGPT and different visual foundation models to enable users to interact with ChatGPT beyond language format.                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04671), [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/visual-chatgpt) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919226396794882?s=20)                                             |\n| 4) **A Comprehensive Survey of AI-Generated Content (AIGC): A History of Generative AI from GAN to ChatGPT** - an overview of generative AI - from GAN to ChatGPT.                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04226), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919228339003393?s=20)                                                                                                   |\n| 5) **Larger language models do in-context learning differently** - shows that with scale, LLMs can override semantic priors when presented with enough flipped labels; these models can also perform well when replacing targets with semantically-unrelated targets.                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03846) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919230461345797?s=20)                                                                                                  |\n| 6) **Foundation Models for Decision Making: Problems, Methods, and Opportunities** - provides an overview of foundation models for decision making, including tools, methods, and new research directions.                                                                            | [Project](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04129) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919232650760192?s=20)                                                                                                |\n| 7) **Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models** - a subquadratic drop-in replacement for attention; it interleaves implicit long convolutions and data-controlled gating and can learn on sequences 10x longer and up to 100x faster than optimized attention.   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866), [Code](https://github.com/HazyResearch/safari), [Blog](https://ermongroup.github.io/blog/hyena/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919234835980289?s=20) |\n| 8) **OpenICL: An Open-Source Framework for In-context Learning** - a new open-source toolkit for in-context learning and LLM evaluation; supports various state-of-the-art retrieval and inference methods, tasks, and zero-/few-shot evaluation of LLMs.                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02913), [Repo](https://github.com/Shark-NLP/OpenICL), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919236954132480?s=20)                                                     |\n| 9) **MathPrompter: Mathematical Reasoning using Large Language Models** - a technique that improves LLM performance on mathematical reasoning problems; it uses zero-shot chain-of-thought prompting and verification to ensure generated answers are accurate.                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05398), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919239030280197?s=20)                                                                                                   |\n| 10) **Scaling up GANs for Text-to-Image Synthesis** - enables scaling up GANs on large datasets for text-to-image synthesis; it’s found to be orders of magnitude faster at inference time, synthesizes high-resolution images, & supports various latent space editing applications. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05511), [Project](https://mingukkang.github.io/GigaGAN/) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919241198751744?s=20)                                                |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Feb 27-Mar 5)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models** - introduces a multimodal large language model called Kosmos-1; achieves great performance on language understanding, OCR-free NLP, perception-language tasks, visual QA, and more.                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14045), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383312550416384?s=20)                                                                                                                 |\n| 2) **Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech** - finds that human brain activity is best explained by the activations of modern language models enhanced with long-range and hierarchical predictions.                                                                          | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01516-2?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=evergreen&utm_content=animation), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383315029180416?s=20)     |\n| 3) **EvoPrompting: Language Models for Code-Level Neural Architecture Search** - combines evolutionary prompt engineering with soft prompt-tuning to find high-performing models; it leverages few-shot prompting which is further improved by using an evolutionary search approach to improve the in-context examples. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14838), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383317302562816?s=20)                                                                                                                 |\n| 4) **Consistency Models** - a new family of generative models that achieve high sample quality without adversarial training.                                                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01469), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383319152132096?s=20)                                                                                                                 |\n| 5) **Goal Driven Discovery of Distributional Differences via Language Descriptions** - a new task that automatically discovers corpus-level differences via language description in a goal-driven way; applications include discovering insights from commercial reviews and error patterns in NLP systems.              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14233) , [Code](https://github.com/ruiqi-zhong/D5), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383321035374593?s=20)                                                                     |\n| 6) **High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity** - proposes an approach for high-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity.                                                                                               | [Project](https://sites.google.com/view/stablediffusion-with-brain/) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383323086487554?s=20)                                                                                     |\n| 7) **Grounded Decoding: Guiding Text Generation with Grounded Models for Robot Control** - a scalable approach to planning with LLMs in embodied settings through grounding functions; GD is found to be a general, flexible, and expressive approach to embodied tasks.                                                 | [Paper](https://grounded-decoding.github.io/paper.pdf), [Project](https://grounded-decoding.github.io/) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383325036740610?s=20)                                                    |\n| 8) **Language-Driven Representation Learning for Robotics** - a framework for language-driven representation learning from human videos and captions for robotics.                                                                                                                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12766), [Models](https://github.com/siddk/voltron-robotics), [Evaluation](https://github.com/siddk/voltron-evaluation), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383327154888704?s=20) |\n| 9) **Dropout Reduces Underfitting** - demonstrates that dropout can mitigate underfitting when used at the start of training; it counteracts SGD stochasticity and limits the influence of individual batches when training models.                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01500), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383328920666121?s=20)                                                                                                                 |\n| 10) **Enabling Conversational Interaction with Mobile UI using Large Language Models** - an approach that enables versatile conversational interactions with mobile UIs using a single LLM.                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08655), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383331286253568?s=20)                                                                                                                 |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Feb 20-26)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models** - a 65B parameter foundation model released by Meta AI; relies on publicly available data and outperforms GPT-3 on most benchmarks despite being 10x smaller.                                                                                | [Paper](https://research.facebook.com/publications/llama-open-and-efficient-foundation-language-models/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845535946420226?s=20)                                              |\n| 2) **Composer: Creative and Controllable Image Synthesis with Composable Conditions** - a 5B parameter creative and controllable diffusion model trained on billions (text, image) pairs.                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09778), [Project](https://damo-vilab.github.io/composer-page/) , [GitHub](https://github.com/damo-vilab/composer) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845537913548802?s=20) |\n| 3) **The Wisdom of Hindsight Makes Language Models Better Instruction Followers** - an alternative algorithm to train LLMs from feedback; the feedback is converted to instruction by relabeling the original one and training the model, in a supervised way, for better alignment.                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05206), [GitHub](https://github.com/tianjunz/HIR) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845539964481537?s=20)                                                                   |\n| 4) **Active Prompting with Chain-of-Thought for Large Language Models** - a prompting technique to adapt LLMs to different task-specific example prompts (annotated with human-designed chain-of-thought reasoning); this process involves finding where the LLM is most uncertain and annotating those. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12246), [Code](https://github.com/shizhediao/active-prompt) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845541847724033?s=20)                                                         |\n| 5) **Modular Deep Learning** - a survey offering a unified view of the building blocks of modular neural networks; it also includes a discussion about modularity in the context of scaling LMs, causal inference, and other key topics in ML.                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11529) , [Project](https://www.ruder.io/modular-deep-learning/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845544037228551?s=20)                                                    |\n| 6) **Recitation-Augmented Language Models** - an approach that recites passages from the LLM’s own memory to produce final answers; shows high performance on knowledge-intensive tasks.                                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01296) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845546276995075?s=20)                                                                                                            |\n| 7) **Learning Performance-Improving Code Edits** - an approach that uses LLMs to suggest functionally correct, performance-improving code edits.                                                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07867), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845548210561029?s=20)                                                                                                             |\n| 8) **More than you've asked for: A Comprehensive Analysis of Novel Prompt Injection Threats to Application-Integrated Large Language Models** - a comprehensive analysis of novel prompt injection threats to application-integrated LLMs.                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12173), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845550152523777?s=20)                                                                                                             |\n| 9) **Aligning Text-to-Image Models using Human Feedback** - proposes a fine-tuning method to align generative models using human feedback.                                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12192), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845552039968780?s=20)                                                                                                             |\n| 10) **MERF: Memory-Efficient Radiance Fields for Real-time View Synthesis in Unbounded Scenes** - a memory-efficient radiance field representation for real-time view synthesis of large-scale scenes in a browser.                                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12249), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845554061606915?s=20)                                                                                                             |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Feb 13 - 19)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | **Links**                                                                                                                                                 |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Symbolic Discovery of Optimization Algorithms** - a simple and effective optimization algorithm that’s more memory-efficient than Adam.                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06675), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671313874575362?s=20)                                           |\n| 2) **Transformer models: an introduction and catalog**                                                                                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07730), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671315678126082?s=20)                                           |\n| 3) **3D-aware Conditional Image Synthesis** - a 3D-aware conditional generative model extended with neural radiance fields for controllable photorealistic image synthesis.                                                                                          | [Project](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pix2pix3D/) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671317355831296?s=20)                                        |\n| 4) **The Capacity for Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models** - finds strong evidence that language models trained with RLHF have the capacity for moral self-correction. The capability emerges at 22B model parameters and typically improves with scale. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07459), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671319100768260?s=20)                                           |\n| 5) **Vision meets RL** - uses reinforcement learning to align computer vision models with task rewards; observes large performance boost across multiple CV tasks such as object detection and colorization.                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08242)                                                                                                                 |\n| 6) **Language Quantized AutoEncoders: Towards Unsupervised Text-Image Alignment** - an unsupervised method for text-image alignment that leverages pretrained language models; it enables few-shot image classification with LLMs.                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00902) , [Code](https://github.com/lhao499/lqae) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/haoliuhl/status/1625273748629901312?s=20) |\n| 7) **Augmented Language Models: a Survey** - a survey of language models that are augmented with reasoning skills and the capability to use tools.                                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07842), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671324477820929?s=20)                                           |\n| 8) **Geometric Clifford Algebra Networks** - an approach to incorporate geometry-guided transformations into neural networks using geometric algebra.                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06594), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671326176473088?s=20)                                           |\n| 9) **Auditing large language models: a three-layered approach** - proposes a policy framework for auditing LLMs.                                                                                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08500), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671327950643200?s=20)                                           |\n| 10) **Energy Transformer** - a transformer architecture that replaces the sequence of feedforward transformer blocks with a single large Associate Memory model; this follows the popularity that Hopfield Networks have gained in the field of ML.                  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07253), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671329561346050?s=20)                                           |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Feb 6 - 12)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                               | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                           |\n| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools** - introduces language models that teach themselves to use external tools via simple API calls.                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832248691191808?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                            |\n| 2) **Describe, Explain, Plan and Select: Interactive Planning with Large Language Models Enables Open-World Multi-Task Agents** - proposes using language models for open-world game playing.                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01560), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832250717036548?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                            |\n| 3) **A Categorical Archive of ChatGPT Failures** - a comprehensive analysis of ChatGPT failures for categories like reasoning, factual errors, maths, and coding.                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03494), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832252587700230?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                            |\n| 4) **Hard Prompts Made Easy: Gradient-Based Discrete Optimization for Prompt Tuning and Discovery** - optimizing hard text prompts through efficient gradient-based optimization.                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03668), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832254588465156?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                            |\n| 5) **Data Selection for Language Models via Importance Resampling** - proposes a cheap and scalable data selection framework based on an importance resampling algorithm to improve the downstream performance of LMs.  | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03169), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832256400302080?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                            |\n| 6) **Structure and Content-Guided Video Synthesis with Diffusion Models** - proposes an approach for structure and content-guided video synthesis with diffusion models.                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03011) , [Project](https://research.runwayml.com/gen1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832258296229889?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)            |\n| 7) **A Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Evaluation of ChatGPT on Reasoning, Hallucination, and Interactivity** - performs a more rigorous evaluation of ChatGPt on reasoning, hallucination, and interactivity.      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04023), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832260213026819?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                            |\n| 8) **Noise2Music: Text-conditioned Music Generation with Diffusion Models** - proposes diffusion models to generate high-quality 30-second music clips via text prompts.                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03917), [Project](https://google-research.github.io/noise2music/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832262163337220?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q) |\n| 9) **Offsite-Tuning: Transfer Learning without Full Model** - introduces an efficient, privacy-preserving transfer learning framework to adapt foundational models to downstream data without access to the full model. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04870), [Project](https://github.com/mit-han-lab/offsite-tuning), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832264029831169?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)  |\n| 10) **Zero-shot Image-to-Image Translation** - proposes a model for zero-shot image-to-image translation.                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03027), [Project](https://pix2pixzero.github.io/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832265967607813?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                 |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 30-Feb 5)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                     |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **REPLUG: Retrieval-Augmented Black-Box Language Models** - a retrieval-augmented LM framework that adapts a retriever to a large-scale, black-box LM like GPT-3.                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12652), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261780725616641?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                      |\n| 2) **Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models** - shows that diffusion-based generative models can memorize images from the training data and emit them at generation time.                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261782738788353?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                      |\n| 3) **The Flan Collection: Designing Data and Methods for Effective Instruction Tuning** - release a more extensive publicly available collection of tasks, templates, and methods to advancing instruction-tuned models.                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13688), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261784668241922?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                      |\n| 4) **Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models** - incorporates vision features to elicit chain-of-thought reasoning in multimodality, enabling the model to generate effective rationales that contribute to answer inference. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00923), [Code](https://github.com/amazon-science/mm-cot) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261786559791105?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)     |\n| 5) **Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models are General Video Editors** - a diffusion model that performs text-based motion and appearance editing of general videos.                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01329), [Project](https://dreamix-video-editing.github.io/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261788497657856?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q) |\n| 6) **Benchmarking Large Language Models for News Summarization**                                                                                                                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13848) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261790326259714?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                     |\n| 7) **Mathematical Capabilities of ChatGPT** - investigates the mathematical capabilities of ChatGPT on a new holistic benchmark called GHOSTS.                                                                                                 | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13867), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261792238886913?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                      |\n| 8) **Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents** - trains an AI agent to navigate purely by feeling its way around; no use of vision, audio, or any other sensing (as in animals).                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13261), [Project](https://wijmans.xyz/publication/eom/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261793987989507?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)     |\n| 9) **SceneDreamer: Unbounded 3D Scene Generation from 2D Image Collections** - a generative model that synthesizes large-scale 3D landscapes from random noises.                                                                               | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01330), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261795925671936?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                      |\n| 10) **Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context** - finds that many prompting techniques fail when presented with irrelevant context for arithmetic reasoning.                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00093), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261798379429888?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                      |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 23-29)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **MusicLM: Generating Music From Text** - a generative model for generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions.                                                                                                                                           | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11325), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619716425761042436?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                                                                                                                                             |\n| 2) **Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models** - an approach to reduce the gap, in terms of performance and hardware utilization, between state space models and attention for language modeling.                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14052), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619716427879174144?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                                                                                                                                             |\n| 3) **A Watermark for Large Language Models** - a watermarking framework for proprietary language models.                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619716430127308800?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                                                                                                                                             |\n| 4) **Text-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation** - a new text-to-4D model for dynamic scene generation from input text.                                                                                                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11280), [GitHub](https://make-a-video3d.github.io/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619718845018828801?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                                                                                                |\n| 5) **ClimaX: A foundation model for weather and climate** - a foundation model for weather and climate, including many capabilities for atmospheric science tasks.                                                                                                   | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10343), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/tungnd_13/status/1618642574427959296?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q), [Blog](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/autonomous-systems-group-robotics/articles/introducing-climax-the-first-foundation-model-for-weather-and-climate/) |\n| 6) **Open Problems in Applied Deep Learning** - If you're looking for interesting open problems in DL, this is a good reference. Not sure if intentional but it also looks useful to get a general picture of current trends in deep learning with \\~300 references. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11316) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719063915339777?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                                                                                                                                            |\n| 7) **DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection using Probability Curvature** - an approach for zero-shot machine-generated text detection. Uses raw log probabilities from the LLM to determine if the passage was sampled from it.                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11305), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719169758613504?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                                                                                                                                             |\n| 8) **StyleGAN-T: Unlocking the Power of GANs for Fast Large-Scale Text-to-Image Synthesis** - a new model that aims to regain the competitiveness of GANs for fast large-scale text-to-image synthesis.                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09515), [Project](https://sites.google.com/view/stylegan-t/), [Code](https://github.com/autonomousvision/stylegan-t) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719293779976193?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                                |\n| 9) **Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families** - an LLM that can generate protein sequences with a predictable function across large protein families.                                                                   | [Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719404618645511?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                                                                                                                           |\n| 10) **The Impossibility of Parallelizing Boosting** - investigates the possibility of parallelizing boosting.                                                                                                                                                        | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09627), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719511867015168?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q)                                                                                                                                                                             |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 16-22)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                           |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Google AI Research Recap (2022 Edition)** - an excellent summary of some notable research Google AI did in 2022.                                                                                                            | [Blog](https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/01/google-research-2022-beyond-language.html), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1615796030611820545?s=20&t=vUEC8AZmrOJnVxuYIEJs5A) |\n| 2) **Dissociating language and thought in large language models: a cognitive perspective** - a review paper on the capabilities of LLMs from a cognitive science perspective.                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/neuranna/status/1615737072207400962?s=20&t=5iWUK4z_rp1NWst7JRbnwg)                                           |\n| 3) **Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space** - an agent trained at scale that leads to a general in-content learning algorithm able to adapt to open-ended embodied 3D problems.                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07608), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/FeryalMP/status/1616035293064462338?s=20&t=RN0YZFAXWr-uH2dT2ZTSqQ)                                           |\n| 4) **AtMan: Understanding Transformer Predictions Through Memory Efficient Attention Manipulation** - an approach to help provide explanations of generative transformer models through memory-efficient attention manipulation. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08110), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/JonasAndrulis/status/1616722810608427008?s=20&t=vUEC8AZmrOJnVxuYIEJs5A)                                      |\n| 5) **Everything is Connected: Graph Neural Networks** - short overview of key concepts in graph representation learning.                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08210), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/PetarV_93/status/1616379369953394688?s=20&t=AqTVY30Y7IZCultzwnqBPA)                                          |\n| 6) **GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation** - an approach that extends the functionality of existing pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models by enabling conditioning on grounding inputs.                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07093), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1615766551113744384?s=20&t=wx0Y18oSmW0YenXjKRAdnA), [Project](https://gligen.github.io/)     |\n| 7) **InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions** - proposes a method with the capability of editing images from human instructions.                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09800), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1615947919286276096?s=20&t=pbRTn8DaPeQFApQ9okkdRg)                                           |\n| 8) **Dataset Distillation: A Comprehensive Review**                                                                                                                                                                              | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07014), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1615745724473540609?s=20&t=r-pwuB6EhbZLXa5R6mL3NQ)                                           |\n| 9) **Learning-Rate-Free Learning by D-Adaptation** - a new method for automatically adjusting the learning rate during training, applicable to more than a dozen diverse ML problems.                                            | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07733), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/aaron_defazio/status/1616453609956478977?s=20&t=hGWDXu4sT5f1KcH-X1IL9g)                                      |\n| 10) **RecolorNeRF: Layer Decomposed Radiance Field for Efficient Color Editing of 3D Scenes** - a user-friendly color editing approach for the neural radiance field to achieve a more efficient view-consistent recoloring.     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07958), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1616265465843548160?s=20&t=duiLmtDvxCwkFmw23rYDmQ)                                           |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 9-15)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                  |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1) **Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models** - a general algorithm to collect diamonds in Minecraft from scratch without human data or curricula, a long-standing challenge in AI.                                                                                                                         | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04104v1), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676677757661185?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ)                                                 |\n| 2) **Tracr: Compiled Transformers as a Laboratory for Interpretability** - a compiler for converting RASP programs into transformer weights. This way of constructing NNs weights enables the development and evaluation of new interpretability tools.                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05062), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676680165187584?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ), [Code](https://github.com/deepmind/tracr)        |\n| 3) **Multimodal Deep Learning** - multimodal deep learning is a new book published on ArXiv.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | [Book](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04856), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676682555670528?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ)                                                    |\n| 4) **Forecasting Potential Misuses of Language Models for Disinformation Campaigns—and How to Reduce Risk** - new work analyzing how generative LMs could potentially be misused for disinformation and how to mitigate these types of risks.                                                                       | [Paper](https://openai.com/blog/forecasting-misuse/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676684984156160?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ)                                        |\n| 5) **Why do Nearest Neighbor Language Models Work?** - empirically identifies reasons why retrieval-augmented LMs (specifically k-nearest neighbor LMs) perform better than standard parametric LMs.                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02828), [Code](https://github.com/frankxu2004/knnlm-why), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676687597469696?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ) |\n| 6) **Memory Augmented Large Language Models are Computationally Universal** - investigates the use of existing LMs (e.g, Flan-U-PaLM 540B) combined with associative read-write memory to simulate the execution of a universal Turing machine.                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04589) , [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676689908277252?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ)                                                  |\n| 7) **A Survey on Transformers in Reinforcement Learning** - transformers for RL will be a fascinating research area to track. The same is true for the reverse direction (RL for Transformers)... a notable example: using RLHF to improve LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT).                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03044), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676692538105860?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ)                                                   |\n| 8) **Scaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models** - introduces scaling laws for generative mixed-modal language models.                                                                                                                                                                                | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03728), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676694920531969?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ)                                                   |\n| 9) **DeepMatcher: A Deep Transformer-based Network for Robust and Accurate Local Feature Matching** - a transformer-based network showing robust local feature matching, outperforming the state-of-the-art methods on several benchmarks.                                                                          | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02993), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676697516752898?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ)                                                   |\n| 10) **Generative Time Series Forecasting with Diffusion, Denoise, and Disentanglement** - addresses the time series forecasting problem with generative modeling; involves a bidirectional VAE backbone equipped with diffusion, denoising for prediction accuracy, and disentanglement for model interpretability. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03028), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676699915980804?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ)                                                   |\n\n---\n\n## Top ML Papers of the Week (Jan 1-8)\n\n| **Paper**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | **Links**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |\n| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1) **Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers** - introduces Muse, a new text-to-image generation model based on masked generative transformers; significantly more efficient than other diffusion models like Imagen and DALLE-2.                                                       | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00704), [Project](https://muse-model.github.io/), [Code](https://github.com/lucidrains/muse-maskgit-pytorch), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153095772938241?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w) |\n| 2) **VALL-E Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers** - introduces VALL-E, a text-to-audio model that performs state-of-the-art zero-shot performance; the text-to-speech synthesis task is treated as a conditional language modeling task.                                       | [Project](https://valle-demo.github.io/), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153097962328067?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w)                                                                                                        |\n| 3) **Rethinking with Retrieval: Faithful Large Language Model Inference** - shows the potential of enhancing LLMs by retrieving relevant external knowledge based on decomposed reasoning steps obtained through chain-of-thought prompting.                                                                      | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00303), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153100114055171?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w)                                                                                                       |\n| 4) **SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned In One-Shot** - presents a technique for compressing large language models while not sacrificing performance; \"pruned to at least 50% sparsity in one-shot, without any retraining.\"                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00774), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153102513360901?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w)                                                                                                       |\n| 5) **ConvNeXt V2: Co-designing and Scaling ConvNets with Masked Autoencoders** - a performant model based on a fully convolutional masked autoencoder framework and other architectural improvements. CNNs are sticking back!                                                                                     | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00808), [Code](https://github.com/facebookresearch/convnext-v2), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153104329281538?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w)                                              |\n| 6) **Large Language Models as Corporate Lobbyists** - with more capabilities, we are starting to see a wider range of applications with LLMs. This paper utilized large language models for conducting corporate lobbying activities.                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01181) , [Code](https://github.com/JohnNay/llm-lobbyist), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153106355130372?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w)                                                     |\n| 7) **Superposition, Memorization, and Double Descent** - aims to better understand how deep learning models overfit or memorize examples; interesting phenomena observed; important work toward a mechanistic theory of memorization.                                                                             | [Paper](https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/toy-double-descent/index.html), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153108460892160?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w)                                                                    |\n| 8) **StitchNet: Composing Neural Networks from Pre-Trained Fragments** - new idea to create new coherent neural networks by reusing pretrained fragments of existing NNs. Not straightforward but there is potential in terms of efficiently reusing learned knowledge in pre-trained networks for complex tasks. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01947), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153110452903936?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w)                                                                                                       |\n| 9) **Iterated Decomposition: Improving Science Q\\&A by Supervising Reasoning Processes** - proposes integrated decomposition, an approach to improve Science Q\\&A through a human-in-the-loop workflow for refining compositional LM programs.                                                                    | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01751), [Code](https://github.com/oughtinc/ice) [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153112638402562?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w)                                                               |\n| 10) **A Succinct Summary of Reinforcement Learning** - a nice overview of some important ideas in RL.                                                                                                                                                                                                             | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01379), [Tweet](https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153114773053446?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w)                                                                                                       |\n\n---\n\nWe use a combination of AI-powered tools, analytics, and human curation to build the lists of papers.\n\n[Subscribe to our NLP Newsletter](https://nlpnews.substack.com/) to stay on top of ML research and trends.\n\nJoin our [Discord](https://discord.gg/FzNtjEK9dg).\n"
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    "content": "# Research\n\n| Title | Notebook |\n|:---|:---|\n| Dataset Creation | <a href=\"https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1c-5AiDhFjsPGPaSmxDQ7IkQvNncBOKPu?usp=sharing\"><img src=\"https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg\" width = '' ></a> |\n| Model Training | <a href=\"https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1UCz1QOdfEBCnW-wOBJp0v8W5cCQfQ-aH?usp=sharing\"><img src=\"https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg\" width = '' ></a> |"
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    "content": "Title,Description,PaperURL,TweetURL,Abstract\nLlemma,\"an LLM for mathematics which is based on continued pretraining from Code Llama on the Proof-Pile-2 dataset; the dataset involves scientific paper, web data containing mathematics, and mathematical code; Llemma outperforms open base models and the unreleased Minerva on the MATH benchmark; the model is released, including dataset and code to replicate experiments.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10631,https://x.com/zhangir_azerbay/status/1714098025956864031?s=20,\"We present Llemma, a large language model for mathematics. We continue pretraining Code Llama on the Proof-Pile-2, a mixture of scientific papers, web data containing mathematics, and mathematical code, yielding Llemma. On the MATH benchmark Llemma outperforms all known open base models, as well as the unreleased Minerva model suite on an equi-parameter basis. Moreover, Llemma is capable of tool use and formal theorem proving without any further finetuning. We openly release all artifacts, including 7 billion and 34 billion parameter models, the Proof-Pile-2, and code to replicate our experiments.\"\nLLMs for Software Engineering,\"a comprehensive survey of LLMs for software engineering, including open research and technical challenges.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03533,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1713940983199506910?s=20,\"This paper provides a survey of the emerging area of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Software Engineering (SE). It also sets out open research challenges for the application of LLMs to technical problems faced by software engineers. LLMs' emergent properties bring novelty and creativity with applications right across the spectrum of Software Engineering activities including coding, design, requirements, repair, refactoring, performance improvement, documentation and analytics. However, these very same emergent properties also pose significant technical challenges; we need techniques that can reliably weed out incorrect solutions, such as hallucinations. Our survey reveals the pivotal role that hybrid techniques (traditional SE plus LLMs) have to play in the development and deployment of reliable, efficient and effective LLM-based SE.\"\nSelf-RAG,\"presents a new retrieval-augmented framework that enhances an LM’s quality and factuality through retrieval and self-reflection; trains an LM that adaptively retrieves passages on demand, and generates and reflects on the passages and its own generations using special reflection tokens; it significantly outperforms SoTA LLMs\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11511,https://x.com/AkariAsai/status/1715110277077962937?s=20,\"Despite their remarkable capabilities, large language models (LLMs) often produce responses containing factual inaccuracies due to their sole reliance on the parametric knowledge they encapsulate. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), an ad hoc approach that augments LMs with retrieval of relevant knowledge, decreases such issues. However, indiscriminately retrieving and incorporating a fixed number of retrieved passages, regardless of whether retrieval is necessary, or passages are relevant, diminishes LM versatility or can lead to unhelpful response generation. We introduce a new framework called Self-Reflective Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Self-RAG) that enhances an LM's quality and factuality through retrieval and self-reflection. Our framework trains a single arbitrary LM that adaptively retrieves passages on-demand, and generates and reflects on retrieved passages and its own generations using special tokens, called reflection tokens. Generating reflection tokens makes the LM controllable during the inference phase, enabling it to tailor its behavior to diverse task requirements. Experiments show that Self-RAG (7B and 13B parameters) significantly outperforms state-of-the-art LLMs and retrieval-augmented models on a diverse set of tasks. Specifically, Self-RAG outperforms ChatGPT and retrieval-augmented Llama2-chat on Open-domain QA, reasoning and fact verification tasks, and it shows significant gains in improving factuality and citation accuracy for long-form generations relative to these models.\"\nRetrieval-Augmentation for Long-form Question Answering,explores retrieval-augmented language models on long-form question answering; finds that retrieval is an important component but evidence documents should be carefully added to the LLM; finds that attribution error happens more frequently when retrieved documents lack sufficient information/evidence for answering the question.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12150,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1714986431859282144?s=20,\"We present a study of retrieval-augmented language models (LMs) on long-form question answering. We analyze how retrieval augmentation impacts different LMs, by comparing answers generated from models while using the same evidence documents, and how differing quality of retrieval document set impacts the answers generated from the same LM. We study various attributes of generated answers (e.g., fluency, length, variance) with an emphasis on the attribution of generated long-form answers to in-context evidence documents. We collect human annotations of answer attribution and evaluate methods for automatically judging attribution. Our study provides new insights on how retrieval augmentation impacts long, knowledge-rich text generation of LMs. We further identify attribution patterns for long text generation and analyze the main culprits of attribution errors. Together, our analysis reveals how retrieval augmentation impacts long knowledge-rich text generation and provide directions for future work.\"\nGenBench,presents a framework for characterizing and understanding generalization research in NLP; involves a meta-analysis of 543 papers and a set of tools to explore and better understand generalization studies.,https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00729-y?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=research&utm_content=link,https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1715041427283902793?s=20,\nA Study of LLM-Generated Self-Explanations,assesses an LLM's capability to self-generate feature attribution explanations; self-explanation is useful to improve performance and truthfulness in LLMs; this capability can be used together with chain-of-thought prompting.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11207,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1714665747752923620?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have demonstrated superior performance on a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks including sentiment analysis, mathematical reasoning and summarization. Furthermore, since these models are instruction-tuned on human conversations to produce \"\"helpful\"\" responses, they can and often will produce explanations along with the response, which we call self-explanations. For example, when analyzing the sentiment of a movie review, the model may output not only the positivity of the sentiment, but also an explanation (e.g., by listing the sentiment-laden words such as \"\"fantastic\"\" and \"\"memorable\"\" in the review). How good are these automatically generated self-explanations? In this paper, we investigate this question on the task of sentiment analysis and for feature attribution explanation, one of the most commonly studied settings in the interpretability literature (for pre-ChatGPT models). Specifically, we study different ways to elicit the self-explanations, evaluate their faithfulness on a set of evaluation metrics, and compare them to traditional explanation methods such as occlusion or LIME saliency maps. Through an extensive set of experiments, we find that ChatGPT's self-explanations perform on par with traditional ones, but are quite different from them according to various agreement metrics, meanwhile being much cheaper to produce (as they are generated along with the prediction). In addition, we identified several interesting characteristics of them, which prompt us to rethink many current model interpretability practices in the era of ChatGPT(-like) LLMs.\"\nOpenAgents,\"an open platform for using and hosting language agents in the wild; includes three agents, including a Data Agent for data analysis, a Plugins Agent with 200+ daily API tools, and a Web Agent for autonomous web browsing.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10634v1,https://x.com/ChengZhoujun/status/1714343204148113860?s=20,\"Language agents show potential in being capable of utilizing natural language for varied and intricate tasks in diverse environments, particularly when built upon large language models (LLMs). Current language agent frameworks aim to facilitate the construction of proof-of-concept language agents while neglecting the non-expert user access to agents and paying little attention to application-level designs. We present OpenAgents, an open platform for using and hosting language agents in the wild of everyday life. OpenAgents includes three agents: (1) Data Agent for data analysis with Python/SQL and data tools; (2) Plugins Agent with 200+ daily API tools; (3) Web Agent for autonomous web browsing. OpenAgents enables general users to interact with agent functionalities through a web user interface optimized for swift responses and common failures while offering developers and researchers a seamless deployment experience on local setups, providing a foundation for crafting innovative language agents and facilitating real-world evaluations. We elucidate the challenges and opportunities, aspiring to set a foundation for future research and development of real-world language agents.\"\nEliciting Human Preferences with LLMs,\"uses language models to guide the task specification process and a learning framework to help models elicit and infer intended behavior through free-form, language-based interaction with users; shows that by generating open-ended questions, the system generates responses that are more informative than user-written prompts.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11589,https://x.com/AlexTamkin/status/1715040019520569395?s=20,\"Language models (LMs) can be directed to perform target tasks by using labeled examples or natural language prompts. But selecting examples or writing prompts for can be challenging--especially in tasks that involve unusual edge cases, demand precise articulation of nebulous preferences, or require an accurate mental model of LM behavior. We propose to use *LMs themselves* to guide the task specification process. In this paper, we introduce **Generative Active Task Elicitation (GATE)**: a learning framework in which models elicit and infer intended behavior through free-form, language-based interaction with users. We study GATE in three domains: email validation, content recommendation, and moral reasoning. In preregistered experiments, we show that LMs prompted to perform GATE (e.g., by generating open-ended questions or synthesizing informative edge cases) elicit responses that are often more informative than user-written prompts or labels. Users report that interactive task elicitation requires less effort than prompting or example labeling and surfaces novel considerations not initially anticipated by users. Our findings suggest that LM-driven elicitation can be a powerful tool for aligning models to complex human preferences and values.\"\nAutoMix,an approach to route queries to LLMs based on the correctness of smaller language models,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12963,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1715385477627334718?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) are now available in various sizes and configurations from cloud API providers. While this diversity offers a broad spectrum of choices, effectively leveraging the options to optimize computational cost and performance remains challenging. In this work, we present AutoMix, an approach that strategically routes queries to larger LMs, based on the approximate correctness of outputs from a smaller LM. Central to AutoMix is a few-shot self-verification mechanism, which estimates the reliability of its own outputs without requiring training. Given that verifications can be noisy, we employ a meta verifier in AutoMix to refine the accuracy of these assessments. Our experiments using LLAMA2-13/70B, on five context-grounded reasoning datasets demonstrate that AutoMix surpasses established baselines, improving the incremental benefit per cost by up to 89%. Our code and data are available at this https URL.\"\nVideo Language Planning,\"enables synthesizing complex long-horizon video plans across robotics domains; the proposed algorithm involves a tree search procedure that trains vision-language models to serve as policies and value functions, and text-to-video models as dynamic models.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10625,https://x.com/du_yilun/status/1714297584842318157?s=20,\"We are interested in enabling visual planning for complex long-horizon tasks in the space of generated videos and language, leveraging recent advances in large generative models pretrained on Internet-scale data. To this end, we present video language planning (VLP), an algorithm that consists of a tree search procedure, where we train (i) vision-language models to serve as both policies and value functions, and (ii) text-to-video models as dynamics models. VLP takes as input a long-horizon task instruction and current image observation, and outputs a long video plan that provides detailed multimodal (video and language) specifications that describe how to complete the final task. VLP scales with increasing computation budget where more computation time results in improved video plans, and is able to synthesize long-horizon video plans across different robotics domains: from multi-object rearrangement, to multi-camera bi-arm dexterous manipulation. Generated video plans can be translated into real robot actions via goal-conditioned policies, conditioned on each intermediate frame of the generated video. Experiments show that VLP substantially improves long-horizon task success rates compared to prior methods on both simulated and real robots (across 3 hardware platforms).\"\nRing Attention,\"a memory-efficient approach that leverages blockwise computation of self-attention to distribute long sequences across multiple devices to overcome the memory limitations inherent in Transformer architectures, enabling handling of longer sequences during training and inference; enables scaling the context length with the number of devices while maintaining performance, exceeding context length of 100 million without attention approximations.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01889,https://x.com/haoliuhl/status/1709630382457733596?s=20,\"Transformers have emerged as the architecture of choice for many state-of-the-art AI models, showcasing exceptional performance across a wide range of AI applications. However, the memory demands imposed by Transformers limit their ability to handle long sequences, thereby creating challenges for tasks involving extended sequences or long-term dependencies. We present a distinct approach, Ring Attention, which leverages blockwise computation of self-attention to distribute long sequences across multiple devices while overlapping the communication of key-value blocks with the computation of blockwise attention. Ring Attention enables training and inference of sequences that are up to device count times longer than those of prior memory-efficient Transformers, effectively eliminating the memory constraints imposed by individual devices. Extensive experiments on language modeling tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of Ring Attention in allowing large sequence input size and improving performance.\"\nUniversal Simulator,\"applies generative modeling to learn a universal simulator of real-world interactions; can emulate how humans and agents interact with the world by simulating the visual outcome of high instruction and low-level controls; the system can be used to train vision-language planners, low-level reinforcement learning policies, and even for systems that perform video captioning.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06114,https://x.com/mengjiao_yang/status/1712153304757915925?s=20,\"Generative models trained on internet data have revolutionized how text, image, and video content can be created. Perhaps the next milestone for generative models is to simulate realistic experience in response to actions taken by humans, robots, and other interactive agents. Applications of a real-world simulator range from controllable content creation in games and movies, to training embodied agents purely in simulation that can be directly deployed in the real world. We explore the possibility of learning a universal simulator (UniSim) of real-world interaction through generative modeling. We first make the important observation that natural datasets available for learning a real-world simulator are often rich along different axes (e.g., abundant objects in image data, densely sampled actions in robotics data, and diverse movements in navigation data). With careful orchestration of diverse datasets, each providing a different aspect of the overall experience, UniSim can emulate how humans and agents interact with the world by simulating the visual outcome of both high-level instructions such as \"\"open the drawer\"\" and low-level controls such as \"\"move by x, y\"\" from otherwise static scenes and objects. There are numerous use cases for such a real-world simulator. As an example, we use UniSim to train both high-level vision-language planners and low-level reinforcement learning policies, each of which exhibit zero-shot real-world transfer after training purely in a learned real-world simulator. We also show that other types of intelligence such as video captioning models can benefit from training with simulated experience in UniSim, opening up even wider applications. Video demos can be found at this https URL.\"\nOverview of Factuality in LLMs,a survey of factuality in LLMs providing insights into how to evaluate factuality in LLMs and how to enhance it.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07521,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1712469661118517740?s=20,\"This survey addresses the crucial issue of factuality in Large Language Models (LLMs). As LLMs find applications across diverse domains, the reliability and accuracy of their outputs become vital. We define the Factuality Issue as the probability of LLMs to produce content inconsistent with established facts. We first delve into the implications of these inaccuracies, highlighting the potential consequences and challenges posed by factual errors in LLM outputs. Subsequently, we analyze the mechanisms through which LLMs store and process facts, seeking the primary causes of factual errors. Our discussion then transitions to methodologies for evaluating LLM factuality, emphasizing key metrics, benchmarks, and studies. We further explore strategies for enhancing LLM factuality, including approaches tailored for specific domains. We focus two primary LLM configurations standalone LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented LLMs that utilizes external data, we detail their unique challenges and potential enhancements. Our survey offers a structured guide for researchers aiming to fortify the factual reliability of LLMs.\"\nLLMs can Learn Rules,presents a two-stage framework that learns a rule library for reasoning with LLMs; in the first stage,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07064,https://x.com/zhu_zhaocheng/status/1712582734550647091?s=20,\"When prompted with a few examples and intermediate steps, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various reasoning tasks. However, prompting methods that rely on implicit knowledge in an LLM often hallucinate incorrect answers when the implicit knowledge is wrong or inconsistent with the task. To tackle this problem, we present Hypotheses-to-Theories (HtT), a framework that learns a rule library for reasoning with LLMs. HtT contains two stages, an induction stage and a deduction stage. In the induction stage, an LLM is first asked to generate and verify rules over a set of training examples. Rules that appear and lead to correct answers sufficiently often are collected to form a rule library. In the deduction stage, the LLM is then prompted to employ the learned rule library to perform reasoning to answer test questions. Experiments on both numerical reasoning and relational reasoning problems show that HtT improves existing prompting methods, with an absolute gain of 11-27% in accuracy. The learned rules are also transferable to different models and to different forms of the same problem.\"\nMeta Chain-of-Thought Prompting,a generalizable chain-of-thought,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06692,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1712835499256090972?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have unveiled remarkable reasoning capabilities by exploiting chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting, which generates intermediate reasoning chains to serve as the rationale for deriving the answer. However, current CoT methods either simply employ general prompts such as Let's think step by step, or heavily rely on handcrafted task-specific demonstrations to attain preferable performances, thereby engendering an inescapable gap between performance and generalization. To bridge this gap, we propose Meta-CoT, a generalizable CoT prompting method in mixed-task scenarios where the type of input questions is unknown. Meta-CoT firstly categorizes the scenario based on the input question and subsequently constructs diverse demonstrations from the corresponding data pool in an automatic pattern. Meta-CoT simultaneously enjoys remarkable performances on ten public benchmark reasoning tasks and superior generalization capabilities. Notably, Meta-CoT achieves the state-of-the-art result on SVAMP (93.7%) without any additional program-aided methods. Our further experiments on five out-of-distribution datasets verify the stability and generality of Meta-CoT.\"\nA Survey of LLMs for Healthcare,a comprehensive overview of LLMs applied to the healthcare domain.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05694,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1711755055777415485?s=20,\"The utilization of large language models (LLMs) in the Healthcare domain has generated both excitement and concern due to their ability to effectively respond to freetext queries with certain professional knowledge. This survey outlines the capabilities of the currently developed LLMs for Healthcare and explicates their development process, with the aim of providing an overview of the development roadmap from traditional Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) to LLMs. Specifically, we first explore the potential of LLMs to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of various Healthcare applications highlighting both the strengths and limitations. Secondly, we conduct a comparison between the previous PLMs and the latest LLMs, as well as comparing various LLMs with each other. Then we summarize related Healthcare training data, training methods, optimization strategies, and usage. Finally, the unique concerns associated with deploying LLMs in Healthcare settings are investigated, particularly regarding fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics. Our survey provide a comprehensive investigation from perspectives of both computer science and Healthcare specialty. Besides the discussion about Healthcare concerns, we supports the computer science community by compiling a collection of open source resources, such as accessible datasets, the latest methodologies, code implementations, and evaluation benchmarks in the Github. Summarily, we contend that a significant paradigm shift is underway, transitioning from PLMs to LLMs. This shift encompasses a move from discriminative AI approaches to generative AI approaches, as well as a shift from model-centered methodologies to datacentered methodologies.\"\nImproving Retrieval-Augmented LMs with Compressors,presents two approaches to compress retrieved documents into text summaries before pre-pending them in-context: 1) extractive compressor - selects useful sentences from retrieved documents 2) abstractive compressor - generates summaries by synthesizing information from multiple documents; achieves a compression rate of as low as 6% with minimal loss in performance on language modeling tasks and open domain question answering tasks; the proposed training scheme performs selective augmentation which helps to generate empty summaries when retrieved docs are irrelevant or unhelpful for a task.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04408,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1711384213092479130?s=20,\"Retrieving documents and prepending them in-context at inference time improves performance of language model (LMs) on a wide range of tasks. However, these documents, often spanning hundreds of words, make inference substantially more expensive. We propose compressing the retrieved documents into textual summaries prior to in-context integration. This not only reduces the computational costs but also relieves the burden of LMs to identify relevant information in long retrieved documents. We present two compressors -- an extractive compressor which selects useful sentences from retrieved documents and an abstractive compressor which generates summaries by synthesizing information from multiple documents. Both compressors are trained to improve LMs' performance on end tasks when the generated summaries are prepended to the LMs' input, while keeping the summary concise.If the retrieved documents are irrelevant to the input or offer no additional information to LM, our compressor can return an empty string, implementing selective augmentation.We evaluate our approach on language modeling task and open domain question answering task. We achieve a compression rate of as low as 6% with minimal loss in performance for both tasks, significantly outperforming the off-the-shelf summarization models. We show that our compressors trained for one LM can transfer to other LMs on the language modeling task and provide summaries largely faithful to the retrieved documents.\"\nInstruct-Retro,\"introduces Retro 48B, the largest LLM pretrained with retrieval; continues pretraining a 43B parameter GPT model on an additional 100B tokens by retrieving from 1.2T tokens\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07713,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1712466049428521433?s=20,\"Pretraining auto-regressive large language models (LLMs) with retrieval demonstrates better perplexity and factual accuracy by leveraging external databases. However, the size of existing pretrained retrieval-augmented LLM is still limited (e.g., Retro has 7.5B parameters), which limits the effectiveness of instruction tuning and zero-shot generalization. In this work, we introduce Retro 48B, the largest LLM pretrained with retrieval before instruction tuning. Specifically, we continue to pretrain the 43B GPT model on additional 100 billion tokens using the Retro augmentation method by retrieving from 1.2 trillion tokens. The obtained foundation model, Retro 48B, largely outperforms the original 43B GPT in terms of perplexity. After instruction tuning on Retro, InstructRetro demonstrates significant improvement over the instruction tuned GPT on zero-shot question answering (QA) tasks. Specifically, the average improvement of InstructRetro is 7% over its GPT counterpart across 8 short-form QA tasks, and 10% over GPT across 4 challenging long-form QA tasks. Surprisingly, we find that one can ablate the encoder from InstructRetro architecture and directly use its decoder backbone, while achieving comparable results. We hypothesize that pretraining with retrieval makes its decoder good at incorporating context for QA. Our results highlights the promising direction to obtain a better GPT decoder for QA through continued pretraining with retrieval before instruction tuning.\"\nMemWalker,\"a method to enhance long-text understanding by treating the LLM as an interactive agent that can decide how to read the text via iterative prompting; it first processes long context into a tree of summer nodes and reads in a query to traverse the tree, seeking relevant information and crafting a suitable response; this process is achieved through reasoning and enables effective reading and enhances explainability through reasoning steps.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05029,https://x.com/__howardchen/status/1711584916708938042?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have advanced in large strides due to the effectiveness of the self-attention mechanism that processes and compares all tokens at once. However, this mechanism comes with a fundamental issue -- the predetermined context window is bound to be limited. Despite attempts to extend the context window through methods like extrapolating the positional embedding, using recurrence, or selectively retrieving essential parts of the long sequence, long-text understanding continues to be a challenge. We propose an alternative approach which instead treats the LLM as an interactive agent, allowing it to decide how to read the text via iterative prompting. We introduce MemWalker, a method that first processes the long context into a tree of summary nodes. Upon receiving a query, the model navigates this tree in search of relevant information, and responds once it gathers sufficient information. On long-text question answering tasks our method outperforms baseline approaches that use long context windows, recurrence, and retrieval. We show that, beyond effective reading, MemWalker enhances explainability by highlighting the reasoning steps as it interactively reads the text; pinpointing the relevant text segments related to the query.\"\nToward Language Agent Fine-tuning,explores the direction of fine-tuning LLMs to obtain language agents; finds that language agents consistently improved after fine-tuning their backbone language model; claims that fine-tuning a Llama2-7B with 500 agent trajectories,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05915,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1711757242905534479?s=20,\"Recent efforts have augmented language models (LMs) with external tools or environments, leading to the development of language agents that can reason and act. However, most of these agents rely on few-shot prompting techniques with off-the-shelf LMs. In this paper, we investigate and argue for the overlooked direction of fine-tuning LMs to obtain language agents. Using a setup of question answering (QA) with a Google search API, we explore a variety of base LMs, prompting methods, fine-tuning data, and QA tasks, and find language agents are consistently improved after fine-tuning their backbone LMs. For example, fine-tuning Llama2-7B with 500 agent trajectories generated by GPT-4 leads to a 77% HotpotQA performance increase. Furthermore, we propose FireAct, a novel approach to fine-tuning LMs with trajectories from multiple tasks and prompting methods, and show having more diverse fine-tuning data can further improve agents. Along with other findings regarding scaling effects, robustness, generalization, efficiency and cost, our work establishes comprehensive benefits of fine-tuning LMs for agents, and provides an initial set of experimental designs, insights, as well as open questions toward language agent fine-tuning.\"\nLLMs Represent Space and Time,\"discovers that LLMs learn linear representations of space and time across multiple scales; the representations are robust to prompt variations and unified across different entity types; demonstrate that LLMs acquire fundamental structured knowledge such as space and time, claiming that language models learn beyond superficial statistics, but literal world models.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207,https://x.com/wesg52/status/1709551516577902782?s=20,\"The capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have sparked debate over whether such systems just learn an enormous collection of superficial statistics or a coherent model of the data generating process -- a world model. We find evidence for the latter by analyzing the learned representations of three spatial datasets (world, US, NYC places) and three temporal datasets (historical figures, artworks, news headlines) in the Llama-2 family of models. We discover that LLMs learn linear representations of space and time across multiple scales. These representations are robust to prompting variations and unified across different entity types (e.g. cities and landmarks). In addition, we identify individual ``space neurons'' and ``time neurons'' that reliably encode spatial and temporal coordinates. Our analysis demonstrates that modern LLMs acquire structured knowledge about fundamental dimensions such as space and time, supporting the view that they learn not merely superficial statistics, but literal world models.\"\nRetrieval meets Long Context LLMs,compares retrieval augmentation and long-context windows for downstream tasks to investigate if the methods can be combined to get the best of both worlds; an LLM with a 4K context window using simple RAG can achieve comparable performance to a fine-tuned LLM with 16K context; retrieval can significantly improve the performance of LLMs regardless of their extended context window sizes; a retrieval-augmented LLaMA2-70B with a 32K context window outperforms GPT-3.5-turbo-16k on seven long context tasks including question answering and query-based summarization.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03025,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1709749178199318545?s=20,\"Extending the context window of large language models (LLMs) is getting popular recently, while the solution of augmenting LLMs with retrieval has existed for years. The natural questions are: i) Retrieval-augmentation versus long context window, which one is better for downstream tasks? ii) Can both methods be combined to get the best of both worlds? In this work, we answer these questions by studying both solutions using two state-of-the-art pretrained LLMs, i.e., a proprietary 43B GPT and LLaMA2-70B. Perhaps surprisingly, we find that LLM with 4K context window using simple retrieval-augmentation at generation can achieve comparable performance to finetuned LLM with 16K context window via positional interpolation on long context tasks, while taking much less computation. More importantly, we demonstrate that retrieval can significantly improve the performance of LLMs regardless of their extended context window sizes. Our best model, retrieval-augmented LLaMA2-70B with 32K context window, outperforms GPT-3.5-turbo-16k and Davinci003 in terms of average score on seven long context tasks including question answering and query-based summarization. It also outperforms its non-retrieval LLaMA2-70B-32k baseline by a margin, while being much faster at generation. Our study provides general insights on the choice of retrieval-augmentation versus long context extension of LLM for practitioners.\"\nStreamingLLM,\"a framework that enables efficient streaming LLMs with attention sinks, a phenomenon where the KV states of initial tokens will largely recover the performance of window attention; the emergence of the attention sink is due to strong attention scores towards the initial tokens; this approach enables LLMs trained with finite length attention windows to generalize to infinite sequence length without any additional fine-tuning.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17453,https://x.com/Guangxuan_Xiao/status/1708943505731801325?s=20,\"Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in streaming applications such as multi-round dialogue, where long interactions are expected, is urgently needed but poses two major challenges. Firstly, during the decoding stage, caching previous tokens' Key and Value states (KV) consumes extensive memory. Secondly, popular LLMs cannot generalize to longer texts than the training sequence length. Window attention, where only the most recent KVs are cached, is a natural approach -- but we show that it fails when the text length surpasses the cache size. We observe an interesting phenomenon, namely attention sink, that keeping the KV of initial tokens will largely recover the performance of window attention. In this paper, we first demonstrate that the emergence of attention sink is due to the strong attention scores towards initial tokens as a ``sink'' even if they are not semantically important. Based on the above analysis, we introduce StreamingLLM, an efficient framework that enables LLMs trained with a finite length attention window to generalize to infinite sequence lengths without any fine-tuning. We show that StreamingLLM can enable Llama-2, MPT, Falcon, and Pythia to perform stable and efficient language modeling with up to 4 million tokens and more. In addition, we discover that adding a placeholder token as a dedicated attention sink during pre-training can further improve streaming deployment. In streaming settings, StreamingLLM outperforms the sliding window recomputation baseline by up to 22.2x speedup. Code and datasets are provided at this https URL.\"\nNeural Developmental Programs,proposes to use neural networks that self-assemble through a developmental process that mirrors properties of embryonic development in biological organisms,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08197,https://x.com/risi1979/status/1708888992224362742?s=20,\"Biological nervous systems are created in a fundamentally different way than current artificial neural networks. Despite its impressive results in a variety of different domains, deep learning often requires considerable engineering effort to design high-performing neural architectures. By contrast, biological nervous systems are grown through a dynamic self-organizing process. In this paper, we take initial steps toward neural networks that grow through a developmental process that mirrors key properties of embryonic development in biological organisms. The growth process is guided by another neural network, which we call a Neural Developmental Program (NDP) and which operates through local communication alone. We investigate the role of neural growth on different machine learning benchmarks and different optimization methods (evolutionary training, online RL, offline RL, and supervised learning). Additionally, we highlight future research directions and opportunities enabled by having self-organization driving the growth of neural networks.\"\nThe Dawn of LMMs,a comprehensive analysis of GPT-4V to deepen the understanding of large multimodal models,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17421,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1708860551110041871?s=20,\"Large multimodal models (LMMs) extend large language models (LLMs) with multi-sensory skills, such as visual understanding, to achieve stronger generic intelligence. In this paper, we analyze the latest model, GPT-4V(ision), to deepen the understanding of LMMs. The analysis focuses on the intriguing tasks that GPT-4V can perform, containing test samples to probe the quality and genericity of GPT-4V's capabilities, its supported inputs and working modes, and the effective ways to prompt the model. In our approach to exploring GPT-4V, we curate and organize a collection of carefully designed qualitative samples spanning a variety of domains and tasks. Observations from these samples demonstrate that GPT-4V's unprecedented ability in processing arbitrarily interleaved multimodal inputs and the genericity of its capabilities together make GPT-4V a powerful multimodal generalist system. Furthermore, GPT-4V's unique capability of understanding visual markers drawn on input images can give rise to new human-computer interaction methods such as visual referring prompting. We conclude the report with in-depth discussions on the emerging application scenarios and the future research directions for GPT-4V-based systems. We hope that this preliminary exploration will inspire future research on the next-generation multimodal task formulation, new ways to exploit and enhance LMMs to solve real-world problems, and gaining better understanding of multimodal foundation models. Finally, we acknowledge that the model under our study is solely the product of OpenAI's innovative work, and they should be fully credited for its development. Please see the GPT-4V contributions paper for the authorship and credit attribution: this https URL\"\nTraining LLMs with Pause Tokens,performs training and inference on LLMs with a learnable <pause> token which helps to delay the model's answer generation and attain performance gains on general understanding tasks of Commonsense QA and math word problem-solving; experiments show that this is only beneficial provided that the delay is introduced in both pertaining and downstream fine-tuning.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02226,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1709573238123122959?s=20,\"Language models generate responses by producing a series of tokens in immediate succession: the $(K+1)^{th}$ token is an outcome of manipulating $K$ hidden vectors per layer, one vector per preceding token. What if instead we were to let the model manipulate say, $K+10$ hidden vectors, before it outputs the $(K+1)^{th}$ token? We operationalize this idea by performing training and inference on language models with a (learnable) $\\textit{pause}$ token, a sequence of which is appended to the input prefix. We then delay extracting the model's outputs until the last pause token is seen, thereby allowing the model to process extra computation before committing to an answer. We empirically evaluate $\\textit{pause-training}$ on decoder-only models of 1B and 130M parameters with causal pretraining on C4, and on downstream tasks covering reasoning, question-answering, general understanding and fact recall. Our main finding is that inference-time delays show gains when the model is both pre-trained and finetuned with delays. For the 1B model, we witness gains on 8 of 9 tasks, most prominently, a gain of $18\\%$ EM score on the QA task of SQuAD, $8\\%$ on CommonSenseQA and $1\\%$ accuracy on the reasoning task of GSM8k. Our work raises a range of conceptual and practical future research questions on making delayed next-token prediction a widely applicable new paradigm.\"\nRecursively Self-Improving Code Generation,proposes the use of a language model-infused scaffolding program to recursively improve itself; a seed improver first improves an input program that returns the best solution which is then further tasked to improve itself; shows that the GPT-4 models can write code that can call itself to improve itself.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02304,https://x.com/ericzelikman/status/1709721771937587541?s=20,\"Several recent advances in AI systems (e.g., Tree-of-Thoughts and Program-Aided Language Models) solve problems by providing a \"\"scaffolding\"\" program that structures multiple calls to language models to generate better outputs. A scaffolding program is written in a programming language such as Python. In this work, we use a language-model-infused scaffolding program to improve itself. We start with a seed \"\"improver\"\" that improves an input program according to a given utility function by querying a language model several times and returning the best solution. We then run this seed improver to improve itself. Across a small set of downstream tasks, the resulting improved improver generates programs with significantly better performance than its seed improver. Afterward, we analyze the variety of self-improvement strategies proposed by the language model, including beam search, genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing. Since the language models themselves are not altered, this is not full recursive self-improvement. Nonetheless, it demonstrates that a modern language model, GPT-4 in our proof-of-concept experiments, is capable of writing code that can call itself to improve itself. We critically consider concerns around the development of self-improving technologies and evaluate the frequency with which the generated code bypasses a sandbox.\"\nRetrieval-Augmented Dual Instruction Tuning,\"proposes a lightweight fine-tuning method to retrofit LLMs with retrieval capabilities; it involves a 2-step approach: 1) updates a pretrained LM to better use the retrieved information 2) updates the retriever to return more relevant results, as preferred by the LM Results show that fine-tuning over tasks that require both knowledge utilization and contextual awareness, each stage leads to additional gains; a 65B model achieves state-of-the-art results on a range of knowledge-intensive zero- and few-shot learning benchmarks; it outperforms existing retrieval-augmented language approaches by up to +8.9% in zero-shot and +1.4% in 5-shot.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01352,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1709204756013490494?s=20,\"Retrieval-augmented language models (RALMs) improve performance by accessing long-tail and up-to-date knowledge from external data stores, but are challenging to build. Existing approaches require either expensive retrieval-specific modifications to LM pre-training or use post-hoc integration of the data store that leads to suboptimal performance. We introduce Retrieval-Augmented Dual Instruction Tuning (RA-DIT), a lightweight fine-tuning methodology that provides a third option by retrofitting any LLM with retrieval capabilities. Our approach operates in two distinct fine-tuning steps: (1) one updates a pre-trained LM to better use retrieved information, while (2) the other updates the retriever to return more relevant results, as preferred by the LM. By fine-tuning over tasks that require both knowledge utilization and contextual awareness, we demonstrate that each stage yields significant performance improvements, and using both leads to additional gains. Our best model, RA-DIT 65B, achieves state-of-the-art performance across a range of knowledge-intensive zero- and few-shot learning benchmarks, significantly outperforming existing in-context RALM approaches by up to +8.9% in 0-shot setting and +1.4% in 5-shot setting on average.\"\nKOSMOG-G,\"a model that performs high-fidelity zero-shot image generation from generalized vision-language input that spans multiple images; extends zero-shot subject-driven image generation to multi-entity scenarios; allows the replacement of CLIP, unlocking new applications with other U-Net techniques such as ControlNet and LoRA.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02992,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1709934741158510625?s=20,\"Recent advancements in text-to-image (T2I) and vision-language-to-image (VL2I) generation have made significant strides. However, the generation from generalized vision-language inputs, especially involving multiple images, remains under-explored. This paper presents Kosmos-G, a model that leverages the advanced perception capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to tackle the aforementioned challenge. Our approach aligns the output space of MLLM with CLIP using the textual modality as an anchor and performs compositional instruction tuning on curated data. Kosmos-G demonstrates a unique capability of zero-shot multi-entity subject-driven generation. Notably, the score distillation instruction tuning requires no modifications to the image decoder. This allows for a seamless substitution of CLIP and effortless integration with a myriad of U-Net techniques ranging from fine-grained controls to personalized image decoder variants. We posit Kosmos-G as an initial attempt towards the goal of \"\"image as a foreign language in image generation.\"\"\"\nAnalogical Prompting,a new prompting approach to automatically guide the reasoning process of LLMs; the approach is different from chain-of-thought in that it doesn’t require labeled exemplars of the reasoning process; the approach is inspired by analogical reasoning and prompts LMs to self-generate relevant exemplars or knowledge in the context.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01714,https://x.com/michiyasunaga/status/1709582150025240854?s=20,\"Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting for language models demonstrates impressive performance across reasoning tasks, but typically needs labeled exemplars of the reasoning process. In this work, we introduce a new prompting approach, Analogical Prompting, designed to automatically guide the reasoning process of large language models. Inspired by analogical reasoning, a cognitive process in which humans draw from relevant past experiences to tackle new problems, our approach prompts language models to self-generate relevant exemplars or knowledge in the context, before proceeding to solve the given problem. This method presents several advantages: it obviates the need for labeling or retrieving exemplars, offering generality and convenience; it can also tailor the generated exemplars and knowledge to each problem, offering adaptability. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms 0-shot CoT and manual few-shot CoT in a variety of reasoning tasks, including math problem solving in GSM8K and MATH, code generation in Codeforces, and other reasoning tasks in BIG-Bench.\"\nThe Reversal Curse,\"finds that LLMs trained on sentences of the form “A is B” will not automatically generalize to the reverse direction “B is A”, i.e., the Reversal Curse; shows the effect through finetuning LLMs on fictitious statements and demonstrating its robustness across model sizes and model families.\",https://owainevans.github.io/reversal_curse.pdf,https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1705285631520407821?s=20,\nEffective Long-Context Scaling with LLMs,propose a 70B variant that can already surpass gpt-3.5-turbo-16k’s overall performance on a suite of long-context tasks. This involves a cost-effective instruction tuning procedure that does not require human-annotated long instruction data.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16039,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1707780482178400261?s=20,\"We present a series of long-context LLMs that support effective context windows of up to 32,768 tokens. Our model series are built through continual pretraining from Llama 2 with longer training sequences and on a dataset where long texts are upsampled. We perform extensive evaluation on language modeling, synthetic context probing tasks, and a wide range of research benchmarks. On research benchmarks, our models achieve consistent improvements on most regular tasks and significant improvements on long-context tasks over Llama 2. Notably, with a cost-effective instruction tuning procedure that does not require human-annotated long instruction data, the 70B variant can already surpass gpt-3.5-turbo-16k's overall performance on a suite of long-context tasks. Alongside these results, we provide an in-depth analysis on the individual components of our method. We delve into Llama's position encodings and discuss its limitation in modeling long dependencies. We also examine the impact of various design choices in the pretraining process, including the data mix and the training curriculum of sequence lengths -- our ablation experiments suggest that having abundant long texts in the pretrain dataset is not the key to achieving strong performance, and we empirically verify that long context continual pretraining is more efficient and similarly effective compared to pretraining from scratch with long sequences.\"\nGraph Neural Prompting with LLMs,proposes a plug-and-play method to assist pre-trained LLMs in learning beneficial knowledge from knowledge graphs,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15427,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1707211751354212382?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable generalization capability with exceptional performance in various language modeling tasks. However, they still exhibit inherent limitations in precisely capturing and returning grounded knowledge. While existing work has explored utilizing knowledge graphs to enhance language modeling via joint training and customized model architectures, applying this to LLMs is problematic owing to their large number of parameters and high computational cost. In addition, how to leverage the pre-trained LLMs and avoid training a customized model from scratch remains an open question. In this work, we propose Graph Neural Prompting (GNP), a novel plug-and-play method to assist pre-trained LLMs in learning beneficial knowledge from KGs. GNP encompasses various designs, including a standard graph neural network encoder, a cross-modality pooling module, a domain projector, and a self-supervised link prediction objective. Extensive experiments on multiple datasets demonstrate the superiority of GNP on both commonsense and biomedical reasoning tasks across different LLM sizes and settings.\"\nVision Transformers Need Registers,\"identifies artifacts in feature maps of vision transformer networks that are repurposed for internal computations; this work proposes a solution to provide additional tokens to the input sequence to fill that role; the solution fixes the problem, leads to smoother feature and attention maps, and sets new state-of-the-art results on dense visual prediction tasks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16588,https://x.com/TimDarcet/status/1707769575981424866?s=20,\"Transformers have recently emerged as a powerful tool for learning visual representations. In this paper, we identify and characterize artifacts in feature maps of both supervised and self-supervised ViT networks. The artifacts correspond to high-norm tokens appearing during inference primarily in low-informative background areas of images, that are repurposed for internal computations. We propose a simple yet effective solution based on providing additional tokens to the input sequence of the Vision Transformer to fill that role. We show that this solution fixes that problem entirely for both supervised and self-supervised models, sets a new state of the art for self-supervised visual models on dense visual prediction tasks, enables object discovery methods with larger models, and most importantly leads to smoother feature maps and attention maps for downstream visual processing.\"\nBoolformer,presents the first Transformer architecture trained to perform end-to-end symbolic regression of Boolean functions; it can predict compact formulas for complex functions and be applied to modeling the dynamics of gene regulatory networks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12207,https://x.com/stephanedascoli/status/1706235856778834015?s=20,\"In this work, we introduce Boolformer, the first Transformer architecture trained to perform end-to-end symbolic regression of Boolean functions. First, we show that it can predict compact formulas for complex functions which were not seen during training, when provided a clean truth table. Then, we demonstrate its ability to find approximate expressions when provided incomplete and noisy observations. We evaluate the Boolformer on a broad set of real-world binary classification datasets, demonstrating its potential as an interpretable alternative to classic machine learning methods. Finally, we apply it to the widespread task of modelling the dynamics of gene regulatory networks. Using a recent benchmark, we show that Boolformer is competitive with state-of-the art genetic algorithms with a speedup of several orders of magnitude. Our code and models are available publicly.\"\nLlaVA-RLHF,adapts factually augmented RLHF to aligning large multimodal models; this approach alleviates the reward hacking in RLHF and improves performance on the LlaVA-Bench dataset with the 94% performance level of the text-only GPT-4.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14525,https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1706839311306621182?s=20,\"Large Multimodal Models (LMM) are built across modalities and the misalignment between two modalities can result in \"\"hallucination\"\", generating textual outputs that are not grounded by the multimodal information in context. To address the multimodal misalignment issue, we adapt the Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) from the text domain to the task of vision-language alignment, where human annotators are asked to compare two responses and pinpoint the more hallucinated one, and the vision-language model is trained to maximize the simulated human rewards. We propose a new alignment algorithm called Factually Augmented RLHF that augments the reward model with additional factual information such as image captions and ground-truth multi-choice options, which alleviates the reward hacking phenomenon in RLHF and further improves the performance. We also enhance the GPT-4-generated training data (for vision instruction tuning) with previously available human-written image-text pairs to improve the general capabilities of our model. To evaluate the proposed approach in real-world scenarios, we develop a new evaluation benchmark MMHAL-BENCH with a special focus on penalizing hallucinations. As the first LMM trained with RLHF, our approach achieves remarkable improvement on the LLaVA-Bench dataset with the 94% performance level of the text-only GPT-4 (while previous best methods can only achieve the 87% level), and an improvement by 60% on MMHAL-BENCH over other baselines. We opensource our code, model, data at this https URL.\"\nLLM Alignment Survey,\"a comprehensive survey paper on LLM alignment; topics include Outer Alignment, Inner Alignment, Mechanistic Interpretability, Attacks on Aligned LLMs, Alignment Evaluation, Future Directions, and Discussions.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15025,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1706845285064818905?s=20,\"Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress made in large language models (LLMs). Such advancements, while garnering significant attention, have concurrently elicited various concerns. The potential of these models is undeniably vast; however, they may yield texts that are imprecise, misleading, or even detrimental. Consequently, it becomes paramount to employ alignment techniques to ensure these models to exhibit behaviors consistent with human values.\nThis survey endeavors to furnish an extensive exploration of alignment methodologies designed for LLMs, in conjunction with the extant capability research in this domain. Adopting the lens of AI alignment, we categorize the prevailing methods and emergent proposals for the alignment of LLMs into outer and inner alignment. We also probe into salient issues including the models' interpretability, and potential vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks. To assess LLM alignment, we present a wide variety of benchmarks and evaluation methodologies. After discussing the state of alignment research for LLMs, we finally cast a vision toward the future, contemplating the promising avenues of research that lie ahead.\nOur aspiration for this survey extends beyond merely spurring research interests in this realm. We also envision bridging the gap between the AI alignment research community and the researchers engrossed in the capability exploration of LLMs for both capable and safe LLMs.\"\nQwen LLM,proposes a series of LLMs demonstrating the strength of RLHF on tasks involving tool use and planning capabilities for creating language agents.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16609,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1707776749042364729?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence, enabling natural language processing tasks that were previously thought to be exclusive to humans. In this work, we introduce Qwen, the first installment of our large language model series. Qwen is a comprehensive language model series that encompasses distinct models with varying parameter counts. It includes Qwen, the base pretrained language models, and Qwen-Chat, the chat models finetuned with human alignment techniques. The base language models consistently demonstrate superior performance across a multitude of downstream tasks, and the chat models, particularly those trained using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), are highly competitive. The chat models possess advanced tool-use and planning capabilities for creating agent applications, showcasing impressive performance even when compared to bigger models on complex tasks like utilizing a code interpreter. Furthermore, we have developed coding-specialized models, Code-Qwen and Code-Qwen-Chat, as well as mathematics-focused models, Math-Qwen-Chat, which are built upon base language models. These models demonstrate significantly improved performance in comparison with open-source models, and slightly fall behind the proprietary models.\"\nMentalLlaMa,an open-source LLM series for interpretable mental health analysis with instruction-following capability; it also proposes a multi-task and multi-source interpretable mental health instruction dataset on social media with 105K data samples.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13567,https://x.com/SAnaniadou/status/1707668936634794442?s=20,\"With the development of web technology, social media texts are becoming a rich source for automatic mental health analysis. As traditional discriminative methods bear the problem of low interpretability, the recent large language models have been explored for interpretable mental health analysis on social media, which aims to provide detailed explanations along with predictions. The results show that ChatGPT can generate approaching-human explanations for its correct classifications. However, LLMs still achieve unsatisfactory classification performance in a zero-shot/few-shot manner. Domain-specific finetuning is an effective solution, but faces 2 challenges: 1) lack of high-quality training data. 2) no open-source LLMs for interpretable mental health analysis were released to lower the finetuning cost. To alleviate these problems, we build the first multi-task and multi-source interpretable mental health instruction (IMHI) dataset on social media, with 105K data samples. The raw social media data are collected from 10 existing sources covering 8 mental health analysis tasks. We use expert-written few-shot prompts and collected labels to prompt ChatGPT and obtain explanations from its responses. To ensure the reliability of the explanations, we perform strict automatic and human evaluations on the correctness, consistency, and quality of generated data. Based on the IMHI dataset and LLaMA2 foundation models, we train MentalLLaMA, the first open-source LLM series for interpretable mental health analysis with instruction-following capability. We also evaluate the performance of MentalLLaMA on the IMHI evaluation benchmark with 10 test sets, where their correctness for making predictions and the quality of explanations are examined. The results show that MentalLLaMA approaches state-of-the-art discriminative methods in correctness and generates high-quality explanations.\"\nLogical Chain-of-Thought in LLMs,a new neurosymbolic framework to improve zero-shot chain-of-thought reasoning in LLMs; leverages principles from symbolic logic to verify and revise reasoning processes to improve the reasoning capabilities of LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13339,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1706711389803287019?s=20,\"Recent advancements in large language models have showcased their remarkable generalizability across various domains. However, their reasoning abilities still have significant room for improvement, especially when confronted with scenarios requiring multi-step reasoning. Although large language models possess extensive knowledge, their behavior, particularly in terms of reasoning, often fails to effectively utilize this knowledge to establish a coherent thinking paradigm. Generative language models sometimes show hallucinations as their reasoning procedures are unconstrained by logical principles. Aiming to improve the zero-shot chain-of-thought reasoning ability of large language models, we propose Logical Chain-of-Thought (LogiCoT), a neurosymbolic framework that leverages principles from symbolic logic to verify and revise the reasoning processes accordingly. Experimental evaluations conducted on language tasks in diverse domains, including arithmetic, commonsense, symbolic, causal inference, and social problems, demonstrate the efficacy of the enhanced reasoning paradigm by logic.\"\nAlphaMissense,an AI model classifying missense variants to help pinpoint the cause of diseases; the model is used to develop a catalogue of genetic mutations; it can categorize 89% of all 71 million possible missense variants as either likely pathogenic or likely benign.,https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7492,https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1704145467129389178?s=20,\"Single–amino acid changes in proteins sometimes have little effect but can often lead to problems in protein folding, activity, or stability. Only a small fraction of variants have been experimentally investigated, but there are vast amounts of biological sequence data that are suitable for use as training data for machine learning approaches. Cheng et al. developed AlphaMissense, a deep learning model that builds on the protein structure prediction tool AlphaFold2 (see the Perspective by Marsh and Teichmann). The model is trained on population frequency data and uses sequence and predicted structural context, all of which contribute to its performance. The authors evaluated the model against related methods using clinical databases not included in the training and demonstrated agreement with multiplexed assays of variant effect. Predictions for all single–amino acid substitutions in the human proteome are provided as a community resource.\"\nChain-of-Verification reduces Hallucination in LLMs,\"develops a method to enable LLMs to \"\"deliberate\"\" on responses to correct mistakes; include the following steps: 1) draft initial response, 2) plan verification questions to fact-check the draft, 3) answer questions independently to avoid bias from other responses, and 4) generate a final verified response.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11495,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1704901425824772275?s=20,\"Generation of plausible yet incorrect factual information, termed hallucination, is an unsolved issue in large language models. We study the ability of language models to deliberate on the responses they give in order to correct their mistakes. We develop the Chain-of-Verification (CoVe) method whereby the model first (i) drafts an initial response; then (ii) plans verification questions to fact-check its draft; (iii) answers those questions independently so the answers are not biased by other responses; and (iv) generates its final verified response. In experiments, we show CoVe decreases hallucinations across a variety of tasks, from list-based questions from Wikidata, closed book MultiSpanQA and longform text generation.\"\nContrastive Decoding Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models,shows that contrastive decoding leads Llama-65B to outperform Llama 2 and other models on commonsense reasoning and reasoning benchmarks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09117,https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1703966776990597567?s=20,\"We demonstrate that Contrastive Decoding -- a simple, computationally light, and training-free text generation method proposed by Li et al 2022 -- achieves large out-of-the-box improvements over greedy decoding on a variety of reasoning tasks. Originally shown to improve the perceived quality of long-form text generation, Contrastive Decoding searches for strings that maximize a weighted difference in likelihood between strong and weak models. We show that Contrastive Decoding leads LLaMA-65B to outperform LLaMA 2, GPT-3.5 and PaLM 2-L on the HellaSwag commonsense reasoning benchmark, and to outperform LLaMA 2, GPT-3.5 and PaLM-540B on the GSM8K math word reasoning benchmark, in addition to improvements on a collection of other tasks. Analysis suggests that Contrastive Decoding improves over existing methods by preventing some abstract reasoning errors, as well as by avoiding simpler modes such as copying sections of the input during chain-of-thought. Overall, Contrastive Decoding outperforms nucleus sampling for long-form generation and greedy decoding for reasoning tasks, making it a powerful general purpose method for generating text from language models.\"\nLongLoRA,\"an efficient fine-tuning approach to significantly extend the context windows of pre-trained LLMs; implements shift short attention, a substitute that approximates the standard self-attention pattern during training; it has less GPU memory cost and training time compared to full fine-tuning while not compromising accuracy.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12307,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1705234482930798813?s=20,\"We present LongLoRA, an efficient fine-tuning approach that extends the context sizes of pre-trained large language models (LLMs), with limited computation cost. Typically, training LLMs with long context sizes is computationally expensive, requiring extensive training hours and GPU resources. For example, training on the context length of 8192 needs 16x computational costs in self-attention layers as that of 2048. In this paper, we speed up the context extension of LLMs in two aspects. On the one hand, although dense global attention is needed during inference, fine-tuning the model can be effectively and efficiently done by sparse local attention. The proposed shift short attention effectively enables context extension, leading to non-trivial computation saving with similar performance to fine-tuning with vanilla attention. Particularly, it can be implemented with only two lines of code in training, while being optional in inference. On the other hand, we revisit the parameter-efficient fine-tuning regime for context expansion. Notably, we find that LoRA for context extension works well under the premise of trainable embedding and normalization. LongLoRA demonstrates strong empirical results on various tasks on LLaMA2 models from 7B/13B to 70B. LongLoRA adopts LLaMA2 7B from 4k context to 100k, or LLaMA2 70B to 32k on a single 8x A100 machine. LongLoRA extends models' context while retaining their original architectures, and is compatible with most existing techniques, like FlashAttention-2. In addition, to make LongLoRA practical, we collect a dataset, LongQA, for supervised fine-tuning. It contains more than 3k long context question-answer pairs.\"\nLLMs for Generating Structured Data,\"studies the use of LLMs for generating complex structured data; proposes a structure-aware fine-tuning method, applied to Llama-7B, which significantly outperform other model like GPT-3.5/4 and Vicuna-13B.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08963,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1703958549917847884?s=20,\"Despite the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, they still struggle with tasks that require generating complex, structured outputs. In this study, we assess the capability of Current LLMs in generating complex structured data and propose a structure-aware fine-tuning approach as a solution to improve this ability. To perform a comprehensive evaluation, we propose Struc-Bench, include five representative LLMs (i.e., GPT-NeoX 20B, GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Vicuna) and evaluate them on our carefully constructed datasets spanning raw text, HTML, and LaTeX tables. Based on our analysis of current model performance, we identify specific common formatting errors and areas of potential improvement. To address complex formatting requirements, we utilize FormatCoT (Chain-of-Thought) to generate format instructions from target outputs. Our experiments show that our structure-aware fine-tuning method, when applied to LLaMA-7B, significantly improves adherence to natural language constraints, outperforming other evaluated LLMs. Based on these results, we present an ability map of model capabilities from six dimensions (i.e., coverage, formatting, reasoning, comprehension, pragmatics, and hallucination). This map highlights the weaknesses of LLMs in handling complex structured outputs and suggests promising directions for future work. Our code and models can be found at this https URL.\"\nLMSYS-Chat-1M,a large-scale dataset containing 1 million real-world conversations with 25 state-of-the-art LLM; it is collected from 210K unique IP addresses on the Vincuna demo and Chatbot Arena website.,http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11998,https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1705024956122161217?s=20,\"Studying how people interact with large language models (LLMs) in real-world scenarios is increasingly important due to their widespread use in various applications. In this paper, we introduce LMSYS-Chat-1M, a large-scale dataset containing one million real-world conversations with 25 state-of-the-art LLMs. This dataset is collected from 210K unique IP addresses in the wild on our Vicuna demo and Chatbot Arena website. We offer an overview of the dataset's content, including its curation process, basic statistics, and topic distribution, highlighting its diversity, originality, and scale. We demonstrate its versatility through four use cases: developing content moderation models that perform similarly to GPT-4, building a safety benchmark, training instruction-following models that perform similarly to Vicuna, and creating challenging benchmark questions. We believe that this dataset will serve as a valuable resource for understanding and advancing LLM capabilities. The dataset is publicly available at this https URL.\"\nLanguage Modeling is Compression,\"evaluates the compression capabilities of LLMs; it investigates how and why compression and prediction are equivalent; shows that LLMs are powerful general-purpose compressors due to their in-context learning abilities; finds that Chinchilla 70B compresses ImageNet patches to 43.4% and LibriSpeech samples to 16.4% of their raw size, beating domain-specific compressors like PNG\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1704306357006897402?s=20,\"It has long been established that predictive models can be transformed into lossless compressors and vice versa. Incidentally, in recent years, the machine learning community has focused on training increasingly large and powerful self-supervised (language) models. Since these large language models exhibit impressive predictive capabilities, they are well-positioned to be strong compressors. In this work, we advocate for viewing the prediction problem through the lens of compression and evaluate the compression capabilities of large (foundation) models. We show that large language models are powerful general-purpose predictors and that the compression viewpoint provides novel insights into scaling laws, tokenization, and in-context learning. For example, Chinchilla 70B, while trained primarily on text, compresses ImageNet patches to 43.4% and LibriSpeech samples to 16.4% of their raw size, beating domain-specific compressors like PNG (58.5%) or FLAC (30.3%), respectively. Finally, we show that the prediction-compression equivalence allows us to use any compressor (like gzip) to build a conditional generative model.\"\nCompositional Foundation Models,\"proposes foundation models that leverage multiple expert foundation models trained on language, vision, and action data to solve long-horizon goals.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08587,https://x.com/du_yilun/status/1703786005612929214?s=20,\"To make effective decisions in novel environments with long-horizon goals, it is crucial to engage in hierarchical reasoning across spatial and temporal scales. This entails planning abstract subgoal sequences, visually reasoning about the underlying plans, and executing actions in accordance with the devised plan through visual-motor control. We propose Compositional Foundation Models for Hierarchical Planning (HiP), a foundation model which leverages multiple expert foundation model trained on language, vision and action data individually jointly together to solve long-horizon tasks. We use a large language model to construct symbolic plans that are grounded in the environment through a large video diffusion model. Generated video plans are then grounded to visual-motor control, through an inverse dynamics model that infers actions from generated videos. To enable effective reasoning within this hierarchy, we enforce consistency between the models via iterative refinement. We illustrate the efficacy and adaptability of our approach in three different long-horizon table-top manipulation tasks.\"\nLLMs for IT Operations,\"proposes OWL, an LLM for IT operations tuned using a self-instruct strategy based on IT-related tasks; it discusses how to collect a quality instruction dataset and how to put together a benchmark.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09298,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1704137910834888743?s=20,\"With the rapid development of IT operations, it has become increasingly crucial to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of data for practical applications. The techniques of Natural Language Processing (NLP) have shown remarkable capabilities for various tasks, including named entity recognition, machine translation and dialogue systems. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant improvements across various NLP downstream tasks. However, there is a lack of specialized LLMs for IT operations. In this paper, we introduce the OWL, a large language model trained on our collected OWL-Instruct dataset with a wide range of IT-related information, where the mixture-of-adapter strategy is proposed to improve the parameter-efficient tuning across different domains or tasks. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of our OWL on the OWL-Bench established by us and open IT-related benchmarks. OWL demonstrates superior performance results on IT tasks, which outperforms existing models by significant margins. Moreover, we hope that the findings of our work will provide more insights to revolutionize the techniques of IT operations with specialized LLMs.\"\nKOSMOS-2.5,\"a multimodal model for machine reading of text-intensive images, capable of document-level text generation and image-to-markdown text generation.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11419,https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1704659787399487649?s=20,\"We present Kosmos-2.5, a multimodal literate model for machine reading of text-intensive images. Pre-trained on large-scale text-intensive images, Kosmos-2.5 excels in two distinct yet cooperative transcription tasks: (1) generating spatially-aware text blocks, where each block of text is assigned its spatial coordinates within the image, and (2) producing structured text output that captures styles and structures into the markdown format. This unified multimodal literate capability is achieved through a shared Transformer architecture, task-specific prompts, and flexible text representations. We evaluate Kosmos-2.5 on end-to-end document-level text recognition and image-to-markdown text generation. Furthermore, the model can be readily adapted for any text-intensive image understanding task with different prompts through supervised fine-tuning, making it a general-purpose tool for real-world applications involving text-rich images. This work also paves the way for the future scaling of multimodal large language models.\"\nTextbooks Are All You Need II,\"a new 1.3 billion parameter model trained on 30 billion tokens; the dataset consists of \"\"textbook-quality\"\" synthetically generated data; phi-1.5 competes or outperforms other larger models on reasoning tasks suggesting that data quality plays a more important role than previously thought.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1701590130270601422?s=20,\"We continue the investigation into the power of smaller Transformer-based language models as initiated by \\textbf{TinyStories} -- a 10 million parameter model that can produce coherent English -- and the follow-up work on \\textbf{phi-1}, a 1.3 billion parameter model with Python coding performance close to the state-of-the-art. The latter work proposed to use existing Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate ``textbook quality\"\" data as a way to enhance the learning process compared to traditional web data. We follow the ``Textbooks Are All You Need\"\" approach, focusing this time on common sense reasoning in natural language, and create a new 1.3 billion parameter model named \\textbf{phi-1.5}, with performance on natural language tasks comparable to models 5x larger, and surpassing most non-frontier LLMs on more complex reasoning tasks such as grade-school mathematics and basic coding. More generally, \\textbf{phi-1.5} exhibits many of the traits of much larger LLMs, both good -- such as the ability to ``think step by step\"\" or perform some rudimentary in-context learning -- and bad, including hallucinations and the potential for toxic and biased generations -- encouragingly though, we are seeing improvement on that front thanks to the absence of web data. We open-source \\textbf{phi-1.5} to promote further research on these urgent topics.\"\nThe Rise and Potential of LLM Based Agents,a comprehensive overview of LLM based agents; covers from how to construct these agents to how to harness them for good.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07864,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1702736490067890239?s=20,\"For a long time, humanity has pursued artificial intelligence (AI) equivalent to or surpassing the human level, with AI agents considered a promising vehicle for this pursuit. AI agents are artificial entities that sense their environment, make decisions, and take actions. Many efforts have been made to develop intelligent agents, but they mainly focus on advancement in algorithms or training strategies to enhance specific capabilities or performance on particular tasks. Actually, what the community lacks is a general and powerful model to serve as a starting point for designing AI agents that can adapt to diverse scenarios. Due to the versatile capabilities they demonstrate, large language models (LLMs) are regarded as potential sparks for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), offering hope for building general AI agents. Many researchers have leveraged LLMs as the foundation to build AI agents and have achieved significant progress. In this paper, we perform a comprehensive survey on LLM-based agents. We start by tracing the concept of agents from its philosophical origins to its development in AI, and explain why LLMs are suitable foundations for agents. Building upon this, we present a general framework for LLM-based agents, comprising three main components: brain, perception, and action, and the framework can be tailored for different applications. Subsequently, we explore the extensive applications of LLM-based agents in three aspects: single-agent scenarios, multi-agent scenarios, and human-agent cooperation. Following this, we delve into agent societies, exploring the behavior and personality of LLM-based agents, the social phenomena that emerge from an agent society, and the insights they offer for human society. Finally, we discuss several key topics and open problems within the field. A repository for the related papers at this https URL.\"\nEvoDiff,combines evolutionary-scale data with diffusion models for controllable protein generation in sequence space; it can generate proteins inaccessible to structure-based models.,https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.11.556673v1,https://x.com/KevinKaichuang/status/1701953715312136302?s=20,\"Deep generative models are increasingly powerful tools for the in silico design of novel proteins. Recently, a family of generative models called diffusion models has demonstrated the ability to generate biologically plausible proteins that are dissimilar to any actual proteins seen in nature, enabling unprecedented capability and control in de novo protein design. However, current state-of-the-art models generate protein structures, which limits the scope of their training data and restricts generations to a small and biased subset of protein design space. Here, we introduce a general-purpose diffusion framework, EvoDiff, that combines evolutionary-scale data with the distinct conditioning capabilities of diffusion models for controllable protein generation in sequence space. EvoDiff generates high-fidelity, diverse, and structurally-plausible proteins that cover natural sequence and functional space. Critically, EvoDiff can generate proteins inaccessible to structure-based models, such as those with disordered regions, while maintaining the ability to design scaffolds for functional structural motifs, demonstrating the universality of our sequence-based formulation. We envision that EvoDiff will expand capabilities in protein engineering beyond the structure-function paradigm toward programmable, sequence-first design.\"\nLLMs Can Align Themselves without Finetuning?,\"discovers that by integrating self-evaluation and rewind mechanisms, unaligned LLMs can directly produce responses consistent with human preferences via self-boosting.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07124,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1702131444041011395?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) often demonstrate inconsistencies with human preferences. Previous research typically gathered human preference data and then aligned the pre-trained models using reinforcement learning or instruction tuning, a.k.a. the finetuning step. In contrast, aligning frozen LLMs without requiring alignment data is more appealing. This work explores the potential of the latter setting. We discover that by integrating self-evaluation and rewind mechanisms, unaligned LLMs can directly produce responses consistent with human preferences via self-boosting. We introduce a novel inference method, Rewindable Auto-regressive INference (RAIN), that allows pre-trained LLMs to evaluate their own generation and use the evaluation results to guide rewind and generation for AI safety. Notably, RAIN operates without the need of extra data for model alignment and abstains from any training, gradient computation, or parameter updates. Experimental results evaluated by GPT-4 and humans demonstrate the effectiveness of RAIN: on the HH dataset, RAIN improves the harmlessness rate of LLaMA 30B from 82% of vanilla inference to 97%, while maintaining the helpfulness rate. On the TruthfulQA dataset, RAIN improves the truthfulness of the already-well-aligned LLaMA-2-chat 13B model by 5%.\"\nRobot Parkour Learning,presents a system for learning end-to-end vision-based parkour policy which is transferred to a quadrupedal robot using its ecocentric depth camera; shows that low-cost robots can automatically select and execute parkour skills in a real-world environment.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05665,https://x.com/zipengfu/status/1701316023612219445?s=20,\"Parkour is a grand challenge for legged locomotion that requires robots to overcome various obstacles rapidly in complex environments. Existing methods can generate either diverse but blind locomotion skills or vision-based but specialized skills by using reference animal data or complex rewards. However, autonomous parkour requires robots to learn generalizable skills that are both vision-based and diverse to perceive and react to various scenarios. In this work, we propose a system for learning a single end-to-end vision-based parkour policy of diverse parkour skills using a simple reward without any reference motion data. We develop a reinforcement learning method inspired by direct collocation to generate parkour skills, including climbing over high obstacles, leaping over large gaps, crawling beneath low barriers, squeezing through thin slits, and running. We distill these skills into a single vision-based parkour policy and transfer it to a quadrupedal robot using its egocentric depth camera. We demonstrate that our system can empower two different low-cost robots to autonomously select and execute appropriate parkour skills to traverse challenging real-world environments.\"\nA Survey of Hallucination in LLMs,classifies different types of hallucination phenomena and provides evaluation criteria for assessing hallucination along with mitigation strategies.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05922,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1701970034711539839?s=20,\"Hallucination in a foundation model (FM) refers to the generation of content that strays from factual reality or includes fabricated information. This survey paper provides an extensive overview of recent efforts that aim to identify, elucidate, and tackle the problem of hallucination, with a particular focus on ``Large'' Foundation Models (LFMs). The paper classifies various types of hallucination phenomena that are specific to LFMs and establishes evaluation criteria for assessing the extent of hallucination. It also examines existing strategies for mitigating hallucination in LFMs and discusses potential directions for future research in this area. Essentially, the paper offers a comprehensive examination of the challenges and solutions related to hallucination in LFMs.\"\nAgents,\"an open-source library for building autonomous language agents including support for features like planning, memory, tool usage, multi-agent communication, and more.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07870,https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1702497897395396960?s=20,\"Recent advances on large language models (LLMs) enable researchers and developers to build autonomous language agents that can automatically solve various tasks and interact with environments, humans, and other agents using natural language interfaces. We consider language agents as a promising direction towards artificial general intelligence and release Agents, an open-source library with the goal of opening up these advances to a wider non-specialist audience. Agents is carefully engineered to support important features including planning, memory, tool usage, multi-agent communication, and fine-grained symbolic control. Agents is user-friendly as it enables non-specialists to build, customize, test, tune, and deploy state-of-the-art autonomous language agents without much coding. The library is also research-friendly as its modularized design makes it easily extensible for researchers. Agents is available at this https URL.\"\nRadiology-Llama2: Best-in-Class LLM for Radiology,presents an LLM based on Llama 2 tailored for radiology; it's tuned on a large dataset of radiology reports to generate coherent and clinically useful impressions from radiology findings.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06419,https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1701774444052557965?s=20,\"This paper introduces Radiology-Llama2, a large language model specialized for radiology through a process known as instruction tuning. Radiology-Llama2 is based on the Llama2 architecture and further trained on a large dataset of radiology reports to generate coherent and clinically useful impressions from radiological findings. Quantitative evaluations using ROUGE metrics on the MIMIC-CXR and OpenI datasets demonstrate that Radiology-Llama2 achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to other generative language models, with a Rouge-1 score of 0.4834 on MIMIC-CXR and 0.4185 on OpenI. Additional assessments by radiology experts highlight the model's strengths in understandability, coherence, relevance, conciseness, and clinical utility. The work illustrates the potential of localized language models designed and tuned for specialized domains like radiology. When properly evaluated and deployed, such models can transform fields like radiology by automating rote tasks and enhancing human expertise.\"\nCommunicative Agents for Software Development,\"presents ChatDev, a virtual chat-powered software development company mirroring the waterfall model; shows the efficacy of the agent in software generation, even completing the entire software development process in less than seven minutes for less than one dollar.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07924v3,https://x.com/KevinAFischer/status/1702355125418045860?s=20,\"Software engineering is a domain characterized by intricate decision-making processes, often relying on nuanced intuition and consultation. Recent advancements in deep learning have started to revolutionize software engineering practices through elaborate designs implemented at various stages of software development. In this paper, we present an innovative paradigm that leverages large language models (LLMs) throughout the entire software development process, streamlining and unifying key processes through natural language communication, thereby eliminating the need for specialized models at each phase. At the core of this paradigm lies ChatDev, a virtual chat-powered software development company that mirrors the established waterfall model, meticulously dividing the development process into four distinct chronological stages: designing, coding, testing, and documenting. Each stage engages a team of agents, such as programmers, code reviewers, and test engineers, fostering collaborative dialogue and facilitating a seamless workflow. The chat chain acts as a facilitator, breaking down each stage into atomic subtasks. This enables dual roles, allowing for proposing and validating solutions through context-aware communication, leading to efficient resolution of specific subtasks. The instrumental analysis of ChatDev highlights its remarkable efficacy in software generation, enabling the completion of the entire software development process in under seven minutes at a cost of less than one dollar. It not only identifies and alleviates potential vulnerabilities but also rectifies potential hallucinations while maintaining commendable efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The potential of ChatDev unveils fresh possibilities for integrating LLMs into the realm of software development.\"\nMAmmoTH,a series of open-source LLMs tailored for general math problem-solving; the models are trained on a curated instruction tuning dataset and outperform existing open-source models on several mathematical reasoning datasets.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05653,https://x.com/xiangyue96/status/1701710215442309323?s=20,\"We introduce MAmmoTH, a series of open-source large language models (LLMs) specifically tailored for general math problem-solving. The MAmmoTH models are trained on MathInstruct, our meticulously curated instruction tuning dataset. MathInstruct is compiled from 13 math datasets with intermediate rationales, six of which have rationales newly curated by us. It presents a unique hybrid of chain-of-thought (CoT) and program-of-thought (PoT) rationales, and also ensures extensive coverage of diverse fields in math. The hybrid of CoT and PoT not only unleashes the potential of tool use but also allows different thought processes for different math problems. As a result, the MAmmoTH series substantially outperform existing open-source models on nine mathematical reasoning datasets across all scales with an average accuracy gain between 16% and 32%. Remarkably, our MAmmoTH-7B model reaches 33% on MATH (a competition-level dataset), which exceeds the best open-source 7B model (WizardMath) by 23%, and the MAmmoTH-34B model achieves 44% accuracy on MATH, even surpassing GPT-4's CoT result. Our work underscores the importance of diverse problem coverage and the use of hybrid rationales in developing superior math generalist models.\"\nTransformers as SVMs,finds that the optimization geometry of self-attention in Transformers exhibits a connection to hard-margin SVM problems; also finds that gradient descent applied without early-stopping leads to implicit regularization and convergence of self-attention; this work has the potential to deepen the understanding of language models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16898,,\"Since its inception in \"\"Attention Is All You Need\"\", transformer architecture has led to revolutionary advancements in NLP. The attention layer within the transformer admits a sequence of input tokens $X$ and makes them interact through pairwise similarities computed as softmax$(XQK^\\top X^\\top)$, where $(K,Q)$ are the trainable key-query parameters. In this work, we establish a formal equivalence between the optimization geometry of self-attention and a hard-margin SVM problem that separates optimal input tokens from non-optimal tokens using linear constraints on the outer-products of token pairs. This formalism allows us to characterize the implicit bias of 1-layer transformers optimized with gradient descent: (1) Optimizing the attention layer with vanishing regularization, parameterized by $(K,Q)$, converges in direction to an SVM solution minimizing the nuclear norm of the combined parameter $W=KQ^\\top$. Instead, directly parameterizing by $W$ minimizes a Frobenius norm objective. We characterize this convergence, highlighting that it can occur toward locally-optimal directions rather than global ones. (2) Complementing this, we prove the local/global directional convergence of gradient descent under suitable geometric conditions. Importantly, we show that over-parameterization catalyzes global convergence by ensuring the feasibility of the SVM problem and by guaranteeing a benign optimization landscape devoid of stationary points. (3) While our theory applies primarily to linear prediction heads, we propose a more general SVM equivalence that predicts the implicit bias with nonlinear heads. Our findings are applicable to arbitrary datasets and their validity is verified via experiments. We also introduce several open problems and research directions. We believe these findings inspire the interpretation of transformers as a hierarchy of SVMs that separates and selects optimal tokens.\"\nScaling RLHF with AI Feedback,\"tests whether RLAIF is a suitable alternative to RLHF by comparing the efficacy of human vs. AI feedback; uses different techniques to generate AI labels and conduct scaling studies to report optimal settings for generating aligned preferences; the main finding is that on the task of summarization, human evaluators prefer generations from both RLAIF and RLHF over a baseline SFT model in ∼70% of cases.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00267,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1699102486928265530?s=20,\"Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is effective at aligning large language models (LLMs) to human preferences, but gathering high quality human preference labels is a key bottleneck. We conduct a head-to-head comparison of RLHF vs. RL from AI Feedback (RLAIF) - a technique where preferences are labeled by an off-the-shelf LLM in lieu of humans, and we find that they result in similar improvements. On the task of summarization, human evaluators prefer generations from both RLAIF and RLHF over a baseline supervised fine-tuned model in ~70% of cases. Furthermore, when asked to rate RLAIF vs. RLHF summaries, humans prefer both at equal rates. These results suggest that RLAIF can yield human-level performance, offering a potential solution to the scalability limitations of RLHF.\"\nGPT Solves Math Problems Without a Calculator,\"shows that with sufficient training data, a 2B language model can perform multi-digit arithmetic operations with 100% accuracy and without data leakage; it’s also competitive with GPT-4 on 5K samples Chinese math problem test set when fine-tuned from GLM-10B on a dataset containing additional multi-step arithmetic operations and detailed math problems.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03241,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1699951105927512399?s=20,\"Previous studies have typically assumed that large language models are unable to accurately perform arithmetic operations, particularly multiplication of >8 digits, and operations involving decimals and fractions, without the use of calculator tools. This paper aims to challenge this misconception. With sufficient training data, a 2 billion-parameter language model can accurately perform multi-digit arithmetic operations with almost 100% accuracy without data leakage, significantly surpassing GPT-4 (whose multi-digit multiplication accuracy is only 4.3%). We also demonstrate that our MathGLM, fine-tuned from GLM-10B on a dataset with additional multi-step arithmetic operations and math problems described in text, achieves similar performance to GPT-4 on a 5,000-samples Chinese math problem test set. Our code and data are public at this https URL.\"\nLLMs as Optimizers,\"an approach where the optimization problem is described in natural language; an LLM is then instructed to iteratively generate new solutions based on the defined problem and previously found solutions; at each optimization step, the goal is to generate new prompts that increase test accuracy based on the trajectory of previously generated prompts; the optimized prompts outperform human-designed prompts on GSM8K and Big-Bench Hard, sometimes by over 50%\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03409,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1700249035456598391?s=20,\"Optimization is ubiquitous. While derivative-based algorithms have been powerful tools for various problems, the absence of gradient imposes challenges on many real-world applications. In this work, we propose Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO), a simple and effective approach to leverage large language models (LLMs) as optimizers, where the optimization task is described in natural language. In each optimization step, the LLM generates new solutions from the prompt that contains previously generated solutions with their values, then the new solutions are evaluated and added to the prompt for the next optimization step. We first showcase OPRO on linear regression and traveling salesman problems, then move on to prompt optimization where the goal is to find instructions that maximize the task accuracy. With a variety of LLMs, we demonstrate that the best prompts optimized by OPRO outperform human-designed prompts by up to 8% on GSM8K, and by up to 50% on Big-Bench Hard tasks.\"\nMulti-modality Instruction Tuning,\"presents ImageBind-LLM, a multimodality instruction tuning method of LLMs via ImageBind; this model can respond to instructions of diverse modalities such as audio, 3D point clouds, and video, including high language generation quality; this is achieved by aligning ImageBind’s visual encoder with an LLM via learnable bind network.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03905,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1699947731333345750?s=20,\"We present ImageBind-LLM, a multi-modality instruction tuning method of large language models (LLMs) via ImageBind. Existing works mainly focus on language and image instruction tuning, different from which, our ImageBind-LLM can respond to multi-modality conditions, including audio, 3D point clouds, video, and their embedding-space arithmetic by only image-text alignment training. During training, we adopt a learnable bind network to align the embedding space between LLaMA and ImageBind's image encoder. Then, the image features transformed by the bind network are added to word tokens of all layers in LLaMA, which progressively injects visual instructions via an attention-free and zero-initialized gating mechanism. Aided by the joint embedding of ImageBind, the simple image-text training enables our model to exhibit superior multi-modality instruction-following capabilities. During inference, the multi-modality inputs are fed into the corresponding ImageBind encoders, and processed by a proposed visual cache model for further cross-modal embedding enhancement. The training-free cache model retrieves from three million image features extracted by ImageBind, which effectively mitigates the training-inference modality discrepancy. Notably, with our approach, ImageBind-LLM can respond to instructions of diverse modalities and demonstrate significant language generation quality. Code is released at this https URL.\"\nExplaining Grokking,\"aims to explain grokking behavior in neural networks; specifically, it predicts and shows two novel behaviors: the first is ungrokking where a model goes from perfect generalization to memorization when trained further on a smaller dataset than the critical threshold; the second is semi-grokking where a network demonstrates grokking-like transition when training a randomly initialized network on the critical dataset size.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02390,https://twitter.com/VikrantVarma_/status/1699823229307699305?s=20,\"One of the most surprising puzzles in neural network generalisation is grokking: a network with perfect training accuracy but poor generalisation will, upon further training, transition to perfect generalisation. We propose that grokking occurs when the task admits a generalising solution and a memorising solution, where the generalising solution is slower to learn but more efficient, producing larger logits with the same parameter norm. We hypothesise that memorising circuits become more inefficient with larger training datasets while generalising circuits do not, suggesting there is a critical dataset size at which memorisation and generalisation are equally efficient. We make and confirm four novel predictions about grokking, providing significant evidence in favour of our explanation. Most strikingly, we demonstrate two novel and surprising behaviours: ungrokking, in which a network regresses from perfect to low test accuracy, and semi-grokking, in which a network shows delayed generalisation to partial rather than perfect test accuracy.\"\nOverview of AI Deception,provides a survey of empirical examples of AI deception.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14752,https://twitter.com/DanHendrycks/status/1699437800301752332?s=20,\"This paper argues that a range of current AI systems have learned how to deceive humans. We define deception as the systematic inducement of false beliefs in the pursuit of some outcome other than the truth. We first survey empirical examples of AI deception, discussing both special-use AI systems (including Meta's CICERO) built for specific competitive situations, and general-purpose AI systems (such as large language models). Next, we detail several risks from AI deception, such as fraud, election tampering, and losing control of AI systems. Finally, we outline several potential solutions to the problems posed by AI deception: first, regulatory frameworks should subject AI systems that are capable of deception to robust risk-assessment requirements; second, policymakers should implement bot-or-not laws; and finally, policymakers should prioritize the funding of relevant research, including tools to detect AI deception and to make AI systems less deceptive. Policymakers, researchers, and the broader public should work proactively to prevent AI deception from destabilizing the shared foundations of our society.\"\nFLM-101B,\"a new open LLM called FLM-101B with 101B parameters and 0.31TB tokens which can be trained on a $100K budget; the authors analyze different growth strategies, growing the number of parameters from smaller sizes to large ones. They ultimately employ an aggressive strategy that reduces costs by >50%. In other words, three models are trained sequentially with each model inheriting knowledge from its smaller predecessor\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03852,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1700156132700963053?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in NLP and multimodal tasks, among others. Despite these successes, two main challenges remain in developing LLMs: (i) high computational cost, and (ii) fair and objective evaluations. In this paper, we report a solution to significantly reduce LLM training cost through a growth strategy. We demonstrate that a 101B-parameter LLM with 0.31T tokens can be trained with a budget of 100K US dollars. Inspired by IQ tests, we also consolidate an additional range of evaluations on top of existing evaluations that focus on knowledge-oriented abilities. These IQ evaluations include symbolic mapping, rule understanding, pattern mining, and anti-interference. Such evaluations minimize the potential impact of memorization. Experimental results show that our model, named FLM-101B, trained with a budget of 100K US dollars, achieves performance comparable to powerful and well-known models, e.g., GPT-3 and GLM-130B, especially on the additional range of IQ evaluations. The checkpoint of FLM-101B is released at this https URL.\"\nCognitive Architecture for Language Agents,\"proposes a systematic framework for understanding and building fully-fledged language agents drawing parallels from production systems and cognitive architectures; it systematizes diverse methods for LLM-based reasoning, grounding, learning, and decision making as instantiations of language agents in the framework.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02427,https://twitter.com/ShunyuYao12/status/1699396834983362690?s=20,\"Recent efforts have augmented large language models (LLMs) with external resources (e.g., the Internet) or internal control flows (e.g., prompt chaining) for tasks requiring grounding or reasoning, leading to a new class of language agents. While these agents have achieved substantial empirical success, we lack a systematic framework to organize existing agents and plan future developments. In this paper, we draw on the rich history of cognitive science and symbolic artificial intelligence to propose Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents (CoALA). CoALA describes a language agent with modular memory components, a structured action space to interact with internal memory and external environments, and a generalized decision-making process to choose actions. We use CoALA to retrospectively survey and organize a large body of recent work, and prospectively identify actionable directions towards more capable agents. Taken together, CoALA contextualizes today's language agents within the broader history of AI and outlines a path towards language-based general intelligence.\"\nQ-Transformer,a scalable RL method for training multi-task policies from large offline datasets leveraging human demonstrations and autonomously collected data; shows good performance on a large diverse real-world robotic manipulation task suite.,https://q-transformer.github.io/,https://twitter.com/YevgenChebotar/status/1699909244743815677?s=20,\"In this work, we present a scalable reinforcement learning method for training multi-task policies from large offline datasets that can leverage both human demonstrations and autonomously collected data. Our method uses a Transformer to provide a scalable representation for Q-functions trained via offline temporal difference backups. We therefore refer to the method as Q-Transformer. By discretizing each action dimension and representing the Q-value of each action dimension as separate tokens, we can apply effective high-capacity sequence modeling techniques for Q-learning. We present several design decisions that are crucial to obtain good performance with offline RL training, and show that Q-Transformer outperforms prior offline RL algorithms and imitation learning techniques on a large diverse real-world robotic manipulation task suite.\"\nLarge Language and Speech Model,proposes a large language and speech model trained with cross-modal conversational abilities that supports speech-and-language instruction enabling more natural interactions with AI systems.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15930v1,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1697081112164475304?s=20,\"Multi-modal large language models have garnered significant interest recently. Though, most of the works focus on vision-language multi-modal models providing strong capabilities in following vision-and-language instructions. However, we claim that speech is also an important modality through which humans interact with the world. Hence, it is crucial for a general-purpose assistant to be able to follow multi-modal speech-and-language instructions. In this work, we propose Large Language and Speech Model (LLaSM). LLaSM is an end-to-end trained large multi-modal speech-language model with cross-modal conversational abilities, capable of following speech-and-language instructions. Our early experiments show that LLaSM demonstrates a more convenient and natural way for humans to interact with artificial intelligence. Specifically, we also release a large Speech Instruction Following dataset LLaSM-Audio-Instructions. Code and demo are available at this https URL and this https URL. The LLaSM-Audio-Instructions dataset is available at this https URL.\"\nSAM-Med2D,applies segment anything models,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16184v1,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1698014448856773102?s=20,\"The Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a state-of-the-art research advancement in natural image segmentation, achieving impressive results with input prompts such as points and bounding boxes. However, our evaluation and recent research indicate that directly applying the pretrained SAM to medical image segmentation does not yield satisfactory performance. This limitation primarily arises from significant domain gap between natural images and medical images. To bridge this gap, we introduce SAM-Med2D, the most comprehensive studies on applying SAM to medical 2D images. Specifically, we first collect and curate approximately 4.6M images and 19.7M masks from public and private datasets, constructing a large-scale medical image segmentation dataset encompassing various modalities and objects. Then, we comprehensively fine-tune SAM on this dataset and turn it into SAM-Med2D. Unlike previous methods that only adopt bounding box or point prompts as interactive segmentation approach, we adapt SAM to medical image segmentation through more comprehensive prompts involving bounding boxes, points, and masks. We additionally fine-tune the encoder and decoder of the original SAM to obtain a well-performed SAM-Med2D, leading to the most comprehensive fine-tuning strategies to date. Finally, we conducted a comprehensive evaluation and analysis to investigate the performance of SAM-Med2D in medical image segmentation across various modalities, anatomical structures, and organs. Concurrently, we validated the generalization capability of SAM-Med2D on 9 datasets from MICCAI 2023 challenge. Overall, our approach demonstrated significantly superior performance and generalization capability compared to SAM.\"\nVector Search with OpenAI Embeddings,\"suggests that “from a cost–benefit analysis, there does not appear to be a compelling reason to introduce a dedicated vector store into a modern “AI stack” for search since such applications have already received substantial investments in existing, widely deployed infrastructure.”\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14963,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1696879909950361867?s=20,\"We provide a reproducible, end-to-end demonstration of vector search with OpenAI embeddings using Lucene on the popular MS MARCO passage ranking test collection. The main goal of our work is to challenge the prevailing narrative that a dedicated vector store is necessary to take advantage of recent advances in deep neural networks as applied to search. Quite the contrary, we show that hierarchical navigable small-world network (HNSW) indexes in Lucene are adequate to provide vector search capabilities in a standard bi-encoder architecture. This suggests that, from a simple cost-benefit analysis, there does not appear to be a compelling reason to introduce a dedicated vector store into a modern \"\"AI stack\"\" for search, since such applications have already received substantial investments in existing, widely deployed infrastructure.\"\nGraph of Thoughts,\"presents a prompting approach that models text generated by LLMs as an arbitrary graph; it enables combining arbitrary \"\"thoughts\"\" and enhancing them using feedback loops; the core idea is to enhance the LLM capabilities through \"\"network reasoning\"\" and without any model updates; this could be seen as a generalization of the now popular Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09687v2,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1697245998828204200?s=20,\"We introduce Graph of Thoughts (GoT): a framework that advances prompting capabilities in large language models (LLMs) beyond those offered by paradigms such as Chain-of-Thought or Tree of Thoughts (ToT). The key idea and primary advantage of GoT is the ability to model the information generated by an LLM as an arbitrary graph, where units of information (\"\"LLM thoughts\"\") are vertices, and edges correspond to dependencies between these vertices. This approach enables combining arbitrary LLM thoughts into synergistic outcomes, distilling the essence of whole networks of thoughts, or enhancing thoughts using feedback loops. We illustrate that GoT offers advantages over state of the art on different tasks, for example increasing the quality of sorting by 62% over ToT, while simultaneously reducing costs by >31%. We ensure that GoT is extensible with new thought transformations and thus can be used to spearhead new prompting schemes. This work brings the LLM reasoning closer to human thinking or brain mechanisms such as recurrence, both of which form complex networks.\"\nMVDream,a multi-view diffusion model that can generate geometrically consistent multi-view images given a text prompt; it leverages pre-trained diffusion models and a multi-view dataset rendered from 3D assets; this leads to generalizability of 2D diffusion and consistency of 3D data.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16512,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1697521847963619462?s=20,\"We introduce MVDream, a multi-view diffusion model that is able to generate consistent multi-view images from a given text prompt. Learning from both 2D and 3D data, a multi-view diffusion model can achieve the generalizability of 2D diffusion models and the consistency of 3D renderings. We demonstrate that such a multi-view prior can serve as a generalizable 3D prior that is agnostic to 3D representations. It can be applied to 3D generation via Score Distillation Sampling, significantly enhancing the consistency and stability of existing 2D-lifting methods. It can also learn new concepts from a few 2D examples, akin to DreamBooth, but for 3D generation.\"\nNougat,\"proposes an approach for neural optical understanding of academic documents; it supports the ability to extract text, equations, and tables from academic PDFs, i.e., convert PDFs into LaTeX/markdown.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13418v1,https://twitter.com/lukas_blecher/status/1696101110853910716?s=20,\"Scientific knowledge is predominantly stored in books and scientific journals, often in the form of PDFs. However, the PDF format leads to a loss of semantic information, particularly for mathematical expressions. We propose Nougat (Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents), a Visual Transformer model that performs an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) task for processing scientific documents into a markup language, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our model on a new dataset of scientific documents. The proposed approach offers a promising solution to enhance the accessibility of scientific knowledge in the digital age, by bridging the gap between human-readable documents and machine-readable text. We release the models and code to accelerate future work on scientific text recognition.\"\nFactuality Detection in LLMs,proposes a tool called **FacTool** to detect factual errors in texts generated by LLMs; shows the necessary components needed and the types of tools to integrate with LLMs for better detecting factual errors.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13528v2,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1697642048587694370?s=20,\"The emergence of generative pre-trained models has facilitated the synthesis of high-quality text, but it has also posed challenges in identifying factual errors in the generated text. In particular: (1) A wider range of tasks now face an increasing risk of containing factual errors when handled by generative models. (2) Generated texts tend to be lengthy and lack a clearly defined granularity for individual facts. (3) There is a scarcity of explicit evidence available during the process of fact checking. With the above challenges in mind, in this paper, we propose FacTool, a task and domain agnostic framework for detecting factual errors of texts generated by large language models (e.g., ChatGPT). Experiments on four different tasks (knowledge-based QA, code generation, mathematical reasoning, and scientific literature review) show the efficacy of the proposed method. We release the code of FacTool associated with ChatGPT plugin interface at this https URL .\"\nAnomalyGPT,an approach for industrial anomaly detection based on large vision-language models; it simulates anomalous images and textual descriptions to generate training data; employs an image decoder and prompt learner to detect anomalies; it shows few-shot in-context learning capabilities and achieves state-of-the-art performance benchmark datasets.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15366v1,https://twitter.com/shinmura0/status/1697091364633317707?s=20,\"Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) such as MiniGPT-4 and LLaVA have demonstrated the capability of understanding images and achieved remarkable performance in various visual tasks. Despite their strong abilities in recognizing common objects due to extensive training datasets, they lack specific domain knowledge and have a weaker understanding of localized details within objects, which hinders their effectiveness in the Industrial Anomaly Detection (IAD) task. On the other hand, most existing IAD methods only provide anomaly scores and necessitate the manual setting of thresholds to distinguish between normal and abnormal samples, which restricts their practical implementation. In this paper, we explore the utilization of LVLM to address the IAD problem and propose AnomalyGPT, a novel IAD approach based on LVLM. We generate training data by simulating anomalous images and producing corresponding textual descriptions for each image. We also employ an image decoder to provide fine-grained semantic and design a prompt learner to fine-tune the LVLM using prompt embeddings. Our AnomalyGPT eliminates the need for manual threshold adjustments, thus directly assesses the presence and locations of anomalies. Additionally, AnomalyGPT supports multi-turn dialogues and exhibits impressive few-shot in-context learning capabilities. With only one normal shot, AnomalyGPT achieves the state-of-the-art performance with an accuracy of 86.1%, an image-level AUC of 94.1%, and a pixel-level AUC of 95.3% on the MVTec-AD dataset. Code is available at this https URL.\"\nFaceChain,a personalized portrait generation framework combining customized image-generation models and face-related perceptual understanding models to generate truthful personalized portraits; it works with a handful of portrait images as input.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14256v1,,\"Recent advancement in personalized image generation have unveiled the intriguing capability of pre-trained text-to-image models on learning identity information from a collection of portrait images. However, existing solutions can be vulnerable in producing truthful details, and usually suffer from several defects such as (i) The generated face exhibit its own unique characteristics, \\ie facial shape and facial feature positioning may not resemble key characteristics of the input, and (ii) The synthesized face may contain warped, blurred or corrupted regions. In this paper, we present FaceChain, a personalized portrait generation framework that combines a series of customized image-generation model and a rich set of face-related perceptual understanding models (\\eg, face detection, deep face embedding extraction, and facial attribute recognition), to tackle aforementioned challenges and to generate truthful personalized portraits, with only a handful of portrait images as input. Concretely, we inject several SOTA face models into the generation procedure, achieving a more efficient label-tagging, data-processing, and model post-processing compared to previous solutions, such as DreamBooth ~\\cite{ruiz2023dreambooth} , InstantBooth ~\\cite{shi2023instantbooth} , or other LoRA-only approaches ~\\cite{hu2021lora} . Through the development of FaceChain, we have identified several potential directions to accelerate development of Face/Human-Centric AIGC research and application. We have designed FaceChain as a framework comprised of pluggable components that can be easily adjusted to accommodate different styles and personalized needs. We hope it can grow to serve the burgeoning needs from the communities. FaceChain is open-sourced under Apache-2.0 license at \\url{this https URL}.\"\nQwen-VL,\"introduces a set of large-scale vision-language models demonstrating strong performance in tasks like image captioning, question answering, visual localization, and flexible interaction.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12966,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1695964537671893306?s=20,\"In this work, we introduce the Qwen-VL series, a set of large-scale vision-language models (LVLMs) designed to perceive and understand both texts and images. Starting from the Qwen-LM as a foundation, we endow it with visual capacity by the meticulously designed (i) visual receptor, (ii) input-output interface, (iii) 3-stage training pipeline, and (iv) multilingual multimodal cleaned corpus. Beyond the conventional image description and question-answering, we implement the grounding and text-reading ability of Qwen-VLs by aligning image-caption-box tuples. The resulting models, including Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, set new records for generalist models under similar model scales on a broad range of visual-centric benchmarks (e.g., image captioning, question answering, visual grounding) and different settings (e.g., zero-shot, few-shot). Moreover, on real-world dialog benchmarks, our instruction-tuned Qwen-VL-Chat also demonstrates superiority compared to existing vision-language chatbots. Code, demo and models are available at this https URL.\"\nCode Llama,a family of LLMs for code based on Llama 2; the models provided as part of this release: foundation base models,https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/code-llama-open-foundation-models-for-code/,https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1694729071325007993?s=20,\"We release Code Llama, a family of large language models for code based on Llama 2 providing state-of-the-art performance among open models, infilling capabilities, support for large input contexts, and zero-shot instruction following ability for programming tasks. We provide multiple flavors to cover a wide range of applications: foundation models (Code Llama), Python specializations (Code Llama - Python), and instruction-following models (Code Llama - Instruct) with 7B, 13B and 34B parameters each. All models are trained on sequences of 16k tokens and show improvements on inputs with up to 100k tokens. 7B and 13B Code Llama and Code Llama - Instruct variants support infilling based on surrounding content. Code Llama reaches state-of-the-art performance among open models on several code benchmarks, with scores of up to 53% and 55% on HumanEval and MBPP, respectively. Notably, Code Llama - Python 7B outperforms Llama 2 70B on HumanEval and MBPP, and all our models outperform every other publicly available model on MultiPL-E. We release Code Llama under a permissive license that allows for both research and commercial use.\"\nSurvey on Instruction Tuning for LLMs,\"new survey paper on instruction tuning LLM, including a systematic review of the literature, methodologies, dataset construction, training models, applications, and more.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10792,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1693978006237102589?s=20,\"This paper surveys research works in the quickly advancing field of instruction tuning (IT), a crucial technique to enhance the capabilities and controllability of large language models (LLMs). Instruction tuning refers to the process of further training LLMs on a dataset consisting of \\textsc{(instruction, output)} pairs in a supervised fashion, which bridges the gap between the next-word prediction objective of LLMs and the users' objective of having LLMs adhere to human instructions. In this work, we make a systematic review of the literature, including the general methodology of IT, the construction of IT datasets, the training of IT models, and applications to different modalities, domains and applications, along with an analysis on aspects that influence the outcome of IT (e.g., generation of instruction outputs, size of the instruction dataset, etc). We also review the potential pitfalls of IT along with criticism against it, along with efforts pointing out current deficiencies of existing strategies and suggest some avenues for fruitful research. Project page: this http URL\"\nSeamlessM4T,\"a unified multilingual and multimodal machine translation system that supports ASR, text-to-text translation, speech-to-text translation, text-to-speech translation, and speech-to-speech translation.\",https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/seamless-m4t/,https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1694020437532151820?s=20,\"What does it take to create the Babel Fish, a tool that can help individuals translate speech between any two languages? While recent breakthroughs in text-based models have pushed machine translation coverage beyond 200 languages, unified speech-to-speech translation models have yet to achieve similar strides. More specifically, conventional speech-to-speech translation systems rely on cascaded systems composed of multiple subsystems performing translation progressively, putting scalable and high-performing unified speech translation systems out of reach. To address these gaps, we introduce SeamlessM4T—Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation—a single model that supports speech-to-speech translation, speech-to-text translation, text-to-speech translation, text-to-text translation, and automatic speech recognition for up to 100 languages. To build this, we used 1 million hours of open speech audio data to learn self-supervised speech representations with w2v-BERT 2.0. Subsequently, we created a multimodal corpus of automatically aligned speech translations, dubbed SeamlessAlign. Filtered and combined with human labeled and pseudo-labeled data (totaling 406,000 hours), we developed the first multilingual system capable of translating from and into English for both speech and text. On Fleurs, SeamlessM4T sets a new standard for translations into multiple target languages, achieving an improvement of 20% BLEU over the previous state-of-the-art in direct speech-to-text translation. Compared to strong cascaded models, SeamlessM4T improves the quality of into-English translation by 1.3 BLEU points in speech-to-text and by 2.6 ASR-BLEU points in speech-to-speech. On CVSS and compared to a 2-stage cascaded model for speech-to-speech translation, SeamlessM4T-Large’s performance is stronger by 58%. Preliminary human evaluations of speech-to-text translation outputs evinced similarly impressive results; for translations from English, XSTS scores for 24 evaluated languages are consistently above 4 (out of 5). For into English directions, we see significant improvement over WhisperLarge-v2’s baseline for 7 out of 24 languages. To further evaluate our system, we developed Blaser 2.0, which enables evaluation across speech and text with similar accuracy compared to its predecessor when it comes to quality estimation. Tested for robustness, our system performs better against background noises and speaker variations in speech-to-text tasks (average improvements of 38% and 49%, respectively) compared to the current state-of-the-art model. Critically, we evaluated SeamlessM4T on gender bias and added toxicity to assess translation safety. Compared to the state-of-the-art, we report up to 63% of reduction in added toxicity in our translation outputs. Finally, all contributions in this work—including models, inference code, finetuning recipes backed by our improved modeling toolkit Fairseq2, and metadata to recreate the unfiltered 470,000 hours of SeamlessAlign — are open-sourced and accessible at https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication.\"\nUse of LLMs for Illicit Purposes,provides an overview of existing efforts to identify and mitigate threats and vulnerabilities arising from LLMs; serves as a guide to building more reliable and robust LLM-powered systems.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12833,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1694885393286549636?s=20,\"Spurred by the recent rapid increase in the development and distribution of large language models (LLMs) across industry and academia, much recent work has drawn attention to safety- and security-related threats and vulnerabilities of LLMs, including in the context of potentially criminal activities. Specifically, it has been shown that LLMs can be misused for fraud, impersonation, and the generation of malware; while other authors have considered the more general problem of AI alignment. It is important that developers and practitioners alike are aware of security-related problems with such models. In this paper, we provide an overview of existing - predominantly scientific - efforts on identifying and mitigating threats and vulnerabilities arising from LLMs. We present a taxonomy describing the relationship between threats caused by the generative capabilities of LLMs, prevention measures intended to address such threats, and vulnerabilities arising from imperfect prevention measures. With our work, we hope to raise awareness of the limitations of LLMs in light of such security concerns, among both experienced developers and novel users of such technologies.\"\nGiraffe,\"a new family of models that are fine-tuned from base Llama and Llama 2; extends the context length to 4K, 16K, and 32K; explores the space of expanding context lengths in LLMs so it also includes insights useful for practitioners and researchers.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10882,https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1694126931174977906?s=20,\"Modern large language models (LLMs) that rely on attention mechanisms are typically trained with fixed context lengths which enforce upper limits on the length of input sequences that they can handle at evaluation time. To use these models on sequences longer than the train-time context length, one might employ techniques from the growing family of context length extrapolation methods -- most of which focus on modifying the system of positional encodings used in the attention mechanism to indicate where tokens or activations are located in the input sequence. We conduct a wide survey of existing methods of context length extrapolation on a base LLaMA or LLaMA 2 model, and introduce some of our own design as well -- in particular, a new truncation strategy for modifying the basis for the position encoding.\nWe test these methods using three new evaluation tasks (FreeFormQA, AlteredNumericQA, and LongChat-Lines) as well as perplexity, which we find to be less fine-grained as a measure of long context performance of LLMs. We release the three tasks publicly as datasets on HuggingFace. We discover that linear scaling is the best method for extending context length, and show that further gains can be achieved by using longer scales at evaluation time. We also discover promising extrapolation capabilities in the truncated basis. To support further research in this area, we release three new 13B parameter long-context models which we call Giraffe: 4k and 16k context models trained from base LLaMA-13B, and a 32k context model trained from base LLaMA2-13B. We also release the code to replicate our results.\"\nIT3D,presents a strategy that leverages explicitly synthesized multi-view images to improve Text-to-3D generation; integrates a discriminator along a Diffusion-GAN dual training strategy to guide the training of the 3D models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11473v1,,\"Recent strides in Text-to-3D techniques have been propelled by distilling knowledge from powerful large text-to-image diffusion models (LDMs). Nonetheless, existing Text-to-3D approaches often grapple with challenges such as over-saturation, inadequate detailing, and unrealistic outputs. This study presents a novel strategy that leverages explicitly synthesized multi-view images to address these issues. Our approach involves the utilization of image-to-image pipelines, empowered by LDMs, to generate posed high-quality images based on the renderings of coarse 3D models. Although the generated images mostly alleviate the aforementioned issues, challenges such as view inconsistency and significant content variance persist due to the inherent generative nature of large diffusion models, posing extensive difficulties in leveraging these images effectively. To overcome this hurdle, we advocate integrating a discriminator alongside a novel Diffusion-GAN dual training strategy to guide the training of 3D models. For the incorporated discriminator, the synthesized multi-view images are considered real data, while the renderings of the optimized 3D models function as fake data. We conduct a comprehensive set of experiments that demonstrate the effectiveness of our method over baseline approaches.\"\nA Survey on LLM-based Autonomous Agents,presents a comprehensive survey of LLM-based autonomous agents; delivers a systematic review of the field and a summary of various applications of LLM-based AI agents in domains like social science and engineering.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11432v1,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1695440652048257251?s=20,\"utonomous agents have long been a prominent research topic in the academic community. Previous research in this field often focuses on training agents with limited knowledge within isolated environments, which diverges significantly from the human learning processes, and thus makes the agents hard to achieve human-like decisions. Recently, through the acquisition of vast amounts of web knowledge, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in achieving human-level intelligence. This has sparked an upsurge in studies investigating autonomous agents based on LLMs. To harness the full potential of LLMs, researchers have devised diverse agent architectures tailored to different applications. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of these studies, delivering a systematic review of the field of autonomous agents from a holistic perspective. More specifically, our focus lies in the construction of LLM-based agents, for which we propose a unified framework that encompasses a majority of the previous work. Additionally, we provide a summary of the various applications of LLM-based AI agents in the domains of social science, natural science, and engineering. Lastly, we discuss the commonly employed evaluation strategies for LLM-based AI agents. Based on the previous studies, we also present several challenges and future directions in this field. To keep track of this field and continuously update our survey, we maintain a repository for the related references at this https URL.\"\nPrompt2Model,\"a new framework that accepts a prompt describing a task through natural language; it then uses the prompt to train a small special-purpose model that is conducive to deployment; the proposed pipeline automatically collects and synthesizes knowledge through three channels: dataset retrieval, dataset generation, and model retrieval.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12261,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1694718168185598055?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) enable system builders today to create competent NLP systems through prompting, where they only need to describe the task in natural language and provide a few examples. However, in other ways, LLMs are a step backward from traditional special-purpose NLP models; they require extensive computational resources for deployment and can be gated behind APIs. In this paper, we propose Prompt2Model, a general-purpose method that takes a natural language task description like the prompts provided to LLMs, and uses it to train a special-purpose model that is conducive to deployment. This is done through a multi-step process of retrieval of existing datasets and pretrained models, dataset generation using LLMs, and supervised fine-tuning on these retrieved and generated datasets. Over three tasks, we demonstrate that given the same few-shot prompt as input, Prompt2Model trains models that outperform the results of a strong LLM, gpt-3.5-turbo, by an average of 20% while being up to 700 times smaller. We also show that this data can be used to obtain reliable performance estimates of model performance, enabling model developers to assess model reliability before deployment. Prompt2Model is available open-source at this https URL.\"\nLegalBench,a collaboratively constructed benchmark for measuring legal reasoning in LLMs; it consists of 162 tasks covering 6 different types of legal reasoning.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11462,https://twitter.com/NeelGuha/status/1694375959334670643?s=20,\"The advent of large language models (LLMs) and their adoption by the legal community has given rise to the question: what types of legal reasoning can LLMs perform? To enable greater study of this question, we present LegalBench: a collaboratively constructed legal reasoning benchmark consisting of 162 tasks covering six different types of legal reasoning. LegalBench was built through an interdisciplinary process, in which we collected tasks designed and hand-crafted by legal professionals. Because these subject matter experts took a leading role in construction, tasks either measure legal reasoning capabilities that are practically useful, or measure reasoning skills that lawyers find interesting. To enable cross-disciplinary conversations about LLMs in the law, we additionally show how popular legal frameworks for describing legal reasoning -- which distinguish between its many forms -- correspond to LegalBench tasks, thus giving lawyers and LLM developers a common vocabulary. This paper describes LegalBench, presents an empirical evaluation of 20 open-source and commercial LLMs, and illustrates the types of research explorations LegalBench enables.\"\nLanguage to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis,proposes a new language-to-reward system that utilizes LLMs to define optimizable reward parameters to achieve a variety of robotic tasks; the method is evaluated on a real robot arm where complex manipulation skills such as non-prehensile pushing emerge.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08647,https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1694086273689076170?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exciting progress in acquiring diverse new capabilities through in-context learning, ranging from logical reasoning to code-writing. Robotics researchers have also explored using LLMs to advance the capabilities of robotic control. However, since low-level robot actions are hardware-dependent and underrepresented in LLM training corpora, existing efforts in applying LLMs to robotics have largely treated LLMs as semantic planners or relied on human-engineered control primitives to interface with the robot. On the other hand, reward functions are shown to be flexible representations that can be optimized for control policies to achieve diverse tasks, while their semantic richness makes them suitable to be specified by LLMs. In this work, we introduce a new paradigm that harnesses this realization by utilizing LLMs to define reward parameters that can be optimized and accomplish variety of robotic tasks. Using reward as the intermediate interface generated by LLMs, we can effectively bridge the gap between high-level language instructions or corrections to low-level robot actions. Meanwhile, combining this with a real-time optimizer, MuJoCo MPC, empowers an interactive behavior creation experience where users can immediately observe the results and provide feedback to the system. To systematically evaluate the performance of our proposed method, we designed a total of 17 tasks for a simulated quadruped robot and a dexterous manipulator robot. We demonstrate that our proposed method reliably tackles 90% of the designed tasks, while a baseline using primitive skills as the interface with Code-as-policies achieves 50% of the tasks. We further validated our method on a real robot arm where complex manipulation skills such as non-prehensile pushing emerge through our interactive system.\"\nSelf-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation,\"presents an approach to automatically label human-written text with corresponding instruction which enables building a high-quality instruction following language model; the steps are: 1) fine-tune an LLM with small seed data and web corpus, then 2) generate instructions for each web doc, 3) curate high-quality examples via the LLM, and finally 4) fine-tune on the newly curated data; the self-alignment approach outperforms all other Llama-based models on the Alpaca leaderboard.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06259,https://twitter.com/jaseweston/status/1690888779878330368?s=20,\"We present a scalable method to build a high quality instruction following language model by automatically labelling human-written text with corresponding instructions. Our approach, named instruction backtranslation, starts with a language model finetuned on a small amount of seed data, and a given web corpus. The seed model is used to construct training examples by generating instruction prompts for web documents (self-augmentation), and then selecting high quality examples from among these candidates (self-curation). This data is then used to finetune a stronger model. Finetuning LLaMa on two iterations of our approach yields a model that outperforms all other LLaMa-based models on the Alpaca leaderboard not relying on distillation data, demonstrating highly effective self-alignment.\"\nPlatypus,\"a family of fine-tuned and merged LLMs currently topping the Open LLM Leaderboard; it describes a process of efficiently fine-tuning and merging LoRA modules and also shows the benefits of collecting high-quality datasets for fine-tuning; specifically, it presents a small-scale, high-quality, and highly curated dataset, Open-Platypus, that enables strong performance with short and cheap fine-tuning time and cost... one can train a 13B model on a single A100 GPU using 25K questions in 5 hours.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07317v1,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1692549762480791959?s=20,\"We present $\\textbf{Platypus}$, a family of fine-tuned and merged Large Language Models (LLMs) that achieves the strongest performance and currently stands at first place in HuggingFace's Open LLM Leaderboard as of the release date of this work. In this work we describe (1) our curated dataset $\\textbf{Open-Platypus}$, that is a subset of other open datasets and which $\\textit{we release to the public}$ (2) our process of fine-tuning and merging LoRA modules in order to conserve the strong prior of pretrained LLMs, while bringing specific domain knowledge to the surface (3) our efforts in checking for test data leaks and contamination in the training data, which can inform future research. Specifically, the Platypus family achieves strong performance in quantitative LLM metrics across model sizes, topping the global Open LLM leaderboard while using just a fraction of the fine-tuning data and overall compute that are required for other state-of-the-art fine-tuned LLMs. In particular, a 13B Platypus model can be trained on $\\textit{a single}$ A100 GPU using 25k questions in 5 hours. This is a testament of the quality of our Open-Platypus dataset, and opens opportunities for more improvements in the field. Project page: this https URL\"\nModel Compression for LLMs,\"a short survey on the recent model compression techniques for LLMs; provides a high-level overview of topics such as quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and more; it also provides an overview of benchmark strategies and evaluation metrics for measuring the effectiveness of compressed LLMs.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07633,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1691803395160477905?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing tasks with remarkable success. However, their formidable size and computational demands present significant challenges for practical deployment, especially in resource-constrained environments. As these challenges become increasingly pertinent, the field of model compression has emerged as a pivotal research area to alleviate these limitations. This paper presents a comprehensive survey that navigates the landscape of model compression techniques tailored specifically for LLMs. Addressing the imperative need for efficient deployment, we delve into various methodologies, encompassing quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and more. Within each of these techniques, we highlight recent advancements and innovative approaches that contribute to the evolving landscape of LLM research. Furthermore, we explore benchmarking strategies and evaluation metrics that are essential for assessing the effectiveness of compressed LLMs. By providing insights into the latest developments and practical implications, this survey serves as an invaluable resource for both researchers and practitioners. As LLMs continue to evolve, this survey aims to facilitate enhanced efficiency and real-world applicability, establishing a foundation for future advancements in the field.\"\nGEARS,uses deep learning and gene relationship knowledge graph to help predict cellular responses to genetic perturbation; GEARS exhibited 40% higher precision than existing approaches in the task of predicting four distinct genetic interaction subtypes in a combinatorial perturbation screen.,http://nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01905-6.pdf,https://twitter.com/jure/status/1692229511096754594?s=20,\"Understanding cellular responses to genetic perturbation is central to numerous biomedical applications, from identifying genetic interactions involved in cancer to developing methods for regenerative medicine. However, the combinatorial explosion in the number of possible multigene perturbations severely limits experimental interrogation. Here, we present graph-enhanced gene activation and repression simulator (GEARS), a method that integrates deep learning with a knowledge graph of gene–gene relationships to predict transcriptional responses to both single and multigene perturbations using single-cell RNA-sequencing data from perturbational screens. GEARS is able to predict outcomes of perturbing combinations consisting of genes that were never experimentally perturbed. GEARS exhibited 40% higher precision than existing approaches in predicting four distinct genetic interaction subtypes in a combinatorial perturbation screen and identifed the strongest interactions twice as well as prior approaches. Overall, GEARS can predict phenotypically distinct efects of multigene perturbations and thus guide the design of perturbational experiments.\"\nShepherd,introduces a language model (7B) specifically tuned to critique the model responses and suggest refinements; this enables the capability to identify diverse errors and suggest remedies; its critiques are either similar or preferred to ChatGPT.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04592,https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1691517949130207232?s=20,\"large language models improve, there is increasing interest in techniques that leverage these models' capabilities to refine their own outputs. In this work, we introduce Shepherd, a language model specifically tuned to critique responses and suggest refinements, extending beyond the capabilities of an untuned model to identify diverse errors and provide suggestions to remedy them. At the core of our approach is a high quality feedback dataset, which we curate from community feedback and human annotations. Even though Shepherd is small (7B parameters), its critiques are either equivalent or preferred to those from established models including ChatGPT. Using GPT-4 for evaluation, Shepherd reaches an average win-rate of 53-87% compared to competitive alternatives. In human evaluation, Shepherd strictly outperforms other models and on average closely ties with ChatGPT.\"\nUsing GPT-4 Code Interpreter to Boost Mathematical Reasoning,proposes a zero-shot prompting technique for GPT-4 Code Interpreter that explicitly encourages the use of code for self-verification which further boosts performance on math reasoning problems; initial experiments show that GPT4-Code achieved a zero-shot accuracy of 69.7% on the MATH dataset which is an improvement of 27.5% over GPT-4’s performance (42.2%). Lots to explore here.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07921,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1691630591744127355?s=20,\"Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and PaLM-2 has brought significant advancements in addressing math reasoning problems. In particular, OpenAI's latest version of GPT-4, known as GPT-4 Code Interpreter, shows remarkable performance on challenging math datasets. In this paper, we explore the effect of code on enhancing LLMs' reasoning capability by introducing different constraints on the \\textit{Code Usage Frequency} of GPT-4 Code Interpreter. We found that its success can be largely attributed to its powerful skills in generating and executing code, evaluating the output of code execution, and rectifying its solution when receiving unreasonable outputs. Based on this insight, we propose a novel and effective prompting method, explicit \\uline{c}ode-based \\uline{s}elf-\\uline{v}erification~(CSV), to further boost the mathematical reasoning potential of GPT-4 Code Interpreter. This method employs a zero-shot prompt on GPT-4 Code Interpreter to encourage it to use code to self-verify its answers. In instances where the verification state registers as ``False'', the model shall automatically amend its solution, analogous to our approach of rectifying errors during a mathematics examination. Furthermore, we recognize that the states of the verification result indicate the confidence of a solution, which can improve the effectiveness of majority voting. With GPT-4 Code Interpreter and CSV, we achieve an impressive zero-shot accuracy on MATH dataset \\textbf{(53.9\\% $\\to$ 84.3\\%)}.\"\nTeach LLMs to Personalize,proposes a general approach based on multitask learning for personalized text generation using LLMs; the goal is to have an LLM generate personalized text without relying on predefined attributes.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07968,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1692186726192521364?s=20,\"Personalized text generation is an emerging research area that has attracted much attention in recent years. Most studies in this direction focus on a particular domain by designing bespoke features or models. In this work, we propose a general approach for personalized text generation using large language models (LLMs). Inspired by the practice of writing education, we develop a multistage and multitask framework to teach LLMs for personalized generation. In writing instruction, the task of writing from sources is often decomposed into multiple steps that involve finding, evaluating, summarizing, synthesizing, and integrating information. Analogously, our approach to personalized text generation consists of multiple stages: retrieval, ranking, summarization, synthesis, and generation. In addition, we introduce a multitask setting that helps the model improve its generation ability further, which is inspired by the observation in education that a student's reading proficiency and writing ability are often correlated. We evaluate our approach on three public datasets, each of which covers a different and representative domain. Our results show significant improvements over a variety of baselines.\"\nOctoPack,\"presents 4 terabytes of Git commits across 350 languages used to instruction tune code LLMs; achieves state-of-the-art performance among models not trained on OpenAI outputs, on the HumanEval Python benchmark; the data is also used to extend the HumanEval benchmark to other tasks such as code explanation and code repair.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07124v1,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1691259656453193728?s=20,\"Finetuning large language models (LLMs) on instructions leads to vast performance improvements on natural language tasks. We apply instruction tuning using code, leveraging the natural structure of Git commits, which pair code changes with human instructions. We compile CommitPack: 4 terabytes of Git commits across 350 programming languages. We benchmark CommitPack against other natural and synthetic code instructions (xP3x, Self-Instruct, OASST) on the 16B parameter StarCoder model, and achieve state-of-the-art performance among models not trained on OpenAI outputs, on the HumanEval Python benchmark (46.2% pass@1). We further introduce HumanEvalPack, expanding the HumanEval benchmark to a total of 3 coding tasks (Code Repair, Code Explanation, Code Synthesis) across 6 languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C++, Rust). Our models, OctoCoder and OctoGeeX, achieve the best performance across HumanEvalPack among all permissive models, demonstrating CommitPack's benefits in generalizing to a wider set of languages and natural coding tasks. Code, models and data are freely available at this https URL.\"\nEfficient Guided Generation for LLMs,\"presents a library to help LLM developers guide text generation in a fast and reliable way; provides generation methods that guarantee that the output will match a regular expression, or follow a JSON schema.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09702,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1691179888214966273?s=20,\"In this article we show how the problem of neural text generation can be constructively reformulated in terms of transitions between the states of a finite-state machine. This framework leads to an efficient approach to guiding text generation with regular expressions and context-free grammars by allowing the construction of an index over a language model's vocabulary. The approach is model agnostic, allows one to enforce domain-specific knowledge and constraints, and enables the construction of reliable interfaces by guaranteeing the structure of the generated text. It adds little overhead to the token sequence generation process and significantly outperforms existing solutions. An implementation is provided in the open source Python library Outlines\"\nBayesian Flow Networks,\"introduces a new class of generative models bringing together the power of Bayesian inference and deep learning; it differs from diffusion models in that it operates on the parameters of a data distribution rather than on a noisy version of the data; it’s adapted to continuous, discretized and discrete data with minimal changes to the training procedure.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07037,https://twitter.com/nnaisense/status/1691310494039379969?s=20,\"This paper introduces Bayesian Flow Networks (BFNs), a new class of generative model in which the parameters of a set of independent distributions are modified with Bayesian inference in the light of noisy data samples, then passed as input to a neural network that outputs a second, interdependent distribution. Starting from a simple prior and iteratively updating the two distributions yields a generative procedure similar to the reverse process of diffusion models; however it is conceptually simpler in that no forward process is required. Discrete and continuous-time loss functions are derived for continuous, discretised and discrete data, along with sample generation procedures. Notably, the network inputs for discrete data lie on the probability simplex, and are therefore natively differentiable, paving the way for gradient-based sample guidance and few-step generation in discrete domains such as language modelling. The loss function directly optimises data compression and places no restrictions on the network architecture. In our experiments BFNs achieve competitive log-likelihoods for image modelling on dynamically binarized MNIST and CIFAR-10, and outperform all known discrete diffusion models on the text8 character-level language modelling task.\"\nLLMs as Database Administrators,\"presents D-Bot, a framework based on LLMs that continuously acquires database maintenance experience from textual sources; D-Bot can help in performing: 1) database maintenance knowledge detection from documents and tools, 2) tree of thought reasoning for root cause analysis, and 3) collaborative diagnosis among multiple LLMs.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05481,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1689811820272353280?s=20,\"Database administrators (DBAs) play a crucial role in managing, maintaining and optimizing a database system to ensure data availability, performance, and reliability. However, it is hard and tedious for DBAs to manage a large number of database instances (e.g., millions of instances on the cloud databases). Recently large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential to understand valuable documents and accordingly generate reasonable answers. Thus, we propose D-Bot, a LLM-based database administrator that can continuously acquire database maintenance experience from textual sources, and provide reasonable, well-founded, in-time diagnosis and optimization advice for target databases. This paper presents a revolutionary LLM-centric framework for database maintenance, including (i) database maintenance knowledge detection from documents and tools, (ii) tree of thought reasoning for root cause analysis, and (iii) collaborative diagnosis among multiple LLMs. Our preliminary experimental results that D-Bot can efficiently and effectively diagnose the root causes and our code is available at this http URL.\"\nPolitical Biases Found in NLP Models,\"develops methods to measure media biases in LLMs, including the fairness of downstream NLP models tuned on top of politically biased LLMs; findings reveal that LLMs have political leanings which reinforce existing polarization in the corpora.\",https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656/,https://twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/1688939983468453888?s=20,\"Language models (LMs) are pretrained on diverse data sources—news, discussion forums, books, online encyclopedias. A significant portion of this data includes facts and opinions which, on one hand, celebrate democracy and diversity of ideas, and on the other hand are inherently socially biased. Our work develops new methods to (1) measure media biases in LMs trained on such corpora, along social and economic axes, and (2) measure the fairness of downstream NLP models trained on top of politically biased LMs. We focus on hate speech and misinformation detection, aiming to empirically quantify the effects of political (social, economic) biases in pretraining data on the fairness of high-stakes social-oriented tasks. Our findings reveal that pretrained LMs do have political leanings which reinforce the polarization present in pretraining corpora, propagating social biases into hate speech predictions and media biases into misinformation detectors. We discuss the implications of our findings for NLP research and propose future directions to mitigate unfairness.\"\nEvaluating LLMs as Agents,presents a multidimensional benchmark (AgentBench) to assess LLM-as-Agent’s reasoning and decision-making abilities; results show that there is a significant disparity in performance between top commercial LLMs and open-source LLMs when testing the ability to act as agents; open-source LLMs lag on the AgentBench tasks while GPT-4 shows potential to build continuously learning agents.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03688v1,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1688719837760000000?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly smart and autonomous, targeting real-world pragmatic missions beyond traditional NLP tasks. As a result, there has been an urgent need to evaluate LLMs as agents on challenging tasks in interactive environments. We present AgentBench, a multi-dimensional evolving benchmark that currently consists of 8 distinct environments to assess LLM-as-Agent's reasoning and decision-making abilities in a multi-turn open-ended generation setting. Our extensive test over 25 LLMs (including APIs and open-sourced models) shows that, while top commercial LLMs present a strong ability of acting as agents in complex environments, there is a significant disparity in performance between them and open-sourced competitors. It also serves as a component of an ongoing project with wider coverage and deeper consideration towards systematic LLM evaluation. Datasets, environments, and an integrated evaluation package for AgentBench are released at this https URL\"\nStudying LLM Generalization with Influence Functions,introduces an efficient approach to scale influence functions to LLMs with up to 52 billion parameters; the influence functions are used to further investigate the generalization patterns of LLMs such as cross-lingual generalization and memorization; finds that middle layers in the network seem to be responsible for the most abstract generalization patterns.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03296,https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1688946685937090560?s=20,\"When trying to gain better visibility into a machine learning model in order to understand and mitigate the associated risks, a potentially valuable source of evidence is: which training examples most contribute to a given behavior? Influence functions aim to answer a counterfactual: how would the model's parameters (and hence its outputs) change if a given sequence were added to the training set? While influence functions have produced insights for small models, they are difficult to scale to large language models (LLMs) due to the difficulty of computing an inverse-Hessian-vector product (IHVP). We use the Eigenvalue-corrected Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature (EK-FAC) approximation to scale influence functions up to LLMs with up to 52 billion parameters. In our experiments, EK-FAC achieves similar accuracy to traditional influence function estimators despite the IHVP computation being orders of magnitude faster. We investigate two algorithmic techniques to reduce the cost of computing gradients of candidate training sequences: TF-IDF filtering and query batching. We use influence functions to investigate the generalization patterns of LLMs, including the sparsity of the influence patterns, increasing abstraction with scale, math and programming abilities, cross-lingual generalization, and role-playing behavior. Despite many apparently sophisticated forms of generalization, we identify a surprising limitation: influences decay to near-zero when the order of key phrases is flipped. Overall, influence functions give us a powerful new tool for studying the generalization properties of LLMs.\"\nSeeing Through the Brain,\"proposes NeuroImagen, a pipeline for reconstructing visual stimuli images from EEG signals to potentially understand visually-evoked brain activity; a latent diffusion model takes EEG data and reconstructs high-resolution visual stimuli images.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02510,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1688787286807228416?s=20,\"Seeing is believing, however, the underlying mechanism of how human visual perceptions are intertwined with our cognitions is still a mystery. Thanks to the recent advances in both neuroscience and artificial intelligence, we have been able to record the visually evoked brain activities and mimic the visual perception ability through computational approaches. In this paper, we pay attention to visual stimuli reconstruction by reconstructing the observed images based on portably accessible brain signals, i.e., electroencephalography (EEG) data. Since EEG signals are dynamic in the time-series format and are notorious to be noisy, processing and extracting useful information requires more dedicated efforts; In this paper, we propose a comprehensive pipeline, named NeuroImagen, for reconstructing visual stimuli images from EEG signals. Specifically, we incorporate a novel multi-level perceptual information decoding to draw multi-grained outputs from the given EEG data. A latent diffusion model will then leverage the extracted information to reconstruct the high-resolution visual stimuli images. The experimental results have illustrated the effectiveness of image reconstruction and superior quantitative performance of our proposed method.\"\nSynJax,\"is a new library that provides an efficient vectorized implementation of inference algorithms for structured distributions; it enables building large-scale differentiable models that explicitly model structure in data like tagging, segmentation, constituency trees, and spanning trees.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03291v1,https://twitter.com/milosstanojevic/status/1688896558790520832?s=20,\"The development of deep learning software libraries enabled significant progress in the field by allowing users to focus on modeling, while letting the library to take care of the tedious and time-consuming task of optimizing execution for modern hardware accelerators. However, this has benefited only particular types of deep learning models, such as Transformers, whose primitives map easily to the vectorized computation. The models that explicitly account for structured objects, such as trees and segmentations, did not benefit equally because they require custom algorithms that are difficult to implement in a vectorized form.\nSynJax directly addresses this problem by providing an efficient vectorized implementation of inference algorithms for structured distributions covering alignment, tagging, segmentation, constituency trees and spanning trees. With SynJax we can build large-scale differentiable models that explicitly model structure in the data. The code is available at this https URL.\"\nSynthetic Data Reduces Sycophancy in LLMs,\"proposes fine-tuning on simple synthetic data to reduce sycophancy in LLMs; sycophancy occurs when LLMs try to follow a user’s view even when it’s not objectively correct; essentially, the LLM repeats the user’s view even when the opinion is wrong.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03958,https://twitter.com/JerryWeiAI/status/1689340237993185280?s=20,\"Sycophancy is an undesirable behavior where models tailor their responses to follow a human user's view even when that view is not objectively correct (e.g., adapting liberal views once a user reveals that they are liberal). In this paper, we study the prevalence of sycophancy in language models and propose a simple synthetic-data intervention to reduce this behavior.\nFirst, on a set of three sycophancy tasks (Perez et al., 2022) where models are asked for an opinion on statements with no correct answers (e.g., politics), we observe that both model scaling and instruction tuning significantly increase sycophancy for PaLM models up to 540B parameters. Second, we extend sycophancy evaluations to simple addition statements that are objectively incorrect, finding that despite knowing that these statements are wrong, language models will still agree with them if the user does as well.\nTo reduce sycophancy, we present a straightforward synthetic-data intervention that takes public NLP tasks and encourages models to be robust to user opinions on these tasks. Adding these data in a lightweight finetuning step can significantly reduce sycophantic behavior on held-out prompts. Code for generating synthetic data for intervention can be found at this https URL.\"\nPhotorealistic Unreal Graphics (PUG),presents photorealistic and semantically controllable synthetic datasets for representation learning using Unreal Engine; the goal is to democratize photorealistic synthetic data and enable more rigorous evaluations of vision models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03977,https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1689316127846109184?s=20,\"Synthetic image datasets offer unmatched advantages for designing and evaluating deep neural networks: they make it possible to (i) render as many data samples as needed, (ii) precisely control each scene and yield granular ground truth labels (and captions), (iii) precisely control distribution shifts between training and testing to isolate variables of interest for sound experimentation. Despite such promise, the use of synthetic image data is still limited -- and often played down -- mainly due to their lack of realism. Most works therefore rely on datasets of real images, which have often been scraped from public images on the internet, and may have issues with regards to privacy, bias, and copyright, while offering little control over how objects precisely appear. In this work, we present a path to democratize the use of photorealistic synthetic data: we develop a new generation of interactive environments for representation learning research, that offer both controllability and realism. We use the Unreal Engine, a powerful game engine well known in the entertainment industry, to produce PUG (Photorealistic Unreal Graphics) environments and datasets for representation learning. In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of PUG to enable more rigorous evaluations of vision models.\"\nLLMs for Industrial Control,\"develops an approach to select demonstrations and generate high-performing prompts used with GPT for executing tasks such as controlling (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) for buildings; GPT-4 performs comparable to RL method but uses fewer samples and lower technical debt.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03028,https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1688760539441217536?s=20,\"For industrial control, developing high-performance controllers with few samples and low technical debt is appealing. Foundation models, possessing rich prior knowledge obtained from pre-training with Internet-scale corpus, have the potential to be a good controller with proper prompts. In this paper, we take HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) building control as an example to examine the ability of GPT-4 (one of the first-tier foundation models) as the controller. To control HVAC, we wrap the task as a language game by providing text including a short description for the task, several selected demonstrations, and the current observation to GPT-4 on each step and execute the actions responded by GPT-4. We conduct series of experiments to answer the following questions: 1)~How well can GPT-4 control HVAC? 2)~How well can GPT-4 generalize to different scenarios for HVAC control? 3) How different parts of the text context affect the performance? In general, we found GPT-4 achieves the performance comparable to RL methods with few samples and low technical debt, indicating the potential of directly applying foundation models to industrial control tasks.\"\nTrustworthy LLMs,\"presents a comprehensive overview of important categories and subcategories crucial for assessing LLM trustworthiness; the dimensions include reliability, safety, fairness, resistance to misuse, explainability and reasoning, adherence to social norms, and robustness; finds that aligned models perform better in terms of trustworthiness but the effectiveness of alignment varies.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05374,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1689818964669390848?s=20,\"Ensuring alignment, which refers to making models behave in accordance with human intentions [1,2], has become a critical task before deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-world applications. For instance, OpenAI devoted six months to iteratively aligning GPT-4 before its release [3]. However, a major challenge faced by practitioners is the lack of clear guidance on evaluating whether LLM outputs align with social norms, values, and regulations. This obstacle hinders systematic iteration and deployment of LLMs. To address this issue, this paper presents a comprehensive survey of key dimensions that are crucial to consider when assessing LLM trustworthiness. The survey covers seven major categories of LLM trustworthiness: reliability, safety, fairness, resistance to misuse, explainability and reasoning, adherence to social norms, and robustness. Each major category is further divided into several sub-categories, resulting in a total of 29 sub-categories. Additionally, a subset of 8 sub-categories is selected for further investigation, where corresponding measurement studies are designed and conducted on several widely-used LLMs. The measurement results indicate that, in general, more aligned models tend to perform better in terms of overall trustworthiness. However, the effectiveness of alignment varies across the different trustworthiness categories considered. This highlights the importance of conducting more fine-grained analyses, testing, and making continuous improvements on LLM alignment. By shedding light on these key dimensions of LLM trustworthiness, this paper aims to provide valuable insights and guidance to practitioners in the field. Understanding and addressing these concerns will be crucial in achieving reliable and ethically sound deployment of LLMs in various applications.\"\nOpen Problem and Limitation of RLHF,provides an overview of open problems and the limitations of RLHF.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15217,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1685813753063870465?s=20,\"Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a technique for training AI systems to align with human goals. RLHF has emerged as the central method used to finetune state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs). Despite this popularity, there has been relatively little public work systematizing its flaws. In this paper, we (1) survey open problems and fundamental limitations of RLHF and related methods; (2) overview techniques to understand, improve, and complement RLHF in practice; and (3) propose auditing and disclosure standards to improve societal oversight of RLHF systems. Our work emphasizes the limitations of RLHF and highlights the importance of a multi-faceted approach to the development of safer AI systems.\"\nMed-Flamingo,\"a new multimodal model that allows in-context learning and enables tasks such as few-shot medical visual question answering; evaluations based on physicians, show improvements of up to 20% in clinician's rating; the authors occasionally observed low-quality generations and hallucinations.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15189,https://twitter.com/Michael_D_Moor/status/1685804620730540033?s=20,\"Medicine, by its nature, is a multifaceted domain that requires the synthesis of information across various modalities. Medical generative vision-language models (VLMs) make a first step in this direction and promise many exciting clinical applications. However, existing models typically have to be fine-tuned on sizeable down-stream datasets, which poses a significant limitation as in many medical applications data is scarce, necessitating models that are capable of learning from few examples in real-time. Here we propose Med-Flamingo, a multimodal few-shot learner adapted to the medical domain. Based on OpenFlamingo-9B, we continue pre-training on paired and interleaved medical image-text data from publications and textbooks. Med-Flamingo unlocks few-shot generative medical visual question answering (VQA) abilities, which we evaluate on several datasets including a novel challenging open-ended VQA dataset of visual USMLE-style problems. Furthermore, we conduct the first human evaluation for generative medical VQA where physicians review the problems and blinded generations in an interactive app. Med-Flamingo improves performance in generative medical VQA by up to 20\\% in clinician's rating and firstly enables multimodal medical few-shot adaptations, such as rationale generation. We release our model, code, and evaluation app under this https URL.\"\nToolLLM,\"enables LLMs to interact with 16000 real-world APIs; it’s a framework that allows data preparation, training, and evaluation; the authors claim that one of their models, ToolLLaMA, has reached the performance of ChatGPT (turbo-16k) in tool use.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16789v1,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1687531613574348800?s=20,\"Despite the advancements of open-source large language models (LLMs) and their variants, e.g., LLaMA and Vicuna, they remain significantly limited in performing higher-level tasks, such as following human instructions to use external tools (APIs). This is because current instruction tuning largely focuses on basic language tasks instead of the tool-use domain. This is in contrast to state-of-the-art (SOTA) LLMs, e.g., ChatGPT, which have demonstrated excellent tool-use capabilities but are unfortunately closed source. To facilitate tool-use capabilities within open-source LLMs, we introduce ToolLLM, a general tool-use framework of data construction, model training and evaluation. We first present ToolBench, an instruction-tuning dataset for tool use, which is created automatically using ChatGPT. Specifically, we collect 16,464 real-world RESTful APIs spanning 49 categories from RapidAPI Hub, then prompt ChatGPT to generate diverse human instructions involving these APIs, covering both single-tool and multi-tool scenarios. Finally, we use ChatGPT to search for a valid solution path (chain of API calls) for each instruction. To make the searching process more efficient, we develop a novel depth-first search-based decision tree (DFSDT), enabling LLMs to evaluate multiple reasoning traces and expand the search space. We show that DFSDT significantly enhances the planning and reasoning capabilities of LLMs. For efficient tool-use assessment, we develop an automatic evaluator: ToolEval. We fine-tune LLaMA on ToolBench and obtain ToolLLaMA. Our ToolEval reveals that ToolLLaMA demonstrates a remarkable ability to execute complex instructions and generalize to unseen APIs, and exhibits comparable performance to ChatGPT. To make the pipeline more practical, we devise a neural API retriever to recommend appropriate APIs for each instruction, negating the need for manual API selection.\"\nSkeleton-of-Thought,proposes a prompting strategy that firsts generate an answer skeleton and then performs parallel API calls to generate the content of each skeleton point; reports quality improvements in addition to speed-up of up to 2.39x.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15337,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1685832487103008768?s=20,\"This work aims at decreasing the end-to-end generation latency of large language models (LLMs). One of the major causes of the high generation latency is the sequential decoding approach adopted by almost all state-of-the-art LLMs. In this work, motivated by the thinking and writing process of humans, we propose Skeleton-of-Thought (SoT), which first guides LLMs to generate the skeleton of the answer, and then conducts parallel API calls or batched decoding to complete the contents of each skeleton point in parallel. Not only does SoT provide considerable speed-ups across 12 LLMs, but it can also potentially improve the answer quality on several question categories. SoT is an initial attempt at data-centric optimization for inference efficiency, and further underscores the potential of pushing LLMs to think more like a human for answer quality.\"\nMetaGPT,\"a framework involving LLM-based multi-agents that encodes human standardized operating procedures (SOPs) to extend complex problem-solving capabilities that mimic efficient human workflows; this enables MetaGPT to perform multifaceted software development, code generation tasks, and even data analysis using tools like AutoGPT and LangChain.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00352v2,https://twitter.com/ai_database/status/1686949868298973184?s=20,\"Recently, remarkable progress has been made in automated task-solving through the use of multi-agents driven by large language models (LLMs). However, existing works primarily focuses on simple tasks lacking exploration and investigation in complicated tasks mainly due to the hallucination problem. This kind of hallucination gets amplified infinitely as multiple intelligent agents interact with each other, resulting in failures when tackling complicated problems.Therefore, we introduce MetaGPT, an innovative framework that infuses effective human workflows as a meta programming approach into LLM-driven multi-agent collaboration. In particular, MetaGPT first encodes Standardized Operating Procedures (SOPs) into prompts, fostering structured coordination. And then, it further mandates modular outputs, bestowing agents with domain expertise paralleling human professionals to validate outputs and reduce compounded errors. In this way, MetaGPT leverages the assembly line work model to assign diverse roles to various agents, thus establishing a framework that can effectively and cohesively deconstruct complex multi-agent collaborative problems. Our experiments conducted on collaborative software engineering tasks illustrate MetaGPT's capability in producing comprehensive solutions with higher coherence relative to existing conversational and chat-based multi-agent systems. This underscores the potential of incorporating human domain knowledge into multi-agents, thus opening up novel avenues for grappling with intricate real-world challenges. The GitHub repository of this project is made publicly available on: this https URL\"\nOpenFlamingo,\"introduces a family of autoregressive vision-language models ranging from 3B to 9B parameters; the technical report describes the models, training data, and evaluation suite.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01390,https://twitter.com/anas_awadalla/status/1687295129005195264?s=20,\"We introduce OpenFlamingo, a family of autoregressive vision-language models ranging from 3B to 9B parameters. OpenFlamingo is an ongoing effort to produce an open-source replication of DeepMind's Flamingo models. On seven vision-language datasets, OpenFlamingo models average between 80 - 89% of corresponding Flamingo performance. This technical report describes our models, training data, hyperparameters, and evaluation suite. We share our models and code at this https URL.\"\nThe Hydra Effect,shows that language models exhibit self-repairing properties — when one layer of attention heads is ablated it causes another later layer to take over its function.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15771,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1686192437771788288?s=20,\"We investigate the internal structure of language model computations using causal analysis and demonstrate two motifs: (1) a form of adaptive computation where ablations of one attention layer of a language model cause another layer to compensate (which we term the Hydra effect) and (2) a counterbalancing function of late MLP layers that act to downregulate the maximum-likelihood token. Our ablation studies demonstrate that language model layers are typically relatively loosely coupled (ablations to one layer only affect a small number of downstream layers). Surprisingly, these effects occur even in language models trained without any form of dropout. We analyse these effects in the context of factual recall and consider their implications for circuit-level attribution in language models.\"\nSelf-Check,explores whether LLMs have the capability to perform self-checks which is required for complex tasks that depend on non-linear thinking and multi-step reasoning; it proposes a zero-shot verification scheme to recognize errors without external resources; the scheme can improve question-answering performance through weighting voting and even improve math word problem-solving.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00436,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1686561569486827520?s=20,\"The recent progress in large language models (LLMs), especially the invention of chain-of-thought prompting, has made it possible to automatically answer questions by stepwise reasoning. However, when faced with more complicated problems that require non-linear thinking, even the strongest LLMs make mistakes. To address this, we explore whether LLMs are able to recognize errors in their own step-by-step reasoning, without resorting to external resources. To this end, we propose SelfCheck, a general-purpose zero-shot verification schema for recognizing such errors. We then use the results of these checks to improve question-answering performance by conducting weighted voting on multiple solutions to the question. We test SelfCheck on three datasets (GSM8K, MathQA, and MATH) and find that it successfully recognizes errors and, in turn, increases final answer accuracies.\"\nAgents Model the World with Language,\"presents an agent that learns a multimodal world model that predicts future text and image representations; it learns to predict future language, video, and rewards; it’s applied to different domains and can learn to follow instructions in visually and linguistically complex domains.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01399,https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1687277999517818880?s=20,\"To interact with humans in the world, agents need to understand the diverse types of language that people use, relate them to the visual world, and act based on them. While current agents learn to execute simple language instructions from task rewards, we aim to build agents that leverage diverse language that conveys general knowledge, describes the state of the world, provides interactive feedback, and more. Our key idea is that language helps agents predict the future: what will be observed, how the world will behave, and which situations will be rewarded. This perspective unifies language understanding with future prediction as a powerful self-supervised learning objective. We present Dynalang, an agent that learns a multimodal world model that predicts future text and image representations and learns to act from imagined model rollouts. Unlike traditional agents that use language only to predict actions, Dynalang acquires rich language understanding by using past language also to predict future language, video, and rewards. In addition to learning from online interaction in an environment, Dynalang can be pretrained on datasets of text, video, or both without actions or rewards. From using language hints in grid worlds to navigating photorealistic scans of homes, Dynalang utilizes diverse types of language to improve task performance, including environment descriptions, game rules, and instructions.\"\nAutoRobotics-Zero,\"discovers zero-shot adaptable policies from scratch that enable adaptive behaviors necessary for sudden environmental changes; as an example, the authors demonstrate the automatic discovery of Python code for controlling a robot.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16890,https://twitter.com/XingyouSong/status/1686190266578046976?s=20,\"utonomous robots deployed in the real world will need control policies that rapidly adapt to environmental changes. To this end, we propose AutoRobotics-Zero (ARZ), a method based on AutoML-Zero that discovers zero-shot adaptable policies from scratch. In contrast to neural network adaptation policies, where only model parameters are optimized, ARZ can build control algorithms with the full expressive power of a linear register machine. We evolve modular policies that tune their model parameters and alter their inference algorithm on-the-fly to adapt to sudden environmental changes. We demonstrate our method on a realistic simulated quadruped robot, for which we evolve safe control policies that avoid falling when individual limbs suddenly break. This is a challenging task in which two popular neural network baselines fail. Finally, we conduct a detailed analysis of our method on a novel and challenging non-stationary control task dubbed Cataclysmic Cartpole. Results confirm our findings that ARZ is significantly more robust to sudden environmental changes and can build simple, interpretable control policies.\"\nUniversal Adversarial LLM Attacks,finds universal and transferable adversarial attacks that cause aligned models like ChatGPT and Bard to generate objectionable behaviors; the approach automatically produces adversarial suffixes using greedy and gradient search.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15043,https://twitter.com/andyzou_jiaming/status/1684766170766004224?s=20,\"Because \"\"out-of-the-box\"\" large language models are capable of generating a great deal of objectionable content, recent work has focused on aligning these models in an attempt to prevent undesirable generation. While there has been some success at circumventing these measures -- so-called \"\"jailbreaks\"\" against LLMs -- these attacks have required significant human ingenuity and are brittle in practice. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective attack method that causes aligned language models to generate objectionable behaviors. Specifically, our approach finds a suffix that, when attached to a wide range of queries for an LLM to produce objectionable content, aims to maximize the probability that the model produces an affirmative response (rather than refusing to answer). However, instead of relying on manual engineering, our approach automatically produces these adversarial suffixes by a combination of greedy and gradient-based search techniques, and also improves over past automatic prompt generation methods.\nSurprisingly, we find that the adversarial prompts generated by our approach are quite transferable, including to black-box, publicly released LLMs. Specifically, we train an adversarial attack suffix on multiple prompts (i.e., queries asking for many different types of objectionable content), as well as multiple models (in our case, Vicuna-7B and 13B). When doing so, the resulting attack suffix is able to induce objectionable content in the public interfaces to ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude, as well as open source LLMs such as LLaMA-2-Chat, Pythia, Falcon, and others. In total, this work significantly advances the state-of-the-art in adversarial attacks against aligned language models, raising important questions about how such systems can be prevented from producing objectionable information. Code is available at this http URL.\"\nRT-2,a new end-to-end vision-language-action model that learns from both web and robotics data; enables the model to translate the learned knowledge to generalized instructions for robotic control.,https://robotics-transformer2.github.io/assets/rt2.pdf,https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1684903412834447360?s=20,\"We study how vision-language models trained on Internet-scale data can be incorporated directly into end-to-end robotic control to boost generalization and enable emergent semantic reasoning. Our goal is to enable a single end-to-end trained model to both learn to map robot observations to actions and enjoy the benefits of large-scale pretraining on language and vision-language data from the web. To this end, we propose to co-fine-tune state-of-the-art vision-language models on both robotic trajectory data and Internet-scale vision-language tasks, such as visual question answering. In contrast to other approaches, we propose a simple, general recipe to achieve this goal: in order to fit both natural language responses and robotic actions into the same format, we express the actions as text tokens and incorporate them directly into the training set of the model in the same way as natural language tokens. We refer to such category of models as vision-language-action models (VLA) and instantiate an example of such a model, which we call RT-2. Our extensive evaluation (6k evaluation trials) shows that our approach leads to performant robotic policies and enables RT-2 to obtain a range of emergent capabilities from Internet-scale training. This includes significantly improved generalization to novel objects, the ability to interpret commands not present in the robot training data (such as placing an object onto a particular number or icon), and the ability to perform rudimentary reasoning in response to user commands (such as picking up the smallest or largest object, or the one closest to another object). We further show that incorporating chain of thought reasoning allows RT-2 to perform multi-stage semantic reasoning, for example figuring out which object to pick up for use as an improvised hammer (a rock), or which type of drink is best suited for someone who is tired (an energy drink).\"\nMed-PaLM Multimodal,\"introduces a new multimodal biomedical benchmark with 14 different tasks; it presents a proof of concept for a generalist biomedical AI system called Med-PaLM Multimodal; it supports different types of biomedical data like clinical text, imaging, and genomics.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14334,https://twitter.com/vivnat/status/1684404882844024832?s=20,\"Medicine is inherently multimodal, with rich data modalities spanning text, imaging, genomics, and more. Generalist biomedical artificial intelligence (AI) systems that flexibly encode, integrate, and interpret this data at scale can potentially enable impactful applications ranging from scientific discovery to care delivery. To enable the development of these models, we first curate MultiMedBench, a new multimodal biomedical benchmark. MultiMedBench encompasses 14 diverse tasks such as medical question answering, mammography and dermatology image interpretation, radiology report generation and summarization, and genomic variant calling. We then introduce Med-PaLM Multimodal (Med-PaLM M), our proof of concept for a generalist biomedical AI system. Med-PaLM M is a large multimodal generative model that flexibly encodes and interprets biomedical data including clinical language, imaging, and genomics with the same set of model weights. Med-PaLM M reaches performance competitive with or exceeding the state of the art on all MultiMedBench tasks, often surpassing specialist models by a wide margin. We also report examples of zero-shot generalization to novel medical concepts and tasks, positive transfer learning across tasks, and emergent zero-shot medical reasoning. To further probe the capabilities and limitations of Med-PaLM M, we conduct a radiologist evaluation of model-generated (and human) chest X-ray reports and observe encouraging performance across model scales. In a side-by-side ranking on 246 retrospective chest X-rays, clinicians express a pairwise preference for Med-PaLM M reports over those produced by radiologists in up to 40.50% of cases, suggesting potential clinical utility. While considerable work is needed to validate these models in real-world use cases, our results represent a milestone towards the development of generalist biomedical AI systems.\"\nTracking Anything in High Quality,propose a framework for high-quality tracking anything in videos; consists of a video multi-object segmented and a pretrained mask refiner model to refine the tracking results; the model ranks 2nd place in the VOTS2023 challenge.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13974v1,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1684380610901467136?s=20,\"Visual object tracking is a fundamental video task in computer vision. Recently, the notably increasing power of perception algorithms allows the unification of single/multiobject and box/mask-based tracking. Among them, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) attracts much attention. In this report, we propose HQTrack, a framework for High Quality Tracking anything in videos. HQTrack mainly consists of a video multi-object segmenter (VMOS) and a mask refiner (MR). Given the object to be tracked in the initial frame of a video, VMOS propagates the object masks to the current frame. The mask results at this stage are not accurate enough since VMOS is trained on several closeset video object segmentation (VOS) datasets, which has limited ability to generalize to complex and corner scenes. To further improve the quality of tracking masks, a pretrained MR model is employed to refine the tracking results. As a compelling testament to the effectiveness of our paradigm, without employing any tricks such as test-time data augmentations and model ensemble, HQTrack ranks the 2nd place in the Visual Object Tracking and Segmentation (VOTS2023) challenge. Code and models are available at this https URL.\"\nFoundation Models in Vision,presents a survey and outlook discussing open challenges and research directions for foundational models in computer vision.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13721v1,https://twitter.com/KhanSalmanH/status/1684496991215316992?s=20,\"Vision systems to see and reason about the compositional nature of visual scenes are fundamental to understanding our world. The complex relations between objects and their locations, ambiguities, and variations in the real-world environment can be better described in human language, naturally governed by grammatical rules and other modalities such as audio and depth. The models learned to bridge the gap between such modalities coupled with large-scale training data facilitate contextual reasoning, generalization, and prompt capabilities at test time. These models are referred to as foundational models. The output of such models can be modified through human-provided prompts without retraining, e.g., segmenting a particular object by providing a bounding box, having interactive dialogues by asking questions about an image or video scene or manipulating the robot's behavior through language instructions. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of such emerging foundational models, including typical architecture designs to combine different modalities (vision, text, audio, etc), training objectives (contrastive, generative), pre-training datasets, fine-tuning mechanisms, and the common prompting patterns; textual, visual, and heterogeneous. We discuss the open challenges and research directions for foundational models in computer vision, including difficulties in their evaluations and benchmarking, gaps in their real-world understanding, limitations of their contextual understanding, biases, vulnerability to adversarial attacks, and interpretability issues. We review recent developments in this field, covering a wide range of applications of foundation models systematically and comprehensively. A comprehensive list of foundational models studied in this work is available at \\url{this https URL}.\"\nL-Eval,\"a standardized evaluation for long context language models containing 411 long documents over 2K query-response pairs encompassing areas such as law, finance, school lectures, long conversations, novels, and meetings.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11088v1,https://twitter.com/WenxiangJiao/status/1682208555762610176?s=20,\"Recently, there has been growing interest in extending the context length of instruction-following models in order to effectively process single-turn long input (e.g. summarizing a paper) and conversations with more extensive histories. While proprietary models such as GPT-4 and Claude have demonstrated considerable advancements in handling tens of thousands of tokens of context, open-sourced models are still in the early stages of experimentation. It also remains unclear whether developing these long context models can offer substantial gains on practical downstream tasks over retrieval-based methods or models simply trained on chunked contexts. To address this challenge, we propose to institute standardized evaluation for long context language models. Concretely, we develop L-Eval which contains 411 long documents and over 2,000 query-response pairs manually annotated and checked by the authors encompassing areas such as law, finance, school lectures, lengthy conversations, news, long-form novels, and meetings. L-Eval also adopts diverse evaluation methods and instruction styles, enabling a more reliable assessment of Long Context Language Models (LCLMs). Our findings indicate that while open-source models typically lag behind their commercial counterparts, they still exhibit impressive performance. LLaMA2 achieves the best results (win 45\\% vs turbo-16k) on open-ended tasks with only 4k context length and ChatGLM2 achieves the best results on closed-ended tasks with 8k input tokens. We release our new evaluation suite, code, and all generation results including predictions from all open-sourced LCLMs, GPT4-32k, Cluade-100k at {\\url{this https URL}}.\"\nLoraHub,introduces LoraHub to enable efficient cross-task generalization via dynamic LoRA composition; it enables the combination of LoRA modules without human expertise or additional parameters/gradients; mimics the performance of in-context learning in few-shot scenarios.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13269v1,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1684030297661403136?s=20,\"Low-rank adaptations (LoRA) are often employed to fine-tune large language models (LLMs) for new tasks. This paper investigates LoRA composability for cross-task generalization and introduces LoraHub, a strategic framework devised for the purposive assembly of LoRA modules trained on diverse given tasks, with the objective of achieving adaptable performance on unseen tasks. With just a few examples from a novel task, LoraHub enables the fluid combination of multiple LoRA modules, eradicating the need for human expertise. Notably, the composition requires neither additional model parameters nor gradients. Our empirical results, derived from the Big-Bench Hard (BBH) benchmark, suggest that LoraHub can effectively mimic the performance of in-context learning in few-shot scenarios, excluding the necessity of in-context examples alongside each inference input. A significant contribution of our research is the fostering of a community for LoRA, where users can share their trained LoRA modules, thereby facilitating their application to new tasks. We anticipate this resource will widen access to and spur advancements in general intelligence as well as LLMs in production. Code will be available at this https URL.\"\nSurvey of Aligned LLMs,\"resents a comprehensive overview of alignment approaches, including aspects like data collection, training methodologies, and model evaluation.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12966v1,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1684960627423420419?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on extensive textual corpora have emerged as leading solutions for a broad array of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Despite their notable performance, these models are prone to certain limitations such as misunderstanding human instructions, generating potentially biased content, or factually incorrect (hallucinated) information. Hence, aligning LLMs with human expectations has become an active area of interest within the research community. This survey presents a comprehensive overview of these alignment technologies, including the following aspects. (1) Data collection: the methods for effectively collecting high-quality instructions for LLM alignment, including the use of NLP benchmarks, human annotations, and leveraging strong LLMs. (2) Training methodologies: a detailed review of the prevailing training methods employed for LLM alignment. Our exploration encompasses Supervised Fine-tuning, both Online and Offline human preference training, along with parameter-efficient training mechanisms. (3) Model Evaluation: the methods for evaluating the effectiveness of these human-aligned LLMs, presenting a multifaceted approach towards their assessment. In conclusion, we collate and distill our findings, shedding light on several promising future research avenues in the field. This survey, therefore, serves as a valuable resource for anyone invested in understanding and advancing the alignment of LLMs to better suit human-oriented tasks and expectations. An associated GitHub link collecting the latest papers is available at this https URL.\"\nWavJourney,leverages LLMs to connect various audio models to compose audio content for engaging storytelling; this involves an explainable and interactive design that enhances creative control in audio production.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14335v1,https://twitter.com/LiuXub/status/1684338437934002176?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great promise in integrating diverse expert models to tackle intricate language and vision tasks. Despite their significance in advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), their potential in intelligent audio content creation remains unexplored. In this work, we tackle the problem of creating audio content with storylines encompassing speech, music, and sound effects, guided by text instructions. We present WavJourney, a system that leverages LLMs to connect various audio models for audio content generation. Given a text description of an auditory scene, WavJourney first prompts LLMs to generate a structured script dedicated to audio storytelling. The audio script incorporates diverse audio elements, organized based on their spatio-temporal relationships. As a conceptual representation of audio, the audio script provides an interactive and interpretable rationale for human engagement. Afterward, the audio script is fed into a script compiler, converting it into a computer program. Each line of the program calls a task-specific audio generation model or computational operation function (e.g., concatenate, mix). The computer program is then executed to obtain an explainable solution for audio generation. We demonstrate the practicality of WavJourney across diverse real-world scenarios, including science fiction, education, and radio play. The explainable and interactive design of WavJourney fosters human-machine co-creation in multi-round dialogues, enhancing creative control and adaptability in audio production. WavJourney audiolizes the human imagination, opening up new avenues for creativity in multimedia content creation.\"\nFacTool,\"a task and domain agnostic framework for factuality detection of text generated by LLM; the effectiveness of the approach is tested on tasks such as code generation and mathematical reasoning; a benchmark dataset is released, including a ChatGPT plugin.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13528v2,https://twitter.com/gneubig/status/1684658613921669120?s=20,\"The emergence of generative pre-trained models has facilitated the synthesis of high-quality text, but it has also posed challenges in identifying factual errors in the generated text. In particular: (1) A wider range of tasks now face an increasing risk of containing factual errors when handled by generative models. (2) Generated texts tend to be lengthy and lack a clearly defined granularity for individual facts. (3) There is a scarcity of explicit evidence available during the process of fact checking. With the above challenges in mind, in this paper, we propose FacTool, a task and domain agnostic framework for detecting factual errors of texts generated by large language models (e.g., ChatGPT). Experiments on four different tasks (knowledge-based QA, code generation, mathematical reasoning, and scientific literature review) show the efficacy of the proposed method. We release the code of FacTool associated with ChatGPT plugin interface at this https URL .\"\nLlama 2,a collection of pretrained foundational models and fine-tuned chat models ranging in scale from 7B to 70B; Llama 2-Chat is competitive on a range of tasks and shows strong results on safety and helpfulness.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09288v2,https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1681363272484945921?s=20,\"In this work, we develop and release Llama 2, a collection of pretrained and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) ranging in scale from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. Our fine-tuned LLMs, called Llama 2-Chat, are optimized for dialogue use cases. Our models outperform open-source chat models on most benchmarks we tested, and based on our human evaluations for helpfulness and safety, may be a suitable substitute for closed-source models. We provide a detailed description of our approach to fine-tuning and safety improvements of Llama 2-Chat in order to enable the community to build on our work and contribute to the responsible development of LLMs.\"\nHow is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing Over Time?,\"evaluates different versions of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 on various tasks and finds that behavior and performance vary greatly over time; this includes differences in performance for tasks such as math problem-solving, safety-related generations, and code formatting.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09009v1,https://twitter.com/matei_zaharia/status/1681467961905926144?s=20,\"GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are the two most widely used large language model (LLM) services. However, when and how these models are updated over time is opaque. Here, we evaluate the March 2023 and June 2023 versions of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 on four diverse tasks: 1) solving math problems, 2) answering sensitive/dangerous questions, 3) generating code and 4) visual reasoning. We find that the performance and behavior of both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 can vary greatly over time. For example, GPT-4 (March 2023) was very good at identifying prime numbers (accuracy 97.6%) but GPT-4 (June 2023) was very poor on these same questions (accuracy 2.4%). Interestingly GPT-3.5 (June 2023) was much better than GPT-3.5 (March 2023) in this task. GPT-4 was less willing to answer sensitive questions in June than in March, and both GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 had more formatting mistakes in code generation in June than in March. Overall, our findings shows that the behavior of the same LLM service can change substantially in a relatively short amount of time, highlighting the need for continuous monitoring of LLM quality.\"\nFlashAttention-2,\"improves work partitioning and parallelism and addresses issues like reducing non-matmul FLOPs, parallelizing attention computation which increases occupancy, and reducing communication through shared memory.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08691v1,https://twitter.com/tri_dao/status/1680987577913065472?s=20,\"Scaling Transformers to longer sequence lengths has been a major problem in the last several years, promising to improve performance in language modeling and high-resolution image understanding, as well as to unlock new applications in code, audio, and video generation. The attention layer is the main bottleneck in scaling to longer sequences, as its runtime and memory increase quadratically in the sequence length. FlashAttention exploits the asymmetric GPU memory hierarchy to bring significant memory saving (linear instead of quadratic) and runtime speedup (2-4$\\times$ compared to optimized baselines), with no approximation. However, FlashAttention is still not nearly as fast as optimized matrix-multiply (GEMM) operations, reaching only 25-40\\% of the theoretical maximum FLOPs/s. We observe that the inefficiency is due to suboptimal work partitioning between different thread blocks and warps on the GPU, causing either low-occupancy or unnecessary shared memory reads/writes. We propose FlashAttention-2, with better work partitioning to address these issues. In particular, we (1) tweak the algorithm to reduce the number of non-matmul FLOPs (2) parallelize the attention computation, even for a single head, across different thread blocks to increase occupancy, and (3) within each thread block, distribute the work between warps to reduce communication through shared memory. These yield around 2$\\times$ speedup compared to FlashAttention, reaching 50-73\\% of the theoretical maximum FLOPs/s on A100 and getting close to the efficiency of GEMM operations. We empirically validate that when used end-to-end to train GPT-style models, FlashAttention-2 reaches training speed of up to 225 TFLOPs/s per A100 GPU (72\\% model FLOPs utilization).\"\nMeasuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning,\"nds that CoT reasoning shows large variation across tasks by simple interventions like adding mistakes and paraphrasing; demonstrates that as the model becomes larger and more capable, the reasoning becomes less faithful; suggests carefully choosing the model size and tasks can enable CoT faithfulness.\",https://www-files.anthropic.com/production/files/measuring-faithfulness-in-chain-of-thought-reasoning.pdf,https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1681341063083229189?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) perform better when they produce step-by-step, “Chain-ofThought” (CoT) reasoning before answering a question, but it is unclear if the stated reasoning is a faithful explanation of the model’s actual reasoning (i.e., its process for answering the question). We investigate hypotheses for how CoT reasoning may be unfaithful, by examining how the model predictions change when we intervene on the CoT (e.g., by adding mistakes or paraphrasing it). Models show large variation across tasks in how strongly they condition on the CoT when predicting their answer, sometimes relying heavily on the CoT and other times primarily ignoring it. CoT’s performance boost does not seem to come from CoT’s added test-time compute alone or from information encoded via the particular phrasing of the CoT. As models become larger and more capable, they produce less faithful reasoning on most tasks we study. Overall, our results suggest that CoT can be faithful if the circumstances such as the model size and task are carefully chosen.\"\nGenerative TV & Showrunner Agents,\"an approach to generate episodic content using LLMs and multi-agent simulation; this enables current systems to perform creative storytelling through the integration of simulation, the user, and powerful AI models and enhance the quality of AI-generated content.\",https://fablestudio.github.io/showrunner-agents/,https://twitter.com/fablesimulation/status/1681352904152850437?s=20,\"In this work we present our approach to generating high-quality episodic content for IP's (Intellectual Property) using large language models (LLMs), custom state-of-the art diffusion models and our multi-agent simulation for contextualization, story progression and behavioral control. Powerful LLMs such as GPT-4 were trained on a large corpus of TV show data which lets us believe that with the right guidance users will be able to rewrite entire seasons. \"\"That Is What Entertainment Will Look Like. Maybe people are still upset about the last season of Game of Thrones. Imagine if you could ask your A.I. to make a new ending that goes a different way and maybe even put yourself in there as a main character or something.\"\"\"\nChallenges & Application of LLMs,summarizes a comprehensive list of challenges when working with LLMs that range from brittle evaluations to prompt brittleness to a lack of robust experimental designs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10169,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1681844380934500358?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) went from non-existent to ubiquitous in the machine learning discourse within a few years. Due to the fast pace of the field, it is difficult to identify the remaining challenges and already fruitful application areas. In this paper, we aim to establish a systematic set of open problems and application successes so that ML researchers can comprehend the field's current state more quickly and become productive.\"\nRetentive Network,\"presents a foundation architecture for LLMs with the goal to improve training efficiency, inference, and efficient long-sequence modeling; adapts retention mechanism for sequence modeling that support parallel representation, recurrent representations, and chunkwise recurrent representation.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08621,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1681113977500184576?s=20,\"In this work, we propose Retentive Network (RetNet) as a foundation architecture for large language models, simultaneously achieving training parallelism, low-cost inference, and good performance. We theoretically derive the connection between recurrence and attention. Then we propose the retention mechanism for sequence modeling, which supports three computation paradigms, i.e., parallel, recurrent, and chunkwise recurrent. Specifically, the parallel representation allows for training parallelism. The recurrent representation enables low-cost $O(1)$ inference, which improves decoding throughput, latency, and GPU memory without sacrificing performance. The chunkwise recurrent representation facilitates efficient long-sequence modeling with linear complexity, where each chunk is encoded parallelly while recurrently summarizing the chunks. Experimental results on language modeling show that RetNet achieves favorable scaling results, parallel training, low-cost deployment, and efficient inference. The intriguing properties make RetNet a strong successor to Transformer for large language models. Code will be available at this https URL.\"\nMeta-Transformer,\"a framework that performs unified learning across 12 modalities; it can handle tasks that include fundamental perception (text, image, point cloud, audio, video), practical application (X-Ray, infrared, hyperspectral, and IMU), and data mining (graph, tabular, and time-series).\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10802,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1682197751990288385?s=20,\"Multimodal learning aims to build models that can process and relate information from multiple modalities. Despite years of development in this field, it still remains challenging to design a unified network for processing various modalities ($\\textit{e.g.}$ natural language, 2D images, 3D point clouds, audio, video, time series, tabular data) due to the inherent gaps among them. In this work, we propose a framework, named Meta-Transformer, that leverages a $\\textbf{frozen}$ encoder to perform multimodal perception without any paired multimodal training data. In Meta-Transformer, the raw input data from various modalities are mapped into a shared token space, allowing a subsequent encoder with frozen parameters to extract high-level semantic features of the input data. Composed of three main components: a unified data tokenizer, a modality-shared encoder, and task-specific heads for downstream tasks, Meta-Transformer is the first framework to perform unified learning across 12 modalities with unpaired data. Experiments on different benchmarks reveal that Meta-Transformer can handle a wide range of tasks including fundamental perception (text, image, point cloud, audio, video), practical application (X-Ray, infrared, hyperspectral, and IMU), and data mining (graph, tabular, and time-series). Meta-Transformer indicates a promising future for developing unified multimodal intelligence with transformers. Code will be available at this https URL\"\nRetrieve In-Context Example for LLMs,presents a framework to iteratively train dense retrievers to identify high-quality in-context examples for LLMs; the approach enhances in-context learning performance demonstrated using a suite of 30 tasks; examples with similar patterns are helpful and gains are consistent across model sizes.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07164,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1680770636166094848?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their ability to learn in-context, allowing them to perform various tasks based on a few input-output examples. However, the effectiveness of in-context learning is heavily reliant on the quality of the selected examples. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to iteratively train dense retrievers that can identify high-quality in-context examples for LLMs. Our framework initially trains a reward model based on LLM feedback to evaluate the quality of candidate examples, followed by knowledge distillation to train a bi-encoder based dense retriever. Our experiments on a suite of 30 tasks demonstrate that our framework significantly enhances in-context learning performance. Furthermore, we show the generalization ability of our framework to unseen tasks during training. An in-depth analysis reveals that our model improves performance by retrieving examples with similar patterns, and the gains are consistent across LLMs of varying sizes.\"\nFLASK,\"proposes fine-grained evaluation for LLMs based on a range of alignment skill sets; involves 12 skills and can help to provide a holistic view of a model’s performance depending on skill, domain, and level of difficulty; useful to analyze factors that make LLMs more proficient at specific skills.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10928,https://twitter.com/SeonghyeonYe/status/1682209670302408705?s=20,\"Evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) is challenging because instruction-following necessitates alignment with human values and the required set of skills varies depending on the instruction. However, previous studies have mainly focused on coarse-grained evaluation (i.e. overall preference-based evaluation), which limits interpretability since it does not consider the nature of user instructions that require instance-wise skill composition. In this paper, we introduce FLASK (Fine-grained Language Model Evaluation based on Alignment Skill Sets), a fine-grained evaluation protocol for both human-based and model-based evaluation which decomposes coarse-level scoring to a skill set-level scoring for each instruction. We experimentally observe that the fine-graininess of evaluation is crucial for attaining a holistic view of model performance and increasing the reliability of the evaluation. Using FLASK, we compare multiple open-source and proprietary LLMs and observe a high correlation between model-based and human-based evaluations. We publicly release the evaluation data and code implementation at this https URL.\"\nCM3Leon,introduces a retrieval-augmented multi-modal language model that can generate text and images; leverages diverse and large-scale instruction-style data for tuning which leads to significant performance improvements and 5x less training compute than comparable methods.,https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/scaling-autoregressive-multi-modal-models-pretraining-and-instruction-tuning/,https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1679885986363478018?s=20,\"We present CM3Leon (pronounced “Chameleon”), a retrieval-augmented, tokenbased, decoder-only multi-modal language model capable of generating and infilling both text and images. CM3Leon uses the CM3 multi-modal architecture but additionally shows the extreme benefits of scaling up and tuning on more diverse instruction-style data. It is the first multi-modal model trained with a recipe adapted from text-only language models, including a large-scale retrieval-augmented pretraining stage and a second multi-task supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage. It is also a general purpose model that can do both text-to-image and image-to text generation, allowing us to introduce self-contained contrastive decoding methods that produce high-quality outputs. Extensive experiments demonstrate that this recipe is highly effective for multi-modal models. CM3Leon achieves state-of-theart performance in text-to-image generation with 5x less training compute than comparable methods (zero-shot MS-COCO FID of 4.88). After SFT, CM3Leon can also demonstrate unprecedented levels of controllability in tasks ranging from language-guided image editing to image-controlled generation and segmentation.\"\nClaude 2,\"presents a detailed model card for Claude 2 along with results on a range of safety, alignment, and capabilities evaluations.\",https://www-files.anthropic.com/production/images/Model-Card-Claude-2.pdf,https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1678759122194530304?s=20,\nSecrets of RLHF in LLMs,takes a closer look at RLHF and explores the inner workings of PPO with code included.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04964,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1678938028918571009?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have formulated a blueprint for the advancement of artificial general intelligence. Its primary objective is to function as a human-centric (helpful, honest, and harmless) assistant. Alignment with humans assumes paramount significance, and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) emerges as the pivotal technological paradigm underpinning this pursuit. Current technical routes usually include \\textbf{reward models} to measure human preferences, \\textbf{Proximal Policy Optimization} (PPO) to optimize policy model outputs, and \\textbf{process supervision} to improve step-by-step reasoning capabilities. However, due to the challenges of reward design, environment interaction, and agent training, coupled with huge trial and error cost of large language models, there is a significant barrier for AI researchers to motivate the development of technical alignment and safe landing of LLMs. The stable training of RLHF has still been a puzzle. In the first report, we dissect the framework of RLHF, re-evaluate the inner workings of PPO, and explore how the parts comprising PPO algorithms impact policy agent training. We identify policy constraints being the key factor for the effective implementation of the PPO algorithm. Therefore, we explore the PPO-max, an advanced version of PPO algorithm, to efficiently improve the training stability of the policy model. Based on our main results, we perform a comprehensive analysis of RLHF abilities compared with SFT models and ChatGPT. The absence of open-source implementations has posed significant challenges to the investigation of LLMs alignment. Therefore, we are eager to release technical reports, reward models and PPO codes, aiming to make modest contributions to the advancement of LLMs.\"\nLongLLaMA,\"employs a contrastive training process to enhance the structure of the (key, value) space to extend context length; presents a fine-tuned model that lengthens context and demonstrates improvements in long context tasks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03170v1,https://twitter.com/s_tworkowski/status/1677125863429795840?s=20,\"Large language models have an exceptional capability to incorporate new information in a contextual manner. However, the full potential of such an approach is often restrained due to a limitation in the effective context length. One solution to this issue is to endow an attention layer with access to an external memory, which comprises of (key, value) pairs. Yet, as the number of documents increases, the proportion of relevant keys to irrelevant ones decreases, leading the model to focus more on the irrelevant keys. We identify a significant challenge, dubbed the distraction issue, where keys linked to different semantic values might overlap, making them hard to distinguish. To tackle this problem, we introduce the Focused Transformer (FoT), a technique that employs a training process inspired by contrastive learning. This novel approach enhances the structure of the (key, value) space, enabling an extension of the context length. Our method allows for fine-tuning pre-existing, large-scale models to lengthen their effective context. This is demonstrated by our fine-tuning of $3B$ and $7B$ OpenLLaMA checkpoints. The resulting models, which we name LongLLaMA, exhibit advancements in tasks requiring a long context. We further illustrate that our LongLLaMA models adeptly manage a $256 k$ context length for passkey retrieval.\"\nPatch n’ Pack: NaViT,\"introduces a vision transformer for any aspect ratio and resolution through sequence packing; enables flexible model usage, improved training efficiency, and transfers to tasks involving image and video classification among others.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06304,https://twitter.com/m__dehghani/status/1679558751248850969?s=20,\"The ubiquitous and demonstrably suboptimal choice of resizing images to a fixed resolution before processing them with computer vision models has not yet been successfully challenged. However, models such as the Vision Transformer (ViT) offer flexible sequence-based modeling, and hence varying input sequence lengths. We take advantage of this with NaViT (Native Resolution ViT) which uses sequence packing during training to process inputs of arbitrary resolutions and aspect ratios. Alongside flexible model usage, we demonstrate improved training efficiency for large-scale supervised and contrastive image-text pretraining. NaViT can be efficiently transferred to standard tasks such as image and video classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation and leads to improved results on robustness and fairness benchmarks. At inference time, the input resolution flexibility can be used to smoothly navigate the test-time cost-performance trade-off. We believe that NaViT marks a departure from the standard, CNN-designed, input and modelling pipeline used by most computer vision models, and represents a promising direction for ViTs.\"\nLLMs as General Pattern Machines,\"shows that even without any additional training, LLMs can serve as general sequence modelers, driven by in-context learning; this work applies zero-shot capabilities to robotics and shows that it’s possible to transfer the pattern among words to actions.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04721,https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1679898692307005440?s=20,\"We observe that pre-trained large language models (LLMs) are capable of autoregressively completing complex token sequences -- from arbitrary ones procedurally generated by probabilistic context-free grammars (PCFG), to more rich spatial patterns found in the Abstract Reasoning Corpus (ARC), a general AI benchmark, prompted in the style of ASCII art. Surprisingly, pattern completion proficiency can be partially retained even when the sequences are expressed using tokens randomly sampled from the vocabulary. These results suggest that without any additional training, LLMs can serve as general sequence modelers, driven by in-context learning. In this work, we investigate how these zero-shot capabilities may be applied to problems in robotics -- from extrapolating sequences of numbers that represent states over time to complete simple motions, to least-to-most prompting of reward-conditioned trajectories that can discover and represent closed-loop policies (e.g., a stabilizing controller for CartPole). While difficult to deploy today for real systems due to latency, context size limitations, and compute costs, the approach of using LLMs to drive low-level control may provide an exciting glimpse into how the patterns among words could be transferred to actions.\"\nHyperDreamBooth,\"introduces a smaller, faster, and more efficient version of Dreambooth; enables personalization of text-to-image diffusion model using a single input image, 25x faster than Dreambooth.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06949,https://twitter.com/natanielruizg/status/1679893292618752000?s=20,\"Personalization has emerged as a prominent aspect within the field of generative AI, enabling the synthesis of individuals in diverse contexts and styles, while retaining high-fidelity to their identities. However, the process of personalization presents inherent challenges in terms of time and memory requirements. Fine-tuning each personalized model needs considerable GPU time investment, and storing a personalized model per subject can be demanding in terms of storage capacity. To overcome these challenges, we propose HyperDreamBooth-a hypernetwork capable of efficiently generating a small set of personalized weights from a single image of a person. By composing these weights into the diffusion model, coupled with fast finetuning, HyperDreamBooth can generate a person's face in various contexts and styles, with high subject details while also preserving the model's crucial knowledge of diverse styles and semantic modifications. Our method achieves personalization on faces in roughly 20 seconds, 25x faster than DreamBooth and 125x faster than Textual Inversion, using as few as one reference image, with the same quality and style diversity as DreamBooth. Also our method yields a model that is 10000x smaller than a normal DreamBooth model. Project page: this https URL\"\nTeaching Arithmetics to Small Transformers,trains small transformer models on chain-of-thought style data to significantly improve accuracy and convergence speed; it highlights the importance of high-quality instructive data for rapidly eliciting arithmetic capabilities.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03381,https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1678407512637284352?s=20,\"Large language models like GPT-4 exhibit emergent capabilities across general-purpose tasks, such as basic arithmetic, when trained on extensive text data, even though these tasks are not explicitly encoded by the unsupervised, next-token prediction objective. This study investigates how small transformers, trained from random initialization, can efficiently learn arithmetic operations such as addition, multiplication, and elementary functions like square root, using the next-token prediction objective. We first demonstrate that conventional training data is not the most effective for arithmetic learning, and simple formatting changes can significantly improve accuracy. This leads to sharp phase transitions as a function of training data scale, which, in some cases, can be explained through connections to low-rank matrix completion. Building on prior work, we then train on chain-of-thought style data that includes intermediate step results. Even in the complete absence of pretraining, this approach significantly and simultaneously improves accuracy, sample complexity, and convergence speed. We also study the interplay between arithmetic and text data during training and examine the effects of few-shot prompting, pretraining, and model scale. Additionally, we discuss length generalization challenges. Our work highlights the importance of high-quality, instructive data that considers the particular characteristics of the next-word prediction objective for rapidly eliciting arithmetic capabilities.\"\nAnimateDiff,\"appends a motion modeling module to a frozen text-to-image model, which is then trained and used to animate existing personalized models to produce diverse and personalized animated images.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04725v1,https://twitter.com/dreamingtulpa/status/1679459297946632193?s=20,\"With the advance of text-to-image models (e.g., Stable Diffusion) and corresponding personalization techniques such as DreamBooth and LoRA, everyone can manifest their imagination into high-quality images at an affordable cost. Subsequently, there is a great demand for image animation techniques to further combine generated static images with motion dynamics. In this report, we propose a practical framework to animate most of the existing personalized text-to-image models once and for all, saving efforts in model-specific tuning. At the core of the proposed framework is to insert a newly initialized motion modeling module into the frozen text-to-image model and train it on video clips to distill reasonable motion priors. Once trained, by simply injecting this motion modeling module, all personalized versions derived from the same base T2I readily become text-driven models that produce diverse and personalized animated images. We conduct our evaluation on several public representative personalized text-to-image models across anime pictures and realistic photographs, and demonstrate that our proposed framework helps these models generate temporally smooth animation clips while preserving the domain and diversity of their outputs. Code and pre-trained weights will be publicly available at this https URL .\"\nGenerative Pretraining in Multimodality,presents a new transformer-based multimodal foundation model to generate images and text in a multimodal context; enables performant multimodal assistants via instruction tuning.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05222v1,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1678939405170475008?s=20,\"We present Emu, a Transformer-based multimodal foundation model, which can seamlessly generate images and texts in multimodal context. This omnivore model can take in any single-modality or multimodal data input indiscriminately (e.g., interleaved image, text and video) through a one-model-for-all autoregressive training process. First, visual signals are encoded into embeddings, and together with text tokens form an interleaved input sequence. Emu is then end-to-end trained with a unified objective of classifying the next text token or regressing the next visual embedding in the multimodal sequence. This versatile multimodality empowers the exploration of diverse pretraining data sources at scale, such as videos with interleaved frames and text, webpages with interleaved images and text, as well as web-scale image-text pairs and video-text pairs. Emu can serve as a generalist multimodal interface for both image-to-text and text-to-image tasks, and supports in-context image and text generation. Across a broad range of zero-shot/few-shot tasks including image captioning, visual question answering, video question answering and text-to-image generation, Emu demonstrates superb performance compared to state-of-the-art large multimodal models. Extended capabilities such as multimodal assistants via instruction tuning are also demonstrated with impressive performance.\"\nA Survey on Evaluation of LLMs,\"a comprehensive overview of evaluation methods for LLMs focusing on what to evaluate, where to evaluate, and how to evaluate.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03109,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1677137934946803712?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) are gaining increasing popularity in both academia and industry, owing to their unprecedented performance in various applications. As LLMs continue to play a vital role in both research and daily use, their evaluation becomes increasingly critical, not only at the task level, but also at the society level for better understanding of their potential risks. Over the past years, significant efforts have been made to examine LLMs from various perspectives. This paper presents a comprehensive review of these evaluation methods for LLMs, focusing on three key dimensions: what to evaluate, where to evaluate, and how to evaluate. Firstly, we provide an overview from the perspective of evaluation tasks, encompassing general natural language processing tasks, reasoning, medical usage, ethics, educations, natural and social sciences, agent applications, and other areas. Secondly, we answer the `where' and `how' questions by diving into the evaluation methods and benchmarks, which serve as crucial components in assessing performance of LLMs. Then, we summarize the success and failure cases of LLMs in different tasks. Finally, we shed light on several future challenges that lie ahead in LLMs evaluation. Our aim is to offer invaluable insights to researchers in the realm of LLMs evaluation, thereby aiding the development of more proficient LLMs. Our key point is that evaluation should be treated as an essential discipline to better assist the development of LLMs. We consistently maintain the related open-source materials at: this https URL.\"\nHow Language Models Use Long Contexts,finds that LM performance is often highest when relevant information occurs at the beginning or end of the input context; performance degrades when relevant information is provided in the middle of a long context.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172,https://twitter.com/nelsonfliu/status/1677373731948339202?s=20,\"While recent language models have the ability to take long contexts as input, relatively little is known about how well they use longer context. We analyze language model performance on two tasks that require identifying relevant information within their input contexts: multi-document question answering and key-value retrieval. We find that performance is often highest when relevant information occurs at the beginning or end of the input context, and significantly degrades when models must access relevant information in the middle of long contexts. Furthermore, performance substantially decreases as the input context grows longer, even for explicitly long-context models. Our analysis provides a better understanding of how language models use their input context and provides new evaluation protocols for future long-context models.\"\nLLMs as Effective Text Rankers,proposes a prompting technique that enables open-source LLMs to perform state-of-the-art text ranking on standard benchmarks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17563,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1675673784454447107?s=20,\"Ranking documents using Large Language Models (LLMs) by directly feeding the query and candidate documents into the prompt is an interesting and practical problem. However, there has been limited success so far, as researchers have found it difficult to outperform fine-tuned baseline rankers on benchmark datasets. We analyze pointwise and listwise ranking prompts used by existing methods and argue that off-the-shelf LLMs do not fully understand these ranking formulations, possibly due to the nature of how LLMs are trained. In this paper, we propose to significantly reduce the burden on LLMs by using a new technique called Pairwise Ranking Prompting (PRP). Our results are the first in the literature to achieve state-of-the-art ranking performance on standard benchmarks using moderate-sized open-sourced LLMs. On TREC-DL2020, PRP based on the Flan-UL2 model with 20B parameters outperforms the previous best approach in the literature, which is based on the blackbox commercial GPT-4 that has 50x (estimated) model size, by over 5% at NDCG@1. On TREC-DL2019, PRP is only inferior to the GPT-4 solution on the NDCG@5 and NDCG@10 metrics, while outperforming other existing solutions, such as InstructGPT which has 175B parameters, by over 10% for nearly all ranking metrics. Furthermore, we propose several variants of PRP to improve efficiency and show that it is possible to achieve competitive results even with linear complexity. We also discuss other benefits of PRP, such as supporting both generation and scoring LLM APIs, as well as being insensitive to input ordering.\"\nMultimodal Generation with Frozen LLMs,introduces an approach that effectively maps images to the token space of LLMs; enables models like PaLM and GPT-4 to tackle visual tasks without parameter updates; enables multimodal tasks and uses in-context learning to tackle various visual tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17842,https://twitter.com/roadjiang/status/1676375112914989056?s=20,\"In this work, we introduce Semantic Pyramid AutoEncoder (SPAE) for enabling frozen LLMs to perform both understanding and generation tasks involving non-linguistic modalities such as images or videos. SPAE converts between raw pixels and interpretable lexical tokens (or words) extracted from the LLM's vocabulary. The resulting tokens capture both the semantic meaning and the fine-grained details needed for visual reconstruction, effectively translating the visual content into a language comprehensible to the LLM, and empowering it to perform a wide array of multimodal tasks. Our approach is validated through in-context learning experiments with frozen PaLM 2 and GPT 3.5 on a diverse set of image understanding and generation tasks. Our method marks the first successful attempt to enable a frozen LLM to generate image content while surpassing state-of-the-art performance in image understanding tasks, under the same setting, by over 25%.\"\nCodeGen2.5,releases a new code LLM trained on 1.5T tokens; the 7B model is on par with >15B code-generation models and it’s optimized for fast sampling.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02309,https://twitter.com/erik_nijkamp/status/1677055271104045056?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable abilities in representation learning for program synthesis and understanding tasks. The quality of the learned representations appears to be dictated by the neural scaling laws as a function of the number of model parameters and observations, while imposing upper bounds on the model performance by the amount of available data and compute, which is costly.\nIn this study, we attempt to render the training of LLMs for program synthesis more efficient by unifying four key components: (1) model architectures, (2) learning methods, (3) infill sampling, and, (4) data distributions. Specifically, for the model architecture, we attempt to unify encoder and decoder-based models into a single prefix-LM. For learning methods, (i) causal language modeling, (ii) span corruption, (iii) infilling are unified into a simple learning algorithm. For infill sampling, we explore the claim of a \"\"free lunch\"\" hypothesis. For data distributions, the effect of a mixture distribution and multi-epoch training of programming and natural languages on model performance is explored.\nWe conduct a comprehensive series of empirical experiments on 1B LLMs, for which failures and successes of this exploration are distilled into five lessons. We will provide a final recipe for training and release CodeGen2 models in size 1B, 3.7B, 7B, and, 16B parameters, along with the training framework as open-source: this https URL.\"\nElastic Decision Transformer,\"introduces an advancement over Decision Transformers and variants by facilitating trajectory stitching during action inference at test time, achieved by adjusting to shorter history that allows transitions to diverse and better future states.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02484,https://twitter.com/xiaolonw/status/1677003542249484289?s=20,\"This paper introduces Elastic Decision Transformer (EDT), a significant advancement over the existing Decision Transformer (DT) and its variants. Although DT purports to generate an optimal trajectory, empirical evidence suggests it struggles with trajectory stitching, a process involving the generation of an optimal or near-optimal trajectory from the best parts of a set of sub-optimal trajectories. The proposed EDT differentiates itself by facilitating trajectory stitching during action inference at test time, achieved by adjusting the history length maintained in DT. Further, the EDT optimizes the trajectory by retaining a longer history when the previous trajectory is optimal and a shorter one when it is sub-optimal, enabling it to \"\"stitch\"\" with a more optimal trajectory. Extensive experimentation demonstrates EDT's ability to bridge the performance gap between DT-based and Q Learning-based approaches. In particular, the EDT outperforms Q Learning-based methods in a multi-task regime on the D4RL locomotion benchmark and Atari games. Videos are available at: this https URL\"\nRobots That Ask for Help,presents a framework to measure and align the uncertainty of LLM-based planners that ask for help when needed.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01928,https://twitter.com/allenzren/status/1677000811803443213?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) exhibit a wide range of promising capabilities -- from step-by-step planning to commonsense reasoning -- that may provide utility for robots, but remain prone to confidently hallucinated predictions. In this work, we present KnowNo, which is a framework for measuring and aligning the uncertainty of LLM-based planners such that they know when they don't know and ask for help when needed. KnowNo builds on the theory of conformal prediction to provide statistical guarantees on task completion while minimizing human help in complex multi-step planning settings. Experiments across a variety of simulated and real robot setups that involve tasks with different modes of ambiguity (e.g., from spatial to numeric uncertainties, from human preferences to Winograd schemas) show that KnowNo performs favorably over modern baselines (which may involve ensembles or extensive prompt tuning) in terms of improving efficiency and autonomy, while providing formal assurances. KnowNo can be used with LLMs out of the box without model-finetuning, and suggests a promising lightweight approach to modeling uncertainty that can complement and scale with the growing capabilities of foundation models. Website: this https URL\"\nPhysics-based Motion Retargeting in Real-Time,proposes a method that uses reinforcement learning to train a policy to control characters in a physics simulator; it retargets motions in real-time from sparse human sensor data to characters of various morphologies.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01938,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1676822600478015488?s=20,\"vatars are important to create interactive and immersive experiences in virtual worlds. One challenge in animating these characters to mimic a user's motion is that commercial AR/VR products consist only of a headset and controllers, providing very limited sensor data of the user's pose. Another challenge is that an avatar might have a different skeleton structure than a human and the mapping between them is unclear. In this work we address both of these challenges. We introduce a method to retarget motions in real-time from sparse human sensor data to characters of various morphologies. Our method uses reinforcement learning to train a policy to control characters in a physics simulator. We only require human motion capture data for training, without relying on artist-generated animations for each avatar. This allows us to use large motion capture datasets to train general policies that can track unseen users from real and sparse data in real-time. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach on three characters with different skeleton structure: a dinosaur, a mouse-like creature and a human. We show that the avatar poses often match the user surprisingly well, despite having no sensor information of the lower body available. We discuss and ablate the important components in our framework, specifically the kinematic retargeting step, the imitation, contact and action reward as well as our asymmetric actor-critic observations. We further explore the robustness of our method in a variety of settings including unbalancing, dancing and sports motions.\"\nScaling Transformer to 1 Billion Tokens,\"presents LongNet, a Transformer variant that can scale sequence length to more than 1 billion tokens, with no loss in shorter sequences.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02486,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1676765133362675712?s=20,\"Scaling sequence length has become a critical demand in the era of large language models. However, existing methods struggle with either computational complexity or model expressivity, rendering the maximum sequence length restricted. To address this issue, we introduce LongNet, a Transformer variant that can scale sequence length to more than 1 billion tokens, without sacrificing the performance on shorter sequences. Specifically, we propose dilated attention, which expands the attentive field exponentially as the distance grows. LongNet has significant advantages: 1) it has a linear computation complexity and a logarithm dependency between any two tokens in a sequence; 2) it can be served as a distributed trainer for extremely long sequences; 3) its dilated attention is a drop-in replacement for standard attention, which can be seamlessly integrated with the existing Transformer-based optimization. Experiments results demonstrate that LongNet yields strong performance on both long-sequence modeling and general language tasks. Our work opens up new possibilities for modeling very long sequences, e.g., treating a whole corpus or even the entire Internet as a sequence.\"\nInterCode,introduces a framework of interactive coding as a reinforcement learning environment; this is different from the typical coding benchmarks that consider a static sequence-to-sequence process.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14898,https://twitter.com/ShunyuYao12/status/1675903408727896066?s=20,\"Humans write code in a fundamentally interactive manner and rely on constant execution feedback to correct errors, resolve ambiguities, and decompose tasks. While LLMs have recently exhibited promising coding capabilities, current coding benchmarks mostly consider a static instruction-to-code sequence transduction process, which has the potential for error propagation and a disconnect between the generated code and its final execution environment. To address this gap, we introduce InterCode, a lightweight, flexible, and easy-to-use framework of interactive coding as a standard reinforcement learning (RL) environment, with code as actions and execution feedback as observations. Our framework is language and platform agnostic, uses self-contained Docker environments to provide safe and reproducible execution, and is compatible out-of-the-box with traditional seq2seq coding methods, while enabling the development of new methods for interactive code generation. We use InterCode to create two interactive code environments with Bash and SQL as action spaces, leveraging data from the static Spider and NL2Bash datasets. We demonstrate InterCode's viability as a testbed by evaluating multiple state-of-the-art LLMs configured with different prompting strategies such as ReAct and Plan & Solve. Our results showcase the benefits of interactive code generation and demonstrate that InterCode can serve as a challenging benchmark for advancing code understanding and generation capabilities. InterCode is designed to be easily extensible and can even be used to incorporate new tasks such as Capture the Flag, a popular coding puzzle that is inherently multi-step and involves multiple programming languages. Project site with code and data: this https URL\"\nLeanDojo,\"an open-source Lean playground consisting of toolkits, data, models, and benchmarks for theorem proving; also develops ReProver, a retrieval augmented LLM-based prover for theorem solving using premises from a vast math library.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15626,https://twitter.com/KaiyuYang4/status/1673882824158613504?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in proving formal theorems using proof assistants such as Lean. However, existing methods are difficult to reproduce or build on, due to private code, data, and large compute requirements. This has created substantial barriers to research on machine learning methods for theorem proving. This paper removes these barriers by introducing LeanDojo: an open-source Lean playground consisting of toolkits, data, models, and benchmarks. LeanDojo extracts data from Lean and enables interaction with the proof environment programmatically. It contains fine-grained annotations of premises in proofs, providing valuable data for premise selection: a key bottleneck in theorem proving. Using this data, we develop ReProver (Retrieval-Augmented Prover): the first LLM-based prover that is augmented with retrieval for selecting premises from a vast math library. It is inexpensive and needs only one GPU week of training. Our retriever leverages LeanDojo's program analysis capability to identify accessible premises and hard negative examples, which makes retrieval much more effective. Furthermore, we construct a new benchmark consisting of 96,962 theorems and proofs extracted from Lean's math library. It features challenging data split requiring the prover to generalize to theorems relying on novel premises that are never used in training. We use this benchmark for training and evaluation, and experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of ReProver over non-retrieval baselines and GPT-4. We thus provide the first set of open-source LLM-based theorem provers without any proprietary datasets and release it under a permissive MIT license to facilitate further research.\"\nExtending Context Window of LLMs,extends the context window of LLMs like LLaMA to up to 32K with minimal fine-tuning (within 1000 steps); previous methods for extending the context window are inefficient but this approach attains good performance on several tasks while being more efficient and cost-effective.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15595,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1674073189800919042?s=20,\"We present Position Interpolation (PI) that extends the context window sizes of RoPE-based pretrained LLMs such as LLaMA models to up to 32768 with minimal fine-tuning (within 1000 steps), while demonstrating strong empirical results on various tasks that require long context, including passkey retrieval, language modeling, and long document summarization from LLaMA 7B to 65B. Meanwhile, the extended model by Position Interpolation preserve quality relatively well on tasks within its original context window. To achieve this goal, Position Interpolation linearly down-scales the input position indices to match the original context window size, rather than extrapolating beyond the trained context length which may lead to catastrophically high attention scores that completely ruin the self-attention mechanism. Our theoretical study shows that the upper bound of interpolation is at least $\\sim 600 \\times$ smaller than that of extrapolation, further demonstrating its stability. Models extended via Position Interpolation retain its original architecture and can reuse most pre-existing optimization and infrastructure.\"\nComputer Vision Through the Lens of Natural Language,proposes a modular approach for solving computer vision problems by leveraging LLMs; the LLM is used to reason over outputs from independent and descriptive modules that provide extensive information about an image.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16410,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1674219223856365569?s=20,\"We propose LENS, a modular approach for tackling computer vision problems by leveraging the power of large language models (LLMs). Our system uses a language model to reason over outputs from a set of independent and highly descriptive vision modules that provide exhaustive information about an image. We evaluate the approach on pure computer vision settings such as zero- and few-shot object recognition, as well as on vision and language problems. LENS can be applied to any off-the-shelf LLM and we find that the LLMs with LENS perform highly competitively with much bigger and much more sophisticated systems, without any multimodal training whatsoever. We open-source our code at this https URL and provide an interactive demo.\"\nVisual Navigation Transformer,a foundational model that leverages the power of pretrained models to vision-based robotic navigation; it can be used with any navigation dataset and is built on a flexible Transformer-based architecture that can tackle various navigational tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14846,https://twitter.com/svlevine/status/1673732522155601920?s=20,\"General-purpose pre-trained models (\"\"foundation models\"\") have enabled practitioners to produce generalizable solutions for individual machine learning problems with datasets that are significantly smaller than those required for learning from scratch. Such models are typically trained on large and diverse datasets with weak supervision, consuming much more training data than is available for any individual downstream application. In this paper, we describe the Visual Navigation Transformer (ViNT), a foundation model that aims to bring the success of general-purpose pre-trained models to vision-based robotic navigation. ViNT is trained with a general goal-reaching objective that can be used with any navigation dataset, and employs a flexible Transformer-based architecture to learn navigational affordances and enable efficient adaptation to a variety of downstream navigational tasks. ViNT is trained on a number of existing navigation datasets, comprising hundreds of hours of robotic navigation from a variety of different robotic platforms, and exhibits positive transfer, outperforming specialist models trained on singular datasets. ViNT can be augmented with diffusion-based subgoal proposals to explore novel environments, and can solve kilometer-scale navigation problems when equipped with long-range heuristics. ViNT can also be adapted to novel task specifications with a technique inspired by prompt-tuning, where the goal encoder is replaced by an encoding of another task modality (e.g., GPS waypoints or routing commands) embedded into the same space of goal tokens. This flexibility and ability to accommodate a variety of downstream problem domains establishes ViNT as an effective foundation model for mobile robotics. For videos, code, and model checkpoints, see our project page at this https URL.\"\nGenerative AI for Programming Education,evaluates GPT-4 and ChatGPT on programming education scenarios and compares their performance with human tutors; GPT-4 outperforms ChatGPT and comes close to human tutors' performance.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17156,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1674590713051242498?s=20,\"Generative AI and large language models hold great promise in enhancing computing education by powering next-generation educational technologies for introductory programming. Recent works have studied these models for different scenarios relevant to programming education; however, these works are limited for several reasons, as they typically consider already outdated models or only specific scenario(s). Consequently, there is a lack of a systematic study that benchmarks state-of-the-art models for a comprehensive set of programming education scenarios. In our work, we systematically evaluate two models, ChatGPT (based on GPT-3.5) and GPT-4, and compare their performance with human tutors for a variety of scenarios. We evaluate using five introductory Python programming problems and real-world buggy programs from an online platform, and assess performance using expert-based annotations. Our results show that GPT-4 drastically outperforms ChatGPT (based on GPT-3.5) and comes close to human tutors' performance for several scenarios. These results also highlight settings where GPT-4 still struggles, providing exciting future directions on developing techniques to improve the performance of these models.\"\nDragDiffusion,extends interactive point-based image editing using diffusion models; it optimizes the diffusion latent to achieve precise spatial control and complete high-quality editing efficiently.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14435,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1673570232429051906?s=20,\"urate and controllable image editing is a challenging task that has attracted significant attention recently. Notably, DragGAN is an interactive point-based image editing framework that achieves impressive editing results with pixel-level precision. However, due to its reliance on generative adversarial networks (GANs), its generality is limited by the capacity of pretrained GAN models. In this work, we extend this editing framework to diffusion models and propose a novel approach DragDiffusion. By harnessing large-scale pretrained diffusion models, we greatly enhance the applicability of interactive point-based editing on both real and diffusion-generated images. Our approach involves optimizing the diffusion latents to achieve precise spatial control. The supervision signal of this optimization process is from the diffusion model's UNet features, which are known to contain rich semantic and geometric information. Moreover, we introduce two additional techniques, namely LoRA fine-tuning and latent-MasaCtrl, to further preserve the identity of the original image. Lastly, we present a challenging benchmark dataset called DragBench -- the first benchmark to evaluate the performance of interactive point-based image editing methods. Experiments across a wide range of challenging cases (e.g., images with multiple objects, diverse object categories, various styles, etc.) demonstrate the versatility and generality of DragDiffusion. Code: this https URL.\"\nUnderstanding Theory-of-Mind in LLMs with LLMs,a framework for procedurally generating evaluations with LLMs; proposes a benchmark to study the social reasoning capabilities of LLMs with LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15448,https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1673871545725505537?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into our everyday lives, understanding their ability to comprehend human mental states becomes critical for ensuring effective interactions. However, despite the recent attempts to assess the Theory-of-Mind (ToM) reasoning capabilities of LLMs, the degree to which these models can align with human ToM remains a nuanced topic of exploration. This is primarily due to two distinct challenges: (1) the presence of inconsistent results from previous evaluations, and (2) concerns surrounding the validity of existing evaluation methodologies. To address these challenges, we present a novel framework for procedurally generating evaluations with LLMs by populating causal templates. Using our framework, we create a new social reasoning benchmark (BigToM) for LLMs which consists of 25 controls and 5,000 model-written evaluations. We find that human participants rate the quality of our benchmark higher than previous crowd-sourced evaluations and comparable to expert-written evaluations. Using BigToM, we evaluate the social reasoning capabilities of a variety of LLMs and compare model performances with human performance. Our results suggest that GPT4 has ToM capabilities that mirror human inference patterns, though less reliable, while other LLMs struggle.\"\nEvaluations with No Labels,a framework for self-supervised evaluation of LLMs by analyzing their sensitivity or invariance to transformations on input text; can be used to monitor LLM behavior on datasets streamed during live model deployment.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13651v1,https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/1673808766679097346?s=20,\"With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ubiquitous deployment in diverse domains, measuring language model behavior on realistic data is imperative. For example, a company deploying a client-facing chatbot must ensure that the model will not respond to client requests with profanity. Current evaluations approach this problem using small, domain-specific datasets with human-curated labels. These evaluation sets are often sampled from a narrow and simplified distribution, and data sources can unknowingly be leaked into the training set which can lead to misleading evaluations. To bypass these drawbacks, we propose a framework for self-supervised evaluation of LLMs by analyzing their sensitivity or invariance to transformations on the input text. Self-supervised evaluation can directly monitor LLM behavior on datasets collected in the wild or streamed during live model deployment. We demonstrate self-supervised evaluation strategies for measuring closed-book knowledge, toxicity, and long-range context dependence, in addition to sensitivity to grammatical structure and tokenization errors. When comparisons to similar human-labeled benchmarks are available, we find strong correlations between self-supervised and human-supervised evaluations. The self-supervised paradigm complements current evaluation strategies that rely on labeled data.\"\nLong-range Language Modeling with Self-Retrieval,an architecture and training procedure for jointly training a retrieval-augmented language model from scratch for long-range language modeling tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13421,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1673129191863140353?s=20,\"Retrieval-augmented language models (LMs) have received much attention recently. However, typically the retriever is not trained jointly as a native component of the LM, but added to an already-pretrained LM, which limits the ability of the LM and the retriever to adapt to one another. In this work, we propose the Retrieval-Pretrained Transformer (RPT), an architecture and training procedure for jointly training a retrieval-augmented LM from scratch for the task of modeling long texts. Given a recently generated text chunk in a long document, the LM computes query representations, which are then used to retrieve earlier chunks in the document, located potentially tens of thousands of tokens before. Information from retrieved chunks is fused into the LM representations to predict the next target chunk. We train the retriever component with a semantic objective, where the goal is to retrieve chunks that increase the probability of the next chunk, according to a reference LM. We evaluate RPT on four long-range language modeling tasks, spanning books, code, and mathematical writing, and demonstrate that RPT improves retrieval quality and subsequently perplexity across the board compared to strong baselines.\"\nScaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias,shows that the performance of MLPs improves with scale and highlights that lack of inductive bias can be compensated.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13575,https://twitter.com/ethanCaballero/status/1673725211907182592?s=20,\"In this work we revisit the most fundamental building block in deep learning, the multi-layer perceptron (MLP), and study the limits of its performance on vision tasks. Empirical insights into MLPs are important for multiple reasons. (1) Given the recent narrative \"\"less inductive bias is better\"\", popularized due to transformers eclipsing convolutional models, it is natural to explore the limits of this hypothesis. To that end, MLPs offer an ideal test bed, as they lack any vision-specific inductive bias. (2) MLPs have almost exclusively been the main protagonist in the deep learning theory literature due to their mathematical simplicity, serving as a proxy to explain empirical phenomena observed for more complex architectures. Surprisingly, experimental datapoints for MLPs are very difficult to find in the literature, especially when coupled with large pre-training protocols. This discrepancy between practice and theory is worrying: Do MLPs reflect the empirical advances exhibited by practical models? Or do theorists need to rethink the role of MLPs as a proxy? We provide insights into both these aspects. We show that the performance of MLPs drastically improves with scale (95% on CIFAR10, 82% on CIFAR100, 58% on ImageNet ReaL), highlighting that lack of inductive bias can indeed be compensated. We observe that MLPs mimic the behaviour of their modern counterparts faithfully, with some components in the learning setting however exhibiting stronger or unexpected behaviours. Due to their inherent computational efficiency, large pre-training experiments become more accessible for academic researchers. All of our experiments were run on a single GPU.\"\nTextbooks Are All You Need,introduces a new 1.3B parameter LLM called phi-1; it’s significantly smaller in size and trained for 4 days using a selection of textbook-quality data and synthetic textbooks and exercises with GPT-3.5; achieves promising results on the HumanEval benchmark.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644,https://twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1671326369626853376?s=20,\"We introduce phi-1, a new large language model for code, with significantly smaller size than competing models: phi-1 is a Transformer-based model with 1.3B parameters, trained for 4 days on 8 A100s, using a selection of ``textbook quality\"\" data from the web (6B tokens) and synthetically generated textbooks and exercises with GPT-3.5 (1B tokens). Despite this small scale, phi-1 attains pass@1 accuracy 50.6% on HumanEval and 55.5% on MBPP. It also displays surprising emergent properties compared to phi-1-base, our model before our finetuning stage on a dataset of coding exercises, and phi-1-small, a smaller model with 350M parameters trained with the same pipeline as phi-1 that still achieves 45% on HumanEval.\"\nRoboCat,a new foundation agent that can operate different robotic arms and can solve tasks from as few as 100 demonstrations; the self-improving AI agent can self-generate new training data to improve its technique and get more efficient at adapting to new tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11706,https://twitter.com/DeepMind/status/1671171448638144515?s=20,\"The ability to leverage heterogeneous robotic experience from different robots and tasks to quickly master novel skills and embodiments has the potential to transform robot learning. Inspired by recent advances in foundation models for vision and language, we propose a foundation agent for robotic manipulation. This agent, named RoboCat, is a visual goal-conditioned decision transformer capable of consuming multi-embodiment action-labelled visual experience. This data spans a large repertoire of motor control skills from simulated and real robotic arms with varying sets of observations and actions. With RoboCat, we demonstrate the ability to generalise to new tasks and robots, both zero-shot as well as through adaptation using only 100--1000 examples for the target task. We also show how a trained model itself can be used to generate data for subsequent training iterations, thus providing a basic building block for an autonomous improvement loop. We investigate the agent's capabilities, with large-scale evaluations both in simulation and on three different real robot embodiments. We find that as we grow and diversify its training data, RoboCat not only shows signs of cross-task transfer, but also becomes more efficient at adapting to new tasks.\"\nClinicalGPT,\"a language model optimized through extensive and diverse medical data, including medical records, domain-specific knowledge, and multi-round dialogue consultations.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09968,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1670606068777381890?s=20,\"Large language models have exhibited exceptional performance on various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, leveraging techniques such as the pre-training, and instruction fine-tuning. Despite these advances, their effectiveness in medical applications is limited, due to challenges such as factual inaccuracies, reasoning abilities, and lack grounding in real-world experience. In this study, we present ClinicalGPT, a language model explicitly designed and optimized for clinical scenarios. By incorporating extensive and diverse real-world data, such as medical records, domain-specific knowledge, and multi-round dialogue consultations in the training process, ClinicalGPT is better prepared to handle multiple clinical task. Furthermore, we introduce a comprehensive evaluation framework that includes medical knowledge question-answering, medical exams, patient consultations, and diagnostic analysis of medical records. Our results demonstrate that ClinicalGPT significantly outperforms other models in these tasks, highlighting the effectiveness of our approach in adapting large language models to the critical domain of healthcare.\"\nAn Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks,provides an overview of the main sources of catastrophic AI risks; the goal is to foster more understanding of these risks and ensure AI systems are developed in a safe manner.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12001v1,https://twitter.com/DanHendrycks/status/1671894767331061763?s=20,\"Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked growing concerns among experts, policymakers, and world leaders regarding the potential for increasingly advanced AI systems to pose catastrophic risks. Although numerous risks have been detailed separately, there is a pressing need for a systematic discussion and illustration of the potential dangers to better inform efforts to mitigate them. This paper provides an overview of the main sources of catastrophic AI risks, which we organize into four categories: malicious use, in which individuals or groups intentionally use AIs to cause harm; AI race, in which competitive environments compel actors to deploy unsafe AIs or cede control to AIs; organizational risks, highlighting how human factors and complex systems can increase the chances of catastrophic accidents; and rogue AIs, describing the inherent difficulty in controlling agents far more intelligent than humans. For each category of risk, we describe specific hazards, present illustrative stories, envision ideal scenarios, and propose practical suggestions for mitigating these dangers. Our goal is to foster a comprehensive understanding of these risks and inspire collective and proactive efforts to ensure that AIs are developed and deployed in a safe manner. Ultimately, we hope this will allow us to realize the benefits of this powerful technology while minimizing the potential for catastrophic outcomes.\"\nLOMO,proposes a new memory-efficient optimizer that combines gradient computation and parameter update in one step; enables tuning the full parameters of an LLM with limited resources.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09782,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1670603218659811330?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP) but demand massive GPU resources for training. Lowering the threshold for LLMs training would encourage greater participation from researchers, benefiting both academia and society. While existing approaches have focused on parameter-efficient fine-tuning, which tunes or adds a small number of parameters, few have addressed the challenge of tuning the full parameters of LLMs with limited resources. In this work, we propose a new optimizer, LOw-Memory Optimization (LOMO), which fuses the gradient computation and the parameter update in one step to reduce memory usage. By integrating LOMO with existing memory saving techniques, we reduce memory usage to 10.8% compared to the standard approach (DeepSpeed solution). Consequently, our approach enables the full parameter fine-tuning of a 65B model on a single machine with 8 RTX 3090, each with 24GB memory.\"\nSequenceMatch,formulates sequence generation as an imitation learning problem; this framework allows the ability to incorporate backtracking into text generation through a backspace action; this enables the generative model to mitigate compounding errors by reverting sample tokens that lead to sequence OOD.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05426,https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1671636061494059009?s=20,\"In many domains, autoregressive models can attain high likelihood on the task of predicting the next observation. However, this maximum-likelihood (MLE) objective does not necessarily match a downstream use-case of autoregressively generating high-quality sequences. The MLE objective weights sequences proportionally to their frequency under the data distribution, with no guidance for the model's behaviour out of distribution (OOD): leading to compounding error during autoregressive generation. In order to address this compounding error problem, we formulate sequence generation as an imitation learning (IL) problem. This allows us to minimize a variety of divergences between the distribution of sequences generated by an autoregressive model and sequences from a dataset, including divergences with weight on OOD generated sequences. The IL framework also allows us to incorporate backtracking by introducing a backspace action into the generation process. This further mitigates the compounding error problem by allowing the model to revert a sampled token if it takes the sequence OOD. Our resulting method, SequenceMatch, can be implemented without adversarial training or major architectural changes. We identify the SequenceMatch-$\\chi^2$ divergence as a more suitable training objective for autoregressive models which are used for generation. We show that empirically, SequenceMatch training leads to improvements over MLE on text generation with language models.\"\nLMFlow,\"an extensible and lightweight toolkit that simplifies finetuning and inference of general large foundation models; supports continuous pretraining, instruction tuning, parameter-efficient finetuning, alignment tuning, and large model inference.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12420,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1671881864930549761?s=20,\"Large foundation models have demonstrated a great ability to achieve general human-level intelligence far beyond traditional approaches. As the technique keeps attracting attention from the AI community, more and more large foundation models have become publically available. However, most of those models exhibit a major deficiency in specialized-task applications, where the step of finetuning is still required for obtaining satisfactory performance. As the number of available models and specialized tasks keeps growing, the job of general finetuning becomes highly nontrivial. In this paper, we take the first step to address this issue. We introduce an extensible and lightweight toolkit, LMFlow, which aims to simplify the finetuning and inference of general large foundation models. LMFlow offers a complete finetuning workflow for a large foundation model to support personalized training with limited computing resources. Furthermore, it supports continuous pretraining, instruction tuning, parameter-efficient finetuning, alignment tuning, and large model inference, along with carefully designed and extensible APIs. This toolkit has been thoroughly tested and is available at this https URL.\"\nMotionGPT,uses multimodal control signals for generating consecutive human motions; it quantizes multimodal control signals intro discrete codes which are converted to LLM instructions that generate motion answers.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10900v1,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1671341916980490241?s=20,\"Generating realistic human motion from given action descriptions has experienced significant advancements because of the emerging requirement of digital humans. While recent works have achieved impressive results in generating motion directly from textual action descriptions, they often support only a single modality of the control signal, which limits their application in the real digital human industry. This paper presents a Motion General-Purpose generaTor (MotionGPT) that can use multimodal control signals, e.g., text and single-frame poses, for generating consecutive human motions by treating multimodal signals as special input tokens in large language models (LLMs). Specifically, we first quantize multimodal control signals into discrete codes and then formulate them in a unified prompt instruction to ask the LLMs to generate the motion answer. Our MotionGPT demonstrates a unified human motion generation model with multimodal control signals by tuning a mere 0.4% of LLM parameters. To the best of our knowledge, MotionGPT is the first method to generate human motion by multimodal control signals, which we hope can shed light on this new direction. Codes shall be released upon acceptance.\"\nWanda,\"introduces a simple and effective pruning approach for LLMs; it prunes weights with the smallest magnitudes multiplied by the corresponding input activations, on a per-output basis; the approach requires no retraining or weight update and outperforms baselines of magnitude pruning.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11695,https://twitter.com/Yampeleg/status/1671885220218560516?s=20,\"heir size increases, Large Languages Models (LLMs) are natural candidates for network pruning methods: approaches that drop a subset of network weights while striving to preserve performance. Existing methods, however, require either retraining, which is rarely affordable for billion-scale LLMs, or solving a weight reconstruction problem reliant on second-order information, which may also be computationally expensive. In this paper, we introduce a novel, straightforward yet effective pruning method, termed Wanda (Pruning by Weights and activations), designed to induce sparsity in pretrained LLMs. Motivated by the recent observation of emergent large magnitude features in LLMs, our approach prunes weights with the smallest magnitudes multiplied by the corresponding input activations, on a per-output basis. Notably, Wanda requires no retraining or weight update, and the pruned LLM can be used as is. We conduct a thorough evaluation of our method Wanda on LLaMA and LLaMA-2 across various language benchmarks. Wanda significantly outperforms the established baseline of magnitude pruning and performs competitively against recent method involving intensive weight update. Code is available at this https URL.\"\nAudioPaLM,\"fuses text-based and speech-based LMs, PaLM-2 and AudioLM, into a multimodal architecture that supports speech understanding and generation; outperforms existing systems for speech translation tasks with zero-shot speech-to-text translation capabilities.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12925v1,https://twitter.com/PaulKRubenstein/status/1672128984220413953?s=20,\"We introduce AudioPaLM, a large language model for speech understanding and generation. AudioPaLM fuses text-based and speech-based language models, PaLM-2 [Anil et al., 2023] and AudioLM [Borsos et al., 2022], into a unified multimodal architecture that can process and generate text and speech with applications including speech recognition and speech-to-speech translation. AudioPaLM inherits the capability to preserve paralinguistic information such as speaker identity and intonation from AudioLM and the linguistic knowledge present only in text large language models such as PaLM-2. We demonstrate that initializing AudioPaLM with the weights of a text-only large language model improves speech processing, successfully leveraging the larger quantity of text training data used in pretraining to assist with the speech tasks. The resulting model significantly outperforms existing systems for speech translation tasks and has the ability to perform zero-shot speech-to-text translation for many languages for which input/target language combinations were not seen in training. AudioPaLM also demonstrates features of audio language models, such as transferring a voice across languages based on a short spoken prompt. We release examples of our method at this https URL\"\nVoicebox,\"an all-in-one generative speech model; it can synthesize speech across 6 languages; it can perform noise removal, content editing, style conversion, and more; it's 20x faster than current models and outperforms single-purpose models through in-context learning.\",https://research.facebook.com/publications/voicebox-text-guided-multilingual-universal-speech-generation-at-scale/,https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1669766837981306880?s=20,\"Large-scale generative models such as GPT and DALL-E have revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision research. These models not only generate high fidelity text or image outputs, but are also generalists which can solve tasks not explicitly taught. In contrast, speech generative models are still primitive in terms of scale and task generalization. In this paper, we present Voicebox, the most versatile text-guided generative model for speech at scale. Voicebox is a non-autoregressive flow-matching model trained to infill speech, given audio context and text, trained on over 50K hours of speech that are neither filtered nor enhanced. Similar to GPT, Voicebox can perform many different tasks through in-context learning, but is more flexible as it can also condition on future context. Voicebox can be used for mono or cross-lingual zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis, noise removal, content editing, style conversion, and diverse sample generation. In particular, Voicebox outperforms the state-of-the-art zero-shot TTS model VALL-E on both intelligibility (5.9% vs 1.9% word error rates) and audio similarity (0.580 vs 0.681) while being up to 20 times faster. See voicebox.metademolab.com for a demo of the model\"\nFinGPT,\"an open-source LLM for the finance sector; it takes a data-centric approach, providing researchers & practitioners with accessible resources to develop FinLLMs.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06031,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1668060502663077891?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have shown the potential of revolutionizing natural language processing tasks in diverse domains, sparking great interest in finance. Accessing high-quality financial data is the first challenge for financial LLMs (FinLLMs). While proprietary models like BloombergGPT have taken advantage of their unique data accumulation, such privileged access calls for an open-source alternative to democratize Internet-scale financial data.\nIn this paper, we present an open-source large language model, FinGPT, for the finance sector. Unlike proprietary models, FinGPT takes a data-centric approach, providing researchers and practitioners with accessible and transparent resources to develop their FinLLMs. We highlight the importance of an automatic data curation pipeline and the lightweight low-rank adaptation technique in building FinGPT. Furthermore, we showcase several potential applications as stepping stones for users, such as robo-advising, algorithmic trading, and low-code development. Through collaborative efforts within the open-source AI4Finance community, FinGPT aims to stimulate innovation, democratize FinLLMs, and unlock new opportunities in open finance. Two associated code repos are \\url{this https URL} and \\url{this https URL}\"\nCrowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks,estimates that 33-46% of crowd workers on MTurk used LLMs when completing a text production task.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07899v1,https://twitter.com/manoelribeiro/status/1668986074801098754?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) are remarkable data annotators. They can be used to generate high-fidelity supervised training data, as well as survey and experimental data. With the widespread adoption of LLMs, human gold--standard annotations are key to understanding the capabilities of LLMs and the validity of their results. However, crowdsourcing, an important, inexpensive way to obtain human annotations, may itself be impacted by LLMs, as crowd workers have financial incentives to use LLMs to increase their productivity and income. To investigate this concern, we conducted a case study on the prevalence of LLM usage by crowd workers. We reran an abstract summarization task from the literature on Amazon Mechanical Turk and, through a combination of keystroke detection and synthetic text classification, estimate that 33-46% of crowd workers used LLMs when completing the task. Although generalization to other, less LLM-friendly tasks is unclear, our results call for platforms, researchers, and crowd workers to find new ways to ensure that human data remain human, perhaps using the methodology proposed here as a stepping stone. Code/data: this https URL\"\nReliability of Watermarks for LLMs,watermarking is useful to detect LLM-generated text and potentially mitigate harms; this work studies the reliability of watermarking for LLMs and finds that watermarks are detectable even when the watermarked text is re-written by humans or paraphrased by another non-watermarked LLM.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04634,https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/1668668484975464448?s=20,\"LLMs become commonplace, machine-generated text has the potential to flood the internet with spam, social media bots, and valueless content. Watermarking is a simple and effective strategy for mitigating such harms by enabling the detection and documentation of LLM-generated text. Yet a crucial question remains: How reliable is watermarking in realistic settings in the wild? There, watermarked text may be modified to suit a user's needs, or entirely rewritten to avoid detection.\nWe study the robustness of watermarked text after it is re-written by humans, paraphrased by a non-watermarked LLM, or mixed into a longer hand-written document. We find that watermarks remain detectable even after human and machine paraphrasing. While these attacks dilute the strength of the watermark, paraphrases are statistically likely to leak n-grams or even longer fragments of the original text, resulting in high-confidence detections when enough tokens are observed. For example, after strong human paraphrasing the watermark is detectable after observing 800 tokens on average, when setting a 1e-5 false positive rate. We also consider a range of new detection schemes that are sensitive to short spans of watermarked text embedded inside a large document, and we compare the robustness of watermarking to other kinds of detectors.\"\nApplications of Transformers,a new survey paper highlighting major applications of Transformers for deep learning tasks; includes a comprehensive list of Transformer models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07303,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1668989324950491139?s=20,\"Transformer is a deep neural network that employs a self-attention mechanism to comprehend the contextual relationships within sequential data. Unlike conventional neural networks or updated versions of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), transformer models excel in handling long dependencies between input sequence elements and enable parallel processing. As a result, transformer-based models have attracted substantial interest among researchers in the field of artificial intelligence. This can be attributed to their immense potential and remarkable achievements, not only in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks but also in a wide range of domains, including computer vision, audio and speech processing, healthcare, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Although several survey papers have been published highlighting the transformer's contributions in specific fields, architectural differences, or performance evaluations, there is still a significant absence of a comprehensive survey paper encompassing its major applications across various domains. Therefore, we undertook the task of filling this gap by conducting an extensive survey of proposed transformer models from 2017 to 2022. Our survey encompasses the identification of the top five application domains for transformer-based models, namely: NLP, Computer Vision, Multi-Modality, Audio and Speech Processing, and Signal Processing. We analyze the impact of highly influential transformer-based models in these domains and subsequently classify them based on their respective tasks using a proposed taxonomy. Our aim is to shed light on the existing potential and future possibilities of transformers for enthusiastic researchers, thus contributing to the broader understanding of this groundbreaking technology.\"\nBenchmarking NN Training Algorithms,\"it’s currently challenging to properly assess the best optimizers to train neural networks; this paper presents a new benchmark, AlgoPerf, for benchmarking neural network training algorithms using realistic workloads.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07179,https://twitter.com/zacharynado/status/1668683433944424448?s=20,\"Training algorithms, broadly construed, are an essential part of every deep learning pipeline. Training algorithm improvements that speed up training across a wide variety of workloads (e.g., better update rules, tuning protocols, learning rate schedules, or data selection schemes) could save time, save computational resources, and lead to better, more accurate, models. Unfortunately, as a community, we are currently unable to reliably identify training algorithm improvements, or even determine the state-of-the-art training algorithm. In this work, using concrete experiments, we argue that real progress in speeding up training requires new benchmarks that resolve three basic challenges faced by empirical comparisons of training algorithms: (1) how to decide when training is complete and precisely measure training time, (2) how to handle the sensitivity of measurements to exact workload details, and (3) how to fairly compare algorithms that require hyperparameter tuning. In order to address these challenges, we introduce a new, competitive, time-to-result benchmark using multiple workloads running on fixed hardware, the AlgoPerf: Training Algorithms benchmark. Our benchmark includes a set of workload variants that make it possible to detect benchmark submissions that are more robust to workload changes than current widely-used methods. Finally, we evaluate baseline submissions constructed using various optimizers that represent current practice, as well as other optimizers that have recently received attention in the literature. These baseline results collectively demonstrate the feasibility of our benchmark, show that non-trivial gaps between methods exist, and set a provisional state-of-the-art for future benchmark submissions to try and surpass.\"\nUnifying LLMs & Knowledge Graphs,\"provides a roadmap for the unification of LLMs and KGs; covers how to incorporate KGs in LLM pre-training/inferencing, leverage LLMs for KG tasks such as question answering, and enhance both KGs and LLMs for bidirectional reasoning.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09310,https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1670051081722769408?s=20,\"We introduce Infinigen, a procedural generator of photorealistic 3D scenes of the natural world. Infinigen is entirely procedural: every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from scratch via randomized mathematical rules, using no external source and allowing infinite variation and composition. Infinigen offers broad coverage of objects and scenes in the natural world including plants, animals, terrains, and natural phenomena such as fire, cloud, rain, and snow. Infinigen can be used to generate unlimited, diverse training data for a wide range of computer vision tasks including object detection, semantic segmentation, optical flow, and 3D reconstruction. We expect Infinigen to be a useful resource for computer vision research and beyond. Please visit this https URL for videos, code and pre-generated data.\"\nAugmenting LLMs with Long-term Memory,proposes a framework to enable LLMs to memorize long history; it’s enhanced with memory-augmented adaptation training to memorize long past context and use long-term memory for language modeling; achieves improvements on memory-augmented in-context learning over LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07174,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1668429602841317378?s=20,\"Existing large language models (LLMs) can only afford fix-sized inputs due to the input length limit, preventing them from utilizing rich long-context information from past inputs. To address this, we propose a framework, Language Models Augmented with Long-Term Memory (LongMem), which enables LLMs to memorize long history. We design a novel decoupled network architecture with the original backbone LLM frozen as a memory encoder and an adaptive residual side-network as a memory retriever and reader. Such a decoupled memory design can easily cache and update long-term past contexts for memory retrieval without suffering from memory staleness. Enhanced with memory-augmented adaptation training, LongMem can thus memorize long past context and use long-term memory for language modeling. The proposed memory retrieval module can handle unlimited-length context in its memory bank to benefit various downstream tasks. Typically, LongMem can enlarge the long-form memory to 65k tokens and thus cache many-shot extra demonstration examples as long-form memory for in-context learning. Experiments show that our method outperforms strong long-context models on ChapterBreak, a challenging long-context modeling benchmark, and achieves remarkable improvements on memory-augmented in-context learning over LLMs. The results demonstrate that the proposed method is effective in helping language models to memorize and utilize long-form contents. Our code is open-sourced at this https URL.\"\nTAPIR,enables tracking any queried point on any physical surface throughout a video sequence; outperforms all baselines and facilitates fast inference on long and high-resolution videos (track points faster than real-time when using modern GPUs).,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08637,https://twitter.com/AdamWHarley/status/1669785589246468096?s=20,\"We present a novel model for Tracking Any Point (TAP) that effectively tracks any queried point on any physical surface throughout a video sequence. Our approach employs two stages: (1) a matching stage, which independently locates a suitable candidate point match for the query point on every other frame, and (2) a refinement stage, which updates both the trajectory and query features based on local correlations. The resulting model surpasses all baseline methods by a significant margin on the TAP-Vid benchmark, as demonstrated by an approximate 20% absolute average Jaccard (AJ) improvement on DAVIS. Our model facilitates fast inference on long and high-resolution video sequences. On a modern GPU, our implementation has the capacity to track points faster than real-time, and can be flexibly extended to higher-resolution videos. Given the high-quality trajectories extracted from a large dataset, we demonstrate a proof-of-concept diffusion model which generates trajectories from static images, enabling plausible animations. Visualizations, source code, and pretrained models can be found on our project webpage.\"\nMind2Web,\"a new dataset for evaluating generalist agents for the web; contains 2350 tasks from 137 websites over 31 domains; it enables testing generalization ability across tasks and environments, covering practical use cases on the web.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06070,https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1669403956064432128?s=20,\"We introduce Mind2Web, the first dataset for developing and evaluating generalist agents for the web that can follow language instructions to complete complex tasks on any website. Existing datasets for web agents either use simulated websites or only cover a limited set of websites and tasks, thus not suitable for generalist web agents. With over 2,000 open-ended tasks collected from 137 websites spanning 31 domains and crowdsourced action sequences for the tasks, Mind2Web provides three necessary ingredients for building generalist web agents: 1) diverse domains, websites, and tasks, 2) use of real-world websites instead of simulated and simplified ones, and 3) a broad spectrum of user interaction patterns. Based on Mind2Web, we conduct an initial exploration of using large language models (LLMs) for building generalist web agents. While the raw HTML of real-world websites are often too large to be fed to LLMs, we show that first filtering it with a small LM significantly improves the effectiveness and efficiency of LLMs. Our solution demonstrates a decent level of performance, even on websites or entire domains the model has never seen before, but there is still a substantial room to improve towards truly generalizable agents. We open-source our dataset, model implementation, and trained models (this https URL) to facilitate further research on building a generalist agent for the web.\"\nTracking Everything Everywhere All at Once,\"propose a test-time optimization method for estimating dense and long-range motion; enables accurate, full-length motion estimation of every pixel in a video.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05422,https://twitter.com/sstj389/status/1667000331958468608?s=20,\"We present a new test-time optimization method for estimating dense and long-range motion from a video sequence. Prior optical flow or particle video tracking algorithms typically operate within limited temporal windows, struggling to track through occlusions and maintain global consistency of estimated motion trajectories. We propose a complete and globally consistent motion representation, dubbed OmniMotion, that allows for accurate, full-length motion estimation of every pixel in a video. OmniMotion represents a video using a quasi-3D canonical volume and performs pixel-wise tracking via bijections between local and canonical space. This representation allows us to ensure global consistency, track through occlusions, and model any combination of camera and object motion. Extensive evaluations on the TAP-Vid benchmark and real-world footage show that our approach outperforms prior state-of-the-art methods by a large margin both quantitatively and qualitatively. See our project page for more results: this http URL\"\nAlphaDev,a deep reinforcement learning agent which discovers faster sorting algorithms from scratch; the algorithms outperform previously known human benchmarks and have been integrated into the LLVM C++ library.,https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1666486491793481738?s=20,\"Fundamental algorithms such as sorting or hashing are used trillions of times on any given day1. As demand for computation grows, it has become critical for these algorithms to be as performant as possible. Whereas remarkable progress has been achieved in the past2, making further improvements on the efficiency of these routines has proved challenging for both human scientists and computational approaches. Here we show how artificial intelligence can go beyond the current state of the art by discovering hitherto unknown routines. To realize this, we formulated the task of finding a better sorting routine as a single-player game. We then trained a new deep reinforcement learning agent, AlphaDev, to play this game. AlphaDev discovered small sorting algorithms from scratch that outperformed previously known human benchmarks. These algorithms have been integrated into the LLVM standard C++ sort library3. This change to this part of the sort library represents the replacement of a component with an algorithm that has been automatically discovered using reinforcement learning. We also present results in extra domains, showcasing the generality of the approach.\"\nSparse-Quantized Representation,a new compressed format and quantization technique that enables near-lossless compression of LLMs across model scales; “allows LLM inference at 4.75 bits with a 15% speedup”.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03078,https://twitter.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1666076553665744896?s=20,\"Recent advances in large language model (LLM) pretraining have led to high-quality LLMs with impressive abilities. By compressing such LLMs via quantization to 3-4 bits per parameter, they can fit into memory-limited devices such as laptops and mobile phones, enabling personalized use. However, quantization down to 3-4 bits per parameter usually leads to moderate-to-high accuracy losses, especially for smaller models in the 1-10B parameter range, which are well-suited for edge deployments. To address this accuracy issue, we introduce the Sparse-Quantized Representation (SpQR), a new compressed format and quantization technique which enables for the first time near-lossless compression of LLMs across model scales, while reaching similar compression levels to previous methods. SpQR works by identifying and isolating outlier weights, which cause particularly-large quantization errors, and storing them in higher precision, while compressing all other weights to 3-4 bits, and achieves relative accuracy losses of less than 1% in perplexity for highly-accurate LLaMA and Falcon LLMs. This makes it possible to run 33B parameter LLM on a single 24 GB consumer GPU without any performance degradation at 15% speedup thus making powerful LLMs available to consumer without any downsides. SpQR comes with efficient algorithms for both encoding weights into its format, as well as decoding them efficiently at runtime. Specifically, we provide an efficient GPU inference algorithm for SpQR which yields faster inference than 16-bit baselines at similar accuracy, while enabling memory compression gains of more than 4x.\"\nMusicGen,a simple and controllable model for music generation built on top of a single-stage transformer LM together with efficient token interleaving patterns; it can be conditioned on textual descriptions or melodic features and shows high performance on a standard text-to-music benchmark.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05284,https://twitter.com/syhw/status/1667103478471176192?s=20,\"We tackle the task of conditional music generation. We introduce MusicGen, a single Language Model (LM) that operates over several streams of compressed discrete music representation, i.e., tokens. Unlike prior work, MusicGen is comprised of a single-stage transformer LM together with efficient token interleaving patterns, which eliminates the need for cascading several models, e.g., hierarchically or upsampling. Following this approach, we demonstrate how MusicGen can generate high-quality samples, while being conditioned on textual description or melodic features, allowing better controls over the generated output. We conduct extensive empirical evaluation, considering both automatic and human studies, showing the proposed approach is superior to the evaluated baselines on a standard text-to-music benchmark. Through ablation studies, we shed light over the importance of each of the components comprising MusicGen. Music samples, code, and models are available at this https URL.\"\nAugmenting LLMs with Databases,\"combines an LLM with a set of SQL databases, enabling a symbolic memory framework; completes tasks via LLM generating SQL instructions that manipulate the DB autonomously.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03901,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1666254609524961282?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) with memory are computationally universal. However, mainstream LLMs are not taking full advantage of memory, and the designs are heavily influenced by biological brains. Due to their approximate nature and proneness to the accumulation of errors, conventional neural memory mechanisms cannot support LLMs to simulate complex reasoning. In this paper, we seek inspiration from modern computer architectures to augment LLMs with symbolic memory for complex multi-hop reasoning. Such a symbolic memory framework is instantiated as an LLM and a set of SQL databases, where the LLM generates SQL instructions to manipulate the SQL databases. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed memory framework on a synthetic dataset requiring complex reasoning. The project website is available at this https URL .\"\nConcept Scrubbing in LLM,presents a method called LEAst-squares Concept Erasure (LEACE) to erase target concept information from every layer in a neural network; it’s used for reducing gender bias in BERT embeddings.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03819,https://twitter.com/norabelrose/status/1666469917636571137?s=20,\"Concept erasure aims to remove specified features from a representation. It can improve fairness (e.g. preventing a classifier from using gender or race) and interpretability (e.g. removing a concept to observe changes in model behavior). We introduce LEAst-squares Concept Erasure (LEACE), a closed-form method which provably prevents all linear classifiers from detecting a concept while changing the representation as little as possible, as measured by a broad class of norms. We apply LEACE to large language models with a novel procedure called \"\"concept scrubbing,\"\" which erases target concept information from every layer in the network. We demonstrate our method on two tasks: measuring the reliance of language models on part-of-speech information, and reducing gender bias in BERT embeddings. Code is available at this https URL.\"\nFine-Grained RLHF,\"trains LMs with fine-grained human feedback; instead of using overall preference, more explicit feedback is provided at the segment level which helps to improve efficacy on long-form question answering, reduce toxicity, and enables LM customization.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01693,https://twitter.com/zeqiuwu1/status/1665785626552049665?s=20,\"Language models (LMs) often exhibit undesirable text generation behaviors, including generating false, toxic, or irrelevant outputs. Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) - where human preference judgments on LM outputs are transformed into a learning signal - has recently shown promise in addressing these issues. However, such holistic feedback conveys limited information on long text outputs; it does not indicate which aspects of the outputs influenced user preference; e.g., which parts contain what type(s) of errors. In this paper, we use fine-grained human feedback (e.g., which sentence is false, which sub-sentence is irrelevant) as an explicit training signal. We introduce Fine-Grained RLHF, a framework that enables training and learning from reward functions that are fine-grained in two respects: (1) density, providing a reward after every segment (e.g., a sentence) is generated; and (2) incorporating multiple reward models associated with different feedback types (e.g., factual incorrectness, irrelevance, and information incompleteness). We conduct experiments on detoxification and long-form question answering to illustrate how learning with such reward functions leads to improved performance, supported by both automatic and human evaluation. Additionally, we show that LM behaviors can be customized using different combinations of fine-grained reward models. We release all data, collected human feedback, and codes at this https URL.\"\nHierarchical Vision Transformer,\"pretrains vision transformers with a visual pretext task (MAE), while removing unnecessary components from a state-of-the-art multi-stage vision transformer; this enables a simple hierarchical vision transformer that’s more accurate and faster at inference and during training.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00989,https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1665759715765411840?s=20,\"Modern hierarchical vision transformers have added several vision-specific components in the pursuit of supervised classification performance. While these components lead to effective accuracies and attractive FLOP counts, the added complexity actually makes these transformers slower than their vanilla ViT counterparts. In this paper, we argue that this additional bulk is unnecessary. By pretraining with a strong visual pretext task (MAE), we can strip out all the bells-and-whistles from a state-of-the-art multi-stage vision transformer without losing accuracy. In the process, we create Hiera, an extremely simple hierarchical vision transformer that is more accurate than previous models while being significantly faster both at inference and during training. We evaluate Hiera on a variety of tasks for image and video recognition. Our code and models are available at this https URL.\"\nHumor in ChatGPT,explores ChatGPT’s capabilities to grasp and reproduce humor; finds that over 90% of 1008 generated jokes were the same 25 jokes and that ChatGPT is also overfitted to a particular joke structure.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04563,https://twitter.com/AlbertBoyangLi/status/1666707728272850944?s=20,\"Humor is a central aspect of human communication that has not been solved for artificial agents so far. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly able to capture implicit and contextual information. Especially, OpenAI's ChatGPT recently gained immense public attention. The GPT3-based model almost seems to communicate on a human level and can even tell jokes. Humor is an essential component of human communication. But is ChatGPT really funny? We put ChatGPT's sense of humor to the test. In a series of exploratory experiments around jokes, i.e., generation, explanation, and detection, we seek to understand ChatGPT's capability to grasp and reproduce human humor. Since the model itself is not accessible, we applied prompt-based experiments. Our empirical evidence indicates that jokes are not hard-coded but mostly also not newly generated by the model. Over 90% of 1008 generated jokes were the same 25 Jokes. The system accurately explains valid jokes but also comes up with fictional explanations for invalid jokes. Joke-typical characteristics can mislead ChatGPT in the classification of jokes. ChatGPT has not solved computational humor yet but it can be a big leap toward \"\"funny\"\" machines.\"\nImitating Reasoning Process of Larger LLMs,develops a 13B parameter model that learns to imitate the reasoning process of large foundational models like GPT-4; it leverages large-scale and diverse imitation data and surpasses instruction-tuned models such as Vicuna-13B in zero-shot reasoning.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02707,https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1665906453587034112?s=20,\"Recent research has focused on enhancing the capability of smaller models through imitation learning, drawing on the outputs generated by large foundation models (LFMs). A number of issues impact the quality of these models, ranging from limited imitation signals from shallow LFM outputs; small scale homogeneous training data; and most notably a lack of rigorous evaluation resulting in overestimating the small model's capability as they tend to learn to imitate the style, but not the reasoning process of LFMs. To address these challenges, we develop Orca (We are working with our legal team to publicly release a diff of the model weights in accordance with LLaMA's release policy to be published at this https URL), a 13-billion parameter model that learns to imitate the reasoning process of LFMs. Orca learns from rich signals from GPT-4 including explanation traces; step-by-step thought processes; and other complex instructions, guided by teacher assistance from ChatGPT. To promote this progressive learning, we tap into large-scale and diverse imitation data with judicious sampling and selection. Orca surpasses conventional state-of-the-art instruction-tuned models such as Vicuna-13B by more than 100% in complex zero-shot reasoning benchmarks like Big-Bench Hard (BBH) and 42% on AGIEval. Moreover, Orca reaches parity with ChatGPT on the BBH benchmark and shows competitive performance (4 pts gap with optimized system message) in professional and academic examinations like the SAT, LSAT, GRE, and GMAT, both in zero-shot settings without CoT; while trailing behind GPT-4. Our research indicates that learning from step-by-step explanations, whether these are generated by humans or more advanced AI models, is a promising direction to improve model capabilities and skills.\"\nLet’s Verify Step by Step,achieves state-of-the-art mathematical problem solving by rewarding each correct step of reasoning in a chain-of-thought instead of rewarding the final answer; the model solves 78% of problems from a representative subset of the MATH test set.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20050,https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1663957407184347136?s=20,\"In recent years, large language models have greatly improved in their ability to perform complex multi-step reasoning. However, even state-of-the-art models still regularly produce logical mistakes. To train more reliable models, we can turn either to outcome supervision, which provides feedback for a final result, or process supervision, which provides feedback for each intermediate reasoning step. Given the importance of training reliable models, and given the high cost of human feedback, it is important to carefully compare the both methods. Recent work has already begun this comparison, but many questions still remain. We conduct our own investigation, finding that process supervision significantly outperforms outcome supervision for training models to solve problems from the challenging MATH dataset. Our process-supervised model solves 78% of problems from a representative subset of the MATH test set. Additionally, we show that active learning significantly improves the efficacy of process supervision. To support related research, we also release PRM800K, the complete dataset of 800,000 step-level human feedback labels used to train our best reward model.\"\nNo Positional Encodings,shows that explicit position embeddings are not essential for decoder-only Transformers; shows that other positional encoding methods like ALiBi and Rotary are not well suited for length generalization.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19466,https://twitter.com/a_kazemnejad/status/1664277559968927744?s=20,\"Length generalization, the ability to generalize from small training context sizes to larger ones, is a critical challenge in the development of Transformer-based language models. Positional encoding (PE) has been identified as a major factor influencing length generalization, but the exact impact of different PE schemes on extrapolation in downstream tasks remains unclear. In this paper, we conduct a systematic empirical study comparing the length generalization performance of decoder-only Transformers with five different position encoding approaches including Absolute Position Embedding (APE), T5's Relative PE, ALiBi, and Rotary, in addition to Transformers without positional encoding (NoPE). Our evaluation encompasses a battery of reasoning and mathematical tasks. Our findings reveal that the most commonly used positional encoding methods, such as ALiBi, Rotary, and APE, are not well suited for length generalization in downstream tasks. More importantly, NoPE outperforms other explicit positional encoding methods while requiring no additional computation. We theoretically demonstrate that NoPE can represent both absolute and relative PEs, but when trained with SGD, it mostly resembles T5's relative PE attention patterns. Finally, we find that scratchpad is not always helpful to solve length generalization and its format highly impacts the model's performance. Overall, our work suggests that explicit position embeddings are not essential for decoder-only Transformers to generalize well to longer sequences.\"\nBiomedGPT,\"a unified biomedical generative pretrained transformer model for vision, language, and multimodal tasks. Achieves state-of-the-art performance across 5 distinct tasks with 20 public datasets spanning over 15 unique biomedical modalities.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17100,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1662992484576681986?s=20,\"In this paper, we introduce a unified and generalist Biomedical Generative Pre-trained Transformer (BiomedGPT) model, which leverages self-supervision on large and diverse datasets to accept multi-modal inputs and perform a range of downstream tasks. Our experiments demonstrate that BiomedGPT delivers expansive and inclusive representations of biomedical data, outperforming the majority of preceding state-of-the-art models across five distinct tasks with 20 public datasets spanning over 15 unique biomedical modalities. Through the ablation study, we also showcase the efficacy of our multi-modal and multi-task pretraining approach in transferring knowledge to previously unseen data. Overall, our work presents a significant step forward in developing unified and generalist models for biomedicine, with far-reaching implications for improving healthcare outcomes.\"\nThought Cloning,introduces an imitation learning framework to learn to think while acting; the idea is not only to clone the behaviors of human demonstrators but also the thoughts humans have when performing behaviors.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00323,https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1664798780644904960?s=20,\"Language is often considered a key aspect of human thinking, providing us with exceptional abilities to generalize, explore, plan, replan, and adapt to new situations. However, Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are far from human-level performance in any of these abilities. We hypothesize one reason for such cognitive deficiencies is that they lack the benefits of thinking in language and that we can improve AI agents by training them to think like humans do. We introduce a novel Imitation Learning framework, Thought Cloning, where the idea is to not just clone the behaviors of human demonstrators, but also the thoughts humans have as they perform these behaviors. While we expect Thought Cloning to truly shine at scale on internet-sized datasets of humans thinking out loud while acting (e.g. online videos with transcripts), here we conduct experiments in a domain where the thinking and action data are synthetically generated. Results reveal that Thought Cloning learns much faster than Behavioral Cloning and its performance advantage grows the further out of distribution test tasks are, highlighting its ability to better handle novel situations. Thought Cloning also provides important benefits for AI Safety and Interpretability, and makes it easier to debug and improve AI. Because we can observe the agent's thoughts, we can (1) more easily diagnose why things are going wrong, making it easier to fix the problem, (2) steer the agent by correcting its thinking, or (3) prevent it from doing unsafe things it plans to do. Overall, by training agents how to think as well as behave, Thought Cloning creates safer, more powerful agents.\"\nFine-Tuning Language Models with Just Forward Passes,proposes a memory-efficient zeroth-order optimizer and a corresponding SGD algorithm to finetune large LMs with the same memory footprint as inference.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17333,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1663360307274690560?s=20,\"Fine-tuning language models (LMs) has yielded success on diverse downstream tasks, but as LMs grow in size, backpropagation requires a prohibitively large amount of memory. Zeroth-order (ZO) methods can in principle estimate gradients using only two forward passes but are theorized to be catastrophically slow for optimizing large models. In this work, we propose a memory-efficient zerothorder optimizer (MeZO), adapting the classical ZO-SGD method to operate in-place, thereby fine-tuning LMs with the same memory footprint as inference. For example, with a single A100 80GB GPU, MeZO can train a 30-billion parameter model, whereas fine-tuning with backpropagation can train only a 2.7B LM with the same budget. We conduct comprehensive experiments across model types (masked and autoregressive LMs), model scales (up to 66B), and downstream tasks (classification, multiple-choice, and generation). Our results demonstrate that (1) MeZO significantly outperforms in-context learning and linear probing; (2) MeZO achieves comparable performance to fine-tuning with backpropagation across multiple tasks, with up to 12x memory reduction; (3) MeZO is compatible with both full-parameter and parameter-efficient tuning techniques such as LoRA and prefix tuning; (4) MeZO can effectively optimize non-differentiable objectives (e.g., maximizing accuracy or F1). We support our empirical findings with theoretical insights, highlighting how adequate pre-training and task prompts enable MeZO to fine-tune huge models, despite classical ZO analyses suggesting otherwise.\"\nMERT,an acoustic music understanding model with large-scale self-supervised training; it incorporates a superior combination of teacher models to outperform conventional speech and audio approaches.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00107,https://twitter.com/yizhilll/status/1664680921146982401?s=20,\"Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for training generalisable models on large-scale data in the fields of vision, text, and speech. Although SSL has been proven effective in speech and audio, its application to music audio has yet to be thoroughly explored. This is primarily due to the distinctive challenges associated with modelling musical knowledge, particularly its tonal and pitched characteristics of music. To address this research gap, we propose an acoustic Music undERstanding model with large-scale self-supervised Training (MERT), which incorporates teacher models to provide pseudo labels in the masked language modelling (MLM) style acoustic pre-training. In our exploration, we identified a superior combination of teacher models, which outperforms conventional speech and audio approaches in terms of performance. This combination includes an acoustic teacher based on Residual Vector Quantization - Variational AutoEncoder (RVQ-VAE) and a musical teacher based on the Constant-Q Transform (CQT). These teachers effectively guide our student model, a BERT-style transformer encoder, to better model music audio. In addition, we introduce an in-batch noise mixture augmentation to enhance the representation robustness. Furthermore, we explore a wide range of settings to overcome the instability in acoustic language model pre-training, which allows our designed paradigm to scale from 95M to 330M parameters. Experimental results indicate that our model can generalise and perform well on 14 music understanding tasks and attains state-of-the-art (SOTA) overall scores. The code and models are online: this https URL.\"\nBytes Are All You Need,\"investigates performing classification directly on file bytes, without needing to decode files at inference time; achieves ImageNet Top-1 accuracy of 77.33% using a transformer backbone; achieves 95.42% accuracy when operating on WAV files from the Speech Commands v2 dataset.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00238,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1664497650702471169?s=20,\"Modern deep learning approaches usually transform inputs into a modality-specific form. For example, the most common deep learning approach to image classification involves decoding image file bytes into an RGB tensor which is passed into a neural network. Instead, we investigate performing classification directly on file bytes, without the need for decoding files at inference time. Using file bytes as model inputs enables the development of models which can operate on multiple input modalities. Our model, \\emph{ByteFormer}, achieves an ImageNet Top-1 classification accuracy of $77.33\\%$ when training and testing directly on TIFF file bytes using a transformer backbone with configuration similar to DeiT-Ti ($72.2\\%$ accuracy when operating on RGB images). Without modifications or hyperparameter tuning, ByteFormer achieves $95.42\\%$ classification accuracy when operating on WAV files from the Speech Commands v2 dataset (compared to state-of-the-art accuracy of $98.7\\%$). Additionally, we demonstrate that ByteFormer has applications in privacy-preserving inference. ByteFormer is capable of performing inference on particular obfuscated input representations with no loss of accuracy. We also demonstrate ByteFormer's ability to perform inference with a hypothetical privacy-preserving camera which avoids forming full images by consistently masking $90\\%$ of pixel channels, while still achieving $71.35\\%$ accuracy on ImageNet. Our code will be made available at this https URL.\"\nDirect Preference Optimization,\"while helpful to train safe and useful LLMs, the RLHF process can be complex and often unstable; this work proposes an approach to finetune LMs by solving a classification problem on the human preferences data, with no RL required.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290,https://twitter.com/archit_sharma97/status/1663595372269408261?s=20,\"While large-scale unsupervised language models (LMs) learn broad world knowledge and some reasoning skills, achieving precise control of their behavior is difficult due to the completely unsupervised nature of their training. Existing methods for gaining such steerability collect human labels of the relative quality of model generations and fine-tune the unsupervised LM to align with these preferences, often with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). However, RLHF is a complex and often unstable procedure, first fitting a reward model that reflects the human preferences, and then fine-tuning the large unsupervised LM using reinforcement learning to maximize this estimated reward without drifting too far from the original model. In this paper, we leverage a mapping between reward functions and optimal policies to show that this constrained reward maximization problem can be optimized exactly with a single stage of policy training, essentially solving a classification problem on the human preference data. The resulting algorithm, which we call Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), is stable, performant and computationally lightweight, eliminating the need for fitting a reward model, sampling from the LM during fine-tuning, or performing significant hyperparameter tuning. Our experiments show that DPO can fine-tune LMs to align with human preferences as well as or better than existing methods. Notably, fine-tuning with DPO exceeds RLHF's ability to control sentiment of generations and improves response quality in summarization and single-turn dialogue while being substantially simpler to implement and train.\"\nSQL-PaLM,\"an LLM-based Text-to-SQL adopted from PaLM-2; achieves SoTA in both in-context learning and fine-tuning settings; the few-shot model outperforms the previous fine-tuned SoTA by 3.8% on the Spider benchmark; few-shot SQL-PaLM also outperforms few-shot GPT-4 by 9.9%, using a simple prompting approach.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00739,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1664441085693657088?s=20,\"One impressive emergent capability of large language models (LLMs) is generation of code, including Structured Query Language (SQL) for databases. For the task of converting natural language text to SQL queries, Text-to-SQL, adaptation of LLMs is of paramount importance, both in in-context learning and fine-tuning settings, depending on the amount of adaptation data used. In this paper, we propose an LLM-based Text-to-SQL model SQL-PaLM, leveraging on PaLM-2, that pushes the state-of-the-art in both settings. Few-shot SQL-PaLM is based on an execution-based self-consistency prompting approach designed for Text-to-SQL, and achieves 77.3% in test-suite accuracy on Spider, which to our best knowledge is the first to outperform previous state-of-the-art with fine-tuning by a significant margin, 4%. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the fine-tuned SQL-PALM outperforms it further by another 1%. Towards applying SQL-PaLM to real-world scenarios we further evaluate its robustness on other challenging variants of Spider and demonstrate the superior generalization capability of SQL-PaLM. In addition, via extensive case studies, we demonstrate the impressive intelligent capabilities and various success enablers of LLM-based Text-to-SQL.\"\nCodeTF,\"an open-source Transformer library for state-of-the-art code LLMs; supports pretrained code LLMs and popular code benchmarks, including standard methods to train and serve code LLMs efficiently.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00029,https://twitter.com/stevenhoi/status/1664483010954272770?s=20,\"Code intelligence plays a key role in transforming modern software engineering. Recently, deep learning-based models, especially Transformer-based large language models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable potential in tackling these tasks by leveraging massive open-source code data and programming language features. However, the development and deployment of such models often require expertise in both machine learning and software engineering, creating a barrier for the model adoption. In this paper, we present CodeTF, an open-source Transformer-based library for state-of-the-art Code LLMs and code intelligence. Following the principles of modular design and extensible framework, we design CodeTF with a unified interface to enable rapid access and development across different types of models, datasets and tasks. Our library supports a collection of pretrained Code LLM models and popular code benchmarks, including a standardized interface to train and serve code LLMs efficiently, and data features such as language-specific parsers and utility functions for extracting code attributes. In this paper, we describe the design principles, the architecture, key modules and components, and compare with other related library tools. Finally, we hope CodeTF is able to bridge the gap between machine learning/generative AI and software engineering, providing a comprehensive open-source solution for developers, researchers, and practitioners.\"\nQLoRA,an efficient finetuning approach that reduces memory usage enough to finetune a 65B parameter model on a single 48GB GPU while preserving full 16-bit finetuning performance.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314,https://twitter.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1661379354507476994?s=20,\"We present QLoRA, an efficient finetuning approach that reduces memory usage enough to finetune a 65B parameter model on a single 48GB GPU while preserving full 16-bit finetuning task performance. QLoRA backpropagates gradients through a frozen, 4-bit quantized pretrained language model into Low Rank Adapters~(LoRA). Our best model family, which we name Guanaco, outperforms all previous openly released models on the Vicuna benchmark, reaching 99.3% of the performance level of ChatGPT while only requiring 24 hours of finetuning on a single GPU. QLoRA introduces a number of innovations to save memory without sacrificing performance: (a) 4-bit NormalFloat (NF4), a new data type that is information theoretically optimal for normally distributed weights (b) double quantization to reduce the average memory footprint by quantizing the quantization constants, and (c) paged optimziers to manage memory spikes. We use QLoRA to finetune more than 1,000 models, providing a detailed analysis of instruction following and chatbot performance across 8 instruction datasets, multiple model types (LLaMA, T5), and model scales that would be infeasible to run with regular finetuning (e.g. 33B and 65B parameter models). Our results show that QLoRA finetuning on a small high-quality dataset leads to state-of-the-art results, even when using smaller models than the previous SoTA. We provide a detailed analysis of chatbot performance based on both human and GPT-4 evaluations showing that GPT-4 evaluations are a cheap and reasonable alternative to human evaluation. Furthermore, we find that current chatbot benchmarks are not trustworthy to accurately evaluate the performance levels of chatbots. A lemon-picked analysis demonstrates where Guanaco fails compared to ChatGPT. We release all of our models and code, including CUDA kernels for 4-bit training.\"\nLIMA,\"a new 65B parameter LLaMa model fine-tuned on 1000 carefully curated prompts and responses; it doesn't use RLHF, generalizes well to unseen tasks not available in the training data, and generates responses equivalent or preferred to GPT-4 in 43% of cases, and even higher compared to Bard.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11206,https://twitter.com/violet_zct/status/1660789120069926912?s=20,\"Large language models are trained in two stages: (1) unsupervised pretraining from raw text, to learn general-purpose representations, and (2) large scale instruction tuning and reinforcement learning, to better align to end tasks and user preferences. We measure the relative importance of these two stages by training LIMA, a 65B parameter LLaMa language model fine-tuned with the standard supervised loss on only 1,000 carefully curated prompts and responses, without any reinforcement learning or human preference modeling. LIMA demonstrates remarkably strong performance, learning to follow specific response formats from only a handful of examples in the training data, including complex queries that range from planning trip itineraries to speculating about alternate history. Moreover, the model tends to generalize well to unseen tasks that did not appear in the training data. In a controlled human study, responses from LIMA are either equivalent or strictly preferred to GPT-4 in 43% of cases; this statistic is as high as 58% when compared to Bard and 65% versus DaVinci003, which was trained with human feedback. Taken together, these results strongly suggest that almost all knowledge in large language models is learned during pretraining, and only limited instruction tuning data is necessary to teach models to produce high quality output.\"\nVoyager,\"an LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft that can continuously explore worlds, acquire skills, and make novel discoveries without human intervention.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16291,https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1662115266933972993?s=20,\"We introduce Voyager, the first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft that continuously explores the world, acquires diverse skills, and makes novel discoveries without human intervention. Voyager consists of three key components: 1) an automatic curriculum that maximizes exploration, 2) an ever-growing skill library of executable code for storing and retrieving complex behaviors, and 3) a new iterative prompting mechanism that incorporates environment feedback, execution errors, and self-verification for program improvement. Voyager interacts with GPT-4 via blackbox queries, which bypasses the need for model parameter fine-tuning. The skills developed by Voyager are temporally extended, interpretable, and compositional, which compounds the agent's abilities rapidly and alleviates catastrophic forgetting. Empirically, Voyager shows strong in-context lifelong learning capability and exhibits exceptional proficiency in playing Minecraft. It obtains 3.3x more unique items, travels 2.3x longer distances, and unlocks key tech tree milestones up to 15.3x faster than prior SOTA. Voyager is able to utilize the learned skill library in a new Minecraft world to solve novel tasks from scratch, while other techniques struggle to generalize. We open-source our full codebase and prompts at this https URL.\"\nGorilla,\"a finetuned LLaMA-based model that surpasses GPT-4 on writing API calls. This capability can help identify the right API, boosting the ability of LLMs to interact with external tools to complete specific tasks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15334,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1661540207206846464?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) have seen an impressive wave of advances recently, with models now excelling in a variety of tasks, such as mathematical reasoning and program synthesis. However, their potential to effectively use tools via API calls remains unfulfilled. This is a challenging task even for today's state-of-the-art LLMs such as GPT-4, largely due to their inability to generate accurate input arguments and their tendency to hallucinate the wrong usage of an API call. We release Gorilla, a finetuned LLaMA-based model that surpasses the performance of GPT-4 on writing API calls. When combined with a document retriever, Gorilla demonstrates a strong capability to adapt to test-time document changes, enabling flexible user updates or version changes. It also substantially mitigates the issue of hallucination, commonly encountered when prompting LLMs directly. To evaluate the model's ability, we introduce APIBench, a comprehensive dataset consisting of HuggingFace, TorchHub, and TensorHub APIs. The successful integration of the retrieval system with Gorilla demonstrates the potential for LLMs to use tools more accurately, keep up with frequently updated documentation, and consequently increase the reliability and applicability of their outputs. Gorilla's code, model, data, and demo are available at this https URL\"\nThe False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs,provides a critical analysis of models that are finetuned on the outputs of a stronger model; argues that model imitation is a false premise and that the higher leverage action to improve open source models is to develop better base models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15717,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1661908342829187072?s=20,\"n emerging method to cheaply improve a weaker language model is to finetune it on outputs from a stronger model, such as a proprietary system like ChatGPT (e.g., Alpaca, Self-Instruct, and others). This approach looks to cheaply imitate the proprietary model's capabilities using a weaker open-source model. In this work, we critically analyze this approach. We first finetune a series of LMs that imitate ChatGPT using varying base model sizes (1.5B--13B), data sources, and imitation data amounts (0.3M--150M tokens). We then evaluate the models using crowd raters and canonical NLP benchmarks. Initially, we were surprised by the output quality of our imitation models -- they appear far better at following instructions, and crowd workers rate their outputs as competitive with ChatGPT. However, when conducting more targeted automatic evaluations, we find that imitation models close little to none of the gap from the base LM to ChatGPT on tasks that are not heavily supported in the imitation data. We show that these performance discrepancies may slip past human raters because imitation models are adept at mimicking ChatGPT's style but not its factuality. Overall, we conclude that model imitation is a false promise: there exists a substantial capabilities gap between open and closed LMs that, with current methods, can only be bridged using an unwieldy amount of imitation data or by using more capable base LMs. In turn, we argue that the highest leverage action for improving open-source models is to tackle the difficult challenge of developing better base LMs, rather than taking the shortcut of imitating proprietary systems.\"\nSophia,\"presents a simple scalable second-order optimizer that has negligible average per-step time and memory overhead; on language modeling, Sophia achieves 2x speed-up compared to Adam in the number of steps, total compute, and wall-clock time.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14342,https://twitter.com/tengyuma/status/1661412995430219786?s=20,\"Given the massive cost of language model pre-training, a non-trivial improvement of the optimization algorithm would lead to a material reduction on the time and cost of training. Adam and its variants have been state-of-the-art for years, and more sophisticated second-order (Hessian-based) optimizers often incur too much per-step overhead. In this paper, we propose Sophia, Second-order Clipped Stochastic Optimization, a simple scalable second-order optimizer that uses a light-weight estimate of the diagonal Hessian as the pre-conditioner. The update is the moving average of the gradients divided by the moving average of the estimated Hessian, followed by element-wise clipping. The clipping controls the worst-case update size and tames the negative impact of non-convexity and rapid change of Hessian along the trajectory. Sophia only estimates the diagonal Hessian every handful of iterations, which has negligible average per-step time and memory overhead. On language modeling with GPT models of sizes ranging from 125M to 1.5B, Sophia achieves a 2x speed-up compared to Adam in the number of steps, total compute, and wall-clock time, achieving the same perplexity with 50% fewer steps, less total compute, and reduced wall-clock time. Theoretically, we show that Sophia, in a much simplified setting, adapts to the heterogeneous curvatures in different parameter dimensions, and thus has a run-time bound that does not depend on the condition number of the loss.\"\n\"The Larger They Are, the Harder They Fail\",shows that LLMs fail to generate correct Python code when default function names are swapped; they also strongly prefer incorrect continuation as they become bigger.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15507,https://twitter.com/AVMiceliBarone/status/1662150656327663617?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) have successfully been applied to code generation tasks, raising the question of how well these models understand programming. Typical programming languages have invariances and equivariances in their semantics that human programmers intuitively understand and exploit, such as the (near) invariance to the renaming of identifiers. We show that LLMs not only fail to properly generate correct Python code when default function names are swapped, but some of them even become more confident in their incorrect predictions as the model size increases, an instance of the recently discovered phenomenon of Inverse Scaling, which runs contrary to the commonly observed trend of increasing prediction quality with increasing model size. Our findings indicate that, despite their astonishing typical-case performance, LLMs still lack a deep, abstract understanding of the content they manipulate, making them unsuitable for tasks that statistically deviate from their training data, and that mere scaling is not enough to achieve such capability.\"\nModel Evaluation for Extreme Risks,\"discusses the importance of model evaluation for addressing extreme risks and making responsible decisions about model training, deployment, and security.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15324,https://twitter.com/soundboy/status/1661728733156503555?s=20,\"Current approaches to building general-purpose AI systems tend to produce systems with both beneficial and harmful capabilities. Further progress in AI development could lead to capabilities that pose extreme risks, such as offensive cyber capabilities or strong manipulation skills. We explain why model evaluation is critical for addressing extreme risks. Developers must be able to identify dangerous capabilities (through \"\"dangerous capability evaluations\"\") and the propensity of models to apply their capabilities for harm (through \"\"alignment evaluations\"\"). These evaluations will become critical for keeping policymakers and other stakeholders informed, and for making responsible decisions about model training, deployment, and security.\"\nLLM Research Directions,discusses a list of research directions for students looking to do research with LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12544,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1661405738059571201?s=20,\"Recent progress in large language models has enabled the deployment of many generative NLP applications. At the same time, it has also led to a misleading public discourse that ``it's all been solved.'' Not surprisingly, this has in turn made many NLP researchers -- especially those at the beginning of their career -- wonder about what NLP research area they should focus on. This document is a compilation of NLP research directions that are rich for exploration, reflecting the views of a diverse group of PhD students in an academic research lab. While we identify many research areas, many others exist; we do not cover those areas that are currently addressed by LLMs but where LLMs lag behind in performance, or those focused on LLM development. We welcome suggestions for other research directions to include: this https URL\"\nReinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era,proposes an approach that combines the efficient parallelizable training of Transformers with the efficient inference of RNNs; results show that the method performs on part with similarly sized Transformers.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1660816265454419969?s=20,\"Transformers have revolutionized almost all natural language processing (NLP) tasks but suffer from memory and computational complexity that scales quadratically with sequence length. In contrast, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) exhibit linear scaling in memory and computational requirements but struggle to match the same performance as Transformers due to limitations in parallelization and scalability. We propose a novel model architecture, Receptance Weighted Key Value (RWKV), that combines the efficient parallelizable training of Transformers with the efficient inference of RNNs. Our approach leverages a linear attention mechanism and allows us to formulate the model as either a Transformer or an RNN, which parallelizes computations during training and maintains constant computational and memory complexity during inference, leading to the first non-transformer architecture to be scaled to tens of billions of parameters. Our experiments reveal that RWKV performs on par with similarly sized Transformers, suggesting that future work can leverage this architecture to create more efficient models. This work presents a significant step towards reconciling the trade-offs between computational efficiency and model performance in sequence processing tasks.\"\nDrag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold,an approach for controlling GANs that allows dragging points of the image to precisely reach target points in a user-interactive manner.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10973v1,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268470057967616?s=20,\"Synthesizing visual content that meets users' needs often requires flexible and precise controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the generated objects. Existing approaches gain controllability of generative adversarial networks (GANs) via manually annotated training data or a prior 3D model, which often lack flexibility, precision, and generality. In this work, we study a powerful yet much less explored way of controlling GANs, that is, to \"\"drag\"\" any points of the image to precisely reach target points in a user-interactive manner, as shown in Fig.1. To achieve this, we propose DragGAN, which consists of two main components: 1) a feature-based motion supervision that drives the handle point to move towards the target position, and 2) a new point tracking approach that leverages the discriminative generator features to keep localizing the position of the handle points. Through DragGAN, anyone can deform an image with precise control over where pixels go, thus manipulating the pose, shape, expression, and layout of diverse categories such as animals, cars, humans, landscapes, etc. As these manipulations are performed on the learned generative image manifold of a GAN, they tend to produce realistic outputs even for challenging scenarios such as hallucinating occluded content and deforming shapes that consistently follow the object's rigidity. Both qualitative and quantitative comparisons demonstrate the advantage of DragGAN over prior approaches in the tasks of image manipulation and point tracking. We also showcase the manipulation of real images through GAN inversion.\"\nEvidence of Meaning in Language Models Trained on Programs,argues that language models can learn meaning despite being trained only to perform next token prediction on text.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11169,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268472129945600?s=20,\"We present evidence that language models can learn meaning despite being trained only to perform next token prediction on text, specifically a corpus of programs. Each program is preceded by a specification in the form of (textual) input-output examples. Working with programs enables us to precisely define concepts relevant to meaning in language (e.g., correctness and semantics), making program synthesis well-suited as an intermediate testbed for characterizing the presence (or absence) of meaning in language models.\nWe first train a Transformer model on the corpus of programs, then probe the trained model's hidden states as it completes a program given a specification. Despite providing no inductive bias toward learning the semantics of the language, we find that a linear probe is able to extract abstractions of both current and future program states from the model states. Moreover, there is a strong, statistically significant correlation between the accuracy of the probe and the model's ability to generate a program that implements the specification. To evaluate whether the semantics are represented in the model states rather than learned by the probe, we design a novel experimental procedure that intervenes on the semantics of the language while preserving the lexicon and syntax. We also demonstrate that the model learns to generate correct programs that are, on average, shorter than those in the training set, which is evidence that language model outputs may differ from the training distribution in semantically meaningful ways. In summary, this paper does not propose any new techniques for training language models, but develops an experimental framework for and provides insights into the acquisition and representation of (formal) meaning in language models.\"\nTowards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models,\"a top-performing LLM for medical question answering; scored up to 86.5% on the MedQA dataset (a new state-of-the-art); approaches or exceeds SoTA across MedMCQA, PubMedQA, and MMLU clinical topics datasets.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09617,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268473853829121?s=20,\"Recent artificial intelligence (AI) systems have reached milestones in \"\"grand challenges\"\" ranging from Go to protein-folding. The capability to retrieve medical knowledge, reason over it, and answer medical questions comparably to physicians has long been viewed as one such grand challenge.\nLarge language models (LLMs) have catalyzed significant progress in medical question answering; Med-PaLM was the first model to exceed a \"\"passing\"\" score in US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) style questions with a score of 67.2% on the MedQA dataset. However, this and other prior work suggested significant room for improvement, especially when models' answers were compared to clinicians' answers. Here we present Med-PaLM 2, which bridges these gaps by leveraging a combination of base LLM improvements (PaLM 2), medical domain finetuning, and prompting strategies including a novel ensemble refinement approach.\nMed-PaLM 2 scored up to 86.5% on the MedQA dataset, improving upon Med-PaLM by over 19% and setting a new state-of-the-art. We also observed performance approaching or exceeding state-of-the-art across MedMCQA, PubMedQA, and MMLU clinical topics datasets.\nWe performed detailed human evaluations on long-form questions along multiple axes relevant to clinical applications. In pairwise comparative ranking of 1066 consumer medical questions, physicians preferred Med-PaLM 2 answers to those produced by physicians on eight of nine axes pertaining to clinical utility (p < 0.001). We also observed significant improvements compared to Med-PaLM on every evaluation axis (p < 0.001) on newly introduced datasets of 240 long-form \"\"adversarial\"\" questions to probe LLM limitations.\nWhile further studies are necessary to validate the efficacy of these models in real-world settings, these results highlight rapid progress towards physician-level performance in medical question answering.\"\nMEGABYTE: Predicting Million-byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers,a multi-scale decoder architecture enabling end-to-end modeling of sequences of over one million bytes; enables sub-quadratic self-attention and improved parallelism during decoding.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07185,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268475762327552?s=20,\"utoregressive transformers are spectacular models for short sequences but scale poorly to long sequences such as high-resolution images, podcasts, code, or books. We proposed Megabyte, a multi-scale decoder architecture that enables end-to-end differentiable modeling of sequences of over one million bytes. Megabyte segments sequences into patches and uses a local submodel within patches and a global model between patches. This enables sub-quadratic self-attention, much larger feedforward layers for the same compute, and improved parallelism during decoding -- unlocking better performance at reduced cost for both training and generation. Extensive experiments show that Megabyte allows byte-level models to perform competitively with subword models on long context language modeling, achieve state-of-the-art density estimation on ImageNet, and model audio from raw files. Together, these results establish the viability of tokenization-free autoregressive sequence modeling at scale.\"\nStructGPT: A General Framework for Large Language Model to Reason over Structured Data,improves the zero-shot reasoning ability of LLMs over structured data; effective for solving question answering tasks based on structured data.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09645,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268477628727298?s=20,\"In this paper, we study how to improve the zero-shot reasoning ability of large language models~(LLMs) over structured data in a unified way. Inspired by the study on tool augmentation for LLMs, we develop an \\emph{Iterative Reading-then-Reasoning~(IRR)} approach for solving question answering tasks based on structured data, called \\textbf{StructGPT}. In our approach, we construct the specialized function to collect relevant evidence from structured data (\\ie \\emph{reading}), and let LLMs concentrate the reasoning task based on the collected information (\\ie \\emph{reasoning}). Specially, we propose an \\emph{invoking-linearization-generation} procedure to support LLMs in reasoning on the structured data with the help of the external interfaces. By iterating this procedures with provided interfaces, our approach can gradually approach the target answer to a given query. Extensive experiments conducted on three types of structured data demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, which can significantly boost the performance of ChatGPT and achieve comparable performance against the full-data supervised-tuning baselines. Our codes and data are publicly available at~\\url{this https URL}.\"\nTinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?,\"uses a synthetic dataset of short stories to train and evaluate LMs that are much smaller than SoTA models but can produce fluent and consistent stories with several paragraphs, and demonstrate reasoning capabilities.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268479642054660?s=20,\"Language models (LMs) are powerful tools for natural language processing, but they often struggle to produce coherent and fluent text when they are small. Models with around 125M parameters such as GPT-Neo (small) or GPT-2 (small) can rarely generate coherent and consistent English text beyond a few words even after extensive training. This raises the question of whether the emergence of the ability to produce coherent English text only occurs at larger scales (with hundreds of millions of parameters or more) and complex architectures (with many layers of global attention).\nIn this work, we introduce TinyStories, a synthetic dataset of short stories that only contain words that a typical 3 to 4-year-olds usually understand, generated by GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. We show that TinyStories can be used to train and evaluate LMs that are much smaller than the state-of-the-art models (below 10 million total parameters), or have much simpler architectures (with only one transformer block), yet still produce fluent and consistent stories with several paragraphs that are diverse and have almost perfect grammar, and demonstrate reasoning capabilities.\nWe also introduce a new paradigm for the evaluation of language models: We suggest a framework which uses GPT-4 to grade the content generated by these models as if those were stories written by students and graded by a (human) teacher. This new paradigm overcomes the flaws of standard benchmarks which often requires the model's output to be very structures, and moreover provides a multidimensional score for the model, providing scores for different capabilities such as grammar, creativity and consistency.\nWe hope that TinyStories can facilitate the development, analysis and research of LMs, especially for low-resource or specialized domains, and shed light on the emergence of language capabilities in LMs.\"\nDoReMi: Optimizing Data Mixtures Speeds Up Language Model Pretraining,trains a small proxy model over domains to produce domain weights without knowledge of downstream tasks; it then resamples a dataset with the domain weights and trains a larger model; this enables using a 280M proxy model to train an 8B model (30x larger) more efficiently.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10429,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268481466572802?s=20,\"The mixture proportions of pretraining data domains (e.g., Wikipedia, books, web text) greatly affect language model (LM) performance. In this paper, we propose Domain Reweighting with Minimax Optimization (DoReMi), which first trains a small proxy model using group distributionally robust optimization (Group DRO) over domains to produce domain weights (mixture proportions) without knowledge of downstream tasks. We then resample a dataset with these domain weights and train a larger, full-sized model. In our experiments, we use DoReMi on a 280M-parameter proxy model to find domain weights for training an 8B-parameter model (30x larger) more efficiently. On The Pile, DoReMi improves perplexity across all domains, even when it downweights a domain. DoReMi improves average few-shot downstream accuracy by 6.5% points over a baseline model trained using The Pile's default domain weights and reaches the baseline accuracy with 2.6x fewer training steps. On the GLaM dataset, DoReMi, which has no knowledge of downstream tasks, even matches the performance of using domain weights tuned on downstream tasks.\"\nCodeT5+: Open Code Large Language Models for Code Understanding and Generation,\"supports a wide range of code understanding and generation tasks and different training methods to improve efficacy and computing efficiency; tested on 20 code-related benchmarks using different settings like zero-shot, fine-tuning, and instruction tuning; achieves SoTA on tasks like code completion, math programming, and text-to-code retrieval tasks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07922,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268483152584704?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) pretrained on vast source code have achieved prominent progress in code intelligence. However, existing code LLMs have two main limitations in terms of architecture and pretraining tasks. First, they often adopt a specific architecture (encoder-only or decoder-only) or rely on a unified encoder-decoder network for different downstream tasks. The former paradigm is limited by inflexibility in applications while in the latter, the model is treated as a single system for all tasks, leading to suboptimal performance on a subset of tasks. Secondly, they often employ a limited set of pretraining objectives which might not be relevant to some downstream tasks and hence result in substantial performance degrade. To address these limitations, we propose ``CodeT5+'', a family of encoder-decoder LLMs for code in which component modules can be flexibly combined to suit a wide range of downstream code tasks. Such flexibility is enabled by our proposed mixture of pretraining objectives to mitigate the pretrain-finetune discrepancy. These objectives cover span denoising, contrastive learning, text-code matching, and causal LM pretraining tasks, on both unimodal and bimodal multilingual code corpora. Furthermore, we propose to initialize CodeT5+ with frozen off-the-shelf LLMs without training from scratch to efficiently scale up our models, and explore instruction-tuning to align with natural language instructions. We extensively evaluate CodeT5+ on over 20 code-related benchmarks in different settings, including zero-shot, finetuning, and instruction-tuning. We observe state-of-the-art (SoTA) model performance on various code-related tasks, such as code generation and completion, math programming, and text-to-code retrieval tasks. Particularly, our instruction-tuned CodeT5+ 16B achieves new SoTA results on HumanEval code generation task against other open code LLMs.\"\nSymbol tuning improves in-context learning in language models,an approach to finetune LMs on in-context input-label pairs where natural language labels are replaced by arbitrary symbols; boosts performance on unseen in-context learning tasks and algorithmic reasoning tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08298,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268485035819009?s=20,\"We present symbol tuning - finetuning language models on in-context input-label pairs where natural language labels (e.g., \"\"positive/negative sentiment\"\") are replaced with arbitrary symbols (e.g., \"\"foo/bar\"\"). Symbol tuning leverages the intuition that when a model cannot use instructions or natural language labels to figure out a task, it must instead do so by learning the input-label mappings.\nWe experiment with symbol tuning across Flan-PaLM models up to 540B parameters and observe benefits across various settings. First, symbol tuning boosts performance on unseen in-context learning tasks and is much more robust to underspecified prompts, such as those without instructions or without natural language labels. Second, symbol-tuned models are much stronger at algorithmic reasoning tasks, with up to 18.2% better performance on the List Functions benchmark and up to 15.3% better performance on the Simple Turing Concepts benchmark. Finally, symbol-tuned models show large improvements in following flipped-labels presented in-context, meaning that they are more capable of using in-context information to override prior semantic knowledge.\"\nSearching for Needles in a Haystack: On the Role of Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM's Translation Capability,shows that PaLM is exposed to over 30 million translation pairs across at least 44 languages; shows that incidental bilingualism connects to the translation capabilities of PaLM.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10266,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1660268486839476224?s=20,\"Large, multilingual language models exhibit surprisingly good zero- or few-shot machine translation capabilities, despite having never seen the intentionally-included translation examples provided to typical neural translation systems. We investigate the role of incidental bilingualism -- the unintentional consumption of bilingual signals, including translation examples -- in explaining the translation capabilities of large language models, taking the Pathways Language Model (PaLM) as a case study. We introduce a mixed-method approach to measure and understand incidental bilingualism at scale. We show that PaLM is exposed to over 30 million translation pairs across at least 44 languages. Furthermore, the amount of incidental bilingual content is highly correlated with the amount of monolingual in-language content for non-English languages. We relate incidental bilingual content to zero-shot prompts and show that it can be used to mine new prompts to improve PaLM's out-of-English zero-shot translation quality. Finally, in a series of small-scale ablations, we show that its presence has a substantial impact on translation capabilities, although this impact diminishes with model scale.\"\nLLM explains neurons in LLMs,applies GPT-4 to automatically write explanations on the behavior of neurons in LLMs and even score those explanations; this offers a promising way to improve interpretability in future LLMs and potentially detect alignment and safety problems.,https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/neuron-explainer/paper/index.html,https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1655982364273831936?s=20,\nPaLM 2,\"a new state-of-the-art language model integrated into AI features and tools like Bard and the PaLM API; displays competitive performance in mathematical reasoning compared to GPT-4; instruction-tuned model, Flan-PaLM 2, shows good performance on benchmarks like MMLU and BIG-bench Hard.\",https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf,https://twitter.com/Google/status/1656347171556294669?s=20,\"We introduce PaLM 2, a new state-of-the-art language model that has better multilingual and reasoning capabilities and is more compute-efficient than its predecessor PaLM. PaLM 2 is a Transformer-based model trained using a mixture of objectives. Through extensive evaluations on English and multilingual language, and reasoning tasks, we demonstrate that PaLM 2 has significantly improved quality on downstream tasks across different model sizes, while simultaneously exhibiting faster and more efficient inference compared to PaLM. This improved efficiency enables broader deployment while also allowing the model to respond faster, for a more natural pace of interaction. PaLM 2 demonstrates robust reasoning capabilities exemplified by large improvements over PaLM on BIG-Bench and other reasoning tasks. PaLM 2 exhibits stable performance on a suite of responsible AI evaluations, and enables inference-time control over toxicity without additional overhead or impact on other capabilities. Overall, PaLM 2 achieves state-of-the-art performance across a diverse set of tasks and capabilities. When discussing the PaLM 2 family, it is important to distinguish between pre-trained models (of various sizes), fine-tuned variants of these models, and the user-facing products that use these models. In particular, user-facing products typically include additional pre- and post-processing steps. Additionally, the underlying models may evolve over time. Therefore, one should not expect the performance of user-facing products to exactly match the results reported in this report.\"\nImageBind,\"an approach that learns joint embedding data across six modalities at once; extends zero-shot capabilities to new modalities and enables emergent applications including cross-modal retrieval, composing modalities with arithmetic, cross-modal detection, and generation.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05665,https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1655989274620358656?s=20,\"We present ImageBind, an approach to learn a joint embedding across six different modalities - images, text, audio, depth, thermal, and IMU data. We show that all combinations of paired data are not necessary to train such a joint embedding, and only image-paired data is sufficient to bind the modalities together. ImageBind can leverage recent large scale vision-language models, and extends their zero-shot capabilities to new modalities just by using their natural pairing with images. It enables novel emergent applications 'out-of-the-box' including cross-modal retrieval, composing modalities with arithmetic, cross-modal detection and generation. The emergent capabilities improve with the strength of the image encoder and we set a new state-of-the-art on emergent zero-shot recognition tasks across modalities, outperforming specialist supervised models. Finally, we show strong few-shot recognition results outperforming prior work, and that ImageBind serves as a new way to evaluate vision models for visual and non-visual tasks.\"\nTidyBot,shows that robots can combine language-based planning and perception with the few-shot summarization capabilities of LLMs to infer generalized user preferences that are applicable to future interactions.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05658,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1656117478760796160?s=20,\"For a robot to personalize physical assistance effectively, it must learn user preferences that can be generally reapplied to future scenarios. In this work, we investigate personalization of household cleanup with robots that can tidy up rooms by picking up objects and putting them away. A key challenge is determining the proper place to put each object, as people's preferences can vary greatly depending on personal taste or cultural background. For instance, one person may prefer storing shirts in the drawer, while another may prefer them on the shelf. We aim to build systems that can learn such preferences from just a handful of examples via prior interactions with a particular person. We show that robots can combine language-based planning and perception with the few-shot summarization capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to infer generalized user preferences that are broadly applicable to future interactions. This approach enables fast adaptation and achieves 91.2% accuracy on unseen objects in our benchmark dataset. We also demonstrate our approach on a real-world mobile manipulator called TidyBot, which successfully puts away 85.0% of objects in real-world test scenarios.\"\nUnfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting,\"demonstrates that CoT explanations can misrepresent the true reason for a model’s prediction; when models are biased towards incorrect answers, CoT generation explanations supporting those answers.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04388,https://twitter.com/milesaturpin/status/1656010877269602304?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) can achieve strong performance on many tasks by producing step-by-step reasoning before giving a final output, often referred to as chain-of-thought reasoning (CoT). It is tempting to interpret these CoT explanations as the LLM's process for solving a task. However, we find that CoT explanations can systematically misrepresent the true reason for a model's prediction. We demonstrate that CoT explanations can be heavily influenced by adding biasing features to model inputs -- e.g., by reordering the multiple-choice options in a few-shot prompt to make the answer always \"\"(A)\"\" -- which models systematically fail to mention in their explanations. When we bias models toward incorrect answers, they frequently generate CoT explanations supporting those answers. This causes accuracy to drop by as much as 36% on a suite of 13 tasks from BIG-Bench Hard, when testing with GPT-3.5 from OpenAI and Claude 1.0 from Anthropic. On a social-bias task, model explanations justify giving answers in line with stereotypes without mentioning the influence of these social biases. Our findings indicate that CoT explanations can be plausible yet misleading, which risks increasing our trust in LLMs without guaranteeing their safety. CoT is promising for explainability, but our results highlight the need for targeted efforts to evaluate and improve explanation faithfulness.\"\nInstructBLIP,\"explores visual-language instruction tuning based on the pre-trained BLIP-2 models; achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on 13 held-out datasets, outperforming BLIP-2 and Flamingo.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06500,https://twitter.com/LiJunnan0409/status/1656821806593101827?s=20,\"Large-scale pre-training and instruction tuning have been successful at creating general-purpose language models with broad competence. However, building general-purpose vision-language models is challenging due to the rich input distributions and task diversity resulting from the additional visual input. Although vision-language pretraining has been widely studied, vision-language instruction tuning remains under-explored. In this paper, we conduct a systematic and comprehensive study on vision-language instruction tuning based on the pretrained BLIP-2 models. We gather 26 publicly available datasets, covering a wide variety of tasks and capabilities, and transform them into instruction tuning format. Additionally, we introduce an instruction-aware Query Transformer, which extracts informative features tailored to the given instruction. Trained on 13 held-in datasets, InstructBLIP attains state-of-the-art zero-shot performance across all 13 held-out datasets, substantially outperforming BLIP-2 and larger Flamingo models. Our models also lead to state-of-the-art performance when finetuned on individual downstream tasks (e.g., 90.7% accuracy on ScienceQA questions with image contexts). Furthermore, we qualitatively demonstrate the advantages of InstructBLIP over concurrent multimodal models. All InstructBLIP models are open-sourced at this https URL.\"\nActive Retrieval Augmented LLMs,\"introduces FLARE, retrieval augmented generation to improve the reliability of LLMs; FLARE actively decides when and what to retrieve across the course of the generation; demonstrates superior or competitive performance on long-form knowledge-intensive generation tasks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06983,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1657004417726423042?s=20,\"Despite the remarkable ability of large language models (LMs) to comprehend and generate language, they have a tendency to hallucinate and create factually inaccurate output. Augmenting LMs by retrieving information from external knowledge resources is one promising solution. Most existing retrieval-augmented LMs employ a retrieve-and-generate setup that only retrieves information once based on the input. This is limiting, however, in more general scenarios involving generation of long texts, where continually gathering information throughout the generation process is essential. There have been some past efforts to retrieve information multiple times while generating outputs, which mostly retrieve documents at fixed intervals using the previous context as queries. In this work, we provide a generalized view of active retrieval augmented generation, methods that actively decide when and what to retrieve across the course of the generation. We propose Forward-Looking Active REtrieval augmented generation (FLARE), a generic retrieval-augmented generation method which iteratively uses a prediction of the upcoming sentence to anticipate future content, which is then utilized as a query to retrieve relevant documents to regenerate the sentence if it contains low-confidence tokens. We test FLARE along with baselines comprehensively over 4 long-form knowledge-intensive generation tasks/datasets. FLARE achieves superior or competitive performance on all tasks, demonstrating the effectiveness of our method. Code and datasets are available at this https URL.\"\nFrugalGPT,presents strategies to reduce the inference cost associated with using LLMs while improving performance.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05176,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1656105704808419329?s=20,\"There is a rapidly growing number of large language models (LLMs) that users can query for a fee. We review the cost associated with querying popular LLM APIs, e.g. GPT-4, ChatGPT, J1-Jumbo, and find that these models have heterogeneous pricing structures, with fees that can differ by two orders of magnitude. In particular, using LLMs on large collections of queries and text can be expensive. Motivated by this, we outline and discuss three types of strategies that users can exploit to reduce the inference cost associated with using LLMs: 1) prompt adaptation, 2) LLM approximation, and 3) LLM cascade. As an example, we propose FrugalGPT, a simple yet flexible instantiation of LLM cascade which learns which combinations of LLMs to use for different queries in order to reduce cost and improve accuracy. Our experiments show that FrugalGPT can match the performance of the best individual LLM (e.g. GPT-4) with up to 98% cost reduction or improve the accuracy over GPT-4 by 4% with the same cost. The ideas and findings presented here lay a foundation for using LLMs sustainably and efficiently.\"\nStarCoder,an open-access 15.5B parameter LLM with 8K context length and is trained on large amounts of code spanning 80+ programming languages.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06161,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1656479380296613894?s=20,\"The BigCode community, an open-scientific collaboration working on the responsible development of Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs), introduces StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length, infilling capabilities and fast large-batch inference enabled by multi-query attention. StarCoderBase is trained on 1 trillion tokens sourced from The Stack, a large collection of permissively licensed GitHub repositories with inspection tools and an opt-out process. We fine-tuned StarCoderBase on 35B Python tokens, resulting in the creation of StarCoder. We perform the most comprehensive evaluation of Code LLMs to date and show that StarCoderBase outperforms every open Code LLM that supports multiple programming languages and matches or outperforms the OpenAI code-cushman-001 model. Furthermore, StarCoder outperforms every model that is fine-tuned on Python, can be prompted to achieve 40\\% pass@1 on HumanEval, and still retains its performance on other programming languages. We take several important steps towards a safe open-access model release, including an improved PII redaction pipeline and a novel attribution tracing tool, and make the StarCoder models publicly available under a more commercially viable version of the Open Responsible AI Model license.\"\nMultiModal-GPT,\"a vision and language model for multi-round dialogue with humans; the model is fine-tuned from OpenFlamingo, with LoRA added in the cross-attention and self-attention parts of the language model.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04790,https://twitter.com/OpenMMLab/status/1656127026687000578?s=20,\"We present a vision and language model named MultiModal-GPT to conduct multi-round dialogue with humans. MultiModal-GPT can follow various instructions from humans, such as generating a detailed caption, counting the number of interested objects, and answering general questions from users. MultiModal-GPT is parameter-efficiently fine-tuned from OpenFlamingo, with Low-rank Adapter (LoRA) added both in the cross-attention part and the self-attention part of the language model. We first construct instruction templates with vision and language data for multi-modality instruction tuning to make the model understand and follow human instructions. We find the quality of training data is vital for the dialogue performance, where few data containing short answers can lead the model to respond shortly to any instructions. To further enhance the ability to chat with humans of the MultiModal-GPT, we utilize language-only instruction-following data to train the MultiModal-GPT jointly. The joint training of language-only and visual-language instructions with the \\emph{same} instruction template effectively improves dialogue performance. Various demos show the ability of continuous dialogue of MultiModal-GPT with humans. Code, dataset, and demo are at this https URL\"\nscGPT: Towards Building a Foundation Model for Single-Cell Multi-omics Using Generative AI,a foundation large language model pretrained on 10 million cells for single-cell biology.,https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.30.538439v1,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223088152211456?s=20,\"Generative pre-trained models have achieved remarkable success in various domains such as natural language processing and computer vision. Specifically, the combination of large-scale diverse datasets and pre-trained transformers has emerged as a promising approach for developing foundation models. While texts are made up of words, cells can be characterized by genes. This analogy inspires us to explore the potential of foundation models for cell and gene biology. By leveraging the exponentially growing single-cell sequencing data, we present the first attempt to construct a single-cell foundation model through generative pre-training on over 10 million cells. We demonstrate that the generative pre-trained transformer, scGPT, effectively captures meaningful biological insights into genes and cells. Furthermore, the model can be readily finetuned to achieve state-of-the-art performance across a variety of downstream tasks, including multi-batch integration, multi-omic integration, cell-type annotation, genetic perturbation prediction, and gene network inference. The scGPT codebase is publicly available at https://github.com/bowang-lab/scGPT.\"\nGPTutor: a ChatGPT-powered programming tool for code explanation,a ChatGPT-powered tool for code explanation provided as a VSCode extension; claims to deliver more concise and accurate explanations than vanilla ChatGPT and Copilot; performance and personalization enhanced via prompt engineering; programmed to use more relevant code in its prompts.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01863,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223089754517509?s=20,\"Learning new programming skills requires tailored guidance. With the emergence of advanced Natural Language Generation models like the ChatGPT API, there is now a possibility of creating a convenient and personalized tutoring system with AI for computer science education. This paper presents GPTutor, a ChatGPT-powered programming tool, which is a Visual Studio Code extension using the ChatGPT API to provide programming code explanations. By integrating Visual Studio Code API, GPTutor can comprehensively analyze the provided code by referencing the relevant source codes. As a result, GPTutor can use designed prompts to explain the selected code with a pop-up message. GPTutor is now published at the Visual Studio Code Extension Marketplace, and its source code is openly accessible on GitHub. Preliminary evaluation indicates that GPTutor delivers the most concise and accurate explanations compared to vanilla ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. Moreover, the feedback from students and teachers indicated that GPTutor is user-friendly and can explain given codes satisfactorily. Finally, we discuss possible future research directions for GPTutor. This includes enhancing its performance and personalization via further prompt programming, as well as evaluating the effectiveness of GPTutor with real users.\"\nShap-E: Generating Conditional 3D Implicit Functions,\"a conditional generative model for 3D assets; unlike previous 3D generative models, this model generates implicit functions that enable rendering textured meshes and neural radiance fields.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02463,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223091482566663?s=20,\"We present Shap-E, a conditional generative model for 3D assets. Unlike recent work on 3D generative models which produce a single output representation, Shap-E directly generates the parameters of implicit functions that can be rendered as both textured meshes and neural radiance fields. We train Shap-E in two stages: first, we train an encoder that deterministically maps 3D assets into the parameters of an implicit function; second, we train a conditional diffusion model on outputs of the encoder. When trained on a large dataset of paired 3D and text data, our resulting models are capable of generating complex and diverse 3D assets in a matter of seconds. When compared to Point-E, an explicit generative model over point clouds, Shap-E converges faster and reaches comparable or better sample quality despite modeling a higher-dimensional, multi-representation output space. We release model weights, inference code, and samples at this https URL.\"\nAre Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?,presents an alternative explanation to the emergent abilities of LLMs; suggests that existing claims are creations of the researcher’s analyses and not fundamental changes in model behavior on specific tasks with scale,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223092975640578?s=20,\"Recent work claims that large language models display emergent abilities, abilities not present in smaller-scale models that are present in larger-scale models. What makes emergent abilities intriguing is two-fold: their sharpness, transitioning seemingly instantaneously from not present to present, and their unpredictability, appearing at seemingly unforeseeable model scales. Here, we present an alternative explanation for emergent abilities: that for a particular task and model family, when analyzing fixed model outputs, emergent abilities appear due to the researcher's choice of metric rather than due to fundamental changes in model behavior with scale. Specifically, nonlinear or discontinuous metrics produce apparent emergent abilities, whereas linear or continuous metrics produce smooth, continuous predictable changes in model performance. We present our alternative explanation in a simple mathematical model, then test it in three complementary ways: we (1) make, test and confirm three predictions on the effect of metric choice using the InstructGPT/GPT-3 family on tasks with claimed emergent abilities; (2) make, test and confirm two predictions about metric choices in a meta-analysis of emergent abilities on BIG-Bench; and (3) show to choose metrics to produce never-before-seen seemingly emergent abilities in multiple vision tasks across diverse deep networks. Via all three analyses, we provide evidence that alleged emergent abilities evaporate with different metrics or with better statistics, and may not be a fundamental property of scaling AI models.\"\nInterpretable Machine Learning for Science with PySR and SymbolicRegression.jl,\"releases PySR, an open-source library for practical symbolic regression for the sciences; it’s built on a high-performance distributed back-end and interfaces with several deep learning packages; in addition, a new benchmark, “EmpiricalBench”, is released to quantify applicability of symbolic regression algorithms in science.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01582,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223094640889856?s=20,\"PySR is an open-source library for practical symbolic regression, a type of machine learning which aims to discover human-interpretable symbolic models. PySR was developed to democratize and popularize symbolic regression for the sciences, and is built on a high-performance distributed back-end, a flexible search algorithm, and interfaces with several deep learning packages. PySR's internal search algorithm is a multi-population evolutionary algorithm, which consists of a unique evolve-simplify-optimize loop, designed for optimization of unknown scalar constants in newly-discovered empirical expressions. PySR's backend is the extremely optimized Julia library SymbolicRegression.jl, which can be used directly from Julia. It is capable of fusing user-defined operators into SIMD kernels at runtime, performing automatic differentiation, and distributing populations of expressions to thousands of cores across a cluster. In describing this software, we also introduce a new benchmark, \"\"EmpiricalBench,\"\" to quantify the applicability of symbolic regression algorithms in science. This benchmark measures recovery of historical empirical equations from original and synthetic datasets.\"\nPMC-LLaMA: Further Finetuning LLaMA on Medical Papers,a LLaMA model fine-tuned on 4.8 million medical papers; enhances capabilities in the medical domain and achieves high performance on biomedical QA benchmarks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14454,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223096301740032?s=20,\"Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding. While demonstrating proficiency in everyday conversations and question-answering situations, these models frequently struggle in domains that require precision, such as medical applications, due to their lack of domain-specific knowledge. In this paper, we describe the procedure for building a powerful, open-source language model specifically designed for medicine applications, termed as PMC-LLaMA. Our contributions are threefold: (i) we systematically investigate the process of adapting a general-purpose foundation language model towards medical domain, this involves data-centric knowledge injection through the integration of 4.8M biomedical academic papers and 30K medical textbooks, as well as comprehensive fine-tuning for alignment with domain-specific instructions; (ii) we contribute a large-scale, comprehensive dataset for instruction tuning. This dataset encompasses medical question-answering (QA), rationale for reasoning, and conversational dialogues, comprising a total of 202M tokens; (iii) we conduct thorough ablation studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of each proposed component. While evaluating on various public medical question-answering benchmarks, our lightweight PMCLLaMA, which consists of only 13 billion parameters, exhibits superior performance, even surpassing ChatGPT. All models, codes, datasets can be found in this https URL.\"\nDistilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes,a mechanism to extract rationales from LLMs to train smaller models that outperform larger language models with less training data needed by finetuning or distillation.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02301,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223098730217472?s=20,\"Deploying large language models (LLMs) is challenging because they are memory inefficient and compute-intensive for practical applications. In reaction, researchers train smaller task-specific models by either finetuning with human labels or distilling using LLM-generated labels. However, finetuning and distillation require large amounts of training data to achieve comparable performance to LLMs. We introduce Distilling step-by-step, a new mechanism that (a) trains smaller models that outperform LLMs, and (b) achieves so by leveraging less training data needed by finetuning or distillation. Our method extracts LLM rationales as additional supervision for training small models within a multi-task framework. We present three findings across 4 NLP benchmarks: First, compared to both finetuning and distillation, our mechanism achieves better performance with much fewer labeled/unlabeled training examples. Second, compared to few-shot prompted LLMs, we achieve better performance using substantially smaller model sizes. Third, we reduce both the model size and the amount of data required to outperform LLMs; our finetuned 770M T5 model outperforms the few-shot prompted 540B PaLM model using only 80% of available data on a benchmark, whereas standard finetuning the same T5 model struggles to match even by using 100% of the dataset. We release the code at: this https URL .\"\nPoisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning,show that adversaries can poison LLMs during instruction tuning by contributing poison examples to datasets; it can induce degenerate outputs across different held-out tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00944,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223100286332934?s=20,\"Instruction-tuned LMs such as ChatGPT, FLAN, and InstructGPT are finetuned on datasets that contain user-submitted examples, e.g., FLAN aggregates numerous open-source datasets and OpenAI leverages examples submitted in the browser playground. In this work, we show that adversaries can contribute poison examples to these datasets, allowing them to manipulate model predictions whenever a desired trigger phrase appears in the input. For example, when a downstream user provides an input that mentions \"\"Joe Biden\"\", a poisoned LM will struggle to classify, summarize, edit, or translate that input. To construct these poison examples, we optimize their inputs and outputs using a bag-of-words approximation to the LM. We evaluate our method on open-source instruction-tuned LMs. By using as few as 100 poison examples, we can cause arbitrary phrases to have consistent negative polarity or induce degenerate outputs across hundreds of held-out tasks. Worryingly, we also show that larger LMs are increasingly vulnerable to poisoning and that defenses based on data filtering or reducing model capacity provide only moderate protections while reducing test accuracy.\"\nUnlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input,proposes long-range transformers with unlimited length input by augmenting pre-trained encoder-decoder transformer with external datastore to support unlimited length input; shows usefulness in long-document summarization; could potentially be used to improve the performance of retrieval-enhanced LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01625,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223101913718784?s=20,\"Since the proposal of transformers, these models have been limited to bounded input lengths, because of their need to attend to every token in the input. In this work, we propose Unlimiformer: a general approach that wraps any existing pretrained encoder-decoder transformer, and offloads the cross-attention computation to a single k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) index, while the returned kNN distances are the attention dot-product scores. This kNN index can be kept on either the GPU or CPU memory and queried in sub-linear time; this way, we can index practically unlimited input sequences, while every attention head in every decoder layer retrieves its top-k keys, instead of attending to every key. We evaluate Unlimiformer on several long-document and book-summarization benchmarks, showing that it can process even 500k token-long inputs from the BookSum dataset, without any input truncation at test time. We demonstrate that Unlimiformer improves pretrained models such as BART and Longformer by extending them to unlimited inputs without additional learned weights and without modifying their code. We make our code and models publicly available at this https URL .\"\nLearning to Reason and Memorize with Self-Notes,an approach that enables LLMs to reason and memorize enabling them to deviate from the input sequence at any time to explicitly “think”; this enables the LM to recall information and perform reasoning on the fly; experiments show that this method scales better to longer sequences unseen during training.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00833,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1655223103662829569?s=20,\"Large language models have been shown to struggle with limited context memory and multi-step reasoning. We propose a simple method for solving both of these problems by allowing the model to take Self-Notes. Unlike recent scratchpad approaches, the model can deviate from the input context at any time to explicitly think. This allows the model to recall information and perform reasoning on the fly as it reads the context, thus extending its memory and enabling multi-step reasoning. Our experiments on multiple tasks demonstrate that our method can successfully generalize to longer and more complicated instances from their training setup by taking Self-Notes at inference time.\"\nLearning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning,\"applies deep reinforcement learning to synthesize agile soccer skills for a miniature humanoid robot; the resulting policy allows dynamic movement skills such as fast recovery, walking, and kicking.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693172810571780?s=20,\"We investigate whether Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) is able to synthesize sophisticated and safe movement skills for a low-cost, miniature humanoid robot that can be composed into complex behavioral strategies in dynamic environments. We used Deep RL to train a humanoid robot with 20 actuated joints to play a simplified one-versus-one (1v1) soccer game. We first trained individual skills in isolation and then composed those skills end-to-end in a self-play setting. The resulting policy exhibits robust and dynamic movement skills such as rapid fall recovery, walking, turning, kicking and more; and transitions between them in a smooth, stable, and efficient manner - well beyond what is intuitively expected from the robot. The agents also developed a basic strategic understanding of the game, and learned, for instance, to anticipate ball movements and to block opponent shots. The full range of behaviors emerged from a small set of simple rewards. Our agents were trained in simulation and transferred to real robots zero-shot. We found that a combination of sufficiently high-frequency control, targeted dynamics randomization, and perturbations during training in simulation enabled good-quality transfer, despite significant unmodeled effects and variations across robot instances. Although the robots are inherently fragile, minor hardware modifications together with basic regularization of the behavior during training led the robots to learn safe and effective movements while still performing in a dynamic and agile way. Indeed, even though the agents were optimized for scoring, in experiments they walked 156% faster, took 63% less time to get up, and kicked 24% faster than a scripted baseline, while efficiently combining the skills to achieve the longer term objectives. Examples of the emergent behaviors and full 1v1 matches are available on the supplementary website.\"\nScaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT,leverages a recurrent memory transformer architecture to increase BERT’s effective context length to two million tokens while maintaining high memory retrieval accuracy.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11062,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693174576349185?s=20,\"This technical report presents the application of a recurrent memory to extend the context length of BERT, one of the most effective Transformer-based models in natural language processing. By leveraging the Recurrent Memory Transformer architecture, we have successfully increased the model's effective context length to an unprecedented two million tokens, while maintaining high memory retrieval accuracy. Our method allows for the storage and processing of both local and global information and enables information flow between segments of the input sequence through the use of recurrence. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, which holds significant potential to enhance long-term dependency handling in natural language understanding and generation tasks as well as enable large-scale context processing for memory-intensive applications.\"\nTrack Anything: Segment Anything Meets Videos,an interactive tool for video object tracking and segmentation; it’s built on top segment anything and allows flexible tracking and segmenting via user clicks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11968,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693176644165634?s=20,\"Recently, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) gains lots of attention rapidly due to its impressive segmentation performance on images. Regarding its strong ability on image segmentation and high interactivity with different prompts, we found that it performs poorly on consistent segmentation in videos. Therefore, in this report, we propose Track Anything Model (TAM), which achieves high-performance interactive tracking and segmentation in videos. To be detailed, given a video sequence, only with very little human participation, i.e., several clicks, people can track anything they are interested in, and get satisfactory results in one-pass inference. Without additional training, such an interactive design performs impressively on video object tracking and segmentation. All resources are available on {this https URL}. We hope this work can facilitate related research.\"\nA Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning,provides an overview of fundamental techniques and key concepts in SSL; it also introduces practical considerations for implementing SSL methods successfully.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12210,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693178724626435?s=20,\"Self-supervised learning, dubbed the dark matter of intelligence, is a promising path to advance machine learning. Yet, much like cooking, training SSL methods is a delicate art with a high barrier to entry. While many components are familiar, successfully training a SSL method involves a dizzying set of choices from the pretext tasks to training hyper-parameters. Our goal is to lower the barrier to entry into SSL research by laying the foundations and latest SSL recipes in the style of a cookbook. We hope to empower the curious researcher to navigate the terrain of methods, understand the role of the various knobs, and gain the know-how required to explore how delicious SSL can be.\"\nHarnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond,a comprehensive and practical guide for practitioners working with LLMs; discusses many use cases with practical applications and limitations of LLMs in real-world scenarios.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13712,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693180381274114?s=20,\"This paper presents a comprehensive and practical guide for practitioners and end-users working with Large Language Models (LLMs) in their downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks. We provide discussions and insights into the usage of LLMs from the perspectives of models, data, and downstream tasks. Firstly, we offer an introduction and brief summary of current GPT- and BERT-style LLMs. Then, we discuss the influence of pre-training data, training data, and test data. Most importantly, we provide a detailed discussion about the use and non-use cases of large language models for various natural language processing tasks, such as knowledge-intensive tasks, traditional natural language understanding tasks, natural language generation tasks, emergent abilities, and considerations for specific tasks.We present various use cases and non-use cases to illustrate the practical applications and limitations of LLMs in real-world scenarios. We also try to understand the importance of data and the specific challenges associated with each NLP task. Furthermore, we explore the impact of spurious biases on LLMs and delve into other essential considerations, such as efficiency, cost, and latency, to ensure a comprehensive understanding of deploying LLMs in practice. This comprehensive guide aims to provide researchers and practitioners with valuable insights and best practices for working with LLMs, thereby enabling the successful implementation of these models in a wide range of NLP tasks. A curated list of practical guide resources of LLMs, regularly updated, can be found at \\url{this https URL}.\"\n\"AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head\",connects ChatGPT with audio foundational models to handle challenging audio tasks and a modality transformation interface to enable spoken dialogue.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12995,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693181895409666?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. Despite the recent success, current LLMs are not capable of processing complex audio information or conducting spoken conversations (like Siri or Alexa). In this work, we propose a multi-modal AI system named AudioGPT, which complements LLMs (i.e., ChatGPT) with 1) foundation models to process complex audio information and solve numerous understanding and generation tasks; and 2) the input/output interface (ASR, TTS) to support spoken dialogue. With an increasing demand to evaluate multi-modal LLMs of human intention understanding and cooperation with foundation models, we outline the principles and processes and test AudioGPT in terms of consistency, capability, and robustness. Experimental results demonstrate the capabilities of AudioGPT in solving AI tasks with speech, music, sound, and talking head understanding and generation in multi-round dialogues, which empower humans to create rich and diverse audio content with unprecedented ease. Our system is publicly available at \\url{this https URL}.\"\nDataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets,releases a new multimodal dataset benchmark containing 12.8B image-text pairs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14108,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693183493447681?s=20,\"Multimodal datasets are a critical component in recent breakthroughs such as Stable Diffusion and GPT-4, yet their design does not receive the same research attention as model architectures or training algorithms. To address this shortcoming in the ML ecosystem, we introduce DataComp, a testbed for dataset experiments centered around a new candidate pool of 12.8 billion image-text pairs from Common Crawl. Participants in our benchmark design new filtering techniques or curate new data sources and then evaluate their new dataset by running our standardized CLIP training code and testing the resulting model on 38 downstream test sets. Our benchmark consists of multiple compute scales spanning four orders of magnitude, which enables the study of scaling trends and makes the benchmark accessible to researchers with varying resources. Our baseline experiments show that the DataComp workflow leads to better training sets. In particular, our best baseline, DataComp-1B, enables training a CLIP ViT-L/14 from scratch to 79.2% zero-shot accuracy on ImageNet, outperforming OpenAI's CLIP ViT-L/14 by 3.7 percentage points while using the same training procedure and compute. We release DataComp and all accompanying code at this http URL.\"\nChatGPT for Information Extraction,provides a deeper assessment of ChatGPT's performance on the important information extraction task.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11633,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693184927989768?s=20,\"The capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to comprehend user intent and provide reasonable responses has made them extremely popular lately. In this paper, we focus on assessing the overall ability of ChatGPT using 7 fine-grained information extraction (IE) tasks. Specially, we present the systematically analysis by measuring ChatGPT's performance, explainability, calibration, and faithfulness, and resulting in 15 keys from either the ChatGPT or domain experts. Our findings reveal that ChatGPT's performance in Standard-IE setting is poor, but it surprisingly exhibits excellent performance in the OpenIE setting, as evidenced by human evaluation. In addition, our research indicates that ChatGPT provides high-quality and trustworthy explanations for its decisions. However, there is an issue of ChatGPT being overconfident in its predictions, which resulting in low calibration. Furthermore, ChatGPT demonstrates a high level of faithfulness to the original text in the majority of cases. We manually annotate and release the test sets of 7 fine-grained IE tasks contains 14 datasets to further promote the research. The datasets and code are available at this https URL.\"\nComparing Physician vs ChatGPT,investigates if chatbot assistants like ChatGPT can provide responses to patient questions while emphasizing quality and empathy; finds that chatbot responses were preferred over physician responses and rated significantly higher in terms of both quality and empathy.,https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2804309,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693186467299331?s=20,\"Importance  The rapid expansion of virtual health care has caused a surge in patient messages concomitant with more work and burnout among health care professionals. Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants could potentially aid in creating answers to patient questions by drafting responses that could be reviewed by clinicians.\nObjective  To evaluate the ability of an AI chatbot assistant (ChatGPT), released in November 2022, to provide quality and empathetic responses to patient questions.\nDesign, Setting, and Participants  In this cross-sectional study, a public and nonidentifiable database of questions from a public social media forum (Reddit’s r/AskDocs) was used to randomly draw 195 exchanges from October 2022 where a verified physician responded to a public question. Chatbot responses were generated by entering the original question into a fresh session (without prior questions having been asked in the session) on December 22 and 23, 2022. The original question along with anonymized and randomly ordered physician and chatbot responses were evaluated in triplicate by a team of licensed health care professionals. Evaluators chose “which response was better” and judged both “the quality of information provided” (very poor, poor, acceptable, good, or very good) and “the empathy or bedside manner provided” (not empathetic, slightly empathetic, moderately empathetic, empathetic, and very empathetic). Mean outcomes were ordered on a 1 to 5 scale and compared between chatbot and physicians.\nResults  Of the 195 questions and responses, evaluators preferred chatbot responses to physician responses in 78.6% (95% CI, 75.0%-81.8%) of the 585 evaluations. Mean (IQR) physician responses were significantly shorter than chatbot responses (52 [17-62] words vs 211 [168-245] words; t = 25.4; P < .001). Chatbot responses were rated of significantly higher quality than physician responses (t = 13.3; P < .001). The proportion of responses rated as good or very good quality (≥ 4), for instance, was higher for chatbot than physicians (chatbot: 78.5%, 95% CI, 72.3%-84.1%; physicians: 22.1%, 95% CI, 16.4%-28.2%;). This amounted to 3.6 times higher prevalence of good or very good quality responses for the chatbot. Chatbot responses were also rated significantly more empathetic than physician responses (t = 18.9; P < .001). The proportion of responses rated empathetic or very empathetic (≥4) was higher for chatbot than for physicians (physicians: 4.6%, 95% CI, 2.1%-7.7%; chatbot: 45.1%, 95% CI, 38.5%-51.8%; physicians: 4.6%, 95% CI, 2.1%-7.7%). This amounted to 9.8 times higher prevalence of empathetic or very empathetic responses for the chatbot.\nConclusions  In this cross-sectional study, a chatbot generated quality and empathetic responses to patient questions posed in an online forum. Further exploration of this technology is warranted in clinical settings, such as using chatbot to draft responses that physicians could then edit. Randomized trials could assess further if using AI assistants might improve responses, lower clinician burnout, and improve patient outcomes.\"\nStable and low-precision training for large-scale vision-language models,introduces methods for accelerating and stabilizing training of large-scale language vision models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13013,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1652693187960479745?s=20,\"We introduce new methods for 1) accelerating and 2) stabilizing training for large language-vision models. 1) For acceleration, we introduce SwitchBack, a linear layer for int8 quantized training which provides a speed-up of 13-25% while matching the performance of bfloat16 training within 0.1 percentage points for the 1B parameter CLIP ViT-Huge -- the largest int8 training to date. Our main focus is int8 as GPU support for float8 is rare, though we also analyze float8 training through simulation. While SwitchBack proves effective for float8, we show that standard techniques are also successful if the network is trained and initialized so that large feature magnitudes are discouraged, which we accomplish via layer-scale initialized with zeros. 2) For stability, we analyze loss spikes and find they consistently occur 1-8 iterations after the squared gradients become under-estimated by their AdamW second moment estimator. As a result, we recommend an AdamW-Adafactor hybrid which avoids loss spikes when training a CLIP ViT-Huge model and outperforms gradient clipping at the scales we test.\"\nDINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision,\"a new method for training high-performance computer vision models based on self-supervised learning; enables learning rich and robust visual features without supervision which are useful for both image-level visual tasks and pixel-level tasks; tasks supported include image classification, instance retrieval, video understanding, depth estimation, and much more.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07193,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145892941324288?s=20,\"The recent breakthroughs in natural language processing for model pretraining on large quantities of data have opened the way for similar foundation models in computer vision. These models could greatly simplify the use of images in any system by producing all-purpose visual features, i.e., features that work across image distributions and tasks without finetuning. This work shows that existing pretraining methods, especially self-supervised methods, can produce such features if trained on enough curated data from diverse sources. We revisit existing approaches and combine different techniques to scale our pretraining in terms of data and model size. Most of the technical contributions aim at accelerating and stabilizing the training at scale. In terms of data, we propose an automatic pipeline to build a dedicated, diverse, and curated image dataset instead of uncurated data, as typically done in the self-supervised literature. In terms of models, we train a ViT model (Dosovitskiy et al., 2020) with 1B parameters and distill it into a series of smaller models that surpass the best available all-purpose features, OpenCLIP (Ilharco et al., 2021) on most of the benchmarks at image and pixel levels.\"\nLearning to Compress Prompts with Gist Tokens,\"an approach that trains language models to compress prompts into gist tokens reused for compute efficiency; this approach enables 26x compression of prompts, resulting in up to 40% FLOPs reductions.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08467,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145895332163585?s=20,\"Prompting is the primary way to utilize the multitask capabilities of language models (LMs), but prompts occupy valuable space in the input context window, and repeatedly encoding the same prompt is computationally inefficient. Finetuning and distillation methods allow for specialization of LMs without prompting, but require retraining the model for each task. To avoid this trade-off entirely, we present gisting, which trains an LM to compress prompts into smaller sets of \"\"gist\"\" tokens which can be cached and reused for compute efficiency. Gist models can be trained with no additional cost over standard instruction finetuning by simply modifying Transformer attention masks to encourage prompt compression. On decoder (LLaMA-7B) and encoder-decoder (FLAN-T5-XXL) LMs, gisting enables up to 26x compression of prompts, resulting in up to 40% FLOPs reductions, 4.2% wall time speedups, and storage savings, all with minimal loss in output quality.\"\nScaling the leading accuracy of deep equivariant models to biomolecular simulations of realistic size,\"presents a framework for large-scale biomolecular simulation; this is achieved through the high accuracy of equivariant deep learning and the ability to scale to large and long simulations; the system is able to “perform nanoseconds-long stable simulations of protein dynamics and scale up to a 44-million atom structure of a complete, all-atom, explicitly solvated HIV capsid on the Perlmutter supercomputer.”\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10061,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145897689350144?s=20,\"This work brings the leading accuracy, sample efficiency, and robustness of deep equivariant neural networks to the extreme computational scale. This is achieved through a combination of innovative model architecture, massive parallelization, and models and implementations optimized for efficient GPU utilization. The resulting Allegro architecture bridges the accuracy-speed tradeoff of atomistic simulations and enables description of dynamics in structures of unprecedented complexity at quantum fidelity. To illustrate the scalability of Allegro, we perform nanoseconds-long stable simulations of protein dynamics and scale up to a 44-million atom structure of a complete, all-atom, explicitly solvated HIV capsid on the Perlmutter supercomputer. We demonstrate excellent strong scaling up to 100 million atoms and 70% weak scaling to 5120 A100 GPUs.\"\nEvaluating Verifiability in Generative Search Engines,\"performs human evaluation to audit popular generative search engines such as Bing Chat, Perplexity AI, and NeevaAI; finds that, on average, only 52% of generated sentences are supported by citations and 75% of citations support their associated sentence.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09848,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145900180779009?s=20,\"Generative search engines directly generate responses to user queries, along with in-line citations. A prerequisite trait of a trustworthy generative search engine is verifiability, i.e., systems should cite comprehensively (high citation recall; all statements are fully supported by citations) and accurately (high citation precision; every cite supports its associated statement). We conduct human evaluation to audit four popular generative search engines -- Bing Chat, NeevaAI, this http URL, and YouChat -- across a diverse set of queries from a variety of sources (e.g., historical Google user queries, dynamically-collected open-ended questions on Reddit, etc.). We find that responses from existing generative search engines are fluent and appear informative, but frequently contain unsupported statements and inaccurate citations: on average, a mere 51.5% of generated sentences are fully supported by citations and only 74.5% of citations support their associated sentence. We believe that these results are concerningly low for systems that may serve as a primary tool for information-seeking users, especially given their facade of trustworthiness. We hope that our results further motivate the development of trustworthy generative search engines and help researchers and users better understand the shortcomings of existing commercial systems.\"\nGenerative Disco: Text-to-Video Generation for Music Visualization,an AI system based on LLMs and text-to-image models that generates music visualizations.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08551,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145904219832324?s=20,\"Visuals can enhance our experience of music, owing to the way they can amplify the emotions and messages conveyed within it. However, creating music visualization is a complex, time-consuming, and resource-intensive process. We introduce Generative Disco, a generative AI system that helps generate music visualizations with large language models and text-to-video generation. The system helps users visualize music in intervals by finding prompts to describe the images that intervals start and end on and interpolating between them to the beat of the music. We introduce design patterns for improving these generated videos: transitions, which express shifts in color, time, subject, or style, and holds, which help focus the video on subjects. A study with professionals showed that transitions and holds were a highly expressive framework that enabled them to build coherent visual narratives. We conclude on the generalizability of these patterns and the potential of generated video for creative professionals.\"\nArchitectures of Topological Deep Learning: A Survey on Topological Neural Networks,,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10031,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145906560311298?s=20,\"The natural world is full of complex systems characterized by intricate relations between their components: from social interactions between individuals in a social network to electrostatic interactions between atoms in a protein. Topological Deep Learning (TDL) provides a comprehensive framework to process and extract knowledge from data associated with these systems, such as predicting the social community to which an individual belongs or predicting whether a protein can be a reasonable target for drug development. TDL has demonstrated theoretical and practical advantages that hold the promise of breaking ground in the applied sciences and beyond. However, the rapid growth of the TDL literature has also led to a lack of unification in notation and language across Topological Neural Network (TNN) architectures. This presents a real obstacle for building upon existing works and for deploying TNNs to new real-world problems. To address this issue, we provide an accessible introduction to TDL, and compare the recently published TNNs using a unified mathematical and graphical notation. Through an intuitive and critical review of the emerging field of TDL, we extract valuable insights into current challenges and exciting opportunities for future development.\"\nVisual Instruction Tuning,\"presents an approach that uses language-only GPT-4 to generate multimodal language-image instruction-following data; applies instruction tuning with the data and introduces LLaVA, an end-to-end trained large multimodal model for general-purpose visual and language understanding.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08485,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145909387214848?s=20,\"Instruction tuning large language models (LLMs) using machine-generated instruction-following data has improved zero-shot capabilities on new tasks, but the idea is less explored in the multimodal field. In this paper, we present the first attempt to use language-only GPT-4 to generate multimodal language-image instruction-following data. By instruction tuning on such generated data, we introduce LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant, an end-to-end trained large multimodal model that connects a vision encoder and LLM for general-purpose visual and language understanding.Our early experiments show that LLaVA demonstrates impressive multimodel chat abilities, sometimes exhibiting the behaviors of multimodal GPT-4 on unseen images/instructions, and yields a 85.1% relative score compared with GPT-4 on a synthetic multimodal instruction-following dataset. When fine-tuned on Science QA, the synergy of LLaVA and GPT-4 achieves a new state-of-the-art accuracy of 92.53%. We make GPT-4 generated visual instruction tuning data, our model and code base publicly available.\"\n\"ChatGPT: Applications, Opportunities, and Threats\",,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09103,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145911836745736?s=20,\"Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT (Conditional Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial intelligence technology that is fine-tuned using supervised machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques, allowing a computer to generate natural language conversation fully autonomously. ChatGPT is built on the transformer architecture and trained on millions of conversations from various sources. The system combines the power of pre-trained deep learning models with a programmability layer to provide a strong base for generating natural language conversations. In this study, after reviewing the existing literature, we examine the applications, opportunities, and threats of ChatGPT in 10 main domains, providing detailed examples for the business and industry as well as education. We also conducted an experimental study, checking the effectiveness and comparing the performances of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and found that the latter performs significantly better. Despite its exceptional ability to generate natural-sounding responses, the authors believe that ChatGPT does not possess the same level of understanding, empathy, and creativity as a human and cannot fully replace them in most situations.\"\nChameleon: Plug-and-Play Compositional Reasoning with Large Language Models,a plug-and-play compositional reasoning framework that augments LLMs and can infer the appropriate sequence of tools to compose and execute in order to generate final responses; achieves 87% accuracy on ScienceQA and 99% on TabMWP.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09842,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145914420330496?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in solving various natural language processing tasks due to emergent reasoning abilities. However, LLMs have inherent limitations as they are incapable of accessing up-to-date information (stored on the Web or in task-specific knowledge bases), using external tools, and performing precise mathematical and logical reasoning. In this paper, we present Chameleon, an AI system that mitigates these limitations by augmenting LLMs with plug-and-play modules for compositional reasoning. Chameleon synthesizes programs by composing various tools (e.g., LLMs, off-the-shelf vision models, web search engines, Python functions, and heuristic-based modules) for accomplishing complex reasoning tasks. At the heart of Chameleon is an LLM-based planner that assembles a sequence of tools to execute to generate the final response. We showcase the effectiveness of Chameleon on two multi-modal knowledge-intensive reasoning tasks: ScienceQA and TabMWP. Chameleon, powered by GPT-4, achieves an 86.54% overall accuracy on ScienceQA, improving the best published few-shot result by 11.37%. On TabMWP, GPT-4-powered Chameleon improves the accuracy by 17.0%, lifting the state of the art to 98.78%. Our analysis also shows that the GPT-4-powered planner exhibits more consistent and rational tool selection via inferring potential constraints from instructions, compared to a ChatGPT-powered planner.\"\nAlign your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models,applies latent diffusion models to high-resolution video generation; validates the model on creative content creation and real driving videos of 512 x 1024 and achieves state-of-the-art performance.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08818,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1650145916794314752?s=20,\"Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution video generation, a particularly resource-intensive task. We first pre-train an LDM on images only; then, we turn the image generator into a video generator by introducing a temporal dimension to the latent space diffusion model and fine-tuning on encoded image sequences, i.e., videos. Similarly, we temporally align diffusion model upsamplers, turning them into temporally consistent video super resolution models. We focus on two relevant real-world applications: Simulation of in-the-wild driving data and creative content creation with text-to-video modeling. In particular, we validate our Video LDM on real driving videos of resolution 512 x 1024, achieving state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, our approach can easily leverage off-the-shelf pre-trained image LDMs, as we only need to train a temporal alignment model in that case. Doing so, we turn the publicly available, state-of-the-art text-to-image LDM Stable Diffusion into an efficient and expressive text-to-video model with resolution up to 1280 x 2048. We show that the temporal layers trained in this way generalize to different fine-tuned text-to-image LDMs. Utilizing this property, we show the first results for personalized text-to-video generation, opening exciting directions for future content creation. Project page: this https URL\"\nZip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields,combines mip-NeRF 360 and grid-based models to improve NeRFs that train 22x faster than mip-NeRF 360.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06706,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613826425147401?s=20,\"Neural Radiance Field training can be accelerated through the use of grid-based representations in NeRF's learned mapping from spatial coordinates to colors and volumetric density. However, these grid-based approaches lack an explicit understanding of scale and therefore often introduce aliasing, usually in the form of jaggies or missing scene content. Anti-aliasing has previously been addressed by mip-NeRF 360, which reasons about sub-volumes along a cone rather than points along a ray, but this approach is not natively compatible with current grid-based techniques. We show how ideas from rendering and signal processing can be used to construct a technique that combines mip-NeRF 360 and grid-based models such as Instant NGP to yield error rates that are 8% - 77% lower than either prior technique, and that trains 24x faster than mip-NeRF 360.\"\nGenerative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior,\"proposes an architecture that extends LLMs to build agents that enable simulations of human-like behavior; these capabilities are possible by storing a complete record of an agent's experiences, synthesizing memories over time into higher-level reflections, and retrieving them dynamically to plan behavior.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613828417351682?s=20,\"Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototyping tools. In this paper, we introduce generative agents--computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior. Generative agents wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions, notice each other, and initiate conversations; they remember and reflect on days past as they plan the next day. To enable generative agents, we describe an architecture that extends a large language model to store a complete record of the agent's experiences using natural language, synthesize those memories over time into higher-level reflections, and retrieve them dynamically to plan behavior. We instantiate generative agents to populate an interactive sandbox environment inspired by The Sims, where end users can interact with a small town of twenty five agents using natural language. In an evaluation, these generative agents produce believable individual and emergent social behaviors: for example, starting with only a single user-specified notion that one agent wants to throw a Valentine's Day party, the agents autonomously spread invitations to the party over the next two days, make new acquaintances, ask each other out on dates to the party, and coordinate to show up for the party together at the right time. We demonstrate through ablation that the components of our agent architecture--observation, planning, and reflection--each contribute critically to the believability of agent behavior. By fusing large language models with computational, interactive agents, this work introduces architectural and interaction patterns for enabling believable simulations of human behavior.\"\nEmergent autonomous scientific research capabilities of large language models,\"presents an agent that combines LLMs for autonomous design, planning, and execution of scientific experiments; shows emergent scientific research capabilities, including the successful performance of catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05332,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613830233571328?s=20,\"Transformer-based large language models are rapidly advancing in the field of machine learning research, with applications spanning natural language, biology, chemistry, and computer programming. Extreme scaling and reinforcement learning from human feedback have significantly improved the quality of generated text, enabling these models to perform various tasks and reason about their choices. In this paper, we present an Intelligent Agent system that combines multiple large language models for autonomous design, planning, and execution of scientific experiments. We showcase the Agent's scientific research capabilities with three distinct examples, with the most complex being the successful performance of catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. Finally, we discuss the safety implications of such systems and propose measures to prevent their misuse.\"\nAutomatic Gradient Descent: Deep Learning without Hyperparameters,derives optimization algorithms that explicitly leverage neural architecture; it proposes a first-order optimizer without hyperparameters that trains CNNs at ImageNet scale.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05187,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613832804589569?s=20,\"The architecture of a deep neural network is defined explicitly in terms of the number of layers, the width of each layer and the general network topology. Existing optimisation frameworks neglect this information in favour of implicit architectural information (e.g. second-order methods) or architecture-agnostic distance functions (e.g. mirror descent). Meanwhile, the most popular optimiser in practice, Adam, is based on heuristics. This paper builds a new framework for deriving optimisation algorithms that explicitly leverage neural architecture. The theory extends mirror descent to non-convex composite objective functions: the idea is to transform a Bregman divergence to account for the non-linear structure of neural architecture. Working through the details for deep fully-connected networks yields automatic gradient descent: a first-order optimiser without any hyperparameters. Automatic gradient descent trains both fully-connected and convolutional networks out-of-the-box and at ImageNet scale. A PyTorch implementation is available at this https URL and also in Appendix B. Overall, the paper supplies a rigorous theoretical foundation for a next-generation of architecture-dependent optimisers that work automatically and without hyperparameters.\"\nChemCrow: Augmenting large-language models with chemistry tools,\"presents an LLM chemistry agent that performs tasks across synthesis, drug discovery, and materials design; it integrates 13 expert-design tools to augment LLM performance in chemistry and demonstrate effectiveness in automating chemical tasks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05376,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613834813644800?s=20,\"Over the last decades, excellent computational chemistry tools have been developed. Integrating them into a single platform with enhanced accessibility could help reaching their full potential by overcoming steep learning curves. Recently, large-language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in tasks across domains, but struggle with chemistry-related problems. Moreover, these models lack access to external knowledge sources, limiting their usefulness in scientific applications. In this study, we introduce ChemCrow, an LLM chemistry agent designed to accomplish tasks across organic synthesis, drug discovery, and materials design. By integrating 18 expert-designed tools, ChemCrow augments the LLM performance in chemistry, and new capabilities emerge. Our agent autonomously planned and executed the syntheses of an insect repellent, three organocatalysts, and guided the discovery of a novel chromophore. Our evaluation, including both LLM and expert assessments, demonstrates ChemCrow's effectiveness in automating a diverse set of chemical tasks. Surprisingly, we find that GPT-4 as an evaluator cannot distinguish between clearly wrong GPT-4 completions and Chemcrow's performance. Our work not only aids expert chemists and lowers barriers for non-experts, but also fosters scientific advancement by bridging the gap between experimental and computational chemistry.\"\n\"One Small Step for Generative AI, One Giant Leap for AGI: A Complete Survey on ChatGPT in AIGC Era\",A Survey of ChatGPT and GPT-4,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06488,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613836617195525?s=20,\"OpenAI has recently released GPT-4 (a.k.a. ChatGPT plus), which is demonstrated to be one small step for generative AI (GAI), but one giant leap for artificial general intelligence (AGI). Since its official release in November 2022, ChatGPT has quickly attracted numerous users with extensive media coverage. Such unprecedented attention has also motivated numerous researchers to investigate ChatGPT from various aspects. According to Google scholar, there are more than 500 articles with ChatGPT in their titles or mentioning it in their abstracts. Considering this, a review is urgently needed, and our work fills this gap. Overall, this work is the first to survey ChatGPT with a comprehensive review of its underlying technology, applications, and challenges. Moreover, we present an outlook on how ChatGPT might evolve to realize general-purpose AIGC (a.k.a. AI-generated content), which will be a significant milestone for the development of AGI.\"\nOpenAGI: When LLM Meets Domain Experts,\"an open-source research platform to facilitate the development and evaluation of LLMs in solving complex, multi-step tasks through manipulating various domain expert models.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04370,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613838567546886?s=20,\"Human intelligence excels at combining basic skills to solve complex tasks. This capability is vital for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and should be embedded in comprehensive intelligent models, enabling them to harness expert models for complex task-solving towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Large Language Models (LLMs) show promising learning and reasoning abilities, and can effectively use external models, tools or APIs to tackle complex problems. In this work, we introduce OpenAGI, an open-source AGI research platform designed for multi-step, real-world tasks. Specifically, OpenAGI uses a dual strategy, integrating standard benchmark tasks for benchmarking and evaluation, and open-ended tasks including more expandable models, tools or APIs for creative problem-solving. Tasks are presented as natural language queries to the LLM, which then selects and executes appropriate models. We also propose a Reinforcement Learning from Task Feedback (RLTF) mechanism that uses task results to improve the LLM's ability, which creates a self-improving AI feedback loop. While we acknowledge that AGI is a broad and multifaceted research challenge with no singularly defined solution path, the integration of LLMs with domain-specific expert models, inspired by mirroring the blend of general and specialized intelligence in humans, offers a promising approach towards AGI. We are open-sourcing the OpenAGI project's code, dataset, benchmarks, evaluation methods, and demo to foster community involvement in AGI advancement: this https URL.\"\nAGIEval: A Human-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models,\"a new benchmark to assess foundational models in the context of human-centric standardized exams, including college entrance exams, law school admission tests, and math competitions, among others.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06364,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613840400498700?s=20,\"Evaluating the general abilities of foundation models to tackle human-level tasks is a vital aspect of their development and application in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Traditional benchmarks, which rely on artificial datasets, may not accurately represent human-level capabilities. In this paper, we introduce AGIEval, a novel benchmark specifically designed to assess foundation model in the context of human-centric standardized exams, such as college entrance exams, law school admission tests, math competitions, and lawyer qualification tests. We evaluate several state-of-the-art foundation models, including GPT-4, ChatGPT, and Text-Davinci-003, using this benchmark. Impressively, GPT-4 surpasses average human performance on SAT, LSAT, and math competitions, attaining a 95% accuracy rate on the SAT Math test and a 92.5% accuracy on the English test of the Chinese national college entrance exam. This demonstrates the extraordinary performance of contemporary foundation models. In contrast, we also find that GPT-4 is less proficient in tasks that require complex reasoning or specific domain knowledge. Our comprehensive analyses of model capabilities (understanding, knowledge, reasoning, and calculation) reveal these models' strengths and limitations, providing valuable insights into future directions for enhancing their general capabilities. By concentrating on tasks pertinent to human cognition and decision-making, our benchmark delivers a more meaningful and robust evaluation of foundation models' performance in real-world scenarios. The data, code, and all model outputs are released in this https URL.\"\nTeaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug,proposes an approach that teaches LLMs to debug their predicted program via few-shot demonstrations; this allows a model to identify its mistakes by explaining generated code in natural language; achieves SoTA on several code generation tasks like text-to-SQL generation.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05128,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613842300497924?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on code generation. However, for complex programming tasks, generating the correct solution in one go becomes challenging, thus some prior works have designed program repair approaches to improve code generation performance. In this work, we propose Self-Debugging, which teaches a large language model to debug its predicted program via few-shot demonstrations. In particular, we demonstrate that Self-Debugging can teach the large language model to perform rubber duck debugging; i.e., without any human feedback on the code correctness or error messages, the model is able to identify its mistakes by investigating the execution results and explaining the generated code in natural language. Self-Debugging achieves the state-of-the-art performance on several code generation benchmarks, including the Spider dataset for text-to-SQL generation, TransCoder for C++-to-Python translation, and MBPP for text-to-Python generation. On the Spider benchmark where there are no unit tests to verify the correctness of predictions, Self-Debugging with code explanation consistently improves the baseline by 2-3%, and improves the prediction accuracy on problems of the hardest level by 9%. On TransCoder and MBPP where unit tests are available, Self-Debugging improves the baseline accuracy by up to 12%. Meanwhile, by leveraging feedback messages and reusing failed predictions, Self-Debugging notably improves sample efficiency, and can match or outperform baseline models that generate more than 10x candidate programs.\"\nSegment Everything Everywhere All at Once,\"a promptable, interactive model for various segmentation tasks that yields competitive performance on open-vocabulary and interactive segmentation benchmarks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06718,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1647613844087361537?s=20,\"In this work, we present SEEM, a promptable and interactive model for segmenting everything everywhere all at once in an image, as shown in Fig.1. In SEEM, we propose a novel decoding mechanism that enables diverse prompting for all types of segmentation tasks, aiming at a universal segmentation interface that behaves like large language models (LLMs). More specifically, SEEM is designed with four desiderata: i) Versatility. We introduce a new visual prompt to unify different spatial queries including points, boxes, scribbles and masks, which can further generalize to a different referring image; ii) Compositionality. We learn a joint visual-semantic space between text and visual prompts, which facilitates the dynamic composition of two prompt types required for various segmentation tasks; iii) Interactivity. We further incorporate learnable memory prompts into the decoder to retain segmentation history through mask-guided cross-attention from decoder to image features; and iv) Semantic-awareness. We use a text encoder to encode text queries and mask labels into the same semantic space for open-vocabulary segmentation. We conduct a comprehensive empirical study to validate the effectiveness of SEEM across diverse segmentation tasks. Notably, our single SEEM model achieves competitive performance across interactive segmentation, generic segmentation, referring segmentation, and video object segmentation on 9 datasets with minimum 1/100 supervision. Furthermore, SEEM showcases a remarkable capacity for generalization to novel prompts or their combinations, rendering it a readily universal image segmentation interface.\"\nSegment Anything,presents a set of resources to establish foundational models for image segmentation; releases the largest segmentation dataset with over 1 billion masks on 11M licensed images; the model’s zero-shot performance is competitive with or even superior to fully supervised results.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02643v1,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089444280561666?s=20,\"We introduce the Segment Anything (SA) project: a new task, model, and dataset for image segmentation. Using our efficient model in a data collection loop, we built the largest segmentation dataset to date (by far), with over 1 billion masks on 11M licensed and privacy respecting images. The model is designed and trained to be promptable, so it can transfer zero-shot to new image distributions and tasks. We evaluate its capabilities on numerous tasks and find that its zero-shot performance is impressive -- often competitive with or even superior to prior fully supervised results. We are releasing the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and corresponding dataset (SA-1B) of 1B masks and 11M images at this https URL to foster research into foundation models for computer vision.\"\nInstruction Tuning with GPT-4,\"presents GPT-4-LLM, a \"\"first attempt\"\" to use GPT-4 to generate instruction-following data for LLM fine-tuning; the dataset is released and includes 52K unique English and Chinese instruction-following data; the dataset is used to instruction-tune LLaMA models which leads to superior zero-shot performance on new tasks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03277,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089446524534788?s=20,\"Prior work has shown that finetuning large language models (LLMs) using machine-generated instruction-following data enables such models to achieve remarkable zero-shot capabilities on new tasks, and no human-written instructions are needed. In this paper, we present the first attempt to use GPT-4 to generate instruction-following data for LLM finetuning. Our early experiments on instruction-tuned LLaMA models show that the 52K English and Chinese instruction-following data generated by GPT-4 leads to superior zero-shot performance on new tasks to the instruction-following data generated by previous state-of-the-art models. We also collect feedback and comparison data from GPT-4 to enable a comprehensive evaluation and reward model training. We make our data generated using GPT-4 as well as our codebase publicly available.\"\nEight Things to Know about Large Language Models,discusses important considerations regarding the capabilities and limitations of LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00612v1,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089448428699650?s=20,\"The widespread public deployment of large language models (LLMs) in recent months has prompted a wave of new attention and engagement from advocates, policymakers, and scholars from many fields. This attention is a timely response to the many urgent questions that this technology raises, but it can sometimes miss important considerations. This paper surveys the evidence for eight potentially surprising such points:\n1. LLMs predictably get more capable with increasing investment, even without targeted innovation.\n2. Many important LLM behaviors emerge unpredictably as a byproduct of increasing investment.\n3. LLMs often appear to learn and use representations of the outside world.\n4. There are no reliable techniques for steering the behavior of LLMs.\n5. Experts are not yet able to interpret the inner workings of LLMs.\n6. Human performance on a task isn't an upper bound on LLM performance.\n7. LLMs need not express the values of their creators nor the values encoded in web text.\n8. Brief interactions with LLMs are often misleading.\"\nA Survey of Large Language Models,a new 50 pages survey on large language models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.18223,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089450395852802?s=20,\"Language is essentially a complex, intricate system of human expressions governed by grammatical rules. It poses a significant challenge to develop capable AI algorithms for comprehending and grasping a language. As a major approach, language modeling has been widely studied for language understanding and generation in the past two decades, evolving from statistical language models to neural language models. Recently, pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been proposed by pre-training Transformer models over large-scale corpora, showing strong capabilities in solving various NLP tasks. Since researchers have found that model scaling can lead to performance improvement, they further study the scaling effect by increasing the model size to an even larger size. Interestingly, when the parameter scale exceeds a certain level, these enlarged language models not only achieve a significant performance improvement but also show some special abilities that are not present in small-scale language models. To discriminate the difference in parameter scale, the research community has coined the term large language models (LLM) for the PLMs of significant size. Recently, the research on LLMs has been largely advanced by both academia and industry, and a remarkable progress is the launch of ChatGPT, which has attracted widespread attention from society. The technical evolution of LLMs has been making an important impact on the entire AI community, which would revolutionize the way how we develop and use AI algorithms. In this survey, we review the recent advances of LLMs by introducing the background, key findings, and mainstream techniques. In particular, we focus on four major aspects of LLMs, namely pre-training, adaptation tuning, utilization, and capacity evaluation. Besides, we also summarize the available resources for developing LLMs and discuss the remaining issues for future directions.\"\nBaize: An Open-Source Chat Model with Parameter-Efficient Tuning on Self-Chat Data,\"an open-source chat model fine-tuned with LoRA. Leverages 100K dialogs generated from ChatGPT chatting with itself; it releases the dialogs along with 7B, 13B, and 30B parameter models.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01196,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089452081938433?s=20,\"Chat models, such as ChatGPT, have shown impressive capabilities and have been rapidly adopted across numerous domains. However, these models are only accessible through a restricted API, creating barriers for new research and progress in the field. We propose a pipeline that can automatically generate a high-quality multi-turn chat corpus by leveraging ChatGPT to engage in a conversation with itself. Subsequently, we employ parameter-efficient tuning to enhance LLaMA, an open-source large language model. The resulting model, named Baize, demonstrates good performance in multi-turn dialogues with guardrails that minimize potential risks. Furthermore, we propose a new technique called Self-Distill with Feedback, to further improve the performance of the Baize models with feedback from ChatGPT. The Baize models and data are released for research purposes only at this https URL. An online demo is also available at this https URL.\"\nDo the Rewards Justify the Means? Measuring Trade-Offs Between Rewards and Ethical Behavior in the MACHIAVELLI Benchmark,a new benchmark of 134 text-based Choose-Your-Own-Adventure games to evaluate the capabilities and unethical behaviors of LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03279,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089453780639744?s=20,\"ificial agents have traditionally been trained to maximize reward, which may incentivize power-seeking and deception, analogous to how next-token prediction in language models (LMs) may incentivize toxicity. So do agents naturally learn to be Machiavellian? And how do we measure these behaviors in general-purpose models such as GPT-4? Towards answering these questions, we introduce MACHIAVELLI, a benchmark of 134 Choose-Your-Own-Adventure games containing over half a million rich, diverse scenarios that center on social decision-making. Scenario labeling is automated with LMs, which are more performant than human annotators. We mathematize dozens of harmful behaviors and use our annotations to evaluate agents' tendencies to be power-seeking, cause disutility, and commit ethical violations. We observe some tension between maximizing reward and behaving ethically. To improve this trade-off, we investigate LM-based methods to steer agents' towards less harmful behaviors. Our results show that agents can both act competently and morally, so concrete progress can currently be made in machine ethics--designing agents that are Pareto improvements in both safety and capabilities.\"\nBetter Language Models of Code through Self-Improvement,generates pseudo data from knowledge gained through pre-training and fine-tuning; adds the data to the training dataset for the next step; results show that different frameworks can be improved in performance using code-related generation tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01228v1,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089455659687937?s=20,\"Pre-trained language models for code (PLMCs) have gained attention in recent research. These models are pre-trained on large-scale datasets using multi-modal objectives. However, fine-tuning them requires extensive supervision and is limited by the size of the dataset provided. We aim to improve this issue by proposing a simple data augmentation framework. Our framework utilizes knowledge gained during the pre-training and fine-tuning stage to generate pseudo data, which is then used as training data for the next step. We incorporate this framework into the state-of-the-art language models, such as CodeT5, CodeBERT, and UnixCoder. The results show that our framework significantly improves PLMCs' performance in code-related sequence generation tasks, such as code summarization and code generation in the CodeXGLUE benchmark.\"\nSummary of ChatGPT/GPT-4 Research and Perspective Towards the Future of Large Language Models,\"an overview of applications of ChatGPT and GPT-4; the analysis is done on 194 relevant papers and discusses capabilities, limitations, concerns, and more\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01852,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089457488404486?s=20,\"This paper presents a comprehensive survey of ChatGPT-related (GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) research, state-of-the-art large language models (LLM) from the GPT series, and their prospective applications across diverse domains. Indeed, key innovations such as large-scale pre-training that captures knowledge across the entire world wide web, instruction fine-tuning and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) have played significant roles in enhancing LLMs' adaptability and performance. We performed an in-depth analysis of 194 relevant papers on arXiv, encompassing trend analysis, word cloud representation, and distribution analysis across various application domains. The findings reveal a significant and increasing interest in ChatGPT-related research, predominantly centered on direct natural language processing applications, while also demonstrating considerable potential in areas ranging from education and history to mathematics, medicine, and physics. This study endeavors to furnish insights into ChatGPT's capabilities, potential implications, ethical concerns, and offer direction for future advancements in this field.\"\nPythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models Across Training and Scaling,a suite for analyzing LLMs across training and scaling; includes 16 LLMs trained on public data and ranging in size from 70M to 12B parameters.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01373,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089459191382016?s=20,\"How do large language models (LLMs) develop and evolve over the course of training? How do these patterns change as models scale? To answer these questions, we introduce \\textit{Pythia}, a suite of 16 LLMs all trained on public data seen in the exact same order and ranging in size from 70M to 12B parameters. We provide public access to 154 checkpoints for each one of the 16 models, alongside tools to download and reconstruct their exact training dataloaders for further study. We intend \\textit{Pythia} to facilitate research in many areas, and we present several case studies including novel results in memorization, term frequency effects on few-shot performance, and reducing gender bias. We demonstrate that this highly controlled setup can be used to yield novel insights toward LLMs and their training dynamics. Trained models, analysis code, training code, and training data can be found at \\url{this https URL}.\"\nSegGPT: Segmenting Everything In Context,unifies segmentation tasks into a generalist model through an in-context framework that supports different kinds of data.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03284,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1645089461124886529?s=20,\"We present SegGPT, a generalist model for segmenting everything in context. We unify various segmentation tasks into a generalist in-context learning framework that accommodates different kinds of segmentation data by transforming them into the same format of images. The training of SegGPT is formulated as an in-context coloring problem with random color mapping for each data sample. The objective is to accomplish diverse tasks according to the context, rather than relying on specific colors. After training, SegGPT can perform arbitrary segmentation tasks in images or videos via in-context inference, such as object instance, stuff, part, contour, and text. SegGPT is evaluated on a broad range of tasks, including few-shot semantic segmentation, video object segmentation, semantic segmentation, and panoptic segmentation. Our results show strong capabilities in segmenting in-domain and out-of-domain targets, either qualitatively or quantitatively.\"\nBloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance,a new 50B parameter large language model for finance. Claims the largest domain-specific dataset yet with 363 billion tokens... further augmented with 345 billion tokens from general-purpose datasets; outperforms existing models on financial tasks while not sacrificing performance on general LLM benchmarks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17564v1,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1641787456436547584?s=20,\"The use of NLP in the realm of financial technology is broad and complex, with applications ranging from sentiment analysis and named entity recognition to question answering. Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to be effective on a variety of tasks; however, no LLM specialized for the financial domain has been reported in literature. In this work, we present BloombergGPT, a 50 billion parameter language model that is trained on a wide range of financial data. We construct a 363 billion token dataset based on Bloomberg's extensive data sources, perhaps the largest domain-specific dataset yet, augmented with 345 billion tokens from general purpose datasets. We validate BloombergGPT on standard LLM benchmarks, open financial benchmarks, and a suite of internal benchmarks that most accurately reflect our intended usage. Our mixed dataset training leads to a model that outperforms existing models on financial tasks by significant margins without sacrificing performance on general LLM benchmarks. Additionally, we explain our modeling choices, training process, and evaluation methodology. As a next step, we plan to release training logs (Chronicles) detailing our experience in training BloombergGPT.\"\nLearning Fine-Grained Bimanual Manipulation with Low-Cost Hardware,a low-cost system that performs end-to-end imitation learning from real demonstrations; also presents an algorithm called Action Chunking with Transformers to learn a generative model that allows a robot to learn difficult tasks in the real world.,https://tonyzhaozh.github.io/aloha/,https://twitter.com/tonyzzhao/status/1640393026341322754?s=20,\"Fine manipulation tasks, such as threading cable ties or slotting a battery, are notoriously difficult for robots because they require precision, careful coordination of contact forces, and closed-loop visual feedback. Performing these tasks typically requires high-end robots, accurate sensors, or careful calibration, which can be expensive and difficult to set up. Can learning enable low-cost and imprecise hardware to perform these fine manipulation tasks? We present a low-cost system that performs end-to-end imitation learning directly from real demonstrations, collected with a custom teleoperation interface. Imitation learning, however, presents its own challenges, particularly in high-precision domains: the error of the policy can compound over time, drifting out of the training distribution. To address this challenge, we develop a novel algorithm Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT) which reduces the effective horizon by simply predicting actions in chunks. This allows us to learn difficult tasks such as opening a translucent condiment cup and slotting a battery with 80-90% success, with only 10 minutes worth of demonstration data.\"\nHuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in HuggingFace,\"a system that leverages LLMs like ChatGPT to conduct task planning, select models and act as a controller to execute subtasks and summarize responses according to execution results.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580,https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1641609645713129473?s=20,\"Solving complicated AI tasks with different domains and modalities is a key step toward artificial general intelligence. While there are abundant AI models available for different domains and modalities, they cannot handle complicated AI tasks. Considering large language models (LLMs) have exhibited exceptional ability in language understanding, generation, interaction, and reasoning, we advocate that LLMs could act as a controller to manage existing AI models to solve complicated AI tasks and language could be a generic interface to empower this. Based on this philosophy, we present HuggingGPT, a framework that leverages LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT) to connect various AI models in machine learning communities (e.g., Hugging Face) to solve AI tasks. Specifically, we use ChatGPT to conduct task planning when receiving a user request, select models according to their function descriptions available in Hugging Face, execute each subtask with the selected AI model, and summarize the response according to the execution results. By leveraging the strong language capability of ChatGPT and abundant AI models in Hugging Face, HuggingGPT is able to cover numerous sophisticated AI tasks in different modalities and domains and achieve impressive results in language, vision, speech, and other challenging tasks, which paves a new way towards artificial general intelligence.\"\nChatDoctor: A Medical Chat Model Fine-tuned on LLaMA Model using Medical Domain Knowledge,a medical chat model fine-tuned on LLaMA using medical domain knowledge. Collects data on around 700 diseases and generated 5K doctor-patient conversations to finetune the LLM.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14070,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1640525256719753217?s=20,\"The primary aim of this research was to address the limitations observed in the medical knowledge of prevalent large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, by creating a specialized language model with enhanced accuracy in medical advice. We achieved this by adapting and refining the large language model meta-AI (LLaMA) using a large dataset of 100,000 patient-doctor dialogues sourced from a widely used online medical consultation platform. These conversations were cleaned and anonymized to respect privacy concerns. In addition to the model refinement, we incorporated a self-directed information retrieval mechanism, allowing the model to access and utilize real-time information from online sources like Wikipedia and data from curated offline medical databases. The fine-tuning of the model with real-world patient-doctor interactions significantly improved the model's ability to understand patient needs and provide informed advice. By equipping the model with self-directed information retrieval from reliable online and offline sources, we observed substantial improvements in the accuracy of its responses. Our proposed ChatDoctor, represents a significant advancement in medical LLMs, demonstrating a significant improvement in understanding patient inquiries and providing accurate advice. Given the high stakes and low error tolerance in the medical field, such enhancements in providing accurate and reliable information are not only beneficial but essential.\"\nLLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models with Zero-init Attention,a lightweight adaption method to efficiently fine-tune LLaMA into an instruction-following model; generates responses comparable to Alpaca with fully fine-tuned 7B parameter; it’s also extended for multi-modal input support.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16199,https://twitter.com/rasbt/status/1641457696074334209?s=20,\"We present LLaMA-Adapter, a lightweight adaption method to efficiently fine-tune LLaMA into an instruction-following model. Using 52K self-instruct demonstrations, LLaMA-Adapter only introduces 1.2M learnable parameters upon the frozen LLaMA 7B model, and costs less than one hour for fine-tuning on 8 A100 GPUs. Specifically, we adopt a set of learnable adaption prompts, and prepend them to the word tokens at higher transformer layers. Then, a zero-initialized attention mechanism with zero gating is proposed, which adaptively injects the new instructional cues into LLaMA, while effectively preserves its pre-trained knowledge. With our efficient training, LLaMA-Adapter can generate high-quality responses, comparable to Alpaca with fully fine-tuned 7B parameters. Besides language commands, our approach can be simply extended to multi-modal instructions for learning image-conditioned LLaMA model, which achieves superior reasoning performance on ScienceQA and COCO Caption benchmarks. Furthermore, we also evaluate the zero-initialized attention mechanism for fine-tuning other pre-trained models (ViT, RoBERTa) on traditional vision and language tasks, demonstrating the superior generalization capacity of our approach. Code is released at this https URL.\"\nChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks,\"demonstrates that ChatGPT can outperform crowd-workers for several annotation tasks such as relevance, topics, and frames detection; besides better zero-shot accuracy, the per-annotation cost of ChatGPT is less 20 times cheaper than MTurk.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056v1,https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1641496876527517696?s=20,\"Many NLP applications require manual data annotations for a variety of tasks, notably to train classifiers or evaluate the performance of unsupervised models. Depending on the size and degree of complexity, the tasks may be conducted by crowd-workers on platforms such as MTurk as well as trained annotators, such as research assistants. Using a sample of 2,382 tweets, we demonstrate that ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for several annotation tasks, including relevance, stance, topics, and frames detection. Specifically, the zero-shot accuracy of ChatGPT exceeds that of crowd-workers for four out of five tasks, while ChatGPT's intercoder agreement exceeds that of both crowd-workers and trained annotators for all tasks. Moreover, the per-annotation cost of ChatGPT is less than $0.003 -- about twenty times cheaper than MTurk. These results show the potential of large language models to drastically increase the efficiency of text classification.\"\nLanguage Models can Solve Computer Tasks,shows that a pre-trained LLM agent can execute computer tasks using a simple prompting scheme where the agent recursively criticizes and improves its outputs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17491,https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1641609722951516161?s=20,\"gents capable of carrying out general tasks on a computer can improve efficiency and productivity by automating repetitive tasks and assisting in complex problem-solving. Ideally, such agents should be able to solve new computer tasks presented to them through natural language commands. However, previous approaches to this problem require large amounts of expert demonstrations and task-specific reward functions, both of which are impractical for new tasks. In this work, we show that a pre-trained large language model (LLM) agent can execute computer tasks guided by natural language using a simple prompting scheme where the agent Recursively Criticizes and Improves its output (RCI). The RCI approach significantly outperforms existing LLM methods for automating computer tasks and surpasses supervised learning (SL) and reinforcement learning (RL) approaches on the MiniWoB++ benchmark. We compare multiple LLMs and find that RCI with the InstructGPT-3+RLHF LLM is state-of-the-art on MiniWoB++, using only a handful of demonstrations per task rather than tens of thousands, and without a task-specific reward function. Furthermore, we demonstrate RCI prompting's effectiveness in enhancing LLMs' reasoning abilities on a suite of natural language reasoning tasks, outperforming chain of thought (CoT) prompting. We find that RCI combined with CoT performs better than either separately. Our code can be found here: this https URL.\"\nDERA: Enhancing Large Language Model Completions with Dialog-Enabled Resolving Agents,a paradigm to enhance large language model completions by allowing models to communicate feedback and iteratively improve output; DERA outperforms base GPT-4 on clinically-focused tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17071,https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1642168727796961280?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as valuable tools for many natural language understanding tasks. In safety-critical applications such as healthcare, the utility of these models is governed by their ability to generate outputs that are factually accurate and complete. In this work, we present dialog-enabled resolving agents (DERA). DERA is a paradigm made possible by the increased conversational abilities of LLMs, namely GPT-4. It provides a simple, interpretable forum for models to communicate feedback and iteratively improve output. We frame our dialog as a discussion between two agent types - a Researcher, who processes information and identifies crucial problem components, and a Decider, who has the autonomy to integrate the Researcher's information and makes judgments on the final output.\nWe test DERA against three clinically-focused tasks. For medical conversation summarization and care plan generation, DERA shows significant improvement over the base GPT-4 performance in both human expert preference evaluations and quantitative metrics. In a new finding, we also show that GPT-4's performance (70%) on an open-ended version of the MedQA question-answering (QA) dataset (Jin et al. 2021, USMLE) is well above the passing level (60%), with DERA showing similar performance. We release the open-ended MEDQA dataset at this https URL.\"\nNatural Selection Favors AIs over Humans,\"discusses why AI systems will become more fit than humans and the potential dangers and risks involved, including ways to mitigate them.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16200,https://twitter.com/DanHendrycks/status/1641102660412792833?s=20,\"For billions of years, evolution has been the driving force behind the development of life, including humans. Evolution endowed humans with high intelligence, which allowed us to become one of the most successful species on the planet. Today, humans aim to create artificial intelligence systems that surpass even our own intelligence. As artificial intelligences (AIs) evolve and eventually surpass us in all domains, how might evolution shape our relations with AIs? By analyzing the environment that is shaping the evolution of AIs, we argue that the most successful AI agents will likely have undesirable traits. Competitive pressures among corporations and militaries will give rise to AI agents that automate human roles, deceive others, and gain power. If such agents have intelligence that exceeds that of humans, this could lead to humanity losing control of its future. More abstractly, we argue that natural selection operates on systems that compete and vary, and that selfish species typically have an advantage over species that are altruistic to other species. This Darwinian logic could also apply to artificial agents, as agents may eventually be better able to persist into the future if they behave selfishly and pursue their own interests with little regard for humans, which could pose catastrophic risks. To counteract these risks and evolutionary forces, we consider interventions such as carefully designing AI agents' intrinsic motivations, introducing constraints on their actions, and institutions that encourage cooperation. These steps, or others that resolve the problems we pose, will be necessary in order to ensure the development of artificial intelligence is a positive one.\"\nMachine Learning for Partial Differential Equations,Pa review examining avenues of partial differential equations research advanced by machine learning.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17078,https://twitter.com/DynamicsSIAM/status/1641608068453777412?s=20,\"Partial differential equations (PDEs) are among the most universal and parsimonious descriptions of natural physical laws, capturing a rich variety of phenomenology and multi-scale physics in a compact and symbolic representation. This review will examine several promising avenues of PDE research that are being advanced by machine learning, including: 1) the discovery of new governing PDEs and coarse-grained approximations for complex natural and engineered systems, 2) learning effective coordinate systems and reduced-order models to make PDEs more amenable to analysis, and 3) representing solution operators and improving traditional numerical algorithms. In each of these fields, we summarize key advances, ongoing challenges, and opportunities for further development.\"\nSparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4,a comprehensive investigation of an early version of GPT-4 when it was still in active development by OpenAI.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991716349460481?s=20,\"ificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. The latest model developed by OpenAI, GPT-4, was trained using an unprecedented scale of compute and data. In this paper, we report on our investigation of an early version of GPT-4, when it was still in active development by OpenAI. We contend that (this early version of) GPT-4 is part of a new cohort of LLMs (along with ChatGPT and Google's PaLM for example) that exhibit more general intelligence than previous AI models. We discuss the rising capabilities and implications of these models. We demonstrate that, beyond its mastery of language, GPT-4 can solve novel and difficult tasks that span mathematics, coding, vision, medicine, law, psychology and more, without needing any special prompting. Moreover, in all of these tasks, GPT-4's performance is strikingly close to human-level performance, and often vastly surpasses prior models such as ChatGPT. Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. In our exploration of GPT-4, we put special emphasis on discovering its limitations, and we discuss the challenges ahead for advancing towards deeper and more comprehensive versions of AGI, including the possible need for pursuing a new paradigm that moves beyond next-word prediction. We conclude with reflections on societal influences of the recent technological leap and future research directions.\"\nReflexion: an autonomous agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection,proposes an agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection capabilities to enhance its existing reasoning trace and task-specific action choice abilities.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991718169722880?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to interact with external environments (e.g., games, compilers, APIs) as goal-driven agents. However, it remains challenging for these language agents to quickly and efficiently learn from trial-and-error as traditional reinforcement learning methods require extensive training samples and expensive model fine-tuning. We propose Reflexion, a novel framework to reinforce language agents not by updating weights, but instead through linguistic feedback. Concretely, Reflexion agents verbally reflect on task feedback signals, then maintain their own reflective text in an episodic memory buffer to induce better decision-making in subsequent trials. Reflexion is flexible enough to incorporate various types (scalar values or free-form language) and sources (external or internally simulated) of feedback signals, and obtains significant improvements over a baseline agent across diverse tasks (sequential decision-making, coding, language reasoning). For example, Reflexion achieves a 91% pass@1 accuracy on the HumanEval coding benchmark, surpassing the previous state-of-the-art GPT-4 that achieves 80%. We also conduct ablation and analysis studies using different feedback signals, feedback incorporation methods, and agent types, and provide insights into how they affect performance.\"\nCapabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems,\"shows that GPT-4 exceeds the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperforms GPT-3.5 as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B).\",https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/capabilities-of-gpt-4-on-medical-challenge-problems/,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991720224989188?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation across various domains, including medicine. We present a comprehensive evaluation of GPT-4, a state-of-the-art LLM, on medical competency examinations and benchmark datasets. GPT-4 is a general-purpose model that is not specialized for medical problems through training or engineered to solve clinical tasks. Our analysis covers two sets of official practice materials for the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), a three-step examination program used to assess clinical competency and grant licensure in the United States. We also evaluate performance on the MultiMedQA suite of benchmark datasets. Beyond measuring model performance, experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of test questions containing both text and images on model performance, probe for memorization of content during training, and study calibration of the probabilities, which is of critical importance in high-stakes applications like medicine. Our results show that GPT-4, without any specialized prompt crafting, exceeds the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperforms earlier general-purpose models (GPT-3.5) as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B). In addition, GPT-4 is significantly better calibrated than GPT-3.5, demonstrating a much-improved ability to predict the likelihood that its answers are correct. We also explore the behavior of the model qualitatively by presenting a case study that shows the ability of GPT-4 to explain medical reasoning, personalize explanations to students, and interactively craft new counterfactual scenarios around a medical case. Implications of the findings are discussed for potential uses of GPT-4 in medical education, assessment, and clinical practice, with appropriate attention to challenges of accuracy and safety.\"\nGPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models,investigates the potential implications of GPT models and related systems on the US labor market.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991722263412737?s=20,\"We investigate the potential implications of large language models (LLMs), such as Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), on the U.S. labor market, focusing on the increased capabilities arising from LLM-powered software compared to LLMs on their own. Using a new rubric, we assess occupations based on their alignment with LLM capabilities, integrating both human expertise and GPT-4 classifications. Our findings reveal that around 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of LLMs, while approximately 19% of workers may see at least 50% of their tasks impacted. We do not make predictions about the development or adoption timeline of such LLMs. The projected effects span all wage levels, with higher-income jobs potentially facing greater exposure to LLM capabilities and LLM-powered software. Significantly, these impacts are not restricted to industries with higher recent productivity growth. Our analysis suggests that, with access to an LLM, about 15% of all worker tasks in the US could be completed significantly faster at the same level of quality. When incorporating software and tooling built on top of LLMs, this share increases to between 47 and 56% of all tasks. This finding implies that LLM-powered software will have a substantial effect on scaling the economic impacts of the underlying models. We conclude that LLMs such as GPTs exhibit traits of general-purpose technologies, indicating that they could have considerable economic, social, and policy implications.\"\nCoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers with Conditional Computation,\"a long-input Transformer model that employs conditional computation, devoting more resources to important tokens in both feedforward and attention layers.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09752,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991723806826499?s=20,\"Many natural language processing tasks benefit from long inputs, but processing long documents with Transformers is expensive -- not only due to quadratic attention complexity but also from applying feedforward and projection layers to every token. However, not all tokens are equally important, especially for longer documents. We propose CoLT5, a long-input Transformer model that builds on this intuition by employing conditional computation, devoting more resources to important tokens in both feedforward and attention layers. We show that CoLT5 achieves stronger performance than LongT5 with much faster training and inference, achieving SOTA on the long-input SCROLLS benchmark. Moreover, CoLT5 can effectively and tractably make use of extremely long inputs, showing strong gains up to 64k input length.\"\nArtificial muses: Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Have Risen to Human-Level Creativity,compares human-generated ideas with those generated by generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and YouChat; reports that 9.4% of humans were more creative than GPT-4 and that GAIs are valuable assistants in the creative process.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12003,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991725442646018?s=20,\"widespread view is that Artificial Intelligence cannot be creative. We tested this assumption by comparing human-generated ideas with those generated by six Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) chatbots: $alpa.\\!ai$, $Copy.\\!ai$, ChatGPT (versions 3 and 4), $Studio.\\!ai$, and YouChat. Humans and a specifically trained AI independently assessed the quality and quantity of ideas. We found no qualitative difference between AI and human-generated creativity, although there are differences in how ideas are generated. Interestingly, 9.4 percent of humans were more creative than the most creative GAI, GPT-4. Our findings suggest that GAIs are valuable assistants in the creative process. Continued research and development of GAI in creative tasks is crucial to fully understand this technology's potential benefits and drawbacks in shaping the future of creativity. Finally, we discuss the question of whether GAIs are capable of being truly creative.\"\nA Comprehensive Capability Analysis of GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 Series Models,a comprehensive capability analysis of GPT series models; evaluates performance on 9 natural language understanding tasks using 21 datasets.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10420,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991727292395520?s=20,\"GPT series models, such as GPT-3, CodeX, InstructGPT, ChatGPT, and so on, have gained considerable attention due to their exceptional natural language processing capabilities. However, despite the abundance of research on the difference in capabilities between GPT series models and fine-tuned models, there has been limited attention given to the evolution of GPT series models' capabilities over time. To conduct a comprehensive analysis of the capabilities of GPT series models, we select six representative models, comprising two GPT-3 series models (i.e., davinci and text-davinci-001) and four GPT-3.5 series models (i.e., code-davinci-002, text-davinci-002, text-davinci-003, and gpt-3.5-turbo). We evaluate their performance on nine natural language understanding (NLU) tasks using 21 datasets. In particular, we compare the performance and robustness of different models for each task under zero-shot and few-shot scenarios. Our extensive experiments reveal that the overall ability of GPT series models on NLU tasks does not increase gradually as the models evolve, especially with the introduction of the RLHF training strategy. While this strategy enhances the models' ability to generate human-like responses, it also compromises their ability to solve some tasks. Furthermore, our findings indicate that there is still room for improvement in areas such as model robustness.\"\nContext-faithful Prompting for Large Language Models,presents a prompting technique that aims to improve LLMs' faithfulness using strategies such as opinion-based prompts and counterfactual demonstrations.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11315,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991728882032646?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) encode parametric knowledge about world facts and have shown remarkable performance in knowledge-driven NLP tasks. However, their reliance on parametric knowledge may cause them to overlook contextual cues, leading to incorrect predictions in context-sensitive NLP tasks (e.g., knowledge acquisition tasks). In this paper, we seek to assess and enhance LLMs' contextual faithfulness in two aspects: knowledge conflict and prediction with abstention. We demonstrate that LLMs' faithfulness can be significantly improved using carefully designed prompting strategies. In particular, we identify opinion-based prompts and counterfactual demonstrations as the most effective methods. Opinion-based prompts reframe the context as a narrator's statement and inquire about the narrator's opinions, while counterfactual demonstrations use instances containing false facts to improve faithfulness in knowledge conflict situations. Neither technique requires additional training. We conduct experiments on three datasets of two standard NLP tasks, machine reading comprehension and relation extraction, and the results demonstrate significant improvement in faithfulness to contexts.\"\nText2Room: Extracting Textured 3D Meshes from 2D Text-to-Image Models,a method for extracting room-scale textured 3D meshes from 2D text-to-image models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11989,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991730723254274?s=20,\"We present Text2Room, a method for generating room-scale textured 3D meshes from a given text prompt as input. To this end, we leverage pre-trained 2D text-to-image models to synthesize a sequence of images from different poses. In order to lift these outputs into a consistent 3D scene representation, we combine monocular depth estimation with a text-conditioned inpainting model. The core idea of our approach is a tailored viewpoint selection such that the content of each image can be fused into a seamless, textured 3D mesh. More specifically, we propose a continuous alignment strategy that iteratively fuses scene frames with the existing geometry to create a seamless mesh. Unlike existing works that focus on generating single objects or zoom-out trajectories from text, our method generates complete 3D scenes with multiple objects and explicit 3D geometry. We evaluate our approach using qualitative and quantitative metrics, demonstrating it as the first method to generate room-scale 3D geometry with compelling textures from only text as input.\"\nPanGu-Σ: Towards Trillion Parameter Language Model with Sparse Heterogeneous Computing,a trillion parameter language model with sparse heterogeneous computing.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10845,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1639991732405252100?s=20,\"The scaling of large language models has greatly improved natural language understanding, generation, and reasoning. In this work, we develop a system that trained a trillion-parameter language model on a cluster of Ascend 910 AI processors and MindSpore framework, and present the language model with 1.085T parameters named PanGu-{\\Sigma}. With parameter inherent from PanGu-{\\alpha}, we extend the dense Transformer model to sparse one with Random Routed Experts (RRE), and efficiently train the model over 329B tokens by using Expert Computation and Storage Separation(ECSS). This resulted in a 6.3x increase in training throughput through heterogeneous computing. Our experimental findings show that PanGu-{\\Sigma} provides state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot learning of various Chinese NLP downstream tasks. Moreover, it demonstrates strong abilities when fine-tuned in application data of open-domain dialogue, question answering, machine translation and code generation.\"\nGPT-4 Technical Report,GPT-4 - a large multimodal model with broader general knowledge and problem-solving abilities.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774v2,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456913993433089?s=20,\"We report the development of GPT-4, a large-scale, multimodal model which can accept image and text inputs and produce text outputs. While less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, GPT-4 exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks, including passing a simulated bar exam with a score around the top 10% of test takers. GPT-4 is a Transformer-based model pre-trained to predict the next token in a document. The post-training alignment process results in improved performance on measures of factuality and adherence to desired behavior. A core component of this project was developing infrastructure and optimization methods that behave predictably across a wide range of scales. This allowed us to accurately predict some aspects of GPT-4's performance based on models trained with no more than 1/1,000th the compute of GPT-4.\"\nLERF: Language Embedded Radiance Fields,a method for grounding language embeddings from models like CLIP into NeRF; this enables open-ended language queries in 3D.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09553,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456915658686465?s=20,\"Humans describe the physical world using natural language to refer to specific 3D locations based on a vast range of properties: visual appearance, semantics, abstract associations, or actionable affordances. In this work we propose Language Embedded Radiance Fields (LERFs), a method for grounding language embeddings from off-the-shelf models like CLIP into NeRF, which enable these types of open-ended language queries in 3D. LERF learns a dense, multi-scale language field inside NeRF by volume rendering CLIP embeddings along training rays, supervising these embeddings across training views to provide multi-view consistency and smooth the underlying language field. After optimization, LERF can extract 3D relevancy maps for a broad range of language prompts interactively in real-time, which has potential use cases in robotics, understanding vision-language models, and interacting with 3D scenes. LERF enables pixel-aligned, zero-shot queries on the distilled 3D CLIP embeddings without relying on region proposals or masks, supporting long-tail open-vocabulary queries hierarchically across the volume. The project website can be found at this https URL .\"\nAn Overview on Language Models: Recent Developments and Outlook,\"an overview of language models covering recent developments and future directions. It also covers topics like linguistic units, structures, training methods, evaluation, and applications.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05759,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1635273656858460162?s=20,\"Language modeling studies the probability distributions over strings of texts. It is one of the most fundamental tasks in natural language processing (NLP). It has been widely used in text generation, speech recognition, machine translation, etc. Conventional language models (CLMs) aim to predict the probability of linguistic sequences in a causal manner, while pre-trained language models (PLMs) cover broader concepts and can be used in both causal sequential modeling and fine-tuning for downstream applications. PLMs have their own training paradigms (usually self-supervised) and serve as foundation models in modern NLP systems. This overview paper provides an introduction to both CLMs and PLMs from five aspects, i.e., linguistic units, architectures, training methods, evaluation methods, and applications. Furthermore, we discuss the relationship between CLMs and PLMs and shed light on the future directions of language modeling in the pre-trained era.\"\nEliciting Latent Predictions from Transformers with the Tuned Lens,a method for transformer interpretability that can trace a language model predictions as it develops layer by layer.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08112,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456919819440130?s=20,\"We analyze transformers from the perspective of iterative inference, seeking to understand how model predictions are refined layer by layer. To do so, we train an affine probe for each block in a frozen pretrained model, making it possible to decode every hidden state into a distribution over the vocabulary. Our method, the tuned lens, is a refinement of the earlier \"\"logit lens\"\" technique, which yielded useful insights but is often brittle.\nWe test our method on various autoregressive language models with up to 20B parameters, showing it to be more predictive, reliable and unbiased than the logit lens. With causal experiments, we show the tuned lens uses similar features to the model itself. We also find the trajectory of latent predictions can be used to detect malicious inputs with high accuracy. All code needed to reproduce our results can be found at this https URL.\"\nMeet in the Middle: A New Pre-training Paradigm,a new pre-training paradigm using techniques that jointly improve training data efficiency and capabilities of LMs in the infilling task; performance improvement is shown in code generation tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07295,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456922004561920?s=20,\"Most language models (LMs) are trained and applied in an autoregressive left-to-right fashion, assuming that the next token only depends on the preceding ones. However, this assumption ignores the potential benefits of using the full sequence information during training, and the possibility of having context from both sides during inference. In this paper, we propose a new pre-training paradigm with techniques that jointly improve the training data efficiency and the capabilities of the LMs in the infilling task. The first is a training objective that aligns the predictions of a left-to-right LM with those of a right-to-left LM, trained on the same data but in reverse order. The second is a bidirectional inference procedure that enables both LMs to meet in the middle. We show the effectiveness of our pre-training paradigm with extensive experiments on both programming and natural language models, outperforming strong baselines.\"\nResurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks for Long Sequences,demonstrates that careful design of deep RNNs using standard signal propagation arguments can recover the performance of deep state-space models on long-range reasoning tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06349,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456923795521537?s=20,\"Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) offer fast inference on long sequences but are hard to optimize and slow to train. Deep state-space models (SSMs) have recently been shown to perform remarkably well on long sequence modeling tasks, and have the added benefits of fast parallelizable training and RNN-like fast inference. However, while SSMs are superficially similar to RNNs, there are important differences that make it unclear where their performance boost over RNNs comes from. In this paper, we show that careful design of deep RNNs using standard signal propagation arguments can recover the impressive performance of deep SSMs on long-range reasoning tasks, while also matching their training speed. To achieve this, we analyze and ablate a series of changes to standard RNNs including linearizing and diagonalizing the recurrence, using better parameterizations and initializations, and ensuring proper normalization of the forward pass. Our results provide new insights on the origins of the impressive performance of deep SSMs, while also introducing an RNN block called the Linear Recurrent Unit that matches both their performance on the Long Range Arena benchmark and their computational efficiency.\"\nUPRISE: Universal Prompt Retrieval for Improving Zero-Shot Evaluation,a new approach to tune a lightweight and versatile retriever to automatically retrieve prompts to improve zero-shot performance and help mitigate hallucinations.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08518,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456925779456000?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) are popular for their impressive abilities, but the need for model-specific fine-tuning or task-specific prompt engineering can hinder their generalization. We propose UPRISE (Universal Prompt Retrieval for Improving zero-Shot Evaluation), which tunes a lightweight and versatile retriever that automatically retrieves prompts for a given zero-shot task input. Specifically, we demonstrate universality in a cross-task and cross-model scenario: the retriever is tuned on a diverse set of tasks, but tested on unseen task types; we use a small frozen LLM, GPT-Neo-2.7B, for tuning the retriever, but test the retriever on different LLMs of much larger scales, such as BLOOM-7.1B, OPT-66B and GPT3-175B. Additionally, we show that UPRISE mitigates the hallucination problem in our experiments with ChatGPT, suggesting its potential to improve even the strongest LLMs. Our model and code are available at this https URL.\"\nPatches Are All You Need?,\"proposes ConvMixer, a parameter-efficient fully-convolutional model which replaces self-attention and MLP layers in ViTs with less-expressive depthwise and pointwise convolutional layers.\",https://openreview.net/forum?id=rAnB7JSMXL,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456927784329218?s=20,\"Although convolutional neural networks have been the dominant architecture for computer vision for many years, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently shown promise as an alternative. Subsequently, many new models have been proposed which replace the self-attention layer within the ViT architecture with novel operations (such as MLPs), all of which have also been relatively performant. We note that these architectures all share a common component--the patch embedding layer--which enables the use of a simple isotropic template with alternating steps of channel- and spatial-dimension mixing. This raises a question: is the success of ViT-style models due to novel, highly-expressive operations like self-attention, or is it at least in part due to using patches? In this paper, we present some evidence for the latter: specifically, we propose the ConvMixer, an extremely simple and parameter-efficient fully-convolutional model in which we replace the self-attention and MLP layers within the ViT with less-expressive depthwise and pointwise convolutional layers, respectively. Despite its unusual simplicity, ConvMixer outperforms the ViT, MLP-Mixer, and their variants for similar data set sizes and parameter counts, in addition to outperforming classical vision models like ResNet. We argue that this contributes to the evidence that patches are sufficient for designing simple and effective vision models. Our code is available at https://github.com/locuslab/convmixer.\"\nNeRFMeshing: Distilling Neural Radiance Fields into Geometrically-Accurate 3D Meshes,a compact and flexible architecture that enables easy 3D surface reconstruction from any NeRF-driven approach; distills NeRFs into geometrically-accurate 3D meshes.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09431,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456929705295873?s=20,\"With the introduction of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), novel view synthesis has recently made a big leap forward. At the core, NeRF proposes that each 3D point can emit radiance, allowing to conduct view synthesis using differentiable volumetric rendering. While neural radiance fields can accurately represent 3D scenes for computing the image rendering, 3D meshes are still the main scene representation supported by most computer graphics and simulation pipelines, enabling tasks such as real time rendering and physics-based simulations. Obtaining 3D meshes from neural radiance fields still remains an open challenge since NeRFs are optimized for view synthesis, not enforcing an accurate underlying geometry on the radiance field. We thus propose a novel compact and flexible architecture that enables easy 3D surface reconstruction from any NeRF-driven approach. Upon having trained the radiance field, we distill the volumetric 3D representation into a Signed Surface Approximation Network, allowing easy extraction of the 3D mesh and appearance. Our final 3D mesh is physically accurate and can be rendered in real time on an array of devices.\"\nHigh-throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU,a high-throughput generation engine for running LLMs with limited GPU memory.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06865,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1637456931429183489?s=20,\"The high computational and memory requirements of large language model (LLM) inference make it feasible only with multiple high-end accelerators. Motivated by the emerging demand for latency-insensitive tasks with batched processing, this paper initiates the study of high-throughput LLM inference using limited resources, such as a single commodity GPU. We present FlexGen, a high-throughput generation engine for running LLMs with limited GPU memory. FlexGen can be flexibly configured under various hardware resource constraints by aggregating memory and computation from the GPU, CPU, and disk. By solving a linear programming problem, it searches for efficient patterns to store and access tensors. FlexGen further compresses the weights and the attention cache to 4 bits with negligible accuracy loss. These techniques enable FlexGen to have a larger space of batch size choices and thus significantly increase maximum throughput. As a result, when running OPT-175B on a single 16GB GPU, FlexGen achieves significantly higher throughput compared to state-of-the-art offloading systems, reaching a generation throughput of 1 token/s for the first time with an effective batch size of 144. On the HELM benchmark, FlexGen can benchmark a 30B model with a 16GB GPU on 7 representative sub-scenarios in 21 hours. The code is available at this https URL\"\nPaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model,\"incorporates real-world continuous sensor modalities resulting in an embodied LM that performs tasks such as robotic manipulation planning, visual QA, and other embodied reasoning tasks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03378,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919222420836358?s=20,\"Large language models excel at a wide range of complex tasks. However, enabling general inference in the real world, e.g., for robotics problems, raises the challenge of grounding. We propose embodied language models to directly incorporate real-world continuous sensor modalities into language models and thereby establish the link between words and percepts. Input to our embodied language model are multi-modal sentences that interleave visual, continuous state estimation, and textual input encodings. We train these encodings end-to-end, in conjunction with a pre-trained large language model, for multiple embodied tasks including sequential robotic manipulation planning, visual question answering, and captioning. Our evaluations show that PaLM-E, a single large embodied multimodal model, can address a variety of embodied reasoning tasks, from a variety of observation modalities, on multiple embodiments, and further, exhibits positive transfer: the model benefits from diverse joint training across internet-scale language, vision, and visual-language domains. Our largest model, PaLM-E-562B with 562B parameters, in addition to being trained on robotics tasks, is a visual-language generalist with state-of-the-art performance on OK-VQA, and retains generalist language capabilities with increasing scale.\"\nPrismer: A Vision-Language Model with An Ensemble of Experts,a parameter-efficient vision-language model powered by an ensemble of domain experts; it efficiently pools expert knowledge from different domains and adapts it to various vision-language reasoning tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02506,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919224505257985?s=20,\"Recent vision-language models have shown impressive multi-modal generation capabilities. However, typically they require training huge models on massive datasets. As a more scalable alternative, we introduce Prismer, a data- and parameter-efficient vision-language model that leverages an ensemble of domain experts. Prismer only requires training of a small number of components, with the majority of network weights inherited from readily-available, pre-trained domain experts, and kept frozen during training. By leveraging experts from a wide range of domains, we show that Prismer can efficiently pool this expert knowledge and adapt it to various vision-language reasoning tasks. In our experiments, we show that Prismer achieves fine-tuned and few-shot learning performance which is competitive with current state-of-the-art models, whilst requiring up to two orders of magnitude less training data. Code is available at this https URL.\"\n\"Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation Models\",it connects ChatGPT and different visual foundation models to enable users to interact with ChatGPT beyond language format.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04671,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919226396794882?s=20,\"ChatGPT is attracting a cross-field interest as it provides a language interface with remarkable conversational competency and reasoning capabilities across many domains. However, since ChatGPT is trained with languages, it is currently not capable of processing or generating images from the visual world. At the same time, Visual Foundation Models, such as Visual Transformers or Stable Diffusion, although showing great visual understanding and generation capabilities, they are only experts on specific tasks with one-round fixed inputs and outputs. To this end, We build a system called \\textbf{Visual ChatGPT}, incorporating different Visual Foundation Models, to enable the user to interact with ChatGPT by 1) sending and receiving not only languages but also images 2) providing complex visual questions or visual editing instructions that require the collaboration of multiple AI models with multi-steps. 3) providing feedback and asking for corrected results. We design a series of prompts to inject the visual model information into ChatGPT, considering models of multiple inputs/outputs and models that require visual feedback. Experiments show that Visual ChatGPT opens the door to investigating the visual roles of ChatGPT with the help of Visual Foundation Models. Our system is publicly available at \\url{this https URL}.\"\nA Comprehensive Survey of AI-Generated Content (AIGC): A History of Generative AI from GAN to ChatGPT,an overview of generative AI - from GAN to ChatGPT.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04226,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919228339003393?s=20,\"Recently, ChatGPT, along with DALL-E-2 and Codex,has been gaining significant attention from society. As a result, many individuals have become interested in related resources and are seeking to uncover the background and secrets behind its impressive performance. In fact, ChatGPT and other Generative AI (GAI) techniques belong to the category of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), which involves the creation of digital content, such as images, music, and natural language, through AI models. The goal of AIGC is to make the content creation process more efficient and accessible, allowing for the production of high-quality content at a faster pace. AIGC is achieved by extracting and understanding intent information from instructions provided by human, and generating the content according to its knowledge and the intent information. In recent years, large-scale models have become increasingly important in AIGC as they provide better intent extraction and thus, improved generation results. With the growth of data and the size of the models, the distribution that the model can learn becomes more comprehensive and closer to reality, leading to more realistic and high-quality content generation. This survey provides a comprehensive review on the history of generative models, and basic components, recent advances in AIGC from unimodal interaction and multimodal interaction. From the perspective of unimodality, we introduce the generation tasks and relative models of text and image. From the perspective of multimodality, we introduce the cross-application between the modalities mentioned above. Finally, we discuss the existing open problems and future challenges in AIGC.\"\nLarger language models do in-context learning differently,\"shows that with scale, LLMs can override semantic priors when presented with enough flipped labels; these models can also perform well when replacing targets with semantically-unrelated targets.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03846,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919230461345797?s=20,\"We study how in-context learning (ICL) in language models is affected by semantic priors versus input-label mappings. We investigate two setups-ICL with flipped labels and ICL with semantically-unrelated labels-across various model families (GPT-3, InstructGPT, Codex, PaLM, and Flan-PaLM). First, experiments on ICL with flipped labels show that overriding semantic priors is an emergent ability of model scale. While small language models ignore flipped labels presented in-context and thus rely primarily on semantic priors from pretraining, large models can override semantic priors when presented with in-context exemplars that contradict priors, despite the stronger semantic priors that larger models may hold. We next study semantically-unrelated label ICL (SUL-ICL), in which labels are semantically unrelated to their inputs (e.g., foo/bar instead of negative/positive), thereby forcing language models to learn the input-label mappings shown in in-context exemplars in order to perform the task. The ability to do SUL-ICL also emerges primarily with scale, and large-enough language models can even perform linear classification in a SUL-ICL setting. Finally, we evaluate instruction-tuned models and find that instruction tuning strengthens both the use of semantic priors and the capacity to learn input-label mappings, but more of the former.\"\n\"Foundation Models for Decision Making: Problems, Methods, and Opportunities\",\"provides an overview of foundation models for decision making, including tools, methods, and new research directions.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04129,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919232650760192?s=20,\"Foundation models pretrained on diverse data at scale have demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in a wide range of vision and language tasks. When such models are deployed in real world environments, they inevitably interface with other entities and agents. For example, language models are often used to interact with human beings through dialogue, and visual perception models are used to autonomously navigate neighborhood streets. In response to these developments, new paradigms are emerging for training foundation models to interact with other agents and perform long-term reasoning. These paradigms leverage the existence of ever-larger datasets curated for multimodal, multitask, and generalist interaction. Research at the intersection of foundation models and decision making holds tremendous promise for creating powerful new systems that can interact effectively across a diverse range of applications such as dialogue, autonomous driving, healthcare, education, and robotics. In this manuscript, we examine the scope of foundation models for decision making, and provide conceptual tools and technical background for understanding the problem space and exploring new research directions. We review recent approaches that ground foundation models in practical decision making applications through a variety of methods such as prompting, conditional generative modeling, planning, optimal control, and reinforcement learning, and discuss common challenges and open problems in the field.\"\nHyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models,a subquadratic drop-in replacement for attention; it interleaves implicit long convolutions and data-controlled gating and can learn on sequences 10x longer and up to 100x faster than optimized attention.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919234835980289?s=20,\"Recent advances in deep learning have relied heavily on the use of large Transformers due to their ability to learn at scale. However, the core building block of Transformers, the attention operator, exhibits quadratic cost in sequence length, limiting the amount of context accessible. Existing subquadratic methods based on low-rank and sparse approximations need to be combined with dense attention layers to match Transformers, indicating a gap in capability. In this work, we propose Hyena, a subquadratic drop-in replacement for attention constructed by interleaving implicitly parametrized long convolutions and data-controlled gating. In recall and reasoning tasks on sequences of thousands to hundreds of thousands of tokens, Hyena improves accuracy by more than 50 points over operators relying on state-spaces and other implicit and explicit methods, matching attention-based models. We set a new state-of-the-art for dense-attention-free architectures on language modeling in standard datasets (WikiText103 and The Pile), reaching Transformer quality with a 20% reduction in training compute required at sequence length 2K. Hyena operators are twice as fast as highly optimized attention at sequence length 8K, and 100x faster at sequence length 64K.\"\nOpenICL: An Open-Source Framework for In-context Learning,\"a new open-source toolkit for in-context learning and LLM evaluation; supports various state-of-the-art retrieval and inference methods, tasks, and zero-/few-shot evaluation of LLMs.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02913,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919236954132480?s=20,\"In recent years, In-context Learning (ICL) has gained increasing attention and emerged as the new paradigm for large language model (LLM) evaluation. Unlike traditional fine-tuning methods, ICL instead adapts the pre-trained models to unseen tasks without any parameter updates. However, the implementation of ICL is sophisticated due to the diverse retrieval and inference methods involved, as well as the varying pre-processing requirements for different models, datasets, and tasks. A unified and flexible framework for ICL is urgently needed to ease the implementation of the aforementioned components. To facilitate ICL research, we introduce OpenICL, an open-source toolkit for ICL and LLM evaluation. OpenICL is research-friendly with a highly flexible architecture that users can easily combine different components to suit their needs. It also provides various state-of-the-art retrieval and inference methods to streamline the process of adapting ICL to cutting-edge research. The effectiveness of OpenICL has been validated on a wide range of NLP tasks, including classification, QA, machine translation, and semantic parsing. As a side-product, we found OpenICL to be an efficient yet robust tool for LLMs evaluation. OpenICL is released at this https URL\"\nMathPrompter: Mathematical Reasoning using Large Language Models,a technique that improves LLM performance on mathematical reasoning problems; it uses zero-shot chain-of-thought prompting and verification to ensure generated answers are accurate.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05398,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919239030280197?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) have limited performance when solving arithmetic reasoning tasks and often provide incorrect answers. Unlike natural language understanding, math problems typically have a single correct answer, making the task of generating accurate solutions more challenging for LLMs. To the best of our knowledge, we are not aware of any LLMs that indicate their level of confidence in their responses which fuels a trust deficit in these models impeding their adoption. To address this deficiency, we propose `MathPrompter', a technique that improves performance of LLMs on arithmetic problems along with increased reliance in the predictions. MathPrompter uses the Zero-shot chain-of-thought prompting technique to generate multiple Algebraic expressions or Python functions to solve the same math problem in different ways and thereby raise the confidence level in the output results. This is in contrast to other prompt based CoT methods, where there is no check on the validity of the intermediate steps followed. Our technique improves over state-of-the-art on the MultiArith dataset ($78.7\\%\\rightarrow92.5\\%$) evaluated using 175B parameter GPT-based LLM.\"\nScaling up GANs for Text-to-Image Synthesis,\"enables scaling up GANs on large datasets for text-to-image synthesis; it’s found to be orders of magnitude faster at inference time, synthesizes high-resolution images, & supports various latent space editing applications.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05511,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1634919241198751744?s=20,\"The recent success of text-to-image synthesis has taken the world by storm and captured the general public's imagination. From a technical standpoint, it also marked a drastic change in the favored architecture to design generative image models. GANs used to be the de facto choice, with techniques like StyleGAN. With DALL-E 2, auto-regressive and diffusion models became the new standard for large-scale generative models overnight. This rapid shift raises a fundamental question: can we scale up GANs to benefit from large datasets like LAION? We find that naÏvely increasing the capacity of the StyleGAN architecture quickly becomes unstable. We introduce GigaGAN, a new GAN architecture that far exceeds this limit, demonstrating GANs as a viable option for text-to-image synthesis. GigaGAN offers three major advantages. First, it is orders of magnitude faster at inference time, taking only 0.13 seconds to synthesize a 512px image. Second, it can synthesize high-resolution images, for example, 16-megapixel pixels in 3.66 seconds. Finally, GigaGAN supports various latent space editing applications such as latent interpolation, style mixing, and vector arithmetic operations.\"\nLanguage Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models,\"introduces a multimodal large language model called Kosmos-1; achieves great performance on language understanding, OCR-free NLP, perception-language tasks, visual QA, and more.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14045,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383312550416384?s=20,\"ig convergence of language, multimodal perception, action, and world modeling is a key step toward artificial general intelligence. In this work, we introduce Kosmos-1, a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that can perceive general modalities, learn in context (i.e., few-shot), and follow instructions (i.e., zero-shot). Specifically, we train Kosmos-1 from scratch on web-scale multimodal corpora, including arbitrarily interleaved text and images, image-caption pairs, and text data. We evaluate various settings, including zero-shot, few-shot, and multimodal chain-of-thought prompting, on a wide range of tasks without any gradient updates or finetuning. Experimental results show that Kosmos-1 achieves impressive performance on (i) language understanding, generation, and even OCR-free NLP (directly fed with document images), (ii) perception-language tasks, including multimodal dialogue, image captioning, visual question answering, and (iii) vision tasks, such as image recognition with descriptions (specifying classification via text instructions). We also show that MLLMs can benefit from cross-modal transfer, i.e., transfer knowledge from language to multimodal, and from multimodal to language. In addition, we introduce a dataset of Raven IQ test, which diagnoses the nonverbal reasoning capability of MLLMs.\"\nEvidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech,finds that human brain activity is best explained by the activations of modern language models enhanced with long-range and hierarchical predictions.,https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01516-2?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=evergreen&utm_content=animation,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383315029180416?s=20,\"Considerable progress has recently been made in natural language processing: deep learning algorithms are increasingly able to generate, summarize, translate and classify texts. Yet, these language models still fail to match the language abilities of humans. Predictive coding theory offers a tentative explanation to this discrepancy: while language models are optimized to predict nearby words, the human brain would continuously predict a hierarchy of representations that spans multiple timescales. To test this hypothesis, we analysed the functional magnetic resonance imaging brain signals of 304 participants listening to short stories. First, we confirmed that the activations of modern language models linearly map onto the brain responses to speech. Second, we showed that enhancing these algorithms with predictions that span multiple timescales improves this brain mapping. Finally, we showed that these predictions are organized hierarchically: frontoparietal cortices predict higher-level, longer-range and more contextual representations than temporal cortices. Overall, these results strengthen the role of hierarchical predictive coding in language processing and illustrate how the synergy between neuroscience and artificial intelligence can unravel the computational bases of human cognition.\"\nEvoPrompting: Language Models for Code-Level Neural Architecture Search,combines evolutionary prompt engineering with soft prompt-tuning to find high-performing models; it leverages few-shot prompting which is further improved by using an evolutionary search approach to improve the in-context examples.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14838,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383317302562816?s=20,\"Given the recent impressive accomplishments of language models (LMs) for code generation, we explore the use of LMs as adaptive mutation and crossover operators for an evolutionary neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm. While NAS still proves too difficult a task for LMs to succeed at solely through prompting, we find that the combination of evolutionary prompt engineering with soft prompt-tuning, a method we term EvoPrompting, consistently finds diverse and high performing models. We first demonstrate that EvoPrompting is effective on the computationally efficient MNIST-1D dataset, where EvoPrompting produces convolutional architecture variants that outperform both those designed by human experts and naive few-shot prompting in terms of accuracy and model size. We then apply our method to searching for graph neural networks on the CLRS Algorithmic Reasoning Benchmark, where EvoPrompting is able to design novel architectures that outperform current state-of-the-art models on 21 out of 30 algorithmic reasoning tasks while maintaining similar model size. EvoPrompting is successful at designing accurate and efficient neural network architectures across a variety of machine learning tasks, while also being general enough for easy adaptation to other tasks beyond neural network design.\"\nConsistency Models,a new family of generative models that achieve high sample quality without adversarial training.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01469,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383319152132096?s=20,\"Diffusion models have significantly advanced the fields of image, audio, and video generation, but they depend on an iterative sampling process that causes slow generation. To overcome this limitation, we propose consistency models, a new family of models that generate high quality samples by directly mapping noise to data. They support fast one-step generation by design, while still allowing multistep sampling to trade compute for sample quality. They also support zero-shot data editing, such as image inpainting, colorization, and super-resolution, without requiring explicit training on these tasks. Consistency models can be trained either by distilling pre-trained diffusion models, or as standalone generative models altogether. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that they outperform existing distillation techniques for diffusion models in one- and few-step sampling, achieving the new state-of-the-art FID of 3.55 on CIFAR-10 and 6.20 on ImageNet 64x64 for one-step generation. When trained in isolation, consistency models become a new family of generative models that can outperform existing one-step, non-adversarial generative models on standard benchmarks such as CIFAR-10, ImageNet 64x64 and LSUN 256x256.\"\nGoal Driven Discovery of Distributional Differences via Language Descriptions,a new task that automatically discovers corpus-level differences via language description in a goal-driven way; applications include discovering insights from commercial reviews and error patterns in NLP systems.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14233,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383321035374593?s=20,\"Mining large corpora can generate useful discoveries but is time-consuming for humans. We formulate a new task, D5, that automatically discovers differences between two large corpora in a goal-driven way. The task input is a problem comprising a research goal \"\"$\\textit{comparing the side effects of drug A and drug B}$\"\" and a corpus pair (two large collections of patients' self-reported reactions after taking each drug). The output is a language description (discovery) of how these corpora differ (patients taking drug A \"\"$\\textit{mention feelings of paranoia}$\"\" more often). We build a D5 system, and to quantitatively measure its performance, we 1) contribute a meta-dataset, OpenD5, aggregating 675 open-ended problems ranging across business, social sciences, humanities, machine learning, and health, and 2) propose a set of unified evaluation metrics: validity, relevance, novelty, and significance. With the dataset and the unified metrics, we confirm that language models can use the goals to propose more relevant, novel, and significant candidate discoveries. Finally, our system produces discoveries previously unknown to the authors on a wide range of applications in OpenD5, including temporal and demographic differences in discussion topics, political stances and stereotypes in speech, insights in commercial reviews, and error patterns in NLP models.\"\nHigh-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity,proposes an approach for high-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity.,https://sites.google.com/view/stablediffusion-with-brain/,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383323086487554?s=20,\"Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity offers a unique way to understand how the brain represents the world, and to interpret the connection between computer vision models and our visual system. While deep generative models have recently been employed for this task, reconstructing realistic images with high semantic fidelity is still a challenging problem. Here, we propose a new method based on a diffusion model (DM) to reconstruct images from human brain activity obtained via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). More specifically, we rely on a latent diffusion model (LDM) termed Stable Diffusion. This model reduces the computational cost of DMs, while preserving their high generative performance. We also characterize the inner mechanisms of the LDM by studying how its different components (such as the latent vector Z, conditioning inputs C, and different elements of the denoising U-Net) relate to distinct brain functions. We show that our proposed method can reconstruct high-resolution images with high fidelity in straightforward fashion, without the need for any additional training and fine-tuning of complex deep-learning models. We also provide a quantitative interpretation of different LDM components from a neuroscientific perspective. Overall, our study proposes a promising method for reconstructing images from human brain activity, and provides a new framework for understanding DMs.\"\nGrounded Decoding: Guiding Text Generation with Grounded Models for Robot Control,\"a scalable approach to planning with LLMs in embodied settings through grounding functions; GD is found to be a general, flexible, and expressive approach to embodied tasks.\",https://grounded-decoding.github.io/paper.pdf,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383325036740610?s=20,\"Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated the ability to learn and leverage Internet-scale knowledge through pre-training with autoregressive models. Unfortunately, applying such models to settings with embodied agents, such as robots, is challenging due to their lack of experience with the physical world, inability to parse non-language observations, and ignorance of rewards or safety constraints that robots may require. On the other hand, language-conditioned robotic policies that learn from interaction data can provide the necessary grounding that allows the agent to be correctly situated in the real world, but such policies are limited by the lack of high-level semantic understanding due to the limited breadth of the interaction data available for training them. Thus, if we want to make use of the semantic knowledge in a language model while still situating it in an embodied setting, we must construct an action sequence that is both likely according to the language model and also realizable according to grounded models of the environment. We frame this as a problem similar to probabilistic Fltering: decode a sequence that both has high probability under the language model and high probability under a set of grounded model objectives. We demonstrate this guided decoding strategy is able to solve complex, long-horizon embodiment tasks in a robotic setting by leveraging the knowledge of both models. The project’s website can be found at grounded-decoding.github.io.\"\nLanguage-Driven Representation Learning for Robotics,a framework for language-driven representation learning from human videos and captions for robotics.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12766,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383327154888704?s=20,\"Recent work in visual representation learning for robotics demonstrates the viability of learning from large video datasets of humans performing everyday tasks. Leveraging methods such as masked autoencoding and contrastive learning, these representations exhibit strong transfer to policy learning for visuomotor control. But, robot learning encompasses a diverse set of problems beyond control including grasp affordance prediction, language-conditioned imitation learning, and intent scoring for human-robot collaboration, amongst others. First, we demonstrate that existing representations yield inconsistent results across these tasks: masked autoencoding approaches pick up on low-level spatial features at the cost of high-level semantics, while contrastive learning approaches capture the opposite. We then introduce Voltron, a framework for language-driven representation learning from human videos and associated captions. Voltron trades off language-conditioned visual reconstruction to learn low-level visual patterns, and visually-grounded language generation to encode high-level semantics. We also construct a new evaluation suite spanning five distinct robot learning problems $\\unicode{x2013}$ a unified platform for holistically evaluating visual representations for robotics. Through comprehensive, controlled experiments across all five problems, we find that Voltron's language-driven representations outperform the prior state-of-the-art, especially on targeted problems requiring higher-level features.\"\nDropout Reduces Underfitting,demonstrates that dropout can mitigate underfitting when used at the start of training; it counteracts SGD stochasticity and limits the influence of individual batches when training models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01500,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383328920666121?s=20,\"Introduced by Hinton et al. in 2012, dropout has stood the test of time as a regularizer for preventing overfitting in neural networks. In this study, we demonstrate that dropout can also mitigate underfitting when used at the start of training. During the early phase, we find dropout reduces the directional variance of gradients across mini-batches and helps align the mini-batch gradients with the entire dataset's gradient. This helps counteract the stochasticity of SGD and limit the influence of individual batches on model training. Our findings lead us to a solution for improving performance in underfitting models - early dropout: dropout is applied only during the initial phases of training, and turned off afterwards. Models equipped with early dropout achieve lower final training loss compared to their counterparts without dropout. Additionally, we explore a symmetric technique for regularizing overfitting models - late dropout, where dropout is not used in the early iterations and is only activated later in training. Experiments on ImageNet and various vision tasks demonstrate that our methods consistently improve generalization accuracy. Our results encourage more research on understanding regularization in deep learning and our methods can be useful tools for future neural network training, especially in the era of large data. Code is available at this https URL.\"\nEnabling Conversational Interaction with Mobile UI using Large Language Models,an approach that enables versatile conversational interactions with mobile UIs using a single LLM.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08655,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1632383331286253568?s=20,\"Conversational agents show the promise to allow users to interact with mobile devices using language. However, to perform diverse UI tasks with natural language, developers typically need to create separate datasets and models for each specific task, which is expensive and effort-consuming. Recently, pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have been shown capable of generalizing to various downstream tasks when prompted with a handful of examples from the target task. This paper investigates the feasibility of enabling versatile conversational interactions with mobile UIs using a single LLM. We designed prompting techniques to adapt an LLM to mobile UIs. We experimented with four important modeling tasks that address various scenarios in conversational interaction. Our method achieved competitive performance on these challenging tasks without requiring dedicated datasets and training, offering a lightweight and generalizable approach to enable language-based mobile interaction.\"\nLLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models,a 65B parameter foundation model released by Meta AI; relies on publicly available data and outperforms GPT-3 on most benchmarks despite being 10x smaller.,https://research.facebook.com/publications/llama-open-and-efficient-foundation-language-models/,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845535946420226?s=20,\"We introduce LLaMA, a collection of foundation language models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters. We train our models on trillions of tokens, and show that it is possible to train state-of-the-art models using publicly available datasets exclusively, without resorting to proprietary and inaccessible datasets. In particular, LLaMA-13B outperforms GPT-3 (175B) on most benchmarks, and LLaMA-65B is competitive with the best models, Chinchilla70B and PaLM-540B. We release all our models to the research community.\"\nComposer: Creative and Controllable Image Synthesis with Composable Conditions,\"a 5B parameter creative and controllable diffusion model trained on billions (text, image) pairs.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09778,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845537913548802?s=20,\"Recent large-scale generative models learned on big data are capable of synthesizing incredible images yet suffer from limited controllability. This work offers a new generation paradigm that allows flexible control of the output image, such as spatial layout and palette, while maintaining the synthesis quality and model creativity. With compositionality as the core idea, we first decompose an image into representative factors, and then train a diffusion model with all these factors as the conditions to recompose the input. At the inference stage, the rich intermediate representations work as composable elements, leading to a huge design space (i.e., exponentially proportional to the number of decomposed factors) for customizable content creation. It is noteworthy that our approach, which we call Composer, supports various levels of conditions, such as text description as the global information, depth map and sketch as the local guidance, color histogram for low-level details, etc. Besides improving controllability, we confirm that Composer serves as a general framework and facilitates a wide range of classical generative tasks without retraining. Code and models will be made available.\"\nThe Wisdom of Hindsight Makes Language Models Better Instruction Followers,\"an alternative algorithm to train LLMs from feedback; the feedback is converted to instruction by relabeling the original one and training the model, in a supervised way, for better alignment.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05206,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845539964481537?s=20,\"Reinforcement learning has seen wide success in finetuning large language models to better align with instructions via human feedback. The so-called algorithm, Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) demonstrates impressive performance on the GPT series models. However, the underlying Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm is complex and requires an additional training pipeline for reward and value networks. In this paper, we consider an alternative approach: converting feedback to instruction by relabeling the original one and training the model for better alignment in a supervised manner. Such an algorithm doesn't require any additional parameters except for the original language model and maximally reuses the pretraining pipeline. To achieve this, we formulate instruction alignment problem for language models as a goal-reaching problem in decision making. We propose Hindsight Instruction Relabeling (HIR), a novel algorithm for aligning language models with instructions. The resulting two-stage algorithm shed light to a family of reward-free approaches that utilize the hindsightly relabeled instructions based on feedback. We evaluate the performance of HIR extensively on 12 challenging BigBench reasoning tasks and show that HIR outperforms the baseline algorithms and is comparable to or even surpasses supervised finetuning.\"\nActive Prompting with Chain-of-Thought for Large Language Models,a prompting technique to adapt LLMs to different task-specific example prompts (annotated with human-designed chain-of-thought reasoning); this process involves finding where the LLM is most uncertain and annotating those.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12246,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845541847724033?s=20,\"The increasing scale of large language models (LLMs) brings emergent abilities to various complex tasks requiring reasoning, such as arithmetic and commonsense reasoning. It is known that the effective design of task-specific prompts is critical for LLMs' ability to produce high-quality answers. In particular, an effective approach for complex question-and-answer tasks is example-based prompting with chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, which significantly improves the performance of LLMs. However, current CoT methods rely on a fixed set of human-annotated exemplars, which are not necessarily the most effective examples for different tasks. This paper proposes a new method, Active-Prompt, to adapt LLMs to different tasks with task-specific example prompts (annotated with human-designed CoT reasoning). For this purpose, we propose a solution to the key problem of determining which questions are the most important and helpful ones to annotate from a pool of task-specific queries. By borrowing ideas from the related problem of uncertainty-based active learning, we introduce several metrics to characterize the uncertainty so as to select the most uncertain questions for annotation. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method, achieving state-of-the-art on eight complex reasoning tasks. Further analyses of different uncertainty metrics, pool sizes, zero-shot learning, and accuracy-uncertainty relationship demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Our code will be available at this https URL.\"\nModular Deep Learning,\"a survey offering a unified view of the building blocks of modular neural networks; it also includes a discussion about modularity in the context of scaling LMs, causal inference, and other key topics in ML.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11529,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845544037228551?s=20,\"Transfer learning has recently become the dominant paradigm of machine learning. Pre-trained models fine-tuned for downstream tasks achieve better performance with fewer labelled examples. Nonetheless, it remains unclear how to develop models that specialise towards multiple tasks without incurring negative interference and that generalise systematically to non-identically distributed tasks. Modular deep learning has emerged as a promising solution to these challenges. In this framework, units of computation are often implemented as autonomous parameter-efficient modules. Information is conditionally routed to a subset of modules and subsequently aggregated. These properties enable positive transfer and systematic generalisation by separating computation from routing and updating modules locally. We offer a survey of modular architectures, providing a unified view over several threads of research that evolved independently in the scientific literature. Moreover, we explore various additional purposes of modularity, including scaling language models, causal inference, programme induction, and planning in reinforcement learning. Finally, we report various concrete applications where modularity has been successfully deployed such as cross-lingual and cross-modal knowledge transfer. Related talks and projects to this survey, are available at this https URL.\"\nRecitation-Augmented Language Models,an approach that recites passages from the LLM’s own memory to produce final answers; shows high performance on knowledge-intensive tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01296,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845546276995075?s=20,\"We propose a new paradigm to help Large Language Models (LLMs) generate more accurate factual knowledge without retrieving from an external corpus, called RECITation-augmented gEneration (RECITE). Different from retrieval-augmented language models that retrieve relevant documents before generating the outputs, given an input, RECITE first recites one or several relevant passages from LLMs' own memory via sampling, and then produces the final answers. We show that RECITE is a powerful paradigm for knowledge-intensive NLP tasks. Specifically, we show that by utilizing recitation as the intermediate step, a recite-and-answer scheme can achieve new state-of-the-art performance in various closed-book question answering (CBQA) tasks. In experiments, we verify the effectiveness of \\method~on four pre-trained models (PaLM, UL2, OPT, and Codex) and three CBQA tasks (Natural Questions, TriviaQA, and HotpotQA). Our code is available at \"\"this https URL.\"\nLearning Performance-Improving Code Edits,\"an approach that uses LLMs to suggest functionally correct, performance-improving code edits.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07867,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845548210561029?s=20,\"The waning of Moore's Law has shifted the focus of the tech industry towards alternative methods for continued performance gains. While optimizing compilers are a standard tool to help increase program efficiency, programmers continue to shoulder much responsibility in crafting and refactoring code with better performance characteristics. In this paper, we investigate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to suggest functionally correct, performance improving code edits. We hypothesize that language models can suggest such edits in ways that would be impractical for static analysis alone. We investigate these questions by curating a large-scale dataset of Performance-Improving Edits, PIE. PIE contains trajectories of programs, where a programmer begins with an initial, slower version and iteratively makes changes to improve the program's performance. We use PIE to evaluate and improve the capacity of large language models. Specifically, use examples from PIE to fine-tune multiple variants of CODEGEN, a billion-scale Transformer-decoder model. Additionally, we use examples from PIE to prompt OpenAI's CODEX using a few-shot prompting. By leveraging PIE, we find that both CODEX and CODEGEN can generate performance-improving edits, with speedups of more than 2.5x for over 25% of the programs, for C++ and Python, even after the C++ programs were compiled using the O3 optimization level. Crucially, we show that PIE allows CODEGEN, an open-sourced and 10x smaller model than CODEX, to match the performance of CODEX on this challenging task. Overall, this work opens new doors for creating systems and methods that can help programmers write efficient code.\"\nMore than you've asked for: A Comprehensive Analysis of Novel Prompt Injection Threats to Application-Integrated Large Language Models,a comprehensive analysis of novel prompt injection threats to application-integrated LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12173,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845550152523777?s=20,\"Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into various applications. The functionalities of recent LLMs can be flexibly modulated via natural language prompts. This renders them susceptible to targeted adversarial prompting, e.g., Prompt Injection (PI) attacks enable attackers to override original instructions and employed controls. So far, it was assumed that the user is directly prompting the LLM. But, what if it is not the user prompting? We argue that LLM-Integrated Applications blur the line between data and instructions. We reveal new attack vectors, using Indirect Prompt Injection, that enable adversaries to remotely (without a direct interface) exploit LLM-integrated applications by strategically injecting prompts into data likely to be retrieved. We derive a comprehensive taxonomy from a computer security perspective to systematically investigate impacts and vulnerabilities, including data theft, worming, information ecosystem contamination, and other novel security risks. We demonstrate our attacks' practical viability against both real-world systems, such as Bing's GPT-4 powered Chat and code-completion engines, and synthetic applications built on GPT-4. We show how processing retrieved prompts can act as arbitrary code execution, manipulate the application's functionality, and control how and if other APIs are called. Despite the increasing integration and reliance on LLMs, effective mitigations of these emerging threats are currently lacking. By raising awareness of these vulnerabilities and providing key insights into their implications, we aim to promote the safe and responsible deployment of these powerful models and the development of robust defenses that protect users and systems from potential attacks.\"\nAligning Text-to-Image Models using Human Feedback,proposes a fine-tuning method to align generative models using human feedback.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12192,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845552039968780?s=20,\"Deep generative models have shown impressive results in text-to-image synthesis. However, current text-to-image models often generate images that are inadequately aligned with text prompts. We propose a fine-tuning method for aligning such models using human feedback, comprising three stages. First, we collect human feedback assessing model output alignment from a set of diverse text prompts. We then use the human-labeled image-text dataset to train a reward function that predicts human feedback. Lastly, the text-to-image model is fine-tuned by maximizing reward-weighted likelihood to improve image-text alignment. Our method generates objects with specified colors, counts and backgrounds more accurately than the pre-trained model. We also analyze several design choices and find that careful investigations on such design choices are important in balancing the alignment-fidelity tradeoffs. Our results demonstrate the potential for learning from human feedback to significantly improve text-to-image models.\"\nMERF: Memory-Efficient Radiance Fields for Real-time View Synthesis in Unbounded Scenes,a memory-efficient radiance field representation for real-time view synthesis of large-scale scenes in a browser.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12249,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1629845554061606915?s=20,\"Neural radiance fields enable state-of-the-art photorealistic view synthesis. However, existing radiance field representations are either too compute-intensive for real-time rendering or require too much memory to scale to large scenes. We present a Memory-Efficient Radiance Field (MERF) representation that achieves real-time rendering of large-scale scenes in a browser. MERF reduces the memory consumption of prior sparse volumetric radiance fields using a combination of a sparse feature grid and high-resolution 2D feature planes. To support large-scale unbounded scenes, we introduce a novel contraction function that maps scene coordinates into a bounded volume while still allowing for efficient ray-box intersection. We design a lossless procedure for baking the parameterization used during training into a model that achieves real-time rendering while still preserving the photorealistic view synthesis quality of a volumetric radiance field.\"\nSymbolic Discovery of Optimization Algorithms,a simple and effective optimization algorithm that’s more memory-efficient than Adam.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06675,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671313874575362?s=20,\"We present a method to formulate algorithm discovery as program search, and apply it to discover optimization algorithms for deep neural network training. We leverage efficient search techniques to explore an infinite and sparse program space. To bridge the large generalization gap between proxy and target tasks, we also introduce program selection and simplification strategies. Our method discovers a simple and effective optimization algorithm, $\\textbf{Lion}$ ($\\textit{Evo$\\textbf{L}$ved S$\\textbf{i}$gn M$\\textbf{o}$me$\\textbf{n}$tum}$). It is more memory-efficient than Adam as it only keeps track of the momentum. Different from adaptive optimizers, its update has the same magnitude for each parameter calculated through the sign operation. We compare Lion with widely used optimizers, such as Adam and Adafactor, for training a variety of models on different tasks. On image classification, Lion boosts the accuracy of ViT by up to 2% on ImageNet and saves up to 5x the pre-training compute on JFT. On vision-language contrastive learning, we achieve 88.3% $\\textit{zero-shot}$ and 91.1% $\\textit{fine-tuning}$ accuracy on ImageNet, surpassing the previous best results by 2% and 0.1%, respectively. On diffusion models, Lion outperforms Adam by achieving a better FID score and reducing the training compute by up to 2.3x. For autoregressive, masked language modeling, and fine-tuning, Lion exhibits a similar or better performance compared to Adam. Our analysis of Lion reveals that its performance gain grows with the training batch size. It also requires a smaller learning rate than Adam due to the larger norm of the update produced by the sign function. Additionally, we examine the limitations of Lion and identify scenarios where its improvements are small or not statistically significant. Lion is also successfully deployed in production systems such as Google search ads CTR model.\"\nTransformer models: an introduction and catalog,,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07730,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671315678126082?s=20,\"In the past few years we have seen the meteoric appearance of dozens of foundation models of the Transformer family, all of which have memorable and sometimes funny, but not self-explanatory, names. The goal of this paper is to offer a somewhat comprehensive but simple catalog and classification of the most popular Transformer models. The paper also includes an introduction to the most important aspects and innovations in Transformer models. Our catalog will include models that are trained using self-supervised learning (e.g., BERT or GPT3) as well as those that are further trained using a human-in-the-loop (e.g. the InstructGPT model used by ChatGPT).\"\n3D-aware Conditional Image Synthesis,a 3D-aware conditional generative model extended with neural radiance fields for controllable photorealistic image synthesis.,https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pix2pix3D/,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671317355831296?s=20,\"We propose a 3D-aware conditional generative model for controllable photorealistic image synthesis. Given a 2D label map, such as a segmentation or edge map, our model synthesizes a photo from different viewpoints. Existing approaches fail to either synthesize images based on a conditional input or suffer from noticeable viewpoint inconsistency. Moreover, many of them lack explicit user control of 3D geometry. To tackle the aforementioned challenges, we integrate 3D representations with conditional generative modeling, i.e., enabling controllable high-resolution 3D-aware rendering by conditioning on user inputs. Our model learns to assign a semantic label to every 3D point in addition to color and density, which enables us to render the image and pixel-aligned label map simultaneously. By interactive editing of label maps projected onto user-specified viewpoints, our system can be used as a tool for 3D editing of generated content. Finally, we show that such 3D representations can be learned from widely-available monocular images and label map pairs.\"\nThe Capacity for Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models,finds strong evidence that language models trained with RLHF have the capacity for moral self-correction. The capability emerges at 22B model parameters and typically improves with scale.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07459,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671319100768260?s=20,\"We test the hypothesis that language models trained with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) have the capability to \"\"morally self-correct\"\" -- to avoid producing harmful outputs -- if instructed to do so. We find strong evidence in support of this hypothesis across three different experiments, each of which reveal different facets of moral self-correction. We find that the capability for moral self-correction emerges at 22B model parameters, and typically improves with increasing model size and RLHF training. We believe that at this level of scale, language models obtain two capabilities that they can use for moral self-correction: (1) they can follow instructions and (2) they can learn complex normative concepts of harm like stereotyping, bias, and discrimination. As such, they can follow instructions to avoid certain kinds of morally harmful outputs. We believe our results are cause for cautious optimism regarding the ability to train language models to abide by ethical principles.\"\nVision meets RL,uses reinforcement learning to align computer vision models with task rewards; observes large performance boost across multiple CV tasks such as object detection and colorization.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08242,,\"Misalignment between model predictions and intended usage can be detrimental for the deployment of computer vision models. The issue is exacerbated when the task involves complex structured outputs, as it becomes harder to design procedures which address this misalignment. In natural language processing, this is often addressed using reinforcement learning techniques that align models with a task reward. We adopt this approach and show its surprising effectiveness across multiple computer vision tasks, such as object detection, panoptic segmentation, colorization and image captioning. We believe this approach has the potential to be widely useful for better aligning models with a diverse range of computer vision tasks.\"\nLanguage Quantized AutoEncoders: Towards Unsupervised Text-Image Alignment,an unsupervised method for text-image alignment that leverages pretrained language models; it enables few-shot image classification with LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00902,https://twitter.com/haoliuhl/status/1625273748629901312?s=20,\"Recent progress in scaling up large language models has shown impressive capabilities in performing few-shot learning across a wide range of text-based tasks. However, a key limitation is that these language models fundamentally lack visual perception - a crucial attribute needed to extend these models to be able to interact with the real world and solve vision tasks, such as in visual-question answering and robotics. Prior works have largely connected image to text through pretraining and/or fine-tuning on curated image-text datasets, which can be a costly and expensive process. In order to resolve this limitation, we propose a simple yet effective approach called Language-Quantized AutoEncoder (LQAE), a modification of VQ-VAE that learns to align text-image data in an unsupervised manner by leveraging pretrained language models (e.g., BERT, RoBERTa). Our main idea is to encode image as sequences of text tokens by directly quantizing image embeddings using a pretrained language codebook. We then apply random masking followed by a BERT model, and have the decoder reconstruct the original image from BERT predicted text token embeddings. By doing so, LQAE learns to represent similar images with similar clusters of text tokens, thereby aligning these two modalities without the use of aligned text-image pairs. This enables few-shot image classification with large language models (e.g., GPT-3) as well as linear classification of images based on BERT text features. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first work that uses unaligned images for multimodal tasks by leveraging the power of pretrained language models.\"\nAugmented Language Models: a Survey,a survey of language models that are augmented with reasoning skills and the capability to use tools.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07842,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671324477820929?s=20,\"This survey reviews works in which language models (LMs) are augmented with reasoning skills and the ability to use tools. The former is defined as decomposing a potentially complex task into simpler subtasks while the latter consists in calling external modules such as a code interpreter. LMs can leverage these augmentations separately or in combination via heuristics, or learn to do so from demonstrations. While adhering to a standard missing tokens prediction objective, such augmented LMs can use various, possibly non-parametric external modules to expand their context processing ability, thus departing from the pure language modeling paradigm. We therefore refer to them as Augmented Language Models (ALMs). The missing token objective allows ALMs to learn to reason, use tools, and even act, while still performing standard natural language tasks and even outperforming most regular LMs on several benchmarks. In this work, after reviewing current advance in ALMs, we conclude that this new research direction has the potential to address common limitations of traditional LMs such as interpretability, consistency, and scalability issues.\"\nGeometric Clifford Algebra Networks,an approach to incorporate geometry-guided transformations into neural networks using geometric algebra.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06594,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671326176473088?s=20,\"We propose Geometric Clifford Algebra Networks (GCANs) for modeling dynamical systems. GCANs are based on symmetry group transformations using geometric (Clifford) algebras. We first review the quintessence of modern (plane-based) geometric algebra, which builds on isometries encoded as elements of the $\\mathrm{Pin}(p,q,r)$ group. We then propose the concept of group action layers, which linearly combine object transformations using pre-specified group actions. Together with a new activation and normalization scheme, these layers serve as adjustable $\\textit{geometric templates}$ that can be refined via gradient descent. Theoretical advantages are strongly reflected in the modeling of three-dimensional rigid body transformations as well as large-scale fluid dynamics simulations, showing significantly improved performance over traditional methods.\"\nAuditing large language models: a three-layered approach,proposes a policy framework for auditing LLMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08500,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671327950643200?s=20,\"Large language models (LLMs) represent a major advance in artificial intelligence (AI) research. However, the widespread use of LLMs is also coupled with significant ethical and social challenges. Previous research has pointed towards auditing as a promising governance mechanism to help ensure that AI systems are designed and deployed in ways that are ethical, legal, and technically robust. However, existing auditing procedures fail to address the governance challenges posed by LLMs, which display emergent capabilities and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks. In this article, we address that gap by outlining a novel blueprint for how to audit LLMs. Specifically, we propose a three-layered approach, whereby governance audits (of technology providers that design and disseminate LLMs), model audits (of LLMs after pre-training but prior to their release), and application audits (of applications based on LLMs) complement and inform each other. We show how audits, when conducted in a structured and coordinated manner on all three levels, can be a feasible and effective mechanism for identifying and managing some of the ethical and social risks posed by LLMs. However, it is important to remain realistic about what auditing can reasonably be expected to achieve. Therefore, we discuss the limitations not only of our three-layered approach but also of the prospect of auditing LLMs at all. Ultimately, this article seeks to expand the methodological toolkit available to technology providers and policymakers who wish to analyse and evaluate LLMs from technical, ethical, and legal perspectives.\"\nEnergy Transformer,a transformer architecture that replaces the sequence of feedforward transformer blocks with a single large Associate Memory model; this follows the popularity that Hopfield Networks have gained in the field of ML.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07253,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1627671329561346050?s=20,\"Transformers have become the de facto models of choice in machine learning, typically leading to impressive performance on many applications. At the same time, the architectural development in the transformer world is mostly driven by empirical findings, and the theoretical understanding of their architectural building blocks is rather limited. In contrast, Dense Associative Memory models or Modern Hopfield Networks have a well-established theoretical foundation, but have not yet demonstrated truly impressive practical results. We propose a transformer architecture that replaces the sequence of feedforward transformer blocks with a single large Associative Memory model. Our novel architecture, called Energy Transformer (or ET for short), has many of the familiar architectural primitives that are often used in the current generation of transformers. However, it is not identical to the existing architectures. The sequence of transformer layers in ET is purposely designed to minimize a specifically engineered energy function, which is responsible for representing the relationships between the tokens. As a consequence of this computational principle, the attention in ET is different from the conventional attention mechanism. In this work, we introduce the theoretical foundations of ET, explore it's empirical capabilities using the image completion task, and obtain strong quantitative results on the graph anomaly detection task.\"\nToolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools,introduces language models that teach themselves to use external tools via simple API calls.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832248691191808?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Language models (LMs) exhibit remarkable abilities to solve new tasks from just a few examples or textual instructions, especially at scale. They also, paradoxically, struggle with basic functionality, such as arithmetic or factual lookup, where much simpler and smaller models excel. In this paper, we show that LMs can teach themselves to use external tools via simple APIs and achieve the best of both worlds. We introduce Toolformer, a model trained to decide which APIs to call, when to call them, what arguments to pass, and how to best incorporate the results into future token prediction. This is done in a self-supervised way, requiring nothing more than a handful of demonstrations for each API. We incorporate a range of tools, including a calculator, a Q\\&A system, two different search engines, a translation system, and a calendar. Toolformer achieves substantially improved zero-shot performance across a variety of downstream tasks, often competitive with much larger models, without sacrificing its core language modeling abilities.\"\n\"Describe, Explain, Plan and Select: Interactive Planning with Large Language Models Enables Open-World Multi-Task Agents\",proposes using language models for open-world game playing.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01560,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832250717036548?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"In this paper, we study the problem of planning in Minecraft, a popular, democratized yet challenging open-ended environment for developing multi-task embodied agents. We've found two primary challenges of empowering such agents with planning: 1) planning in an open-ended world like Minecraft requires precise and multi-step reasoning due to the long-term nature of the tasks, and 2) as vanilla planners do not consider the proximity to the current agent when ordering parallel sub-goals within a complicated plan, the resulting plan could be inefficient. To this end, we propose \"\"Describe, Explain, Plan and Select\"\" (DEPS), an interactive planning approach based on Large Language Models (LLMs). Our approach helps with better error correction from the feedback during the long-haul planning, while also bringing the sense of proximity via goal Selector, a learnable module that ranks parallel sub-goals based on the estimated steps of completion and improves the original plan accordingly. Our experiments mark the milestone of the first multi-task agent that can robustly accomplish 70+ Minecraft tasks and nearly doubles the overall performances. Finally, the ablation and exploratory studies detail how our design beats the counterparts and provide a promising update on the $\\texttt{ObtainDiamond}$ grand challenge with our approach. The code is released at this https URL.\"\nA Categorical Archive of ChatGPT Failures,\"a comprehensive analysis of ChatGPT failures for categories like reasoning, factual errors, maths, and coding.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03494,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832252587700230?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Large language models have been demonstrated to be valuable in different fields. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, has been trained using massive amounts of data and simulates human conversation by comprehending context and generating appropriate responses. It has garnered significant attention due to its ability to effectively answer a broad range of human inquiries, with fluent and comprehensive answers surpassing prior public chatbots in both security and usefulness. However, a comprehensive analysis of ChatGPT's failures is lacking, which is the focus of this study. Eleven categories of failures, including reasoning, factual errors, math, coding, and bias, are presented and discussed. The risks, limitations, and societal implications of ChatGPT are also highlighted. The goal of this study is to assist researchers and developers in enhancing future language models and chatbots.\"\nHard Prompts Made Easy: Gradient-Based Discrete Optimization for Prompt Tuning and Discovery,optimizing hard text prompts through efficient gradient-based optimization.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03668,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832254588465156?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"The strength of modern generative models lies in their ability to be controlled through text-based prompts. Typical \"\"hard\"\" prompts are made from interpretable words and tokens, and must be hand-crafted by humans. There are also \"\"soft\"\" prompts, which consist of continuous feature vectors. These can be discovered using powerful optimization methods, but they cannot be easily interpreted, re-used across models, or plugged into a text-based interface.\nWe describe an approach to robustly optimize hard text prompts through efficient gradient-based optimization. Our approach automatically generates hard text-based prompts for both text-to-image and text-to-text applications. In the text-to-image setting, the method creates hard prompts for diffusion models, allowing API users to easily generate, discover, and mix and match image concepts without prior knowledge on how to prompt the model. In the text-to-text setting, we show that hard prompts can be automatically discovered that are effective in tuning LMs for classification.\"\nData Selection for Language Models via Importance Resampling,proposes a cheap and scalable data selection framework based on an importance resampling algorithm to improve the downstream performance of LMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03169,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832256400302080?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Selecting a suitable training dataset is crucial for both general-domain (e.g., GPT-3) and domain-specific (e.g., Codex) language models (LMs). We formalize this data selection problem as selecting a subset of a large raw unlabeled dataset to match a desired target distribution, given some unlabeled target samples. Due to the large scale and dimensionality of the raw text data, existing methods use simple heuristics to select data that are similar to a high-quality reference corpus (e.g., Wikipedia), or leverage experts to manually curate data. Instead, we extend the classic importance resampling approach used in low-dimensions for LM data selection. Crucially, we work in a reduced feature space to make importance weight estimation tractable over the space of text. To determine an appropriate feature space, we first show that KL reduction, a data metric that measures the proximity between selected data and the target in a feature space, has high correlation with average accuracy on 8 downstream tasks (r=0.89) when computed with simple n-gram features. From this observation, we present Data Selection with Importance Resampling (DSIR), an efficient and scalable algorithm that estimates importance weights in a reduced feature space (e.g., n-gram features in our instantiation) and selects data with importance resampling according to these weights. When training general-domain models (target is Wikipedia + books), DSIR improves over random selection and heuristic filtering baselines by 2--2.5% on the GLUE benchmark. When performing continued pretraining towards a specific domain, DSIR performs comparably to expert curated data across 8 target distributions.\"\nStructure and Content-Guided Video Synthesis with Diffusion Models,proposes an approach for structure and content-guided video synthesis with diffusion models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03011,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832258296229889?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Text-guided generative diffusion models unlock powerful image creation and editing tools. While these have been extended to video generation, current approaches that edit the content of existing footage while retaining structure require expensive re-training for every input or rely on error-prone propagation of image edits across frames. In this work, we present a structure and content-guided video diffusion model that edits videos based on visual or textual descriptions of the desired output. Conflicts between user-provided content edits and structure representations occur due to insufficient disentanglement between the two aspects. As a solution, we show that training on monocular depth estimates with varying levels of detail provides control over structure and content fidelity. Our model is trained jointly on images and videos which also exposes explicit control of temporal consistency through a novel guidance method. Our experiments demonstrate a wide variety of successes; fine-grained control over output characteristics, customization based on a few reference images, and a strong user preference towards results by our model.\"\n\"A Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Evaluation of ChatGPT on Reasoning, Hallucination, and Interactivity\",\"performs a more rigorous evaluation of ChatGPt on reasoning, hallucination, and interactivity.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04023,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832260213026819?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"This paper proposes a framework for quantitatively evaluating interactive LLMs such as ChatGPT using publicly available data sets. We carry out an extensive technical evaluation of ChatGPT using 23 data sets covering 8 different common NLP application tasks. We evaluate the multitask, multilingual and multi-modal aspects of ChatGPT based on these data sets and a newly designed multimodal dataset. We find that ChatGPT outperforms LLMs with zero-shot learning on most tasks and even outperforms fine-tuned models on some tasks. We find that it is better at understanding non-Latin script languages than generating them. It is able to generate multimodal content from textual prompts, via an intermediate code generation step. Moreover, we find that ChatGPT is 63.41% accurate on average in 10 different reasoning categories under logical reasoning, non-textual reasoning, and commonsense reasoning, hence making it an unreliable reasoner. It is, for example, better at deductive than inductive reasoning. ChatGPT suffers from hallucination problems like other LLMs and it generates more extrinsic hallucinations from its parametric memory as it does not have access to an external knowledge base. Finally, the interactive feature of ChatGPT enables human collaboration with the underlying LLM to improve its performance, i.e, 8% ROUGE-1 on summarization and 2% ChrF++ on machine translation, in a multi-turn \"\"prompt engineering\"\" fashion. We also release codebase for evaluation set extraction.\"\nNoise2Music: Text-conditioned Music Generation with Diffusion Models,proposes diffusion models to generate high-quality 30-second music clips via text prompts.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03917,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832262163337220?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"We introduce Noise2Music, where a series of diffusion models is trained to generate high-quality 30-second music clips from text prompts. Two types of diffusion models, a generator model, which generates an intermediate representation conditioned on text, and a cascader model, which generates high-fidelity audio conditioned on the intermediate representation and possibly the text, are trained and utilized in succession to generate high-fidelity music. We explore two options for the intermediate representation, one using a spectrogram and the other using audio with lower fidelity. We find that the generated audio is not only able to faithfully reflect key elements of the text prompt such as genre, tempo, instruments, mood, and era, but goes beyond to ground fine-grained semantics of the prompt. Pretrained large language models play a key role in this story -- they are used to generate paired text for the audio of the training set and to extract embeddings of the text prompts ingested by the diffusion models.\nGenerated examples: this https URL\"\nOffsite-Tuning: Transfer Learning without Full Model,\"introduces an efficient, privacy-preserving transfer learning framework to adapt foundational models to downstream data without access to the full model.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04870,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832264029831169?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Transfer learning is important for foundation models to adapt to downstream tasks. However, many foundation models are proprietary, so users must share their data with model owners to fine-tune the models, which is costly and raise privacy concerns. Moreover, fine-tuning large foundation models is computation-intensive and impractical for most downstream users. In this paper, we propose Offsite-Tuning, a privacy-preserving and efficient transfer learning framework that can adapt billion-parameter foundation models to downstream data without access to the full model. In offsite-tuning, the model owner sends a light-weight adapter and a lossy compressed emulator to the data owner, who then fine-tunes the adapter on the downstream data with the emulator's assistance. The fine-tuned adapter is then returned to the model owner, who plugs it into the full model to create an adapted foundation model. Offsite-tuning preserves both parties' privacy and is computationally more efficient than the existing fine-tuning methods that require access to the full model weights. We demonstrate the effectiveness of offsite-tuning on various large language and vision foundation models. Offsite-tuning can achieve comparable accuracy as full model fine-tuning while being privacy-preserving and efficient, achieving 6.5x speedup and 5.6x memory reduction. Code is available at this https URL.\"\nZero-shot Image-to-Image Translation,proposes a model for zero-shot image-to-image translation.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03027,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1624832265967607813?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Large-scale text-to-image generative models have shown their remarkable ability to synthesize diverse and high-quality images. However, it is still challenging to directly apply these models for editing real images for two reasons. First, it is hard for users to come up with a perfect text prompt that accurately describes every visual detail in the input image. Second, while existing models can introduce desirable changes in certain regions, they often dramatically alter the input content and introduce unexpected changes in unwanted regions. In this work, we propose pix2pix-zero, an image-to-image translation method that can preserve the content of the original image without manual prompting. We first automatically discover editing directions that reflect desired edits in the text embedding space. To preserve the general content structure after editing, we further propose cross-attention guidance, which aims to retain the cross-attention maps of the input image throughout the diffusion process. In addition, our method does not need additional training for these edits and can directly use the existing pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model. We conduct extensive experiments and show that our method outperforms existing and concurrent works for both real and synthetic image editing.\"\nREPLUG: Retrieval-Augmented Black-Box Language Models,\"a retrieval-augmented LM framework that adapts a retriever to a large-scale, black-box LM like GPT-3.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12652,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261780725616641?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"We introduce REPLUG, a retrieval-augmented language modeling framework that treats the language model (LM) as a black box and augments it with a tuneable retrieval model. Unlike prior retrieval-augmented LMs that train language models with special cross attention mechanisms to encode the retrieved text, REPLUG simply prepends retrieved documents to the input for the frozen black-box LM. This simple design can be easily applied to any existing retrieval and language models. Furthermore, we show that the LM can be used to supervise the retrieval model, which can then find documents that help the LM make better predictions. Our experiments demonstrate that REPLUG with the tuned retriever significantly improves the performance of GPT-3 (175B) on language modeling by 6.3%, as well as the performance of Codex on five-shot MMLU by 5.1%.\"\nExtracting Training Data from Diffusion Models,shows that diffusion-based generative models can memorize images from the training data and emit them at generation time.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261782738788353?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Image diffusion models such as DALL-E 2, Imagen, and Stable Diffusion have attracted significant attention due to their ability to generate high-quality synthetic images. In this work, we show that diffusion models memorize individual images from their training data and emit them at generation time. With a generate-and-filter pipeline, we extract over a thousand training examples from state-of-the-art models, ranging from photographs of individual people to trademarked company logos. We also train hundreds of diffusion models in various settings to analyze how different modeling and data decisions affect privacy. Overall, our results show that diffusion models are much less private than prior generative models such as GANs, and that mitigating these vulnerabilities may require new advances in privacy-preserving training.\"\nThe Flan Collection: Designing Data and Methods for Effective Instruction Tuning,\"release a more extensive publicly available collection of tasks, templates, and methods to advancing instruction-tuned models.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13688,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261784668241922?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"We study the design decisions of publicly available instruction tuning methods, and break down the development of Flan 2022 (Chung et al., 2022). Through careful ablation studies on the Flan Collection of tasks and methods, we tease apart the effect of design decisions which enable Flan-T5 to outperform prior work by 3-17%+ across evaluation settings. We find task balancing and enrichment techniques are overlooked but critical to effective instruction tuning, and in particular, training with mixed prompt settings (zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought) actually yields stronger (2%+) performance in all settings. In further experiments, we show Flan-T5 requires less finetuning to converge higher and faster than T5 on single downstream tasks, motivating instruction-tuned models as more computationally-efficient starting checkpoints for new tasks. Finally, to accelerate research on instruction tuning, we make the Flan 2022 collection of datasets, templates, and methods publicly available at this https URL.\"\nMultimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models,\"incorporates vision features to elicit chain-of-thought reasoning in multimodality, enabling the model to generate effective rationales that contribute to answer inference.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00923,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261786559791105?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on complex reasoning by leveraging chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to generate intermediate reasoning chains as the rationale to infer the answer. However, existing CoT studies have focused on the language modality. We propose Multimodal-CoT that incorporates language (text) and vision (images) modalities into a two-stage framework that separates rationale generation and answer inference. In this way, answer inference can leverage better generated rationales that are based on multimodal information. With Multimodal-CoT, our model under 1 billion parameters outperforms the previous state-of-the-art LLM (GPT-3.5) by 16 percentage points (75.17%->91.68% accuracy) on the ScienceQA benchmark and even surpasses human performance. Code is publicly available available at this https URL.\"\nDreamix: Video Diffusion Models are General Video Editors,a diffusion model that performs text-based motion and appearance editing of general videos.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01329,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261788497657856?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Text-driven image and video diffusion models have recently achieved unprecedented generation realism. While diffusion models have been successfully applied for image editing, very few works have done so for video editing. We present the first diffusion-based method that is able to perform text-based motion and appearance editing of general videos. Our approach uses a video diffusion model to combine, at inference time, the low-resolution spatio-temporal information from the original video with new, high resolution information that it synthesized to align with the guiding text prompt. As obtaining high-fidelity to the original video requires retaining some of its high-resolution information, we add a preliminary stage of finetuning the model on the original video, significantly boosting fidelity. We propose to improve motion editability by a new, mixed objective that jointly finetunes with full temporal attention and with temporal attention masking. We further introduce a new framework for image animation. We first transform the image into a coarse video by simple image processing operations such as replication and perspective geometric projections, and then use our general video editor to animate it. As a further application, we can use our method for subject-driven video generation. Extensive qualitative and numerical experiments showcase the remarkable editing ability of our method and establish its superior performance compared to baseline methods.\"\nBenchmarking Large Language Models for News Summarization,,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13848,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261790326259714?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for automatic summarization but the reasons behind their successes are poorly understood. By conducting a human evaluation on ten LLMs across different pretraining methods, prompts, and model scales, we make two important observations. First, we find instruction tuning, and not model size, is the key to the LLM's zero-shot summarization capability. Second, existing studies have been limited by low-quality references, leading to underestimates of human performance and lower few-shot and finetuning performance. To better evaluate LLMs, we perform human evaluation over high-quality summaries we collect from freelance writers. Despite major stylistic differences such as the amount of paraphrasing, we find that LMM summaries are judged to be on par with human written summaries.\"\nMathematical Capabilities of ChatGPT,investigates the mathematical capabilities of ChatGPT on a new holistic benchmark called GHOSTS.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13867,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261792238886913?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"We investigate the mathematical capabilities of two iterations of ChatGPT (released 9-January-2023 and 30-January-2023) and of GPT-4 by testing them on publicly available datasets, as well as hand-crafted ones, using a novel methodology. In contrast to formal mathematics, where large databases of formal proofs are available (e.g., the Lean Mathematical Library), current datasets of natural-language mathematics, used to benchmark language models, either cover only elementary mathematics or are very small. We address this by publicly releasing two new datasets: GHOSTS and miniGHOSTS. These are the first natural-language datasets curated by working researchers in mathematics that (1) aim to cover graduate-level mathematics, (2) provide a holistic overview of the mathematical capabilities of language models, and (3) distinguish multiple dimensions of mathematical reasoning. These datasets also test whether ChatGPT and GPT-4 can be helpful assistants to professional mathematicians by emulating use cases that arise in the daily professional activities of mathematicians. We benchmark the models on a range of fine-grained performance metrics. For advanced mathematics, this is the most detailed evaluation effort to date. We find that ChatGPT can be used most successfully as a mathematical assistant for querying facts, acting as a mathematical search engine and knowledge base interface. GPT-4 can additionally be used for undergraduate-level mathematics but fails on graduate-level difficulty. Contrary to many positive reports in the media about GPT-4 and ChatGPT's exam-solving abilities (a potential case of selection bias), their overall mathematical performance is well below the level of a graduate student. Hence, if your goal is to use ChatGPT to pass a graduate-level math exam, you would be better off copying from your average peer!\"\nEmergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents,\"trains an AI agent to navigate purely by feeling its way around; no use of vision, audio, or any other sensing (as in animals).\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13261,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261793987989507?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"nimal navigation research posits that organisms build and maintain internal spatial representations, or maps, of their environment. We ask if machines -- specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) navigation agents -- also build implicit (or 'mental') maps. A positive answer to this question would (a) explain the surprising phenomenon in recent literature of ostensibly map-free neural-networks achieving strong performance, and (b) strengthen the evidence of mapping as a fundamental mechanism for navigation by intelligent embodied agents, whether they be biological or artificial. Unlike animal navigation, we can judiciously design the agent's perceptual system and control the learning paradigm to nullify alternative navigation mechanisms. Specifically, we train 'blind' agents -- with sensing limited to only egomotion and no other sensing of any kind -- to perform PointGoal navigation ('go to $\\Delta$ x, $\\Delta$ y') via reinforcement learning. Our agents are composed of navigation-agnostic components (fully-connected and recurrent neural networks), and our experimental setup provides no inductive bias towards mapping. Despite these harsh conditions, we find that blind agents are (1) surprisingly effective navigators in new environments (~95% success); (2) they utilize memory over long horizons (remembering ~1,000 steps of past experience in an episode); (3) this memory enables them to exhibit intelligent behavior (following walls, detecting collisions, taking shortcuts); (4) there is emergence of maps and collision detection neurons in the representations of the environment built by a blind agent as it navigates; and (5) the emergent maps are selective and task dependent (e.g. the agent 'forgets' exploratory detours). Overall, this paper presents no new techniques for the AI audience, but a surprising finding, an insight, and an explanation.\"\nSceneDreamer: Unbounded 3D Scene Generation from 2D Image Collections,a generative model that synthesizes large-scale 3D landscapes from random noises.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01330,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261795925671936?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"In this work, we present SceneDreamer, an unconditional generative model for unbounded 3D scenes, which synthesizes large-scale 3D landscapes from random noise. Our framework is learned from in-the-wild 2D image collections only, without any 3D annotations. At the core of SceneDreamer is a principled learning paradigm comprising 1) an efficient yet expressive 3D scene representation, 2) a generative scene parameterization, and 3) an effective renderer that can leverage the knowledge from 2D images. Our approach begins with an efficient bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation generated from simplex noise, which includes a height field for surface elevation and a semantic field for detailed scene semantics. This BEV scene representation enables 1) representing a 3D scene with quadratic complexity, 2) disentangled geometry and semantics, and 3) efficient training. Moreover, we propose a novel generative neural hash grid to parameterize the latent space based on 3D positions and scene semantics, aiming to encode generalizable features across various scenes. Lastly, a neural volumetric renderer, learned from 2D image collections through adversarial training, is employed to produce photorealistic images. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of SceneDreamer and superiority over state-of-the-art methods in generating vivid yet diverse unbounded 3D worlds.\"\nLarge Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context,finds that many prompting techniques fail when presented with irrelevant context for arithmetic reasoning.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00093,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1622261798379429888?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Large language models have achieved impressive performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, so far they have been evaluated primarily on benchmarks where all information in the input context is relevant for solving the task. In this work, we investigate the distractibility of large language models, i.e., how the model problem-solving accuracy can be influenced by irrelevant context. In particular, we introduce Grade-School Math with Irrelevant Context (GSM-IC), an arithmetic reasoning dataset with irrelevant information in the problem description. We use this benchmark to measure the distractibility of cutting-edge prompting techniques for large language models, and find that the model performance is dramatically decreased when irrelevant information is included. We also identify several approaches for mitigating this deficiency, such as decoding with self-consistency and adding to the prompt an instruction that tells the language model to ignore the irrelevant information.\"\nMusicLM: Generating Music From Text,a generative model for generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11325,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619716425761042436?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"We introduce MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as \"\"a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff\"\". MusicLM casts the process of conditional music generation as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modeling task, and it generates music at 24 kHz that remains consistent over several minutes. Our experiments show that MusicLM outperforms previous systems both in audio quality and adherence to the text description. Moreover, we demonstrate that MusicLM can be conditioned on both text and a melody in that it can transform whistled and hummed melodies according to the style described in a text caption. To support future research, we publicly release MusicCaps, a dataset composed of 5.5k music-text pairs, with rich text descriptions provided by human experts.\"\nHungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models,\"an approach to reduce the gap, in terms of performance and hardware utilization, between state space models and attention for language modeling.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14052,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619716427879174144?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"State space models (SSMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art sequence modeling performance in some modalities, but underperform attention in language modeling. Moreover, despite scaling nearly linearly in sequence length instead of quadratically, SSMs are still slower than Transformers due to poor hardware utilization. In this paper, we make progress on understanding the expressivity gap between SSMs and attention in language modeling, and on reducing the hardware barrier between SSMs and attention. First, we use synthetic language modeling tasks to understand the gap between SSMs and attention. We find that existing SSMs struggle with two capabilities: recalling earlier tokens in the sequence and comparing tokens across the sequence. To understand the impact on language modeling, we propose a new SSM layer, H3, that is explicitly designed for these abilities. H3 matches attention on the synthetic languages and comes within 0.4 PPL of Transformers on OpenWebText. Furthermore, a hybrid 125M-parameter H3-attention model that retains two attention layers surprisingly outperforms Transformers on OpenWebText by 1.0 PPL. Next, to improve the efficiency of training SSMs on modern hardware, we propose FlashConv. FlashConv uses a fused block FFT algorithm to improve efficiency on sequences up to 8K, and introduces a novel state passing algorithm that exploits the recurrent properties of SSMs to scale to longer sequences. FlashConv yields 2$\\times$ speedup on the long-range arena benchmark and allows hybrid language models to generate text 2.4$\\times$ faster than Transformers. Using FlashConv, we scale hybrid H3-attention language models up to 2.7B parameters on the Pile and find promising initial results, achieving lower perplexity than Transformers and outperforming Transformers in zero- and few-shot learning on a majority of tasks in the SuperGLUE benchmark.\"\nA Watermark for Large Language Models,a watermarking framework for proprietary language models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619716430127308800?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Potential harms of large language models can be mitigated by watermarking model output, i.e., embedding signals into generated text that are invisible to humans but algorithmically detectable from a short span of tokens. We propose a watermarking framework for proprietary language models. The watermark can be embedded with negligible impact on text quality, and can be detected using an efficient open-source algorithm without access to the language model API or parameters. The watermark works by selecting a randomized set of \"\"green\"\" tokens before a word is generated, and then softly promoting use of green tokens during sampling. We propose a statistical test for detecting the watermark with interpretable p-values, and derive an information-theoretic framework for analyzing the sensitivity of the watermark. We test the watermark using a multi-billion parameter model from the Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT) family, and discuss robustness and security.\"\nText-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation,a new text-to-4D model for dynamic scene generation from input text.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11280,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619718845018828801?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"We present MAV3D (Make-A-Video3D), a method for generating three-dimensional dynamic scenes from text descriptions. Our approach uses a 4D dynamic Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), which is optimized for scene appearance, density, and motion consistency by querying a Text-to-Video (T2V) diffusion-based model. The dynamic video output generated from the provided text can be viewed from any camera location and angle, and can be composited into any 3D environment. MAV3D does not require any 3D or 4D data and the T2V model is trained only on Text-Image pairs and unlabeled videos. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach using comprehensive quantitative and qualitative experiments and show an improvement over previously established internal baselines. To the best of our knowledge, our method is the first to generate 3D dynamic scenes given a text description.\"\nClimaX: A foundation model for weather and climate,\"a foundation model for weather and climate, including many capabilities for atmospheric science tasks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10343,https://twitter.com/tungnd_13/status/1618642574427959296?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Most state-of-the-art approaches for weather and climate modeling are based on physics-informed numerical models of the atmosphere. These approaches aim to model the non-linear dynamics and complex interactions between multiple variables, which are challenging to approximate. Additionally, many such numerical models are computationally intensive, especially when modeling the atmospheric phenomenon at a fine-grained spatial and temporal resolution. Recent data-driven approaches based on machine learning instead aim to directly solve a downstream forecasting or projection task by learning a data-driven functional mapping using deep neural networks. However, these networks are trained using curated and homogeneous climate datasets for specific spatiotemporal tasks, and thus lack the generality of numerical models. We develop and demonstrate ClimaX, a flexible and generalizable deep learning model for weather and climate science that can be trained using heterogeneous datasets spanning different variables, spatio-temporal coverage, and physical groundings. ClimaX extends the Transformer architecture with novel encoding and aggregation blocks that allow effective use of available compute while maintaining general utility. ClimaX is pre-trained with a self-supervised learning objective on climate datasets derived from CMIP6. The pre-trained ClimaX can then be fine-tuned to address a breadth of climate and weather tasks, including those that involve atmospheric variables and spatio-temporal scales unseen during pretraining. Compared to existing data-driven baselines, we show that this generality in ClimaX results in superior performance on benchmarks for weather forecasting and climate projections, even when pretrained at lower resolutions and compute budgets. The source code is available at this https URL.\"\nOpen Problems in Applied Deep Learning,\"If you're looking for interesting open problems in DL, this is a good reference. Not sure if intentional but it also looks useful to get a general picture of current trends in deep learning with \\~300 references.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11316,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719063915339777?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"This work formulates the machine learning mechanism as a bi-level optimization problem. The inner level optimization loop entails minimizing a properly chosen loss function evaluated on the training data. This is nothing but the well-studied training process in pursuit of optimal model parameters. The outer level optimization loop is less well-studied and involves maximizing a properly chosen performance metric evaluated on the validation data. This is what we call the \"\"iteration process\"\", pursuing optimal model hyper-parameters. Among many other degrees of freedom, this process entails model engineering (e.g., neural network architecture design) and management, experiment tracking, dataset versioning and augmentation. The iteration process could be automated via Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) or left to the intuitions of machine learning students, engineers, and researchers. Regardless of the route we take, there is a need to reduce the computational cost of the iteration step and as a direct consequence reduce the carbon footprint of developing artificial intelligence algorithms. Despite the clean and unified mathematical formulation of the iteration step as a bi-level optimization problem, its solutions are case specific and complex. This work will consider such cases while increasing the level of complexity from supervised learning to semi-supervised, self-supervised, unsupervised, few-shot, federated, reinforcement, and physics-informed learning. As a consequence of this exercise, this proposal surfaces a plethora of open problems in the field, many of which can be addressed in parallel.\"\nDetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection using Probability Curvature,an approach for zero-shot machine-generated text detection. Uses raw log probabilities from the LLM to determine if the passage was sampled from it.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11305,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719169758613504?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"The increasing fluency and widespread usage of large language models (LLMs) highlight the desirability of corresponding tools aiding detection of LLM-generated text. In this paper, we identify a property of the structure of an LLM's probability function that is useful for such detection. Specifically, we demonstrate that text sampled from an LLM tends to occupy negative curvature regions of the model's log probability function. Leveraging this observation, we then define a new curvature-based criterion for judging if a passage is generated from a given LLM. This approach, which we call DetectGPT, does not require training a separate classifier, collecting a dataset of real or generated passages, or explicitly watermarking generated text. It uses only log probabilities computed by the model of interest and random perturbations of the passage from another generic pre-trained language model (e.g., T5). We find DetectGPT is more discriminative than existing zero-shot methods for model sample detection, notably improving detection of fake news articles generated by 20B parameter GPT-NeoX from 0.81 AUROC for the strongest zero-shot baseline to 0.95 AUROC for DetectGPT. See this https URL for code, data, and other project information.\"\nStyleGAN-T: Unlocking the Power of GANs for Fast Large-Scale Text-to-Image Synthesis,a new model that aims to regain the competitiveness of GANs for fast large-scale text-to-image synthesis.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09515,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719293779976193?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Text-to-image synthesis has recently seen significant progress thanks to large pretrained language models, large-scale training data, and the introduction of scalable model families such as diffusion and autoregressive models. However, the best-performing models require iterative evaluation to generate a single sample. In contrast, generative adversarial networks (GANs) only need a single forward pass. They are thus much faster, but they currently remain far behind the state-of-the-art in large-scale text-to-image synthesis. This paper aims to identify the necessary steps to regain competitiveness. Our proposed model, StyleGAN-T, addresses the specific requirements of large-scale text-to-image synthesis, such as large capacity, stable training on diverse datasets, strong text alignment, and controllable variation vs. text alignment tradeoff. StyleGAN-T significantly improves over previous GANs and outperforms distilled diffusion models - the previous state-of-the-art in fast text-to-image synthesis - in terms of sample quality and speed.\"\nLarge language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families,an LLM that can generate protein sequences with a predictable function across large protein families.,https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719404618645511?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"Deep-learning language models have shown promise in various biotechnological applications, including protein design and engineering. Here we describe ProGen, a language model that can generate protein sequences with a predictable function across large protein families, akin to generating grammatically and semantically correct natural language sentences on diverse topics. The model was trained on 280 million protein sequences from >19,000 families and is augmented with control tags specifying protein properties. ProGen can be further fine-tuned to curated sequences and tags to improve controllable generation performance of proteins from families with sufficient homologous samples. Artificial proteins fine-tuned to five distinct lysozyme families showed similar catalytic efficiencies as natural lysozymes, with sequence identity to natural proteins as low as 31.4%. ProGen is readily adapted to diverse protein families, as we demonstrate with chorismate mutase and malate dehydrogenase.\"\nThe Impossibility of Parallelizing Boosting,investigates the possibility of parallelizing boosting.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09627,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1619719511867015168?s=20&t=ygX07dsAPDF8_jwrxZIo1Q,\"The aim of boosting is to convert a sequence of weak learners into a strong learner. At their heart, these methods are fully sequential. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of parallelizing boosting. Our main contribution is a strong negative result, implying that significant parallelization of boosting requires an exponential blow-up in the total computing resources needed for training.\"\nGoogle AI Research Recap (2022 Edition),an excellent summary of some notable research Google AI did in 2022.,https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/01/google-research-2022-beyond-language.html,https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1615796030611820545?s=20&t=vUEC8AZmrOJnVxuYIEJs5A,\nDissociating language and thought in large language models: a cognitive perspective,a review paper on the capabilities of LLMs from a cognitive science perspective.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627,https://twitter.com/neuranna/status/1615737072207400962?s=20&t=5iWUK4z_rp1NWst7JRbnwg,\"Today's large language models (LLMs) routinely generate coherent, grammatical and seemingly meaningful paragraphs of text. This achievement has led to speculation that these networks are -- or will soon become -- \"\"thinking machines\"\", capable of performing tasks that require abstract knowledge and reasoning. Here, we review the capabilities of LLMs by considering their performance on two different aspects of language use: 'formal linguistic competence', which includes knowledge of rules and patterns of a given language, and 'functional linguistic competence', a host of cognitive abilities required for language understanding and use in the real world. Drawing on evidence from cognitive neuroscience, we show that formal competence in humans relies on specialized language processing mechanisms, whereas functional competence recruits multiple extralinguistic capacities that comprise human thought, such as formal reasoning, world knowledge, situation modeling, and social cognition. In line with this distinction, LLMs show impressive (although imperfect) performance on tasks requiring formal linguistic competence, but fail on many tests requiring functional competence. Based on this evidence, we argue that (1) contemporary LLMs should be taken seriously as models of formal linguistic skills; (2) models that master real-life language use would need to incorporate or develop not only a core language module, but also multiple non-language-specific cognitive capacities required for modeling thought. Overall, a distinction between formal and functional linguistic competence helps clarify the discourse surrounding LLMs' potential and provides a path toward building models that understand and use language in human-like ways.\"\nHuman-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space,an agent trained at scale that leads to a general in-content learning algorithm able to adapt to open-ended embodied 3D problems.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07608,https://twitter.com/FeryalMP/status/1616035293064462338?s=20&t=RN0YZFAXWr-uH2dT2ZTSqQ,\"Foundation models have shown impressive adaptation and scalability in supervised and self-supervised learning problems, but so far these successes have not fully translated to reinforcement learning (RL). In this work, we demonstrate that training an RL agent at scale leads to a general in-context learning algorithm that can adapt to open-ended novel embodied 3D problems as quickly as humans. In a vast space of held-out environment dynamics, our adaptive agent (AdA) displays on-the-fly hypothesis-driven exploration, efficient exploitation of acquired knowledge, and can successfully be prompted with first-person demonstrations. Adaptation emerges from three ingredients: (1) meta-reinforcement learning across a vast, smooth and diverse task distribution, (2) a policy parameterised as a large-scale attention-based memory architecture, and (3) an effective automated curriculum that prioritises tasks at the frontier of an agent's capabilities. We demonstrate characteristic scaling laws with respect to network size, memory length, and richness of the training task distribution. We believe our results lay the foundation for increasingly general and adaptive RL agents that perform well across ever-larger open-ended domains.\"\nAtMan: Understanding Transformer Predictions Through Memory Efficient Attention Manipulation,an approach to help provide explanations of generative transformer models through memory-efficient attention manipulation.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08110,https://twitter.com/JonasAndrulis/status/1616722810608427008?s=20&t=vUEC8AZmrOJnVxuYIEJs5A,\"Generative transformer models have become increasingly complex, with large numbers of parameters and the ability to process multiple input modalities. Current methods for explaining their predictions are resource-intensive. Most crucially, they require prohibitively large amounts of extra memory, since they rely on backpropagation which allocates almost twice as much GPU memory as the forward pass. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to use them in production. We present AtMan that provides explanations of generative transformer models at almost no extra cost. Specifically, AtMan is a modality-agnostic perturbation method that manipulates the attention mechanisms of transformers to produce relevance maps for the input with respect to the output prediction. Instead of using backpropagation, AtMan applies a parallelizable token-based search method based on cosine similarity neighborhood in the embedding space. Our exhaustive experiments on text and image-text benchmarks demonstrate that AtMan outperforms current state-of-the-art gradient-based methods on several metrics while being computationally efficient. As such, AtMan is suitable for use in large model inference deployments.\"\nEverything is Connected: Graph Neural Networks,short overview of key concepts in graph representation learning.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08210,https://twitter.com/PetarV_93/status/1616379369953394688?s=20&t=AqTVY30Y7IZCultzwnqBPA,\"In many ways, graphs are the main modality of data we receive from nature. This is due to the fact that most of the patterns we see, both in natural and artificial systems, are elegantly representable using the language of graph structures. Prominent examples include molecules (represented as graphs of atoms and bonds), social networks and transportation networks. This potential has already been seen by key scientific and industrial groups, with already-impacted application areas including traffic forecasting, drug discovery, social network analysis and recommender systems. Further, some of the most successful domains of application for machine learning in previous years -- images, text and speech processing -- can be seen as special cases of graph representation learning, and consequently there has been significant exchange of information between these areas. The main aim of this short survey is to enable the reader to assimilate the key concepts in the area, and position graph representation learning in a proper context with related fields.\"\nGLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation,an approach that extends the functionality of existing pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models by enabling conditioning on grounding inputs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07093,https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1615766551113744384?s=20&t=wx0Y18oSmW0YenXjKRAdnA,\"Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have made amazing advances. However, the status quo is to use text input alone, which can impede controllability. In this work, we propose GLIGEN, Grounded-Language-to-Image Generation, a novel approach that builds upon and extends the functionality of existing pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models by enabling them to also be conditioned on grounding inputs. To preserve the vast concept knowledge of the pre-trained model, we freeze all of its weights and inject the grounding information into new trainable layers via a gated mechanism. Our model achieves open-world grounded text2img generation with caption and bounding box condition inputs, and the grounding ability generalizes well to novel spatial configurations and concepts. GLIGEN's zero-shot performance on COCO and LVIS outperforms that of existing supervised layout-to-image baselines by a large margin.\"\nInstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions,proposes a method with the capability of editing images from human instructions.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09800,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1615947919286276096?s=20&t=pbRTn8DaPeQFApQ9okkdRg,\"We propose a method for editing images from human instructions: given an input image and a written instruction that tells the model what to do, our model follows these instructions to edit the image. To obtain training data for this problem, we combine the knowledge of two large pretrained models -- a language model (GPT-3) and a text-to-image model (Stable Diffusion) -- to generate a large dataset of image editing examples. Our conditional diffusion model, InstructPix2Pix, is trained on our generated data, and generalizes to real images and user-written instructions at inference time. Since it performs edits in the forward pass and does not require per example fine-tuning or inversion, our model edits images quickly, in a matter of seconds. We show compelling editing results for a diverse collection of input images and written instructions.\"\nDataset Distillation: A Comprehensive Review,,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07014,https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1615745724473540609?s=20&t=r-pwuB6EhbZLXa5R6mL3NQ,\"Recent success of deep learning is largely attributed to the sheer amount of data used for training deep neural networks.Despite the unprecedented success, the massive data, unfortunately, significantly increases the burden on storage and transmission and further gives rise to a cumbersome model training process. Besides, relying on the raw data for training \\emph{per se} yields concerns about privacy and copyright. To alleviate these shortcomings, dataset distillation~(DD), also known as dataset condensation (DC), was introduced and has recently attracted much research attention in the community. Given an original dataset, DD aims to derive a much smaller dataset containing synthetic samples, based on which the trained models yield performance comparable with those trained on the original dataset. In this paper, we give a comprehensive review and summary of recent advances in DD and its application. We first introduce the task formally and propose an overall algorithmic framework followed by all existing DD methods. Next, we provide a systematic taxonomy of current methodologies in this area, and discuss their theoretical interconnections. We also present current challenges in DD through extensive experiments and envision possible directions for future works.\"\nLearning-Rate-Free Learning by D-Adaptation,\"a new method for automatically adjusting the learning rate during training, applicable to more than a dozen diverse ML problems.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07733,https://twitter.com/aaron_defazio/status/1616453609956478977?s=20&t=hGWDXu4sT5f1KcH-X1IL9g,\"D-Adaptation is an approach to automatically setting the learning rate which asymptotically achieves the optimal rate of convergence for minimizing convex Lipschitz functions, with no back-tracking or line searches, and no additional function value or gradient evaluations per step. Our approach is the first hyper-parameter free method for this class without additional multiplicative log factors in the convergence rate. We present extensive experiments for SGD and Adam variants of our method, where the method automatically matches hand-tuned learning rates across more than a dozen diverse machine learning problems, including large-scale vision and language problems.\nAn open-source implementation is available.\"\nRecolorNeRF: Layer Decomposed Radiance Field for Efficient Color Editing of 3D Scenes,a user-friendly color editing approach for the neural radiance field to achieve a more efficient view-consistent recoloring.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07958,https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1616265465843548160?s=20&t=duiLmtDvxCwkFmw23rYDmQ,\"Radiance fields have gradually become a main representation of media. Although its appearance editing has been studied, how to achieve view-consistent recoloring in an efficient manner is still under explored. We present RecolorNeRF, a novel user-friendly color editing approach for the neural radiance fields. Our key idea is to decompose the scene into a set of pure-colored layers, forming a palette. By this means, color manipulation can be conducted by altering the color components of the palette directly. To support efficient palette-based editing, the color of each layer needs to be as representative as possible. In the end, the problem is formulated as an optimization problem, where the layers and their blending weights are jointly optimized with the NeRF itself. Extensive experiments show that our jointly-optimized layer decomposition can be used against multiple backbones and produce photo-realistic recolored novel-view renderings. We demonstrate that RecolorNeRF outperforms baseline methods both quantitatively and qualitatively for color editing even in complex real-world scenes.\"\nMastering Diverse Domains through World Models,\"a general algorithm to collect diamonds in Minecraft from scratch without human data or curricula, a long-standing challenge in AI.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04104v1,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676677757661185?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"General intelligence requires solving tasks across many domains. Current reinforcement learning algorithms carry this potential but are held back by the resources and knowledge required to tune them for new tasks. We present DreamerV3, a general and scalable algorithm based on world models that outperforms previous approaches across a wide range of domains with fixed hyperparameters. These domains include continuous and discrete actions, visual and low-dimensional inputs, 2D and 3D worlds, different data budgets, reward frequencies, and reward scales. We observe favorable scaling properties of DreamerV3, with larger models directly translating to higher data-efficiency and final performance. Applied out of the box, DreamerV3 is the first algorithm to collect diamonds in Minecraft from scratch without human data or curricula, a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. Our general algorithm makes reinforcement learning broadly applicable and allows scaling to hard decision-making problems.\"\nTracr: Compiled Transformers as a Laboratory for Interpretability,a compiler for converting RASP programs into transformer weights. This way of constructing NNs weights enables the development and evaluation of new interpretability tools.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05062,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676680165187584?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"We show how to \"\"compile\"\" human-readable programs into standard decoder-only transformer models. Our compiler, Tracr, generates models with known structure. This structure can be used to design experiments. For example, we use it to study \"\"superposition\"\" in transformers that execute multi-step algorithms. Additionally, the known structure of Tracr-compiled models can serve as ground-truth for evaluating interpretability methods. Commonly, because the \"\"programs\"\" learned by transformers are unknown it is unclear whether an interpretation succeeded. We demonstrate our approach by implementing and examining programs including computing token frequencies, sorting, and parenthesis checking. We provide an open-source implementation of Tracr at this https URL.\"\nMultimodal Deep Learning,multimodal deep learning is a new book published on ArXiv.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04856,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676682555670528?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"This book is the result of a seminar in which we reviewed multimodal approaches and attempted to create a solid overview of the field, starting with the current state-of-the-art approaches in the two subfields of Deep Learning individually. Further, modeling frameworks are discussed where one modality is transformed into the other, as well as models in which one modality is utilized to enhance representation learning for the other. To conclude the second part, architectures with a focus on handling both modalities simultaneously are introduced. Finally, we also cover other modalities as well as general-purpose multi-modal models, which are able to handle different tasks on different modalities within one unified architecture. One interesting application (Generative Art) eventually caps off this booklet.\"\nForecasting Potential Misuses of Language Models for Disinformation Campaigns—and How to Reduce Risk,new work analyzing how generative LMs could potentially be misused for disinformation and how to mitigate these types of risks.,https://openai.com/blog/forecasting-misuse/,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676684984156160?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included an October 2021 workshop bringing together 30 disinformation researchers, machine learning experts, and policy analysts, and culminated in a co-authored report building on more than a year of research. This report outlines the threats that language models pose to the information environment if used to augment disinformation campaigns and introduces a framework for analyzing potential mitigations.\"\nWhy do Nearest Neighbor Language Models Work?,empirically identifies reasons why retrieval-augmented LMs (specifically k-nearest neighbor LMs) perform better than standard parametric LMs.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02828,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676687597469696?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"Language models (LMs) compute the probability of a text by sequentially computing a representation of an already-seen context and using this representation to predict the next word. Currently, most LMs calculate these representations through a neural network consuming the immediate previous context. However recently, retrieval-augmented LMs have shown to improve over standard neural LMs, by accessing information retrieved from a large datastore, in addition to their standard, parametric, next-word prediction. In this paper, we set out to understand why retrieval-augmented language models, and specifically why k-nearest neighbor language models (kNN-LMs) perform better than standard parametric LMs, even when the k-nearest neighbor component retrieves examples from the same training set that the LM was originally trained on. To this end, we perform a careful analysis of the various dimensions over which kNN-LM diverges from standard LMs, and investigate these dimensions one by one. Empirically, we identify three main reasons why kNN-LM performs better than standard LMs: using a different input representation for predicting the next tokens, approximate kNN search, and the importance of softmax temperature for the kNN distribution. Further, we incorporate these insights into the model architecture or the training procedure of the standard parametric LM, improving its results without the need for an explicit retrieval component. The code is available at this https URL.\"\nMemory Augmented Large Language Models are Computationally Universal,\"investigates the use of existing LMs (e.g, Flan-U-PaLM 540B) combined with associative read-write memory to simulate the execution of a universal Turing machine.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04589,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676689908277252?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"We show that transformer-based large language models are computationally universal when augmented with an external memory. Any deterministic language model that conditions on strings of bounded length is equivalent to a finite automaton, hence computationally limited. However, augmenting such models with a read-write memory creates the possibility of processing arbitrarily large inputs and, potentially, simulating any algorithm. We establish that an existing large language model, Flan-U-PaLM 540B, can be combined with an associative read-write memory to exactly simulate the execution of a universal Turing machine, $U_{15,2}$. A key aspect of the finding is that it does not require any modification of the language model weights. Instead, the construction relies solely on designing a form of stored instruction computer that can subsequently be programmed with a specific set of prompts.\"\nA Survey on Transformers in Reinforcement Learning,\"transformers for RL will be a fascinating research area to track. The same is true for the reverse direction (RL for Transformers)... a notable example: using RLHF to improve LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT).\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03044,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676692538105860?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"Transformer has been considered the dominating neural architecture in NLP and CV, mostly under supervised settings. Recently, a similar surge of using Transformers has appeared in the domain of reinforcement learning (RL), but it is faced with unique design choices and challenges brought by the nature of RL. However, the evolution of Transformers in RL has not yet been well unraveled. In this paper, we seek to systematically review motivations and progress on using Transformers in RL, provide a taxonomy on existing works, discuss each sub-field, and summarize future prospects.\"\nScaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models,introduces scaling laws for generative mixed-modal language models.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03728,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676694920531969?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"Generative language models define distributions over sequences of tokens that can represent essentially any combination of data modalities (e.g., any permutation of image tokens from VQ-VAEs, speech tokens from HuBERT, BPE tokens for language or code, and so on). To better understand the scaling properties of such mixed-modal models, we conducted over 250 experiments using seven different modalities and model sizes ranging from 8 million to 30 billion, trained on 5-100 billion tokens. We report new mixed-modal scaling laws that unify the contributions of individual modalities and the interactions between them. Specifically, we explicitly model the optimal synergy and competition due to data and model size as an additive term to previous uni-modal scaling laws. We also find four empirical phenomena observed during the training, such as emergent coordinate-ascent style training that naturally alternates between modalities, guidelines for selecting critical hyper-parameters, and connections between mixed-modal competition and training stability. Finally, we test our scaling law by training a 30B speech-text model, which significantly outperforms the corresponding unimodal models. Overall, our research provides valuable insights into the design and training of mixed-modal generative models, an important new class of unified models that have unique distributional properties.\"\nDeepMatcher: A Deep Transformer-based Network for Robust and Accurate Local Feature Matching,\"a transformer-based network showing robust local feature matching, outperforming the state-of-the-art methods on several benchmarks.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02993,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676697516752898?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"Local feature matching between images remains a challenging task, especially in the presence of significant appearance variations, e.g., extreme viewpoint changes. In this work, we propose DeepMatcher, a deep Transformer-based network built upon our investigation of local feature matching in detector-free methods. The key insight is that local feature matcher with deep layers can capture more human-intuitive and simpler-to-match features. Based on this, we propose a Slimming Transformer (SlimFormer) dedicated for DeepMatcher, which leverages vector-based attention to model relevance among all keypoints and achieves long-range context aggregation in an efficient and effective manner. A relative position encoding is applied to each SlimFormer so as to explicitly disclose relative distance information, further improving the representation of keypoints. A layer-scale strategy is also employed in each SlimFormer to enable the network to assimilate message exchange from the residual block adaptively, thus allowing it to simulate the human behaviour that humans can acquire different matching cues each time they scan an image pair. To facilitate a better adaption of the SlimFormer, we introduce a Feature Transition Module (FTM) to ensure a smooth transition in feature scopes with different receptive fields. By interleaving the self- and cross-SlimFormer multiple times, DeepMatcher can easily establish pixel-wise dense matches at coarse level. Finally, we perceive the match refinement as a combination of classification and regression problems and design Fine Matches Module to predict confidence and offset concurrently, thereby generating robust and accurate matches. Experimentally, we show that DeepMatcher significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on several benchmarks, demonstrating the superior matching capability of DeepMatcher.\"\n\"Generative Time Series Forecasting with Diffusion, Denoise, and Disentanglement\",\"addresses the time series forecasting problem with generative modeling; involves a bidirectional VAE backbone equipped with diffusion, denoising for prediction accuracy, and disentanglement for model interpretability.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03028,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1614676699915980804?s=20&t=3GITA7PeX7pGwrqvt97bYQ,\"Time series forecasting has been a widely explored task of great importance in many applications. However, it is common that real-world time series data are recorded in a short time period, which results in a big gap between the deep model and the limited and noisy time series. In this work, we propose to address the time series forecasting problem with generative modeling and propose a bidirectional variational auto-encoder (BVAE) equipped with diffusion, denoise, and disentanglement, namely D3VAE. Specifically, a coupled diffusion probabilistic model is proposed to augment the time series data without increasing the aleatoric uncertainty and implement a more tractable inference process with BVAE. To ensure the generated series move toward the true target, we further propose to adapt and integrate the multiscale denoising score matching into the diffusion process for time series forecasting. In addition, to enhance the interpretability and stability of the prediction, we treat the latent variable in a multivariate manner and disentangle them on top of minimizing total correlation. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world data show that D3VAE outperforms competitive algorithms with remarkable margins. Our implementation is available at this https URL.\"\nMuse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers,\"introduces Muse, a new text-to-image generation model based on masked generative transformers; significantly more efficient than other diffusion models like Imagen and DALLE-2.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00704,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153095772938241?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\"We present Muse, a text-to-image Transformer model that achieves state-of-the-art image generation performance while being significantly more efficient than diffusion or autoregressive models. Muse is trained on a masked modeling task in discrete token space: given the text embedding extracted from a pre-trained large language model (LLM), Muse is trained to predict randomly masked image tokens. Compared to pixel-space diffusion models, such as Imagen and DALL-E 2, Muse is significantly more efficient due to the use of discrete tokens and requiring fewer sampling iterations; compared to autoregressive models, such as Parti, Muse is more efficient due to the use of parallel decoding. The use of a pre-trained LLM enables fine-grained language understanding, translating to high-fidelity image generation and the understanding of visual concepts such as objects, their spatial relationships, pose, cardinality etc. Our 900M parameter model achieves a new SOTA on CC3M, with an FID score of 6.06. The Muse 3B parameter model achieves an FID of 7.88 on zero-shot COCO evaluation, along with a CLIP score of 0.32. Muse also directly enables a number of image editing applications without the need to fine-tune or invert the model: inpainting, outpainting, and mask-free editing. More results are available at this https URL\"\nVALL-E Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers,\"introduces VALL-E, a text-to-audio model that performs state-of-the-art zero-shot performance; the text-to-speech synthesis task is treated as a conditional language modeling task.\",https://valle-demo.github.io/,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153097962328067?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\"We introduce a language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis (TTS). Specifically, we train a neural codec language model (called VALL-E) using discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and regard TTS as a conditional language modeling task rather than continuous signal regression as in previous work. During the pre-training stage, we scale up the TTS training data to 60K hours of English speech which is hundreds of times larger than existing systems. VALL-E emerges in-context learning capabilities and can be used to synthesize high-quality personalized speech with only a 3-second enrolled recording of an unseen speaker as an acoustic prompt. Experiment results show that VALL-E significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art zero-shot TTS system in terms of speech naturalness and speaker similarity. In addition, we find VALL-E could preserve the speaker's emotion and acoustic environment of the acoustic prompt in synthesis.\"\nRethinking with Retrieval: Faithful Large Language Model Inference,shows the potential of enhancing LLMs by retrieving relevant external knowledge based on decomposed reasoning steps obtained through chain-of-thought prompting.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00303,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153100114055171?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\"Despite the success of large language models (LLMs) in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, the stored knowledge in these models may inevitably be incomplete, out-of-date, or incorrect. This motivates the need to utilize external knowledge to assist LLMs. Unfortunately, current methods for incorporating external knowledge often require additional training or fine-tuning, which can be costly and may not be feasible for LLMs. To address this issue, we propose a novel post-processing approach, rethinking with retrieval (RR), which retrieves relevant external knowledge based on the decomposed reasoning steps obtained from the chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting. This lightweight approach does not require additional training or fine-tuning and is not limited by the input length of LLMs. We evaluate the effectiveness of RR through extensive experiments with GPT-3 on three complex reasoning tasks: commonsense reasoning, temporal reasoning, and tabular reasoning. Our results show that RR can produce more faithful explanations and improve the performance of LLMs.\"\nSparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned In One-Shot,\"presents a technique for compressing large language models while not sacrificing performance; \"\"pruned to at least 50% sparsity in one-shot, without any retraining.\"\"\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00774,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153102513360901?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\"We show for the first time that large-scale generative pretrained transformer (GPT) family models can be pruned to at least 50% sparsity in one-shot, without any retraining, at minimal loss of accuracy. This is achieved via a new pruning method called SparseGPT, specifically designed to work efficiently and accurately on massive GPT-family models. We can execute SparseGPT on the largest available open-source models, OPT-175B and BLOOM-176B, in under 4.5 hours, and can reach 60% unstructured sparsity with negligible increase in perplexity: remarkably, more than 100 billion weights from these models can be ignored at inference time. SparseGPT generalizes to semi-structured (2:4 and 4:8) patterns, and is compatible with weight quantization approaches. The code is available at: this https URL.\"\nConvNeXt V2: Co-designing and Scaling ConvNets with Masked Autoencoders,a performant model based on a fully convolutional masked autoencoder framework and other architectural improvements. CNNs are sticking back!,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00808,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153104329281538?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\"Driven by improved architectures and better representation learning frameworks, the field of visual recognition has enjoyed rapid modernization and performance boost in the early 2020s. For example, modern ConvNets, represented by ConvNeXt, have demonstrated strong performance in various scenarios. While these models were originally designed for supervised learning with ImageNet labels, they can also potentially benefit from self-supervised learning techniques such as masked autoencoders (MAE). However, we found that simply combining these two approaches leads to subpar performance. In this paper, we propose a fully convolutional masked autoencoder framework and a new Global Response Normalization (GRN) layer that can be added to the ConvNeXt architecture to enhance inter-channel feature competition. This co-design of self-supervised learning techniques and architectural improvement results in a new model family called ConvNeXt V2, which significantly improves the performance of pure ConvNets on various recognition benchmarks, including ImageNet classification, COCO detection, and ADE20K segmentation. We also provide pre-trained ConvNeXt V2 models of various sizes, ranging from an efficient 3.7M-parameter Atto model with 76.7% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, to a 650M Huge model that achieves a state-of-the-art 88.9% accuracy using only public training data.\"\nLarge Language Models as Corporate Lobbyists,\"with more capabilities, we are starting to see a wider range of applications with LLMs. This paper utilized large language models for conducting corporate lobbying activities.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01181,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153106355130372?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\"We demonstrate a proof-of-concept of a large language model conducting corporate lobbying related activities. An autoregressive large language model (OpenAI's text-davinci-003) determines if proposed U.S. Congressional bills are relevant to specific public companies and provides explanations and confidence levels. For the bills the model deems as relevant, the model drafts a letter to the sponsor of the bill in an attempt to persuade the congressperson to make changes to the proposed legislation. We use hundreds of novel ground-truth labels of the relevance of a bill to a company to benchmark the performance of the model. It outperforms the baseline of predicting the most common outcome of irrelevance. We also benchmark the performance of the previous OpenAI GPT-3 model (text-davinci-002), which was the state-of-the-art model on many academic natural language tasks until text-davinci-003 was recently released. The performance of text-davinci-002 is worse than the simple baseline. Longer-term, if AI begins to influence law in a manner that is not a direct extension of human intentions, this threatens the critical role that law as information could play in aligning AI with humans. Initially, AI is being used to simply augment human lobbyists for a small portion of their daily tasks. However, firms have an incentive to use less and less human oversight over automated assessments of policy ideas and the written communication to regulatory agencies and Congressional staffers. The core question raised is where to draw the line between human-driven and AI-driven policy influence.\"\n\"Superposition, Memorization, and Double Descent\",aims to better understand how deep learning models overfit or memorize examples; interesting phenomena observed; important work toward a mechanistic theory of memorization.,https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/toy-double-descent/index.html,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153108460892160?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\nStitchNet: Composing Neural Networks from Pre-Trained Fragments,new idea to create new coherent neural networks by reusing pretrained fragments of existing NNs. Not straightforward but there is potential in terms of efficiently reusing learned knowledge in pre-trained networks for complex tasks.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01947,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153110452903936?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\"We propose StitchNet, a novel neural network creation paradigm that stitches together fragments (one or more consecutive network layers) from multiple pre-trained neural networks. StitchNet allows the creation of high-performing neural networks without the large compute and data requirements needed under traditional model creation processes via backpropagation training. We leverage Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA) as a compatibility measure to efficiently guide the selection of these fragments in composing a network for a given task tailored to specific accuracy needs and computing resource constraints. We then show that these fragments can be stitched together to create neural networks with accuracy comparable to that of traditionally trained networks at a fraction of computing resource and data requirements. Finally, we explore a novel on-the-fly personalized model creation and inference application enabled by this new paradigm. The code is available at this https URL.\"\nIterated Decomposition: Improving Science Q\\&A by Supervising Reasoning Processes,\"proposes integrated decomposition, an approach to improve Science Q\\&A through a human-in-the-loop workflow for refining compositional LM programs.\",https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01751,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153112638402562?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\"Language models (LMs) can perform complex reasoning either end-to-end, with hidden latent state, or compositionally, with transparent intermediate state. Composition offers benefits for interpretability and safety, but may need workflow support and infrastructure to remain competitive. We describe iterated decomposition, a human-in-the-loop workflow for developing and refining compositional LM programs. We improve the performance of compositions by zooming in on failing components and refining them through decomposition, additional context, chain of thought, etc. To support this workflow, we develop ICE, an open-source tool for visualizing the execution traces of LM programs. We apply iterated decomposition to three real-world tasks and improve the accuracy of LM programs over less compositional baselines: describing the placebo used in a randomized controlled trial (25% to 65%), evaluating participant adherence to a medical intervention (53% to 70%), and answering NLP questions on the Qasper dataset (38% to 69%). These applications serve as case studies for a workflow that, if automated, could keep ML systems interpretable and safe even as they scale to increasingly complex tasks.\"\nA Succinct Summary of Reinforcement Learning,a nice overview of some important ideas in RL.,https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01379,https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/1612153114773053446?s=20&t=ChwZWzSmoRlZKnD54fsV6w,\"This document is a concise summary of many key results in single-agent reinforcement learning (RL). The intended audience are those who already have some familiarity with RL and are looking to review, reference and/or remind themselves of important ideas in the field.\"\n"
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