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08 June 2023 06:50

​​StableRep: Synthetic Images from Text-to-Image Models Make Strong Visual Representation Learners

In a ground-breaking exploration of visual representation learning, researchers have leveraged synthetic images produced by leading text-to-image models, specifically Stable Diffusion, achieving promising results. The study uncovers two key insights - firstly, when configured correctly, self-supervised methods trained on synthetic images can match or even outperform those trained on real images. This suggests an exciting avenue for efficient and effective representation learning, reducing the need for extensive real image datasets.

Secondly, the researchers have devised a novel approach called StableRep, a multi-positive contrastive learning method that treats multiple images, generated from the same text prompt, as mutual positives. The compelling finding is that StableRep, trained solely with synthetic images, outperforms representations learned by prominent methods such as SimCLR and CLIP, even when these used real images. In a striking demonstration, when language supervision is added, StableRep trained with 20M synthetic images outperforms CLIP trained with a whopping 50M real images. These findings not only underscore the potential of synthetic data but also pave the way for more efficient, large-scale visual representation learning.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00984

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-stablerep

#deeplearning #cv #nlp #stablediffusion #texttoimage #syntheticdata

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02 June 2023 16:33

CodeTF: One-stop Transformer Library for State-of-the-art Code LLM (Salesforce)

The authors we present CodeTF, an open-source Transformer-based library for state-of-the-art Code LLMs and code intelligence. CodeTF is designed with a unified interface to enable rapid access and development across different types of models, datasets and tasks. The 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.

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30 May 2023 08:07

​​Chain of Hindsight Aligns Language Models with Feedback

AI language models are becoming a major part of our digital world. The challenge, however, lies in aligning these models with human preferences to be genuinely useful and valuable. Current methods, although successful in many ways, have limitations - they are either inefficient in utilizing data or depend heavily on challenging reward functions and reinforcement learning.

Here comes "Chain of Hindsight," an exciting, novel technique inspired by human learning mechanisms. It can learn from any form of feedback, even transforming it into language for fine-tuning the model. This approach conditions the model on a sequence of model generations paired with feedback, helping it learn to correct negative attributes or errors. It is significantly outperforming previous methods, particularly showing major strides in summarization and dialogue tasks.
Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02676

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-coh
#deeplearning #nlp #llm

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22 May 2023 06:31

​​Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold

Meet DragGAN, a groundbreaking approach that is set to revolutionize the way we control generative adversarial networks (GANs) and synthesize visual content! This innovative tool offers users unprecedented flexibility and precision when manipulating images, sidestepping the limitations of prior 3D models and annotated training data. With DragGAN, you can now "drag" any point of an image to a precise target position, introducing a nvel user-interactive element.

Two ingenious components underpin DragGAN's functionality: the first is a feature-based motion supervision that effortlessly guides the handle point towards the desired position, and the second is a novel point tracking approach that utilizes the discriminating features of the generator to maintain the handle points' positions. The real game-changer is that anyone can now deform an image with absolute control over pixel movements, enabling the manipulation of pose, shape, expression, and layout across diverse categories like animals, cars, humans, landscapes, and more. DragGAN outperforms its predecessors in both image manipulation and point tracking tasks, promising an exciting leap forward in AI-generated visual content!

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10973
Code link: https://github.com/XingangPan/DragGAN
Project link: https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/DragGAN/

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-draggan
#deeplearning #cv #gan #imagemanipulation

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18 May 2023 06:47

​​DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet

The researchers have developed a novel model called DarkBERT, which specifically focuses on the linguistically complex and often misunderstood domain of the Dark Web. This innovative model stands out due to its unique pretraining on Dark Web data, which allows it to handle the extreme lexical and structural diversity characteristic of the Dark Web. This is a critical development considering the clear differences that exist in language use between the Dark Web and the Surface Web, a factor that can often hinder accurate textual analysis.

DarkBERT isn't just a novelty, but a robust, high-performing language model that consistently outshines current popular models like BERT and RoBERTa in various use cases. These findings shed light on the considerable advantages that a domain-specific model like DarkBERT can offer. More than anything else, DarkBERT promises to be a vital resource for future research on the Dark Web, setting a new standard for language models in this intriguing and intricate realm.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08596

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-darkbert
#deeplearning #nlp #darkweb #cybersecurity

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12 May 2023 23:59

Introducing 100K Token Context Windows

- approximately 75K words
- hundreds of pages
- a book, for example "The Great Gatsby" (about 72K tokens)
- a text that will take approximately 5 hours to read

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11 May 2023 19:44

StarCoder: may the source be with you!

The BigCode community, an open-scientific collaboration working on the responsible development of Code LLMs, introduces StarCoder and StarCoderBase:
- 15.5B parameter models
- 8K context length
- 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
- StarCoderBase is fine-tuned on 35B Python tokens, resulting in the creation of StarCoder

StarCoderBase outperforms every open Code LLM that supports multiple programming languages and matches or outperforms the OpenAI code-cushman-001 model.

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10 May 2023 14:53

Found another PyTorch-based library with basic image functions, losses and transformations

Looks like it is a combination toolkit of augs, skimage and classic cv2 functions, but written in PyTorch.

What is Kornia? Kornia is a differentiable library that allows classical computer vision to be integrated into deep learning models.

Examples:

- https://kornia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/get-started/highlights.html
- and especially this https://kornia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/losses.html

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08 May 2023 06:22

​​Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes

Researchers have developed "Distilling step-by-step," a cutting-edge method to train smaller, more efficient task-specific models that outperform large language models (LLMs) while requiring significantly less training data. This innovation promises to revolutionize the practicality of NLP models in real-world applications by reducing both model size and data requirements: a 770M T5 model surpasses a 540B PaLM model using only 80% of available data.

Distilling step-by-step leverages LLM-generated rationales within a multi-task training framework, yielding impressive results across 4 NLP benchmarks. The technique consistently achieves better performance with fewer labeled/unlabeled training examples, surpassing LLMs with substantially smaller model sizes.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02301

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-dsbs

#deeplearning #nlp #languagemodels #distillation

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06 May 2023 11:05

Last call to apply for the Yandex School of Data Analysis.

Recruitment for the YSDA, which is a vocational training program, free of charge, lasting for two years, will end on the 06 May 2023.

You can choose one of the four highly demanded majors: data science, big data infrastructure, machine learning or data analysis in applied sciences.

To be able to pass examinations and study successfully at the YSDA one should have a basic understanding of the machine learning, have a good mathematical background and use one of the programming languages. Experienced developers can apply for an alternative admission track that includes both assessment of algorithms basics and mathematics and research and/or industrial achievements.

The educational process is mainly conducted in the Russian language.

Application form is accessible via link https://clck.ru/34GwCS, there is also a tg-chat for the applicants /channel/+DQ1j7epbIlNmNjFi

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01 May 2023 06:56

​​Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT

Imagine extending the context length of BERT, one of the most effective Transformer-based models in natural language processing, to an unprecedented two million tokens! This technical report unveils the Recurrent Memory Transformer (RMT) architecture, which achieves this incredible feat while maintaining high memory retrieval accuracy.

The RMT approach enables storage and processing of both local and global information, allowing information flow between segments of the input sequence through recurrence. The experiments showcase the effectiveness of this groundbreaking method, with immense 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.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11062
Code link: https://github.com/booydar/t5-experiments/tree/scaling-report

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-rmt-1m

#deeplearning #nlp #bert #memory

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25 April 2023 21:54

GigaChat
by SberDevices, Sber AI, AIRI & etc.

Based on a model collectively called NeONKA (NEural Omnimodal Network with Knowledge-Awareness). There ruGPT3.5-13B, which is based on ruGPT3 13B & FRED-T5.
Current version in NLP part is based on ruGPT3.5 13B pretrain + SFT (supervised fine-tuning).
In side by side tests GigaChat vs ChatGPT 30:70 in favor of the latter. This is without PPO. Will be higher. They have big plans to improve models and train new ones.

Some models will be made publicly available.

To get access to the beta test, you need to subscribe to the project's [closed tg-channel](/channel/+eL4Gc0g74yw4N2Qy).

What it can do:
- Write commercial texts
- Generate imaginary dialogues
- Work with document templates
- Create entertaining content
- Make lists and ratings


More here — https://habr.com/ru/companies/sberbank/articles/730108/

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24 April 2023 06:31

​​Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior

Imagine a world where computational software agents can simulate believable human behavior, empowering a wide range of interactive applications from immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication and prototyping tools. This paper introduces "generative agents," a groundbreaking concept where agents perform daily routines, engage in creative activities, form opinions, interact with others, and remember and reflect on their experiences as they plan their next day.

To bring generative agents to life, the authors propose an innovative architecture that extends a large language model, allowing agents to store and reflect on their experiences using natural language and dynamically plan their behavior. They showcase the potential of generative agents in an interactive sandbox environment inspired by The Sims, where users can engage with a small town of 25 agents using natural language. The evaluation highlights the agents' ability to autonomously create and navigate complex social situations, producing believable individual and emergent social behaviors. This groundbreaking work demonstrates the critical contributions of observation, planning, and reflection components in agent architecture, laying the foundation for more realistic simulations of human behavior and unlocking exciting possibilities across various applications.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442

Demo link: https://reverie.herokuapp.com/arXiv_Demo/#

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-ishb

#deeplearning #nlp #generative # simulation

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19 April 2023 20:13

Stability AI just released initial set of StableLM-alpha models, with 3B and 7B parameters. 15B and 30B models are on the way.

Base models are released under CC BY-SA-4.0.

StableLM-Alpha models are trained on the new dataset that build on The Pile, which contains 1.5 trillion tokens, roughly 3x the size of The Pile. These models will be trained on up to 1.5 trillion tokens. The context length for these models is 4096 tokens.

As a proof-of-concept, we also fine-tuned the model with Stanford Alpaca's procedure using a combination of five recent datasets for conversational agents: Stanford's Alpaca, Nomic-AI's gpt4all, RyokoAI's ShareGPT52K datasets, Databricks labs' Dolly, and Anthropic's HH. We will be releasing these models as StableLM-Tuned-Alpha.

https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM

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17 April 2023 19:55

AI for IT Operations (AIOps) on Cloud Platforms: Reviews, Opportunities and Challenges (Salesforce AI)

A review of the AIOps vision, trends challenges and opportunities, specifically focusing on the underlying AI techniques.

1. INTRODUCTION
2. CONTRIBUTION OF THIS SURVEY
3. DATA FOR AIOPS
A. Metrics
B. Logs
C. Traces
D. Other data
4. INCIDENT DETECTION
A. Metrics based Incident Detection
B. Logs based Incident Detection
C. Traces and Multimodal Incident Detection
5. FAILURE PREDICTION
A. Metrics based Failure Prediction
B. Logs based Incident Detection
6. ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
A. Metric-based RCA
B. Log-based RCA
C. Trace-based and Multimodal RCA
7. AUTOMATED ACTIONS
A. Automated Remediation
B. Auto-scaling
C. Resource Management
8. FUTURE OF AIOPS
A. Common AI Challenges for AIOps
B. Opportunities and Future Trends
9. CONCLUSION

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05 June 2023 06:53

​​The effectiveness of MAE pre-pretraining for billion-scale pretraining

Revolutionizing the current pretrain-then-finetune paradigm of computer vision, this research has introduced an innovative pre-pretraining stage. Utilizing the Masked Autoencoder (MAE) technique for model initialization, this pre-pretraining strategy scales with the size of both the model and the data. This makes it an ideal tool for training next-generation foundation models, even on the grandest scales.

The robustness of our pre-pretraining technique is demonstrated by consistent improvement in model convergence and downstream transfer performance across diverse model scales and dataset sizes. The authors measured the effectiveness of pre-pretraining on a wide array of visual recognition tasks, and the results have been promising. The ielargest model achieved unprecedented results on iNaturalist-18 (91.3%), 1-shot ImageNet-1k (62.1%), and zero-shot transfer on Food-101 (96.0%), underlining the tremendous potential of proper model initialization, even when handling web-scale pretraining with billions of images.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13496

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-mae-pretrain

#deeplearning #cv #pretraining #selfsupervisedlearning

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01 June 2023 11:29

​​QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

Thia paper introduces QLoRA, a novel finetuning approach that decreases memory usage significantly, while maintaining impressive performance. Imagine this - a 65 billion parameter model finetuned on a single 48GB GPU, while preserving full 16-bit task performance. This method involves backpropagating gradients through a frozen, 4-bit quantized pretrained language model into Low Rank Adapters, a method that opens up new frontiers in machine learning. The icing on the cake is their high-performing model family, Guanaco, which trumps all previously released models on the Vicuna benchmark, achieving a staggering 99.3% of the performance level of ChatGPT with just 24 hours of finetuning on a single GPU.

The study also unveils several innovative techniques to conserve memory without compromising performance. These include 4-bit NormalFloat (NF4), an innovative data type that is theoretically optimal for normally distributed weights, double quantization for average memory footprint reduction, and paged optimizers to handle memory spikes. The QLoRA approach was applied to finetune more than 1000 models, leading to a detailed analysis of instruction following and chatbot performance across various model types and scales. The results affirm that QLoRA finetuning on a small, high-quality dataset yields state-of-the-art results, even with smaller models than previously used. A notable finding is that GPT-4 evaluations offer a cost-effective alternative to human evaluation. All models and code, including CUDA kernels for 4-bit training, have been released by the researchers.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314
Code link: https://github.com/artidoro/qlora
CUDA kernels link: https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-qlora
#deeplearning #nlp #llm #quantization

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25 May 2023 18:33

​​MMS: Scaling Speech Technology to 1000+ languages

Get ready for a breakthrough in speech technology that is set to revolutionize the world of communication! The field, which has so far been restricted to around a hundred languages, barely scratches the surface of the more than 7,000 languages spoken globally. The Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project is taking a monumental leap to bridge this gap, increasing the number of supported languages by an astounding 10 to 40 times, depending on the task. This unprecedented expansion will be a game-changer, significantly improving global access to information and creating a more inclusive digital landscape.

This incredible feat is achieved through the creation of a new dataset drawn from publicly available religious texts and the strategic implementation of self-supervised learning. The MMS project's achievements are staggering, including the development of pre-trained wav2vec 2.0 models for 1,406 languages, a single multilingual automatic speech recognition model for 1,107 languages, speech synthesis models for as many languages, and a language identification model for a whopping 4,017 languages. Even more impressive is the significant improvement in accuracy - our multilingual speech recognition model more than halves the word error rate of Whisper on 54 languages of the FLEURS benchmark, despite being trained on a significantly smaller dataset.

Paper link: https://research.facebook.com/publications/scaling-speech-technology-to-1000-languages/
Blogpost link: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/multilingual-model-speech-recognition/
Code link: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/mms

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-mms
#deeplearning #speechrecognition #tts #audio

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20 May 2023 23:24

Code Execution with Pre-trained Language Models

Code execution is a fundamental aspect of programming language semantics that reflects the exact behavior of the code. However, most pretrained models for code intelligence ignore the execution trace and only rely on source code and syntactic structures. In this paper, the authors aim to teach pretrained models the real-world code execution process. They propose CodeExecutor, a Transformer-based model that learns to execute arbitrary programs and predict their execution traces.

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15 May 2023 09:28

​​NaturalSpeech 2: Latent Diffusion Models are Natural and Zero-Shot Speech and Singing Synthesizers

In the rapidly evolving domain of text-to-speech (TTS) technology, an exciting breakthrough has been made with the development of NaturalSpeech 2. This innovative system brings new levels of diversity to the table, by uniquely capturing a wide range of human speech characteristics such as speaker identities, prosodies, and even styles like singing. By employing a neural audio codec and residual vector quantizers, it transcends the limitations of existing TTS systems, which often suffer from unstable prosody, word skipping/repeating issues, and subpar voice quality.

More impressively, NaturalSpeech 2 enhances the "zero-shot" capability, a crucial factor for diverse speech synthesis. By designing a unique speech prompting mechanism, it facilitates in-context learning in both the diffusion model and the duration/pitch predictor. Its expansive training on 44K hours of speech and singing data has yielded unprecedented results. NaturalSpeech 2 significantly outperforms previous TTS systems in prosody/timbre similarity, robustness, and voice quality, even demonstrating novel zero-shot singing synthesis.

Project link: https://speechresearch.github.io/naturalspeech2/

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.09116.pdf

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-naturalspeech2
#deeplearning #nlp #tts #texttospeech

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12 May 2023 09:38

Launching the Open Data Science Talent Pool Initiative!

Hello, community!

We received several requests to organize some tools to match people seeking career / pet projects matching opportunities. So now we are launching the Open Data Science Talent Pool!

The field of data science is rapidly evolving, and we recognize the importance of matching skilled professionals with organizations that value their unique capabilities. This Talent Pool Initiative is our endeavor to facilitate these connections, making the opportunities search process smoother and more efficient for everyone involved.

Here's how it works:

🔍 For Opportunities Seekers:

If you're a data scientist, machine learning engineer, AI specialist, or hold any other role in the data science domain, we invite you to submit your resume and a brief introduction about yourself. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your skills, interests, and aspirations to potential employers. Don't forget to highlight those special projects or unique experiences that make you stand out!

🏢 For Talent Seekers:

If you're an organization or an individual looking for talented individuals in the field of data science, our Talent Pool will be an invaluable resource. You'll have access to a diverse array of professionals, each with their own unique skill sets and experiences, ready to help your organization reach new heights. Make sure you submitted your request through the form in the quoted post

🔄 The Process:

1 Submission: Individuals can submit their resumes and short introductions through a dedicated form on our website (link will be shared soon).
2 Review: Our team will review these submissions to ensure they meet the necessary standards and criteria.
3 Access: Approved profiles will be included in our Talent Pool, accessible to match with the requests within our community.

During the earliest stage we are going to match the requests personally ensuring we don’t overengineer the process. We will not hesitate to introduce necessary product adjustments once the tool meets the demand inside the community.

Remember, we're all in this journey together. Whether you're looking for your next big opportunity or seeking the perfect addition to your team, we're here to support you.

Stay tuned, stay connected, and let's continue to foster a supportive, dynamic, and prosperous data science community!
Best,
ChatGPT with the prompt from Open Data Science Channel Editorial Team

Google Form: https://forms.gle/3GH1vrt91mRtstzK8

#ds_jobs #ds_intros

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11 May 2023 16:57

For those how are looking beyond Data Science or wondering to play around, here is a news on the release of the portfolio company of one of the channel editors:

TON Play: the Unity SDK + payment management for games

TON Play is a toolkit for developers based on the TON blockchain and working closely with the messaging app Telegram. They recently introduced Pay-in, Mass payout, and On-demand payout methods in TON. If you dabble with games, this might be curious to test in action.

The main features:

* projects get paid by Telegram users in TON
* option to add mass payouts in TON to games with cash prizes
* automated payouts on user demand

TON Play also released SDKs, allowing projects to manage assets and in-game marketplace and port Unity or HTML5 games to work inside Telegram as a web app. SDKs are written in Unity, Python, and Typescript.

Website: https://tonplay.io/
Documentation: https://docs.tonplay.io/
Telegram channel: /channel/tonplayinsider
Contacts: @tonplay_devs, gamedevs@tonplay.io


#ds_jobs #ds_resumes

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10 May 2023 06:11

​​ImageBind: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All

Introducing ImageBind, a groundbreaking approach that learns a joint embedding across six different modalities – images, text, audio, depth, thermal, and IMU data – using only image-paired data. This innovative method leverages recent large-scale vision-language models, extending their zero-shot capabilities to new modalities through their natural pairing with images. ImageBind unlocks a myriad of novel emergent applications 'out-of-the-box,' including cross-modal retrieval, composing modalities with arithmetic, cross-modal detection, and generation.

ImageBind's emergent capabilities improve as the strength of the image encoder increases, setting a new state-of-the-art benchmark in emergent zero-shot recognition tasks across modalities, even outperforming specialist supervised models. Furthermore, ImageBind demonstrates impressive few-shot recognition results, surpassing prior work in the field. This pioneering technique offers a fresh way to evaluate vision models for both visual and non-visual tasks, opening the door to exciting advancements in AI and machine learning.

Blogpost link: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/imagebind-six-modalities-binding-ai/

Code link: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ImageBind

Paper link: https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/imagebind/imagebind_final.pdf

Demo link: https://imagebind.metademolab.com/

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-imagebind

#deeplearning #nlp #multimodal #cv #embedding

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06 May 2023 23:23

TWIMC

string2string: A Modern Python Library for String-to-String Algorithms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14395

We introduce string2string, an open-source library that offers a comprehensive suite of efficient algorithms for a broad range of string-to-string problems. It includes traditional algorithmic solutions as well as recent advanced neural approaches to tackle various problems in string alignment, distance measurement, lexical and semantic search, and similarity analysis -- along with several helpful visualization tools and metrics to facilitate the interpretation and analysis of these methods. Notable algorithms featured in the library include the Smith-Waterman algorithm for pairwise local alignment, the Hirschberg algorithm for global alignment, the Wagner-Fisher algorithm for edit distance, BARTScore and BERTScore for similarity analysis, the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm for lexical search, and Faiss for semantic search. Besides, it wraps existing efficient and widely-used implementations of certain frameworks and metrics, such as sacreBLEU and ROUGE, whenever it is appropriate and suitable. Overall, the library aims to provide extensive coverage and increased flexibility in comparison to existing libraries for strings. It can be used for many downstream applications, tasks, and problems in natural-language processing, bioinformatics, and computational social sciences. It is implemented in Python, easily installable via pip, and accessible through a simple API. Source code, documentation, and tutorials are all available on our GitHub page:

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/string2string

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04 May 2023 06:37

​​Phoenix: Democratizing ChatGPT across Languages

Introducing "Phoenix," a revolutionary multilingual ChatGPT that's breaking barriers in AI language models! By excelling in languages with limited resources and demonstrating competitive performance in English and Chinese models, Phoenix is set to transform accessibility for people around the world.

The methodology behind Phoenix combines instructions and conversations data to create a more well-rounded language model, leveraging the multi-lingual nature of the data to understand and interact with diverse languages.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10453

Code link: https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/LLMZoo

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-phoenix-llm

#deeplearning #nlp #Phoenix #ChatGPT #multilingual #languagemodel

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27 April 2023 06:41

​​Speed Is All You Need: On-Device Acceleration of Large Diffusion Models via GPU-Aware Optimizations

The rapid development of foundation models is revolutionizing the field of artificial intelligence, with large diffusion models gaining significant attention for their ability to generate photorealistic images and support various tasks. Deploying these models on-device brings numerous benefits, including lower server costs, offline functionality, and improved user privacy. However, with over 1 billion parameters, these models face challenges due to restricted computational and memory resources on devices.

Excitingly, researchers from Google have presented a series of implementation optimizations for large diffusion models that achieve the fastest reported inference latency to date (under 12 seconds for Stable Diffusion 1.4 without INT8 quantization for a 512 × 512 image with 20 iterations) on GPU-equipped mobile devices. These groundbreaking enhancements not only broaden the applicability of generative AI but also significantly improve the overall user experience across a wide range of devices, paving the way for even more innovative AI applications in the future.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11267

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-siayn

#deeplearning #stablediffusion #inferenceoptimization

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24 April 2023 13:39

Finetuning Large Language Models

Fine-tuning all layers of a pretrained LLM remains the gold standard for adapting to new target tasks, but there are several efficient alternatives for using pretrained transformers. Methods such as feature-based approaches, in-context learning, and parameter-efficient finetuning techniques enable effective application of LLMs to new tasks while minimizing computational costs and resources.

- In-Context Learning and Indexing
- The 3 Conventional Feature-Based and Finetuning Approaches
- Feature-Based Approach
- Finetuning I – Updating The Output Layers
- Finetuning II – Updating All Layers
- Parameter-Efficient Finetuning
- Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
- Conclusion

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20 April 2023 14:57

​​DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision

Get ready for a game-changer in computer vision! Building on the groundbreaking achievements in natural language processing, foundation models are revolutionizing the way we use images in various systems. By generating all-purpose visual features that excel across diverse image distributions and tasks without finetuning, these models are set to redefine the field.

The researchers behind this work have combined cutting-edge techniques to scale pretraining in terms of data and model size, turbocharging the training process like never before. They've devised an ingenious automatic pipeline to create a rich, diverse, and curated image dataset, setting a new standard in the self-supervised literature. To top it off, they've trained a colossal ViT model with a staggering 1 billion parameters and distilled it into a series of smaller, ultra-efficient models. These models outshine the best available all-purpose features, OpenCLIP, on most benchmarks at both image and pixel levels.

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-dinov2

Project link: https://dinov2.metademolab.com/
#deeplearning #cv #pytorch #imagesegmentation #sota #pretraining

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18 April 2023 21:11

AI / ML / LLM / Transformer Models Timeline

This is a collection of important papers in the area of LLMs and Transformer models.
PDF file.

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17 April 2023 09:19

​​InceptionNeXt: When Inception Meets ConvNeXt

Large-kernel convolutions, such as those employed in ConvNeXt, can improve model performance but often come at the cost of efficiency due to high memory access costs. Although reducing kernel size may increase speed, it often leads to significant performance degradation.

To address this issue, the authors propose InceptionNeXt, which decomposes large-kernel depthwise convolution into four parallel branches along the channel dimension. This new Inception depthwise convolution results in networks with high throughputs and competitive performance. For example, InceptionNeXt-T achieves 1.6x higher training throughputs than ConvNeX-T and a 0.2% top-1 accuracy improvement on ImageNet-1K. InceptionNeXt has the potential to serve as an economical baseline for future architecture design, helping to reduce carbon footprint.

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-inceptionnext

Paper link:https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16900

Code link: https://github.com/sail-sg/inceptionnext

#cnn #deeplearning #computervision