Google's research team is working on developing an optimized machine learning (ML) method known as "boosting." Boosting involves creating high performing models using a "weak learner oracle" which gives classifiers a performance slightly better than random guessing. Over the years, boosting has evolved into a first-order optimization setting. However, some in the industry erroneously define…
Boosting, a highly effective machine learning (ML) optimization setting, has evolved from a model that did not require first-order loss information into a method that necessitates this knowledge. Despite this transformation, few investigations have been made into boosting, even as machine learning witnesses a surge in zeroth-order optimization - methods that bypass the use of…
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) represent a great promise in current machine learning approaches. Yet a key challenge facing their implementation is scalability, which becomes more complicated as networks become more sizeable and intricate. New research from the University College London presents a novel understanding of common learning patterns across different neural network structures.
The researchers behind…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are diverse in size and structure, and their performance heavily depends on their architecture, the dataset and learning algorithm used. However, even the simplest adjustment to the network's structure necessitates substantial modifications to the analysis. Modern models are so intricate that they tend to surpass practical analytical solutions, making their theoretical…
In the field of machine learning and artificial language modeling, Large Language Models (LLMs) are often used to analyze or interpret large chunks of data. Such models have the capability to support very long context windows; however, this approach is not without its challenges. Standard attention mechanisms, used to allocate computational resources, often suffer from…
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego, have introduced an innovative model-based reinforcement learning algorithm called Policy learning with Large World Models (PWM). Traditional reinforcement learning methods have faced difficulties with multitasking, especially across different robotic forms. PWM tackles these issues by pretraining world models on offline data,…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized numerous industries, from customer service to content generation, by deploying large language models (LLMs) that can supply accurate and useful replies to human prompts. However, these models tend to favor longer responses, exhibiting an inherent length bias that complicates model evaluation.
To balance response length with quality, researchers have developed Length-Instruction…
Text-to-3D generation technology is becoming increasingly influential across various fields such as video games, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The process creates detailed 3D content from text descriptions, which was traditionally a laborious and expensive task requiring a significant amount of effort from skilled artists. By automating this process with AI technology, it becomes a…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted industries from translation to sentiment analysis. However, their practical use is hampered by computational demands, particularly with long prompts due to the quadratic complexity of the attention mechanism. Addressing this issue, researchers from Microsoft Corporation and the University of Surrey have developed MInference, a method to accelerate long-sequence…
Large language models (LLMs) can greatly benefit from better integration of up-to-date information and reducing biases, which are often found in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques. However, these models face challenges due to their complexity and longer response times. Therefore, optimizing the performance of RAG is key to their effectiveness in real-time applications where accuracy and…
Natural language processing (NLP), a field within artificial intelligence (AI), aims at aiding machines to decipher and establish human language. It includes tasks such as translation, sentiment analysis, and text summarization. The progress in this field has led to the creation of 'Large Language Models’ (LLMs), capable of handling massive quantities of text. This progress…
Natural language processing (NLP), a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI), is designed to allow machines to understand and mirror human language. It oversees a variety of tasks like language translation, sentiment analysis, and text summarization. The advent of large language models (LLMs), capable of processing great amounts of data, has significantly advanced these tasks, opening…