In the field of natural language processing (NLP), integrating external knowledge bases through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems is a vital development. These systems use dense retrievers for pulling relevant information, utilized by large language models (LLMs) to generate responses. Despite their improvements across numerous tasks, there are limitations to RAG systems, such as struggling to…
Large Language Models (LLMs), which focus on understanding and generating human language, are a subset of artificial intelligence. However, their use of the Transformer architecture to process long texts introduces a significant challenge due to its quadratic time complexity. This complexity is a barrier to efficient performance with extended text inputs.
To deal with this issue,…
In recent years, artificial intelligence advancements have occurred across multiple disciplines. However, a lack of communication between domain experts and complex AI systems have posed challenges, especially in fields like biology, healthcare, and business. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and GPT-4 have made significant strides in understanding, generating, and utilizing natural language, powering…
Competition is vital in shaping all aspects of human society, including economics, social structures, and technology. Traditionally, studying competition has been reliant on empirical research, which is limited due to issues with data accessibility and a lack of micro-level insights. An alternative approach, agent-based modeling (ABM), advanced from rule-based to machine learning-based agents to overcome…
Causal effect estimation is a vital field of study employed in critical sectors like healthcare, economics, and social sciences. It concerns the evaluation of how modifications to one variable cause changes in another. Traditional approaches for this assessment, such as randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies, often involve structured data collection and experiments, making…
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have expanded their utility by enabling them to complete a broader range of tasks. However, challenges such as the complexity and non-deterministic nature of these models, coupled with their propensity to waste computational resources due to redundant calculations, limit their effectiveness.
In an attempt to tackle these issues, researchers…
The methods of parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) are essential in machine learning as they allow large models to adapt to new tasks without requiring extensive computational resources. PEFT methods achieve this by only fine-tuning a small subset of parameters while leaving the majority of the model unchanged, aiming to make the adaptation process more efficient and…
Reinforcement Learning (RL) finetuning is an integral part of programming language models (LMs) to behave in a particular manner. However, in the current digital landscape, RL finetuning has to cater to numerous aims due to diverse human preferences. Therefore, multi-objective finetuning (MOFT) has come to the forefront as a superior method to train an LM,…
Large language models (LLMs), used in applications such as machine translation, content creation, and summarization, present significant challenges due to their tendency to generate hallucinations - plausible sounding but factually inaccurate statements. This major issue affects the reliability of AI-produced copy, particularly in high-accuracy-required domains like medical and legal texts. Thus, reducing hallucinations in LLMs…
A team of researchers from Meta FAIR have been studying Large Language Models (LLMs) and found that these can produce more nuanced responses by distilling System 2 reasoning methods into System 1 responses. While System 1 operates quickly and directly, generating responses without intermediate steps, System 2 uses intermediate strategies, such as token generation and…
Aligning artificial intelligence (AI) models with human preferences is a complex process, especially in high-dimensional and sequential decision-making tasks. This alignment is critical for advancing AI technologies like fine-tuning large language models and enhancing robotic policies but is hindered by challenges such as computational complexity, high variance in policy gradients and instability in dynamic programming.…
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), specifically large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, has transformed the world of natural language processing (NLP). By using deep learning architectures and extensive datasets, these models can generate text that is contextually relevant and coherent, which can significantly improve applications in content creation, customer service, and virtual assistance. Moreover, developments in…