The dilemma of establishing causal relationships in areas such as medicine, economics, and social sciences is characterized as the "Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference". When observing an outcome, it is often unclear what the result might have been under a different intervention. Various indirect methods have been developed to estimate causal effects from observational data…
Web automation technologies play a pivotal role in enhancing efficiency and scalability across various digital operations by automating complex tasks that usually require human attention. However, the effectiveness of traditional web automation tools, largely based on static rules or wrapper software, is compromised in today's rapidly evolving and unpredictable web environments, resulting in inefficient web…
Graphs play a critical role in providing a visual representation of complex relationships in various arenas like social networks, knowledge graphs, and molecular discovery. They have rich topological structures and nodes often have textual features that offer vital context. Graph Machine Learning (Graph ML), particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), have become increasingly influential in effectively…
Artificial intelligence has targeted the capability of models to process and interpret a range of data types; an attempt to mimic human sensory and cognitive processes. However, the challenge is developing systems that not only excel in single-mode tasks such as image recognition or text analysis but can also effectively integrate these different data types…
The field of vision-language representation seeks to create systems capable of comprehending the complex relationship between images and text. This is crucial as it helps machines to process and understand the vast amounts of visual and textual content available digitally. However, the challenge to conquer this still remains, mainly because the internet provides noisy data…
In the wake of the introduction of ChatGPT, AI applications have increasingly adopted the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), with a primary focus on improving these RAG systems to influence the future generation of AI applications. The ideal AI agents are designed to enhance the capabilities of the Language Model (LM) to solve real-world problems, especially…
Generative models, a class of probabilistic machine learning, have seen extensive use in various fields, such as the visual and performing arts, medicine, and physics. These models are proficient in creating probability distributions that accurately describe datasets, making them ideal for generating synthetic datasets for training data and discovering latent structures and patterns in an…
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) are effective across various domains and tasks, but scaling up these models comes with significant computational costs and inference speed limitations. Sparse Mixtures of Experts (SMoE) can help to overcome these challenges by enabling model scalability while reducing computational costs. However, SMoE struggles with low expert…
Large Language Models (LLMs), while transformative for many AI applications, necessitate high computational power, especially during inference phases. This poses significant operational costs and efficiency challenges as the models become bigger and more intricate. Particularly, the computational expenses incurred when running these models at the inference stage can be intensive due to their dense activation…
Pegasus-1 is a state-of-the-art multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) developed by Twelve Labs and designed to interact with and comprehend video content through natural language. The model is intended to overcome the complexities of video data, including the consideration of multiple modalities in one format and the understanding of the sequence and timeline of visual…
Large Language Models (LLMs) with video content is a challenging area of ongoing study, with a notable advancement in this field being Pegasus-1. This innovative multimodal model is designed to comprehend, synthesize, and interact with video data using natural language.
MarkTech Post explains that the purpose of Pegasus-1's creation was to manage the inherent complexity of…