When developing machine learning (ML) models with pre-existing datasets, professionals need to understand the data, interpret its structure, and decide which subsets to use as features. The significant range of data formats poses a barrier to ML advancement. These may include text, structured data, photos, audio, and video, to name a few examples. Even within…
Computer vision researchers frequently concentrate on developing powerful encoder networks for self-supervised learning (SSL) methods, intending to generate image representations. However, the predictive part of the model, which potentially contains valuable information, is often overlooked post-pretraining. This research introduces a distinctive approach that repurposes the predictive model for various downstream vision tasks rather than discarding…
Recent advancements in large vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated great potential in performing multimodal tasks. However, these models have shortcomings when it comes to fine-grained region grounding, inter-object spatial relations, and compositional reasoning. These limitations affect the model's capability to follow visual prompts like bounding boxes that spotlight vital regions.
Challenged by these limitations, researchers at…
The development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly expanded the field of computational linguistics, moving beyond traditional natural language processing to include a wide variety of general tasks. These models have the potential to revolutionize numerous industries by automating and improving tasks that were once thought to be exclusive to humans. However, one significant…
The progress in Language Learning Models (LLMs) has been remarkable, with innovative strategies like Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thoughts augmenting their reasoning capabilities. These advancements are making complex behaviors more accessible through instruction prompting. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is also aligning the capabilities of LLMs more closely with human predilections, further underscoring their visible progression.
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The sphere of neuroscience has been witnessing a barrage of new information and research, creating challenges for human researchers struggling to keep pace with the constant influx of data. Traditional methods of data analysis fall short due to cognitive and informational bandwidth limitations. There's an increasing call for more advanced tools to synthesize and make…
The rise in the use of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3, OPT, and BLOOM on digital interfaces has highlighted the necessity of optimizing their operating infrastructure. LLMs are known for their colossal sizes and considerable computational resources required, making them difficult to efficiently implement and manage.
Researchers from various institutions, including Microsoft Research and…
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for tasks related to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG). However, the understanding of LLMs in processing structured data like tables needs further exploration. Addressing this need, Microsoft researchers have developed a benchmark dubbed Structural Understanding Capabilities (SUC) to assess how well LLMs can comprehend…
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have created a unique benchmark system known as INSTRUCTIR to improve the fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs). The goal is to enhance these models' response to individual user preferences and instructions across a variety of generative tasks.
Traditionally, retrieval systems have struggled to…
Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT series have had significant impacts across various industries since their development, with their ability to generate contextually rich and coherent text outputs. However, despite their potential, there is a significant issue with the precision of these models when utilizing external tools. There is a need for improvement…
Artificial intelligence heavily relies on the intricate relationship between visual and textual data, utilising this to comprehend and create content that bridges these two modes. Vision-Language Models (VLMs), which utilise datasets containing paired images and text, are leading innovations in this area. These models leverage image-text datasets to boost progress in tasks ranging from improving…
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) heavily relies on value functions, which are typically trained through mean squared error regression to ensure alignment with bootstrapped target values. However, while cross-entropy classification loss effectively scales up supervised learning, regression-based value functions pose scalability challenges in deep RL.
In classical deep learning, large neural networks show proficiency at handling classification…