The need for speed and precision in today's digitally-fueled arena is ever-increasing, making it a challenge for search engines to meet these expectations. Traditional retrieval models present a trade-off between speed, accuracy, and computational cost. To address this, researchers from the University of Glasgow have offered a creative solution known as shallow Cross-Encoders. These small…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to develop models to generate code accurately and efficiently, automating software development tasks and aiding programmers. The challenge, however, is that many of these models are large and require extensive resources, which makes them difficult to deploy in practical situations. One such robust, large-scale model is Jamba, a generative text model…
Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in complex reasoning tasks across various fields. But, their construction and optimization demand considerable computational power, particularly when pretraining on large datasets. To mitigate this, researchers have proposed scaling equations showing the relationship between pretraining loss and computational effort.
However, new findings suggest these rules may not thoroughly represent…
Large Language Models (LLMs) require safety tuning to ensure alignment with human values. However, even those tuned for safety are susceptible to jailbreaking—errant behavior that escapes designed safety measures. Even benign data, free of harmful content, can lead to safety degradation, an issue recently studied by researchers from Princeton University's Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI).
The…
The fast-paced evolution of artificial intelligence, particularly Vision Language Models (VLMs), presents challenges in ensuring their reliability and trustworthiness. These VLMs integrate visual and textual understanding, however, their increasing sophistication has brought into focus their ability to detect and not respond to unsolvable or irrelevant questions— an aspect known as Unsolvable Problem Detection (UPD).
UPD…
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize various industries, and OctoAI Inc.'s introduction of OctoStack, a software platform, takes a giant leap forward. OctoStack is designed to empower AI inference environments within businesses, addressing key apprehensions about data privacy, security, and control by allowing businesses to host AI models on their in-house infrastructure.
Previously, large language models…
Researchers at MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have developed a system that trains users on when to trust an AI model's advice. This automated system essentially creates an onboarding process based on a specific task performed by a human and an AI model. It then uses this data to develop training exercises, helping…
A committee of scholars and leaders from MIT has released a series of policy briefs, aiming to frame a strategy for governance of artificial intelligence (AI). The targeted audience for these briefs is primarily U.S. policymakers, with the aim of regulating AI to ensure its safe use, limit potential harms, and encourage exploration of societal…
Modern machine learning models are becoming increasingly adept at simulating the structure and function of the human auditory system, a development that could lead to improvements in devices like hearing aids, cochlear implants, and brain-machine interfaces.
A team at MIT conducted what is considered the largest study of deep neural networks trained for auditory tasks…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has transformed with the advent of Transformer models. The document generation and summarization, machine translation, and speech recognition abilities of Transformers have exhibited significant progress. Their dominance is specifically seen in large language models (LLMs) that deal with more complex tasks through upscaling transformer architecture. However, the growth of the Transformer…