The rise of vast data systems has made information retrieval a vital process for numerous platforms, including search engines and recommender systems. This is achieved by finding documents based on their content, a task that presents challenges related to relevance assessment, document ranking, and efficiency. A new Python library named BM25S aims to overcome the…
In the digital era where data is vast, the importance of information retrieval cannot be overstated, particularly for search engines, recommender systems, and applications that find documents based on their content. Information retrieval involves three fundamental challenges - relevance assessment, document ranking, and efficiency. BM25S is a recently introduced Python library that tackles these challenges…
Long-Context Language Models (LCLMs) have emerged as a new frontier in artificial intelligence with the potential to handle complex tasks and applications without needing intricate pipelines that were traditionally used due to the limitations of context length. Unfortunately, their evaluation and development have been fraught with challenges. Most evaluations rely on synthetic tasks with fixed-length…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, with considerable performance across various benchmarks and practical applications. However, these models also have their own sets of challenges, primarily due to the autoregressive training paradigm which they rely upon. The sequential nature of autoregressive token generation can drastically slow down processing speeds, limiting their practicality…
Researchers from the OATML group at the University of Oxford have developed a statistical method to improve the reliability of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini. This method looks to mitigate the issues of "hallucinations," wherein the model generates false or unsupported information, and "confabulations," where the model provides arbitrary or incorrect…
Language Learning Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini have shown the capability of answering complex queries, but they often produce false or unsupported information, a situation aptly titled "hallucinations". This gets in the way of their reliability, with potential repercussions in critical fields like law and medicine. A specific subset of these hallucinations, known…
Google DeepMind is set to make significant strides in the field of artificial intelligence with its innovative Video-to-Audio (V2A) technology. This technology will revolutionize the synthesis of audiovisual content by addressing the common issue in current video generation models, which often produce silent films.
V2A's potential to transform artificial intelligence-driven media creation is tremendous, providing…
Biomedical Natural Language Processing (NLP) uses machine learning to interpret medical texts, aiding with diagnoses, treatment recommendations, and medical information extraction. However, ensuring the accuracy of these models is a challenge due to diverse and context-specific medical terminologies.
To address this issue, researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Mass General Brigham, among other institutions, developed RABBITS (Robust…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are becoming more sophisticated, and efficient communication with these models is crucial. Various prompt engineering strategies have been developed to facilitate this communication, utilizing concepts and structures similar to human problem-solving methods. These strategies can be categorized into different types: chaining methods, decomposition-based methods, path aggregation methods, reasoning-based methods, and external…
BigCode, a leading developer of large language models (LLMs), has launched BigCodeBench, a new benchmark for comprehensively assessing the programming capabilities of LLMs. This concurrent approach addresses the limitations of existing benchmarks like HumanEval, which has been criticized for its simplicity and scant real-world relevance. BigCodeBench comprises 1,140 function-level tasks which require the LLMs to…
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical pathology represents an exciting frontier in healthcare, but key challenges include data constraints, model transparency, and interoperability. These issues prevent AI and machine learning (ML) algorithms from being widely adopted in clinical settings, despite their proven effectiveness in tasks such as cell segmentation, image classification, and prognosis…
Decision-making is crucial for organizations, often requiring data analysis and selection processes to determine the best alternative to meet specific objectives. For instance, pharmaceutical distribution networks often have to confront daunting decisions such as choosing the appropriate plants to run, deciding on the number of employees to employ, and optimizing production costs while ensuring prompt…