Artificial intelligence research often examines whether next-token prediction—the convention for AI language models—can replicate some aspects of human intelligence such as planning and reasoning. However, despite its extensive use, this method may have native limitations when it comes to tasks necessitating foresight and decision-making. This is important because overcoming this could allow the development of…
FlashAttention-3, the newest addition to the FlashAttention series, was created to address the fundamental issues related to Transformer architectures' attention layer. This is particularly important to the performance of large language models (LLMs) and applications that need long-context processing.
Historically, the FlashAttention series, which includes FlashAttention and FlashAttention-2, has reshaped how attention mechanisms function on GPUs…
MagiCode, an innovative solution offering autonomous AI software engineering, is a solution designed to bridge the gap in currently available AI coding assistants. Where most AI coding tools often focus on only certain aspects of software development, this sometimes leads to ineffective coding due to constraints on users in expressing their overall and specific needs…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements have significantly evolved voice interaction technology with the primary goal to make the interaction between humans and machines more intuitive and human-like. Recent developments have led to the attainment of high-precision speech recognition, emotion detection, and natural speech generation. Despite these advancements, voice interaction needs to improve latency, multilingual support, and…
Recent research into Predictive Large Models (PLM) aims to align the models with human values, avoiding harmful behaviors while maximising efficiency and applicability. Two significant methods used for alignment are supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). RLHF, notably, commoditizes the reward model to new prompt-response pairs. However, this approach often faces…
Large Language Models (LLMs) are effectively used as task assistants, retrieving essential information to satisfy users' requests. However, a common problem experienced with LLMs is their tendency to provide erroneous or 'hallucinated' responses. Hallucination in LLMs refers to the generation of information that is not based on actual data or knowledge received during the model's…
The field of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT, Claude, and Gemini, has seen rapid advancement, enabling the creation of autonomous agents capable of natural language interactions and executing diverse tasks. These AI agents are increasingly benefiting from the integration of external tools and knowledge sources, which expand their capacity to access and use…
Mac users often prefer applications that are specific, minimal, and user-friendly. The web-based interface Jupyter, while focusing on functionality, may not fully satisfy the needs of the Mac ecosystem as it requires more mouse interaction and offers fewer keyboard shortcuts. This leads to a less efficient workflow for Mac users, who traditionally depend heavily on…
Advances in technology over the past century, specifically the proliferation of computers, has facilitated the development of molecular representations that can be understood by these machines, assisting the process of drug discovery. Initial representations of molecules were simplified, showing only bonds and atoms. However, as the complexity of computational processing increased, more sophisticated representations were…
Software engineering is a rapidly evolving field aimed at systematic design, development, testing, and maintenance of software systems. In recent times, large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 have been employed to automate and optimize various software engineering tasks. However, the use of autonomous LLM-based agents has its challenges given their cost and complexity, and…
The increase in the hidden layer width of feedforward (FFW) layers results in linear growth in computational costs and activation memory in transformer architectures. This causes a significant issue in scaling, especially with increasingly complex models. These challenges affect the deployment of large-scale models in real-world applications, including language modeling and natural language processing.
Previously, Mixture…