Google's AI research team, DeepMind, has unveiled Gemma 2 2B, its new, sophisticated language model. This version, supporting 2.6 billion parameters, is optimized for on-device use and is a top choice for applications demanding high performance and efficiency. It holds enhancements for handling massive text generation tasks with more precision and higher levels of efficiency…
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are exploring the complexities of multi-agent imitation learning (MAIL), a mediation strategy in which a group of agents (like drivers on a road network) are coordinated through action recommendations, despite the mediator lacking knowledge of their utility functions. The challenge of this approach lies in specifying the quality of those recommendations,…
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are examining the challenge of a mediator coordinating a group of strategic agents without knowledge of their underlying utility functions, referred to as multi-agent imitation learning (MAIL). This is a complex issue as it involves providing personalised, strategic guidance to each agent without a comprehensive understanding of their circumstances or…
Researchers from Baidu Inc., China, have unveiled a self-reasoning framework that greatly improves the reliability and traceability of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (RALMs). RALMs augment language models with external knowledge, decreasing factual inaccuracies. However, they face reliability and traceability issues, as noisy retrieval may lead to incorrect responses, and a lack of citations makes verifying these…
A recent research paper by the University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI researchers has examined the use of abstention in large language models (LLMs), emphasizing its potential to minimize false results and enhance the safety of AI. The study investigates the current methods of abstention incorporated during the different development stages of LLMs…
Relational databases are fundamental to many digital systems, playing a critical role in data management across a variety of sectors, including e-commerce, healthcare, and social media. Through their table-based structure, they efficiently organize and retrieve data that's crucial to operations in these fields, and yet, the full potential of the valuable relational information within these…
Time series data, used across sectors including finance, healthcare, and sensor networks, is of fundamental importance for tasks including anomaly detection, pattern discovery, and time series classification, informing crucial decision-making and risk management processes. Extracting useful trends and anomalies from this extensive data can be complex and often requires an immense amount of computational resources.…
The phenomenon of "model collapse" represents a significant challenge in artificial intelligence (AI) research, particularly impacting large language models (LLMs). When these models are continually trained on data created by earlier versions of similar models, they lose their ability to accurately represent the underlying data distribution, deteriorating in effectiveness over successive generations.
Current training methods of…