The complexities and inefficiencies often associated with handling and extracting information from various file types like PDFs and spreadsheets are well-known challenges. Typical tools for the job usually fall short in several areas such as versatility, processing capacity, and maintenance. These setbacks emphasize the demand for an efficient and user-friendly solution for parsing and representing…
IBM is paving the way for AI advancements through their development of groundbreaking technologies, as well as a broad offer of extensive courses. Their AI-focused initiatives provide learners with the tools to utilize AI throughout a myriad of fields. IBM's courses furnish practical skills and knowledge that allow learners to effectively implement AI solutions and…
Text, audio, and code sequences depend on position information to decipher meaning. Large language models (LLMs) such as the Transformer architecture do not inherently contain order information and regard sequences as sets. The concept of Position Encoding (PE) is used here, assigning a unique vector to each position. This approach is crucial for LLMs to…
The improvement of logical reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a critical challenge for the progression of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Despite the impressive performance of current LLMs in various natural language tasks, their limited logical reasoning ability hinders their use in situations requiring deep understanding and structured problem-solving.
The need to overcome…
The existing language learning models (LLMs) are advancing yet have been struggling with incorporating new knowledge without forgetting the previous information, a situation termed as "catastrophic forgetting." The present methods, such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), are not very effective in tasks demanding integration of new knowledge from various passages due to encoding each passage in…
A team of MIT researchers have developed a novel cryptographic ID tag to tackle product counterfeiting. This tag, which is remarkably smaller and cost-efficient than traditional radio frequency tags (RFIDs), uses terahertz waves to perform authentication. The small size of terahertz waves and their greater frequency compared to radio waves make them ideal for this…
Drugs taken orally must pass through the digestive tract, aided by transporter proteins found in the lining of the tract. If two drugs use the same transporter, they can interfere with each other. Addressing this issue, a team of researchers from MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Duke University have developed a strategy to identify…
In 2010, MIT Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones initiated a project to develop a tool that could assist content moderation teams at firms such as Twitter and YouTube. They were invited to showcase their innovation at a White House summit on cyberbullying, however, the demo failed to identify problematic posts because of…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years, largely due to advanced language models such as transformers. The emergence of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is one of the most groundbreaking achievements in this field. RAG integrates retrieval systems with generative models, resulting in versatile, efficient, and accurate language models. However, before delving…
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have developed a new method to strengthen the performance of large language models (LLMs) in knowledge graph question-answering (KGQA) tasks. The new approach, GNN-RAG, incorporates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to enable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which enhances the LLMs' ability to answer questions accurately.
LLMs have notable natural language understanding capabilities,…
Scale AI's Safety, Evaluations, and Alignment Lab (SEAL) has unveiled SEAL Leaderboards, a novel ranking system designed to comprehensively gauge the trove of large language models (LLMs) becoming increasingly significant in AI developments. Solely conceived to offer fair, systematic evaluations of AI models, the innovatively-designed leaderboards will serve to highlight disparities and compare performance levels…
Researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made considerable advances in the development and application of large language models (LLMs). These models are capable of understanding and generating human language, and hold the potential to transform how we interact with machines and handle information-processing tasks. However, one persistent challenge is their performance in…
