Early humans began their journey of communication nearly 700,000 years ago, creating simple messages around fires in small, intimate tribes. Fast forward to today, people worldwide are more connected than ever before through digital technologies, with the recent hype around Virtual Reality (VR) at the forefront of this digital revolution. However, like any technology, there…
US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall recently piloted an experimental AI-powered F-16 fighter jet during a test flight at California’s Edwards Air Force Base. The AI-controlled F-16, coined as the X-62A VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft), engaged in a simulated air-to-air combat scenario with a human-piloted F-16, during which both aircraft flew within 1,000…
Arrays and lists form the basis of data structures in programming, fundamental concepts often presented to beginners. First appeared in the 1957 Fortran and still vital in languages like Python today, arrays are popular due to their simplicity and versatility, allowing data to be organized in multidimensional grids. However, dense arrays, while performance-driven, do not…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have enjoyed a surge in popularity due to their excellent performance in various tasks. Recent research focuses on improving these models' accuracy using external resources including structured data and unstructured/free text. However, numerous data sources, like patient records or financial databases, contain a combination of both kinds of information. Previous chat…
Machine learning is a growing field that develops algorithms to allow computers to learn and improve performance over time. This technology has significantly impacted areas like image recognition, natural language processing, and personalized recommendations. Despite its advancements, machine learning faces challenges due to the opacity of its decision-making processes. This is especially problematic in areas…
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Large Language Models (LLMs) signify a major stride in artificial intelligence with their strong natural language understanding and generation capabilities. They can perform plenty of tasks ranging from powering virtual assistants to generating substantial content and conducting profound data analysis. Nevertheless, one obstacle LLMs face is generating factually correct responses. Often, due to the wide…
Traditional fully-connected feedforward neural networks or Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLPs), while effective, suffer from limitations such as high parameter usage and lacking interpretability in complex models such as transformers. These issues have led to the exploration of more efficient and effective alternatives. One such refined approach that has been attracting attention is the Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs),…
Eric Liu and Ashely Peake, first-year students in the Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program within the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), started their academic journey keen on overcoming housing inequality issues. They had their first hands-on research experience by participating in the MIT Policy Hackathon. Run by students from IDSS…
Researchers from East China University of Science and Technology and Peking University have conducted a survey exploring the use of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (RALMs) within the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Traditional methods used in this field, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), have…
Language models that can recognize and generate human-like text by studying patterns from vast datasets are extremely effective tools. Nevertheless, the traditional technique for training these models, known as "next-token prediction," has its shortcomings. The method trains models to predict the next word in a sequence, which can lead to suboptimal performance in more complicated…
The landscape for open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) has expanded rapidly, especially after Meta's launches of the Llama3 model and its successor, Llama 2, in 2023. Notable open-source LLMs include Mixtral-8x7B by Mistral, Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen1.5 series, Smaug by Abacus AI, and Yi models from 01.AI, which focus on data quality.
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