Photolithography is a manufacturing process that uses light to precisely etch features onto surfaces, such as producing computer chips and optical devices. However, small imprecisions in the process can sometimes result in devices not being produced to specifications. To close this gap, researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong are employing machine…
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that modern computational models based on machine learning and structured similarly to the human auditory system could assist researchers in developing better hearing aids, cochlear implants, and brain-machine interfaces. The largest study of its kind on deep neural networks trained for auditory tasks…
An MIT research team has developed an approach that quickly calculates the structure of transition states fundamental in chemical reactions - the fleeting and typically unobservable point that determines whether a reaction proceeds. This new machine learning-based model could assist in developing new reactions and catalysts for creating materials like fuels or drugs, and might…
A new technique developed by researchers at MIT gives animators more control over their creations by generating mathematical functions that determine how 2D and 3D shapes can bend, stretch and move through space. These functions, called barycentric coordinates, provide enhanced flexibility as opposed to traditional methods that restrict artists to a single option for shape-motion…
Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) is a blossoming field of study that focuses on translating audio streams into clear and concise text. AAC systems are created with the aid of substantial and accurately annotated audio-text data. However, the traditional method of manually aligning audio segments with text annotations is not only laborious and costly but also…
Researchers from Mila, McGill University, ServiceNow Research, and Facebook CIFAR AI Chair have developed a method called LLM2Vec to transform pre-trained decoder-only Large Language Models (LLMs) into text encoders. Modern NLP tasks highly depend on text embedding models that translate text's semantic meaning into vector representations. Historically, pre-trained bidirectional encoding models such as BERT and…
Computational linguistics has seen significant advancements in recent years, particularly in the development of Multilingual Large Language Models (MLLMs). These are capable of processing a multitude of languages simultaneously, which is critical in an increasingly globalized world that requires effective interlingual communication. MLLMs address the challenge of efficiently processing and generating text across various languages,…
In recent years, there has been increasing attention paid to the development of Small Language Models (SLMs) as a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to Large Language Models (LLMs), which are resource-heavy and present operational challenges. In this context, researchers from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University and Modelbest Inc. have…
The swift pace of global evolution has made the resolution of open-ended Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineering tasks, both rigorous and daunting. Software engineers often grapple with complex issues necessitating pioneering solutions. However, efficient planning and execution of these tasks remain significant challenges to be tackled.
Some of the existing solutions come in the form of AI…
Researchers from Meta/FAIR Labs and Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI have carried out a detailed exploration into the scaling laws for large language models (LLMs). These laws delineate the relationship between factors such as a model's size, the time it takes to train, and its overall performance. While it’s commonly held that larger models…
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a radical transformation following the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the prevalent Transformer architecture used in these models suffers from quadratic complexity issues. While techniques such as sparse attention have been developed to lower this complexity, a new generation of models is making headway…
Causal learning plays a pivotal role in the effective operation of artificial intelligence (AI), helping improve AI models' ability to rationalize decisions, adapt to new data, and visualize hypothetical scenarios. However, the evaluation of large language models' (LLM) proficiency in processing causality, such as GPT-3 and its variants, remains a challenge due to the need…