The Daily Index — Wednesday, September 20, 2023 · TLDR Index

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ANYSCALE OPTIMIZES OPEN SOURCE AI DEPLOYMENTS WITH ENDPOINTS

Anyscale has unveiled Endpoints, which allows developers to integrate fast, cost-efficient, and scalable LLMs into their applications using popular LLM APIs. The company also announced a new integration with NVIDIA to boost the performance and development of LLMs on Ray, Anyscale’s open-source framework for distributed machine learning.

venturebeat.com · 5 min

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BARD CAN NOW FIND ANSWERS IN YOUR GMAIL, DOCS, AND DRIVE

Google's Bard chatbot can now scan Gmail, Docs, and Drive to retrieve information and perform tasks. Google says these new integrations, called extensions, aim to save users time when searching for specific information within their documents and emails.

theverge.com · 2 min

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6T MULTILINGUAL TOKENS

Hot on the heels of Google's new dataset comes CulturaX. A cleaned dataset of trillions of multilingual tokens will be a great boost for multilingual language models.

arxiv.org · 22 min

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IMPROVING TEXT-TO-IMAGE GENERATION

Turning long texts into images can be tough, especially when there are lots of items or details to show. This new method breaks down long descriptions into simpler steps and makes sure each detail fits perfectly in the picture, setting a new high standard for creating images from text.

arxiv.org · 13 min

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MAKING DEPTH ESTIMATION MORE FLEXIBLE

Figuring out 3D depth from a single 2D image is tricky because many 3D scenes can look the same in 2D. This method separates camera details from the picture's content, making it easier to guess the depth in various situations.

arxiv.org · 13 min

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DOLA: A SIMPLE WAY TO MAKE LANGUAGE MODELS STICK TO THE FACTS

Researchers have introduced a new method called DoLa that helps large language models (like the ones that chat with you or write articles) stop making stuff up and stick to the facts. It uses a smart way of comparing different layers inside the model to filter out false information.

arxiv.org · 23 min

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STATE-OF-THE-ART BACKGROUND REMOVAL IN HF TRANSFORMERS

Matting is the process of creating a black-and-white mask to segment out important parts of an image. It is usually used for foreground and background segmentation. The portrait mode on smartphones uses a method similar to ViTMatte described here.

github.com · 5 min