The Daily Index — Wednesday, February 28, 2024 · TLDR Index

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BERKELEY FUNCTION CALLING LEADERBOARD

Function calling is when a language model can access tools via synthesized functions to complete its given instructions. This requires proper synthesis of arguments to pass to those functions. This leaderboard is designed to assess model capability on function calling tasks.

gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu · 12 min

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CHATMUSICIAN

Music understanding typically relies on adding a modality-specific encoder to a language model. This is expensive and unstable. This work found that music understanding increased substantially without impact to base language ability when music was tokenized into ABC notation.

arxiv.org · 26 min

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MEGASCALE

Bytedance has produced a system called MegaScale that can be used to train massively parallel large language models. It succeeded in training a 175B LLM on 12,288 GPUs with 55.2% Model FLOPs Utilization (MFU), which is extremely impressive. Bytedance plans to open source some aspects of the codebase.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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INFORMATION RETRIEVAL WITH ADVANCED RERANKING

ListT5 introduces a cutting-edge reranking method that not only improves the precision of information retrieval but also offers an efficient solution to the challenges faced by previous listwise rerankers.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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TEN AI INSIGHTS FROM DATABRICKS, ANYSCALE, AND MICROSOFT

This article reports on interviews with founders from companies at the forefront of AI, covering their views on the advent of AGI, how to think about LLMs, and simple tactics for founders on how to approach AI within their products.

foundationcapital.com · 11 min

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QUANTIZED LANGUAGE MODELS FOR EFFICIENCY

IR-QLoRA is a new approach that enhances the accuracy of quantized large language models, making them more suitable for use on devices with limited resources.

arxiv.org · 15 min

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EXPRESSIVE HUMANOID ROBOT

Researchers from UCSD trained humanoid robot policies to be more expressive, socially inclined, and robust. Their videos of non-choreographed dancing on grass are very impressive.

expressive-humanoid.github.io · 5 min

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