Extensible Tokenization: Revolutionizing Context Understanding in Large Language Models

The quest to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a groundbreaking innovation by a team from the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence and Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence at Renmin University. This research team has introduced a novel methodology known as Extensible Tokenization, aimed at significantly expanding the capacity of LLMs to process…

This AI Paper Presents Find+Replace Transformers: A Family of Multi-Transformer Architectures that can Provably do Things no Single Transformer can and which Outperform GPT-4 on Several Tasks

In the annals of computational history, the journey from the initial mechanical calculators to Turing Complete machines has been revolutionary. While impressive, early computing devices, such as Babbage’s Difference Engine and the Harvard Mark I, lacked the Turing Completeness—a concept defining systems capable of performing any conceivable calculation given adequate time and resources. This limitation…

This AI Paper Proposes Two Types of Convolution, Pixel Difference Convolution (PDC) and Binary Pixel Difference Convolution (Bi-PDC), to Enhance the Representation Capacity of Convolutional Neural Network CNNs

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have been a game-changer for several computer vision tasks. These include object identification, object recognition, image segmentation, and edge detection. The ever-growing size and power consumption of DNNs have been key to enabling much of this advancement. Embedded, wearable, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which have restricted computing resources…

Google Research Introduces TimesFM: A Single Forecasting Model Pre-Trained on a Large Time-Series Corpus of 100B Real World Time-Points

Time Series forecasting is an important task in machine learning and is frequently used in various domains such as finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and natural sciences. Researchers from Google introduced a decoder-only model for the task, called TimeFM, based on pretraining a patched-decoder style attention model on a large time-series corpus comprising both real-world and synthetic…

Enhanced Audio Generation through Scalable Technology

Technological advancements have been pivotal in transcending the boundaries of what’s achievable in the domain of audio generation, especially in high-fidelity audio synthesis. As demand for more sophisticated and realistic audio experiences escalates, researchers have been propelled to innovate beyond conventional methods to resolve the persistent challenges within this field. One primary issue that has…

Google DeepMind Unveils MusicRL: A Pretrained Autoregressive MusicLM Model of Discrete Audio Tokens Finetuned with Reinforcement Learning to Maximise Sequence-Level Rewards

In the fascinating world of artificial intelligence and music, a team at Google DeepMind has made a groundbreaking stride. Their creation, MusicRL, is a beacon in the journey of music generation, leveraging the nuances of human feedback to shape the future of how machines understand and create music. This innovation stems from a simple yet…

Enhancing Language Model Alignment through Reward Transformation and Multi-Objective Optimization

The current study examines how well LLMs align with desirable attributes, such as helpfulness, harmlessness, factual accuracy, and creativity. The primary focus is on a two-stage process that involves learning a reward model from human preferences and then aligning the language model to maximize this reward. It addresses two key issues:  Improving alignment by considering…

Apple AI Research Releases MLLM-Guided Image Editing (MGIE) to Enhance Instruction-based Image Editing via Learning to Produce Expressive Instructions

The use of advanced design tools has brought about revolutionary transformations in the fields of multimedia and visual design. As an important development in the field of picture modification, instruction-based image editing has increased the process’s control and flexibility. Natural language commands are used to change photographs, removing the requirement for detailed explanations or particular…

Pinterest Researchers Present an Effective Scalable Algorithm to Improve Diffusion Models Using Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Diffusion models are a set of generative models that work by adding noise to the training data and then learn to recover the same by reversing the noising process. This process allows these models to achieve state-of-the-art image quality, making them one of the most significant developments in Machine Learning (ML) in the past few…

Meet Graph-Mamba: A Novel Graph Model that Leverages State Space Models SSM for Efficient Data-Dependent Context Selection

Graph Transformers need help with scalability in graph sequence modeling due to high computational costs, and existing attention sparsification methods fail to adequately address data-dependent contexts. State space models (SSMs) like Mamba are effective and efficient in modeling long-range dependencies in sequential data, but adapting them to non-sequential graph data is challenging. Many sequence models…