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Artificial Intelligence has witnessed a revolution, largely due to advancements in deep learning. This shift is driven by neural networks that learn through self-supervision, bolstered by specialized hardware. These developments have not just incrementally advanced fields like machine translation, natural language understanding, information retrieval, recommender systems, and computer vision but have caused a quantum leap…

Advanced prompting mechanisms, control flow, contact with external environments, many chained generation calls, and complex activities are expanding the utilization of Large Language Models (LLMs). On the other hand, effective methods for developing and running such programs are severely lacking. LMSYS ORG presents SGLang, a Structured Generation Language for LLMs that collaborates on the architecture…

Recent advancements in conversational question-answering (QA) models have marked a significant milestone. The introduction of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 has revolutionized how we approach conversational interactions and zero-shot response generation. These models have reshaped the landscape, enabling more user-friendly and intuitive interactions and pushing the boundaries of accuracy in automated responses without…

The realm of healthcare has been revolutionized by the advent of wearable sensor technology, which continuously monitors vital physiological data such as heart rate variability, sleep patterns, and physical activity. This advancement has paved the way for a novel intersection with large language models (LLMs), traditionally known for their linguistic prowess. The challenge, however, lies…

In the challenging fight against illegal poaching and human trafficking, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis’s McKelvey School of Engineering have devised a smart solution to enhance geospatial exploration. The problem at hand is how to efficiently search large areas to find and stop such activities. The current methods for local searches are limited…

There are two major challenges in visual representation learning: the computational inefficiency of Vision Transformers (ViTs) and the limited capacity of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to capture global contextual information. ViTs suffer from quadratic computational complexity while excelling in fitting capabilities and international receptive field. On the other hand, CNNs offer scalability and linear complexity…

A research team from Zhipu AI introduced a new model at their recent event in Beijing, GLM-4 addressed the challenge in the field of Large Language Models (LLMs). It focuses on the need for improved context lengths, multimodal capabilities, and faster inference speeds. The existing models face issues in handling extensive text lengths while maintaining…

Mathematical reasoning, part of our advanced thinking, reveals the complexities of human intelligence. It involves logical thinking and specialized knowledge, not just in words but also in pictures, crucial for understanding abilities. This has practical uses in AI. However, current AI datasets often focus narrowly, missing a full exploration of combining visual language understanding with…

Language modeling, a critical component of natural language processing, involves the development of models to process and generate human language. This field has seen transformative advancements with the advent of large language models (LLMs). The primary challenge lies in efficiently optimizing these models. Distributed training with multiple devices faces communication latency hurdles, especially when varying…

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has become a key technology in a number of fields, including power systems, robotics, transportation, and process control. Sampling-based MPC has shown effectiveness in applications such as path planning and control, and it is useful as a subroutine in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL), all because of its versatility and parallelizability,  Despite…