Author: Hunter

The landscape of generative AI and LLMs has experienced a remarkable leap forward with the launch of Mercury by the cutting-edge startup Inception Labs. Introducing the first-ever commercial-scale diffusion large language models (dLLMs), Inception labs promises a paradigm shift in speed, cost-efficiency, and intelligence for text and code generation tasks. Mercury: Setting New Benchmarks in… Read more

The Retroid Pocket Mini has an unfixable issue that’s causing certain graphical effects for emulated games not to work properly. Retroid, the China-based company that makes the Pocket Mini, announced on Discord that it will accept returns of the device but only during a limited March 8th to March 14th window — and capped at… Read more

Researchers at The Ohio State University have introduced Finer-CAM, an innovative method that significantly improves the precision and interpretability of image explanations in fine-grained classification tasks. This advanced technique addresses key limitations of existing Class Activation Map (CAM) methods by explicitly highlighting subtle yet critical differences between visually similar categories. Current Challenge with Traditional CAM… Read more

Warner Bros. Discovery just released a new trailer for the second (and maybe last) season of The Last of Us, offering an action-packed view of the fraught world Pedro Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) and his daughter Ellie (Bella Ramsey) are facing. Things look bleak for both of them, and the show’s fungal-based zombies don’t seem… Read more

This tutorial is in two parts; they are: • Using DistilBart for Summarization • Improving the Summarization Process Let’s start with a fundamental implementation that demonstrates the key concepts of text summarization with DistilBart: import torch from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM class TextSummarizer: def __init__(self, model_name=”sshleifer/distilbart-cnn-12-6″): “””Initialize the summarizer with a pre-trained model. Read more

Large Language Models (LLMs) are essential in fields that require contextual understanding and decision-making. However, their development and deployment come with substantial computational costs, which limits their scalability and accessibility. Researchers have optimized LLMs to improve efficiency, particularly fine-tuning processes, without sacrificing reasoning capabilities or accuracy. This has led to exploring parameter-efficient training methods that… Read more

Search engines and recommender systems are essential in online content platforms nowadays. Traditional search methodologies focus on textual content, creating a critical gap in handling illustrated texts and videos that have become crucial components of User-Generated Content (UGC) communities. Current datasets for search and recommendation tasks contain textual information or statistically dense features, severely limiting… Read more

Large Language Models (LLMs) benefit significantly from reinforcement learning techniques, which enable iterative improvements by learning from rewards. However, training these models efficiently remains challenging, as they often require extensive datasets and human supervision to enhance their capabilities. Developing methods that allow LLMs to self-improve autonomously without additional human input or large-scale architectural modifications has… Read more

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is still pushing to break up Google, according to a revised proposal filed Friday with federal Judge Amit Mehta. As in its proposal last year, the DOJ says Google should be forced to sell its web browser, Google Chrome, and potentially Android, as punishment for being a monopolist, as… Read more

The biggest Apple news of the week was the announcement of a sky blue MacBook Air and an M3-powered iPad Air; however, in the deals world, it was all about the Apple Watch Series 10. That’s because, right now, Apple’s flagship smartwatch is on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy in its 42mm base… Read more