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Mathematician David Bessis claims that mathematical thinking isn’t what you think it is, and that everyone can benefit from doing more of it. Read more

LLMs have revolutionized artificial intelligence with their remarkable scalability and adaptability. Models like GPT-4 and Claude, built with trillions of parameters, demonstrate exceptional performance across diverse tasks. However, their monolithic design comes with significant challenges, including high computational costs, limited flexibility, and difficulties in fine-tuning for domain-specific needs due to risks like catastrophic forgetting and… Read more

Vision-and-language models (VLMs) are important tools that use text to handle different computer vision tasks. Tasks like recognizing images, reading text from images (OCR), and detecting objects can be approached as answering visual questions with text responses. While VLMs have shown limited success on tasks, what remains unclear is how they process and represent multimodal… Read more

Snowflake recently announced the launch of Arctic Embed L 2.0 and Arctic Embed M 2.0, two small and powerful embedding models tailored for multilingual search and retrieval. The Arctic Embed 2.0 models are available in two distinct variants: medium and large. Based on Alibaba’s GTE-multilingual framework, the medium model incorporates 305 million parameters, of which… Read more

Language Agents (LAs) have recently become the focal point of research and development because of the significant advancement in large language models (LLMs). LLMs have demonstrated significant advancements in understanding and producing human-like text. LLMs perform various tasks with great performance and accuracy. Through well-designed prompts and carefully selected in-context demonstrations, LLM-based agents, such as… Read more

The landscape of vision model pre-training has undergone significant evolution, especially with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs). Traditionally, vision models operated within fixed, predefined paradigms, but LLMs have introduced a more flexible approach, unlocking new ways to leverage pre-trained vision encoders. This shift has prompted a reevaluation of pre-training methodologies for vision models… Read more

Clear communication can be surprisingly difficult in today’s audio environments. Background noise, overlapping conversations, and the mix of audio and video signals often create challenges that disrupt clarity and understanding. These issues impact everything from personal calls to professional meetings and even content production. Despite improvements in audio technology, most existing solutions struggle to consistently… Read more

While it might be tempting, betting on gen AI to take over your R&D will likely backfire in significant, maybe even catastrophic, ways.Read More Read more

Vision models are pivotal in enabling machines to interpret and analyze visual data. They are integral to tasks such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation, where raw pixel values from images are transformed into meaningful features through trainable layers. These systems, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers, rely on efficient training processes… Read more

Question answering (QA) emerged as a critical task in natural language processing, designed to generate precise answers to complex queries across diverse domains. Within this, medical QA poses unique challenges, focusing on the complex nature of healthcare information processing. Medical scenarios demand complex reasoning capabilities beyond simple information retrieval, as models must handle these scenarios… Read more