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Visual language models (VLMs) have come a long way in integrating visual and textual data. Yet, they come with significant challenges. Many of today’s VLMs demand substantial resources for training, fine-tuning, and deployment. For instance, training a 7-billion-parameter model can take over 400 GPU days, which makes it inaccessible to many researchers. Fine-tuning is equally… Read more

LMMs have made significant strides in vision-language understanding but still need help reasoning over large-scale image collections, limiting their real-world applications like visual search and querying extensive datasets such as personal photo libraries. Existing benchmarks for multi-image question-answering are constrained, typically involving up to 30 images per question, which needs to address the complexities of… Read more

Protein design is crucial in biotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences. Google DeepMind, with its patent, WO2024240774A1, unveils a cutting-edge system that harnesses diffusion models operating on full atom representations. This innovative framework redefines the approach to protein design, achieving unprecedented precision and efficiency. DeepMind’s system is a breakthrough in computational biology, combining advanced neural networks with… Read more

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CycleQD merges skills of experts models in clever ways to create many new models with multiple skills, no fine-tuning required.Read More Read more

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The emergence of DuckDB has been one of the most surprising developments in database world over the past couple of years. The “unapologetically single node” vectorized column store, which was developed by Hannes Mühleisen, eschews the complexity that comes with its bigger distributed cousins, while still delivering lots of usable SQL performance. Mühleisen developed DuckDB… Read more

At AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled a series of transformative AI initiatives, including the development of one of the world’s largest AI supercomputers in partnership with Anthropic, the introduction of the Nova series of AI foundation models, and the availability of the Trainium2 AI chip, positioning itself as a formidable competitor in… Read more

The new film about an FBI agent chasing a white supremacist terror cell is based on a true story—and one that connects the headlines of 30 years ago to those of today. Read more

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