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SeamlessM4T

SeamlessM4T

Meta's SeamlessM4T is a unified multilingual and multimodal machine-translation system that handles five translation tasks in one model.

02Multimodal
LLMs for Illicit Purposes

LLMs for Illicit Purposes

A survey cataloguing threats and vulnerabilities arising from LLM deployment.

03Safety
Giraffe

Giraffe

A family of context-extended Llama and Llama 2 models, along with an empirical study of context-extension techniques.

04Memory
IT3D

IT3D

Improves Text-to-3D generation by leveraging explicitly synthesized multi-view images in the training loop.

05Multimodal
LLM-Based Autonomous Agents Survey

LLM-Based Autonomous Agents Survey

A comprehensive survey of LLM-based autonomous agents covering construction and applications.

06Agents
Prompt2Model

Prompt2Model

CMU's Prompt2Model automates the path from a natural-language task description to a deployable small special-purpose model.

07Agents
LegalBench

LegalBench

A collaboratively constructed benchmark for measuring legal reasoning in LLMs.

08Evaluation
Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis

Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis

Google's Language-to-Rewards uses LLMs to define reward parameters for robotic RL.

09Robotics
Humpback (Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation)

Humpback (Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation)

Meta's Humpback automatically generates instruction-tuning data by back-translating web text into plausible instructions.

10Data
Platypus

Platypus

Platypus is a family of fine-tuned and merged LLMs that topped the Open LLM Leaderboard in August 2023.

11Training
Model Compression for LLMs Survey

Model Compression for LLMs Survey

A survey of recent model-compression techniques applied specifically to LLMs.

12Efficiency
GEARS

GEARS

Stanford's GEARS predicts cellular responses to genetic perturbation using deep learning + a gene-relationship knowledge graph.

13Evaluation
Shepherd

Shepherd

Meta's Shepherd is a 7B language model specifically tuned to critique model outputs and suggest refinements.

14Evaluation
GPT-4 Code Interpreter for Math

GPT-4 Code Interpreter for Math

A zero-shot prompting technique for GPT-4 Code Interpreter that dramatically boosts math-reasoning accuracy via code self-verification.

15Reasoning
Teach LLMs to Personalize

Teach LLMs to Personalize

A multitask-learning approach for personalized text generation without relying on predefined user attributes.

16Training
OctoPack

OctoPack

Hugging Face releases OctoPack, a 4TB dataset of Git commits across 350 programming languages for instruction-tuning code LLMs.

17Data
Outlines (Efficient Guided Generation)

Outlines (Efficient Guided Generation)

A library for guided LLM text generation that enforces structural constraints with minimal overhead.

18Efficiency
Bayesian Flow Networks (BFN)

Bayesian Flow Networks (BFN)

Introduces a new class of generative models that combine Bayesian inference with deep learning.

19Architecture
D-Bot (LLMs as Database Administrators)

D-Bot (LLMs as Database Administrators)

Introduces D-Bot, an LLM-based framework that continuously acquires database-administration knowledge from textual sources.

20Agents
Political Biases in NLP Models

Political Biases in NLP Models

Develops methods to measure political and media biases in LLMs and their downstream effects.

21Evaluation
AgentBench

AgentBench

Tsinghua's AgentBench is a multidimensional benchmark for LLM-as-Agent reasoning and decision-making across 8 environments.

22Agents
Studying LLM Generalization with Influence Functions

Studying LLM Generalization with Influence Functions

Anthropic scales influence functions to LLMs up to 52B parameters to investigate generalization patterns.

23Safety
NeuroImagen

NeuroImagen

Reconstructs visual stimuli images from EEG signals using latent diffusion, opening new windows into visually-evoked brain activity.

24Multimodal
SynJax

SynJax

DeepMind's SynJax is a JAX-based library for efficient vectorized inference in structured distributions.

25Efficiency
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