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Llama 2

Llama 2

Meta's open-weight foundation model family with chat-tuned variants ranging from 7B to 70B parameters.

02Training
How is ChatGPT's Behavior Changing Over Time?

How is ChatGPT's Behavior Changing Over Time?

Evaluates GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 over months to show significant behavioral drift in deployed systems.

03Evaluation
FlashAttention-2

FlashAttention-2

Tri Dao's follow-up to FlashAttention, dramatically improving attention throughput on modern GPUs.

04Efficiency
Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Anthropic's investigation into whether CoT reasoning actually reflects the model's internal decision process.

05Reasoning
Generative TV & Showrunner Agents

Generative TV & Showrunner Agents

Fable Studio's approach to generate episodic TV content using LLMs and multi-agent simulation.

06Agents
Challenges & Application of LLMs

Challenges & Application of LLMs

A comprehensive enumeration of open challenges and application domains for LLMs.

07Safety
Retentive Network (RetNet)

Retentive Network (RetNet)

Microsoft's proposed foundation architecture aiming to replace Transformer attention for LLMs.

08Architecture
Meta-Transformer

Meta-Transformer

A unified framework performing learning across 12 different modalities with a shared backbone.

09Architecture
Retrieve In-Context Examples for LLMs

Retrieve In-Context Examples for LLMs

A framework to iteratively train dense retrievers that identify high-quality in-context examples.

10Retrieval
FLASK

FLASK

Proposes fine-grained evaluation of LLMs decomposed into 12 alignment skill sets.

11Evaluation
CM3Leon

CM3Leon

Meta's retrieval-augmented multi-modal language model that generates both text and images.

12Multimodal
Claude 2

Claude 2

Anthropic's second-generation LLM with a detailed model card on safety, alignment, and capabilities.

13Safety
Secrets of RLHF in LLMs

Secrets of RLHF in LLMs

A deep investigation into RLHF with a focus on the inner workings of PPO, including open-source code.

14Reinforcement Learning
LongLLaMA

LongLLaMA

Extends LLaMA's context length using a contrastive training process that reshapes the (key, value) space.

15Memory
Patch n' Pack: NaViT

Patch n' Pack: NaViT

A vision transformer handling any aspect ratio and resolution through sequence packing.

16Architecture
LLMs as General Pattern Machines

LLMs as General Pattern Machines

Demonstrates LLMs serve as general sequence modelers without additional training.

17Reasoning
HyperDreamBooth

HyperDreamBooth

A smaller, faster, and more efficient version of DreamBooth for personalizing text-to-image models.

18Multimodal
Teaching Arithmetic to Small Transformers

Teaching Arithmetic to Small Transformers

Trains small transformers on chain-of-thought style data for arithmetic with large gains.

19Reasoning
AnimateDiff

AnimateDiff

Animates frozen text-to-image diffusion models via a plug-in motion modeling module.

20Multimodal
Generative Pretraining in Multimodality (Emu)

Generative Pretraining in Multimodality (Emu)

A transformer-based multimodal foundation model for generating images and text.

21Multimodal
A Survey on Evaluation of LLMs

A Survey on Evaluation of LLMs

A comprehensive overview of evaluation methods covering what, where, and how to evaluate LLMs.

22Evaluation
How Language Models Use Long Contexts (Lost-in-the-Middle)

How Language Models Use Long Contexts (Lost-in-the-Middle)

Shows LLM performance drops when relevant information is in the middle of a long context.

23Memory
LLMs as Effective Text Rankers

LLMs as Effective Text Rankers

A prompting technique that enables open-source LLMs to perform SOTA text ranking.

24Retrieval
Multimodal Generation with Frozen LLMs

Multimodal Generation with Frozen LLMs

Maps images to LLM token space enabling models like PaLM and GPT-4 to handle visual tasks without parameter updates.

25Multimodal
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