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CodeGen2.5

CodeGen2.5

Salesforce's new 7B code LLM trained on 1.5T tokens and optimized for fast sampling.

02Code
Elastic Decision Transformer

Elastic Decision Transformer

An advance over Decision Transformers that enables trajectory stitching at inference time.

03Reinforcement Learning
Robots That Ask for Help

Robots That Ask for Help

A framework for calibrating LLM-based robot planners so they ask for help when uncertain.

04Robotics
Physics-based Motion Retargeting in Real-Time

Physics-based Motion Retargeting in Real-Time

Uses RL to retarget motions from sparse human sensor data to characters of various morphologies.

05Multimodal
Scaling Transformer to 1 Billion Tokens (LongNet)

Scaling Transformer to 1 Billion Tokens (LongNet)

Microsoft's Transformer variant scaling sequence length past 1B tokens.

06Architecture
InterCode

InterCode

A framework treating interactive coding as a reinforcement learning environment.

07Reinforcement Learning
LeanDojo

LeanDojo

An open-source Lean playground consisting of toolkits, data, models, and benchmarks for theorem proving.

08Reasoning
Extending Context Window of LLMs (PI)

Extending Context Window of LLMs (PI)

Position Interpolation extends LLaMA's context to 32K with minimal fine-tuning (within 1000 steps).

09Memory
Computer Vision Through the Lens of Natural Language

Computer Vision Through the Lens of Natural Language

A modular approach solving CV problems by routing through LLM reasoning.

10Multimodal
Visual Navigation Transformer (ViNT)

Visual Navigation Transformer (ViNT)

A foundation model for vision-based robotic navigation built on flexible Transformers.

11Robotics
Generative AI for Programming Education

Generative AI for Programming Education

Evaluates GPT-4 and ChatGPT on programming education scenarios versus human tutors.

12Evaluation
DragDiffusion

DragDiffusion

Extends interactive point-based image editing to diffusion models.

13Multimodal
Understanding Theory-of-Mind in LLMs with LLMs

Understanding Theory-of-Mind in LLMs with LLMs

A framework for procedurally generating ToM evaluations using LLMs themselves.

14Evaluation
Evaluations with No Labels

Evaluations with No Labels

Self-supervised evaluation of LLMs via sensitivity/invariance to input transformations.

15Evaluation
Long-range Language Modeling with Self-Retrieval

Long-range Language Modeling with Self-Retrieval

Jointly trains a retrieval-augmented LM from scratch for long-range modeling.

16Retrieval
Scaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias

Scaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias

Shows MLPs scale with compute despite their lack of inductive bias.

17Architecture
Textbooks Are All You Need (phi-1)

Textbooks Are All You Need (phi-1)

Introduces a 1.3B parameter code LLM trained on textbook-quality data.

18Data
RoboCat

RoboCat

DeepMind's self-improving foundation agent that operates different robotic arms from as few as 100 demonstrations.

19Robotics
ClinicalGPT

ClinicalGPT

A language model optimized through extensive and diverse medical data and multi-turn dialogue.

20Training
An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

Dan Hendrycks' comprehensive overview of catastrophic AI risk categories.

21Safety
LOMO

LOMO

A memory-efficient optimizer that combines gradient computation and parameter update in one step.

22Efficiency
SequenceMatch

SequenceMatch

Formulates sequence generation as imitation learning, enabling backtracking via a backspace action.

23Reinforcement Learning
LMFlow

LMFlow

An extensible and lightweight toolkit for fine-tuning and inference of large foundation models.

24Training
MotionGPT

MotionGPT

Generates consecutive human motions from multimodal control signals via LLM instructions.

25Multimodal
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