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BiomedGPT

BiomedGPT

A unified biomedical GPT for vision, language, and multimodal tasks.

02Multimodal
Thought Cloning

Thought Cloning

Imitation learning framework that learns to think as well as act.

03Agents
Fine-Tuning Language Models with Just Forward Passes (MeZO)

Fine-Tuning Language Models with Just Forward Passes (MeZO)

A memory-efficient zeroth-order optimizer for LLM fine-tuning.

04Training
MERT

MERT

An acoustic music understanding model with large-scale self-supervised training.

05Multimodal
Bytes Are All You Need

Bytes Are All You Need

Performs classification directly on file bytes without decoding.

06Training
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)

Rafailov et al.'s simpler alternative to RLHF that rivals full RL-based alignment.

07Reinforcement Learning
SQL-PaLM

SQL-PaLM

An LLM-based Text-to-SQL system built on PaLM-2.

08Code
CodeTF

CodeTF

An open-source Transformer library for state-of-the-art code LLMs.

09Code
QLoRA

QLoRA

Tim Dettmers' breakthrough technique enabling 65B LLM fine-tuning on a single 48GB GPU.

10Training
LIMA

LIMA

Meta's 65B LLaMA fine-tuned on just 1,000 curated examples - showing alignment needs less data than believed.

11Training
Voyager

Voyager

An LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft exploring autonomously.

12Agents
Gorilla

Gorilla

A fine-tuned LLaMA-based model that surpasses GPT-4 on API call generation.

13Agents
The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs

The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs

Berkeley's critical analysis of open-source imitation of proprietary LLMs.

14Training
Sophia

Sophia

A simple, scalable second-order optimizer with negligible per-step overhead.

15Efficiency
The Larger They Are, the Harder They Fail

The Larger They Are, the Harder They Fail

Reveals inverse-scaling failures in LLM code generation.

16Code
Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks

Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks

DeepMind's framework for evaluating models for catastrophic-risk capabilities.

17Evaluation
LLM Research Directions

LLM Research Directions

A list of research directions for students entering LLM research.

18Evaluation
Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era (RWKV)

Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era (RWKV)

Combines parallelizable training of Transformers with efficient RNN inference.

19Architecture
Drag Your GAN (DragGAN)

Drag Your GAN (DragGAN)

Interactive point-based image manipulation on the generative image manifold.

20Multimodal
Evidence of Meaning in Language Models Trained on Programs

Evidence of Meaning in Language Models Trained on Programs

Argues LMs learn meaning despite only next-token prediction.

21Reasoning
Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering (Med-PaLM 2)

Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering (Med-PaLM 2)

Google's second-generation medical LLM.

22Evaluation
MEGABYTE

MEGABYTE

Multiscale Transformers for predicting million-byte sequences.

23Architecture
StructGPT

StructGPT

A general framework for LLM reasoning over structured data.

24Reasoning
TinyStories

TinyStories

Explores how small LMs can be and still speak coherent English.

25Data
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