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DoReMi

DoReMi

Optimizes data mixtures for faster language model pretraining.

02Training
CodeT5+

CodeT5+

An open code LLM family for code understanding and generation.

03Code
Symbol tuning

Symbol tuning

Fine-tunes LMs on in-context input-label pairs with natural-language labels replaced by arbitrary symbols.

04Training
Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM's Translation Capability

Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM's Translation Capability

Explores where PaLM's translation ability actually comes from.

05Training
LLM Explains Neurons in LLMs

LLM Explains Neurons in LLMs

OpenAI's automated interpretability pipeline using GPT-4 to explain GPT-2 neurons.

06Safety
PaLM 2

PaLM 2

Google's second-generation PaLM powering Bard and Google products.

07Reasoning
ImageBind

ImageBind

Meta's joint embedding across six modalities at once.

08Multimodal
TidyBot

TidyBot

Combines LLM-based planning and perception with few-shot summarization to infer user preferences.

09Robotics
Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Demonstrates CoT explanations can misrepresent the true reason for a model's prediction.

10Reasoning
InstructBLIP

InstructBLIP

Visual-language instruction tuning built on BLIP-2.

11Multimodal
Active Retrieval Augmented LLMs (FLARE)

Active Retrieval Augmented LLMs (FLARE)

Actively decides when and what to retrieve during generation.

12Retrieval
FrugalGPT

FrugalGPT

Strategies to reduce LLM inference cost while improving performance.

13Efficiency
StarCoder

StarCoder

An open-access 15.5B code LLM with 8K context and 80+ programming languages.

14Code
MultiModal-GPT

MultiModal-GPT

A vision-language model for multi-round dialogue fine-tuned from OpenFlamingo.

15Multimodal
scGPT

scGPT

A foundation model for single-cell multi-omics pretrained on 10 million cells.

16Training
GPTutor

GPTutor

A ChatGPT-powered VSCode extension for code explanation.

17Code
Shap-E

Shap-E

OpenAI's conditional generative model for 3D assets producing implicit functions.

18Multimodal
Are Emergent Abilities of LLMs a Mirage?

Are Emergent Abilities of LLMs a Mirage?

Stanford's critical re-examination of emergent abilities.

19Evaluation
Interpretable ML for Science with PySR

Interpretable ML for Science with PySR

An open-source library for practical symbolic regression in the sciences.

20Safety
PMC-LLaMA

PMC-LLaMA

A LLaMA model fine-tuned on 4.8 million medical papers.

21Training
Distilling Step-by-Step!

Distilling Step-by-Step!

A mechanism to train smaller models that outperform larger LLMs using fewer examples.

22Training
Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning

Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning

Shows adversaries can poison LLMs via instruction tuning data.

23Training
Unlimiformer

Unlimiformer

Long-range Transformers with unlimited length input via external datastores.

24Memory
Learning to Reason and Memorize with Self-Notes

Learning to Reason and Memorize with Self-Notes

LLMs that deviate from input to explicitly "think" and memorize.

25Reasoning
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