AI Papers of the Week
Every paper worth reading in AI, hand-picked one week at a time.
Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents (CoALA)
Princeton proposes CoALA, a systematic framework for understanding and building language agents.
Q-Transformer
Google's Q-Transformer is a scalable RL method for training multi-task robotic policies from large offline datasets.
LLaSM (Large Language and Speech Model)
A combined language-and-speech model trained with cross-modal conversational abilities.
SAM-Med2D
Adapts the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to 2D medical imaging through large-scale medical fine-tuning.
Vector Search with OpenAI Embeddings
Argues, via empirical analysis, that dedicated vector databases aren't necessarily required for modern AI-stack search applications.
Graph of Thoughts (GoT)
Generalizes Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought by modeling LLM reasoning as an arbitrary graph.
MVDream
ByteDance's MVDream is a multi-view diffusion model that generates geometrically consistent images from multiple viewpoints given a text prompt.
Nougat
Meta's Nougat is a visual transformer for "Neural Optical Understanding for Academic documents" that converts PDFs to LaTeX/Markdown.
FacTool
A tool-augmented framework for detecting factual errors in LLM-generated text.
AnomalyGPT
Applies large vision-language models to industrial anomaly detection with synthetic data augmentation.
FaceChain
Alibaba's FaceChain is a personalized portrait generation framework that produces identity-preserving portraits from just a handful of input photos.
Qwen-VL
Alibaba's Qwen-VL is a large-scale vision-language model family with strong performance across captioning, VQA, and visual localization.
Code Llama
Meta releases Code Llama, a family of code-specialized LLMs built on top of Llama 2.
Survey on Instruction Tuning for LLMs
A comprehensive survey of instruction tuning covering methodology, dataset construction, and applications.
SeamlessM4T
Meta's SeamlessM4T is a unified multilingual and multimodal machine-translation system that handles five translation tasks in one model.
LLMs for Illicit Purposes
A survey cataloguing threats and vulnerabilities arising from LLM deployment.
Giraffe
A family of context-extended Llama and Llama 2 models, along with an empirical study of context-extension techniques.
IT3D
Improves Text-to-3D generation by leveraging explicitly synthesized multi-view images in the training loop.
LLM-Based Autonomous Agents Survey
A comprehensive survey of LLM-based autonomous agents covering construction and applications.
Prompt2Model
CMU's Prompt2Model automates the path from a natural-language task description to a deployable small special-purpose model.
LegalBench
A collaboratively constructed benchmark for measuring legal reasoning in LLMs.
Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis
Google's Language-to-Rewards uses LLMs to define reward parameters for robotic RL.
Humpback (Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation)
Meta's Humpback automatically generates instruction-tuning data by back-translating web text into plausible instructions.
Platypus
Platypus is a family of fine-tuned and merged LLMs that topped the Open LLM Leaderboard in August 2023.