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Reliability of Watermarks for LLMs

Reliability of Watermarks for LLMs

Studies whether watermarks survive human rewriting and LLM paraphrasing.

02Safety
Applications of Transformers

Applications of Transformers

A new survey highlighting major applications of Transformers across deep learning.

03Architecture
Benchmarking NN Training Algorithms (AlgoPerf)

Benchmarking NN Training Algorithms (AlgoPerf)

A new benchmark for rigorously evaluating optimizers using realistic workloads.

04Evaluation
Unifying LLMs & Knowledge Graphs

Unifying LLMs & Knowledge Graphs

A roadmap for combining LLMs with knowledge graphs for stronger reasoning.

05Retrieval
Augmenting LLMs with Long-term Memory (LongMem)

Augmenting LLMs with Long-term Memory (LongMem)

Enables LLMs to memorize long history via memory-augmented adaptation.

06Memory
TAPIR

TAPIR

Tracks any queried point on any physical surface throughout a video sequence faster than real-time.

07Multimodal
Mind2Web

Mind2Web

A dataset for evaluating generalist web agents with 2,350 tasks across 137 websites and 31 domains.

08Agents
Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once (OmniMotion)

Tracking Everything Everywhere All at Once (OmniMotion)

Test-time optimization for dense, long-range motion estimation.

09Multimodal
AlphaDev

AlphaDev

DeepMind's deep RL agent discovering faster sorting algorithms from scratch, now in LLVM.

10Reinforcement Learning
Sparse-Quantized Representation (SpQR)

Sparse-Quantized Representation (SpQR)

Tim Dettmers' near-lossless LLM compression technique.

11Efficiency
MusicGen

MusicGen

A simple and controllable model for music generation using a single-stage Transformer.

12Multimodal
Augmenting LLMs with Databases (ChatDB)

Augmenting LLMs with Databases (ChatDB)

Combines an LLM with SQL databases as a symbolic memory framework.

13Memory
Concept Scrubbing in LLM (LEACE)

Concept Scrubbing in LLM (LEACE)

Least-squares Concept Erasure - erases a target concept from every layer of a neural network.

14Safety
Fine-Grained RLHF

Fine-Grained RLHF

Trains LMs with segment-level human feedback rather than whole-response preferences.

15Reinforcement Learning
Hierarchical Vision Transformer (Hiera)

Hierarchical Vision Transformer (Hiera)

Pretrains ViTs with MAE while removing unnecessary multi-stage complexity.

16Architecture
Humor in ChatGPT

Humor in ChatGPT

Explores ChatGPT's capabilities to grasp and reproduce humor.

17Evaluation
Imitating Reasoning Process of Larger LLMs (Orca)

Imitating Reasoning Process of Larger LLMs (Orca)

Microsoft's 13B model that imitates GPT-4's reasoning traces.

18Reasoning
Let's Verify Step by Step

Let's Verify Step by Step

OpenAI's landmark paper on process reward models for mathematical reasoning.

19Reasoning
No Positional Encodings (NoPE)

No Positional Encodings (NoPE)

Shows explicit position embeddings aren't essential for decoder-only Transformers.

20Architecture
BiomedGPT

BiomedGPT

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

21Multimodal
Thought Cloning

Thought Cloning

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

22Agents
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.

23Training
MERT

MERT

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

24Multimodal
Bytes Are All You Need

Bytes Are All You Need

Performs classification directly on file bytes without decoding.

25Training
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