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DAIR.AI · Curated weekly since April 2023Issue 180 · Sep 14 – Sep 20, 2026

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PaLM 2

PaLM 2

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

02Reasoning
ImageBind

ImageBind

Meta's joint embedding across six modalities at once.

03Multimodal
TidyBot

TidyBot

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

04Robotics
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.

05Reasoning
InstructBLIP

InstructBLIP

Visual-language instruction tuning built on BLIP-2.

06Multimodal
Active Retrieval Augmented LLMs (FLARE)

Active Retrieval Augmented LLMs (FLARE)

Actively decides when and what to retrieve during generation.

07Retrieval
FrugalGPT

FrugalGPT

Strategies to reduce LLM inference cost while improving performance.

08Efficiency
StarCoder

StarCoder

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

09Code
MultiModal-GPT

MultiModal-GPT

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

10Multimodal
scGPT

scGPT

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

11Training
GPTutor

GPTutor

A ChatGPT-powered VSCode extension for code explanation.

12Code
Shap-E

Shap-E

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

13Multimodal
Are Emergent Abilities of LLMs a Mirage?

Are Emergent Abilities of LLMs a Mirage?

Stanford's critical re-examination of emergent abilities.

14Evaluation
Interpretable ML for Science with PySR

Interpretable ML for Science with PySR

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

15Safety
PMC-LLaMA

PMC-LLaMA

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

16Training
Distilling Step-by-Step!

Distilling Step-by-Step!

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

17Training
Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning

Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning

Shows adversaries can poison LLMs via instruction tuning data.

18Training
Unlimiformer

Unlimiformer

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

19Memory
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.

20Reasoning
Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep RL

Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep RL

DeepMind's bipedal humanoid robot playing soccer.

21Robotics
Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens with RMT

Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens with RMT

Recurrent Memory Transformer extends BERT's effective context to 2M tokens.

22Memory
Track Anything

Track Anything

An interactive tool for video object tracking and segmentation built on Segment Anything.

23Multimodal
A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning

A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning

A comprehensive overview of SSL techniques and practical considerations.

24Training
Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond

Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond

A practical guide for practitioners working with LLMs.

25Evaluation
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