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Google announces AI system for diagnostic medical reasoning and conversation

176 implied HN points • 20 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Data science Software Development
  1. Google announced an AI system for medical diagnosis and conversation called AMIE.
  2. AMIE's architecture includes multi-turn dialogue management, hierarchical reasoning model, and modular design.
  3. The AI system AMIE showed promising performance in simulated diagnostic conversations, outperforming PCPs and matching specialist physicians.

Modular Deep Learning

78 implied HN points • 27 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Deep Learning Generative models Classes
  1. Modular Deep Learning proposes splitting models into smaller, independent modules for specific subtasks.
  2. Modularity in AI development can lead to collaborative and efficient ecosystem and democratize AI development.
  3. PyTorch 2.0 introduces performance gains such as faster inference and training speeds, autotuning, quantization, and improved memory management.

Graph Neural Networks in Tensorflow

39 implied HN points • 10 Feb 24
🕹 Technology LLMs Chatbots Frameworks Models
  1. Graph Neural Networks in TensorFlow address data complexity, limited resources, and generalizability in learning from graph-structured data.
  2. RadixAttention and Domain-Specific Language (DSL) are key solutions for efficiently controlling Large Language Models (LLMs), reducing memory usage, and providing a user-friendly interface.
  3. VideoPoet demonstrates hierarchical LLM architecture for zero-shot learning, handling multimodal input, and generating various output formats in video generation tasks.

Exphormer(Graph Neural Networks)

39 implied HN points • 04 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Machine Learning Neural Networks Optimization Deep Learning Library
  1. Graph transformers are powerful for machine learning on graph-structured data but face challenges with memory limitations and complexity.
  2. Exphormer overcomes memory bottlenecks using expander graphs, intermediate nodes, and hybrid attention mechanisms.
  3. Optimizing mixed-input matrix multiplication for large language models involves efficient hardware mapping and innovative techniques like FastNumericArrayConvertor and FragmentShuffler.
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Pinterest improves their Closeup Recommendation System through foundational changes

98 implied HN points • 07 Oct 23
🕹 Technology AI Data ML Models Libraries
  1. Pinterest improved their Closeup Recommendation System with foundational changes like hybrid data logging and sampling.
  2. Pinterest uses a model refreshing framework to keep their Closeup Recommendation model up-to-date and adaptable.
  3. Distilling step-by-step can help train smaller, more efficient, and interpretable language models like LLMs.

TikTok's Recommendation Engine Explained: Monolith

157 implied HN points • 30 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Machine Learning Libraries Models
  1. TikTok's recommendation system is designed to give real-time suggestions by using sparsity-aware factorization machines, online learning, and caching.
  2. Multimodal deep learning focuses on text-image modeling due to lack of large annotated datasets for other modalities like video and audio.
  3. A new framework called Parsel enables automatic implementation of complex algorithms with code language models, leading to better problem-solving results in competitions.

XGen, a 7B LLM trained on up to 8K sequence length from SalesForce

78 implied HN points • 05 Aug 23
🕹 Technology AI/ML Weather Climate Models Libraries
  1. ClimaX is a deep learning model designed for weather and climate tasks like forecasting temperature and predicting extreme weather events.
  2. XGen is a 7B LLM trained on up to 8K sequence length, achieving state-of-the-art results in tasks like MMLU, QA, and HumanEval.
  3. GPT-4 API from OpenAI provides easy access to a powerful language model capable of generating text, translating languages, and answering questions.

Embedding as a Service(EaaS) vs. Model as a Service(MaaS)

58 implied HN points • 06 Aug 23
🕹 Technology AI Deployment Comparison
  1. Embedding as a Service (EaaS) provides access to pre-trained embeddings for tasks like NLP and is easy to use.
  2. Model as a Service (MaaS) offers pre-trained models for tasks like image classification and can be more accurate but may be more expensive.
  3. EaaS is cost-effective and offers flexibility, while MaaS provides models with higher accuracy and interpretability.

RLHF made easy: AlpacaFarm

58 implied HN points • 03 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Frameworks Libraries Conferences
  1. Stanford introduced AlpacaFarm for making RLHF accessible, quick, and cost-effective.
  2. Google presented Plex, a framework for reliable deep learning model architectures.
  3. Various libraries and tools such as Guidance, LMQL, and Open-Llama are available for enhancing language models and AI technologies.

Google open-sources Vizier

39 implied HN points • 20 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Machine Learning AI Data Engineering
  1. Google open-sourced their blackbox optimization library named Vizier for reliable tuning and optimization.
  2. Pinterest introduced Lightweight Ranking to recommend Pins with better relevance and build scalable ML models.
  3. Netflix uses ML to predict Out of Memory issues in production, overcoming data engineering challenges like structuring data.

OpenAI launches GPT-4!

39 implied HN points • 19 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI APIs Frameworks Models Libraries
  1. OpenAI has launched GPT-4, a significant improvement over GPT-3 and ChatGPT
  2. GPT-4 has capabilities like academic success, steerability, and processing visual inputs
  3. OpenAI has introduced Whisper and ChatGPT APIs for commercial use cases

Twitter open-sourced their recommendation algorithm

39 implied HN points • 09 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Algorithms Machine Learning Open Source Neural Networks Data science
  1. Twitter has open-sourced their recommendation algorithm for both training and serving layers.
  2. The algorithm involves candidate generation for in-network and out-network tweets, ranking models, and filtering based on different metrics.
  3. Twitter's recommendation algorithm is user-centric, focusing on user-to-user relationships before recommending tweets.