MeMo's memory model lets teams upgrade their LLM without retraining it — and performance jumps 26%

Researchers' MeMo keeps AI memory separate from reasoning, so teams can upgrade their LLM without retraining it and see a 26% ...
InfoWorld

Databricks’ TAO method to allow LLM training with unlabeled data

Test-time Adaptive Optimization can be used to increase the efficiency of inexpensive models, such as Llama, the company said. Data lakehouse provider Databricks has unveiled a new large language ...
Ars Technica

Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”

On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to better performance than feeding it any old “low quality” junk you can find. Now, a group of researchers is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Silent Data Corruption: A Major Reliability Challenge in Large-Scale LLM Training (TU Berlin)

A new technical paper, “Exploring Silent Data Corruption as a Reliability Challenge in LLM Training,” was published by researchers at Technische Universitat Berlin. “As Large Language Models (LLMs) ...
Forbes

What Happens When LLM’s Run Out Of Useful Data?

Most of us feel like we’re drowning in data. And yet, in the world of generative AI, a looming data shortage is keeping some researchers up at night. GenAI is unquestionably a technology whose ...
Nature

State media control shapes LLM behaviour by influencing training data

State control of the media is shown to alter the training data of large language models (LLMs) through its impact on the information environment. This has a substantial effect on the output of LLMs, ...

Talkie Is a ‘Vintage LLM’ Trained on Pre-1930 Data to Help Facilitate ‘Time Travel’

The idea is that you restrict the training data provided to the model to material published before a given date. In the case ...
Geeky Gadgets

olmOCR Open Source OCR System for AI Training Using PDFs & Documents

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with a dense PDF or a handwritten note, wishing there was an easier way to extract the information you need? Whether you’re a researcher trying to digitize ...
Futurism

If Even 0.001 Percent of an AI’s Training Data Is Misinformation, the Whole Thing Becomes Compromised, Scientists Find

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The Economist

Training AI models might not need enormous data centres

Once, the world’s richest men competed over yachts, jets and private islands. Now, the size-measuring contest of choice is clusters. Just 18 months ago, OpenAI trained GPT-4, its then state-of-the-art ...