Greg Schoeninger

Greg Schoeninger

Jan
29
Arxiv Dives - Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)

Arxiv Dives - Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)

This paper provides a simple and stable alternative to RLHF for aligning Large Language Models with human preferences called "
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Jan
20
Arxiv Dives - Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks

Arxiv Dives - Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks

This paper introduces the concept of an Attention Sink which helps Large Language Models (LLMs) maintain the coherence of text
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Jan
13
Arxiv Dives - How Mixture of Experts works with Mixtral 8x7B

Arxiv Dives - How Mixture of Experts works with Mixtral 8x7B

Mixtral 8x7B is an open source mixture of experts large language model released by the team at Mistral.ai that
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Jan
07
Arxiv Dives - LLaVA 🌋 an open source Large Multimodal Model (LMM)

Arxiv Dives - LLaVA 🌋 an open source Large Multimodal Model (LMM)

What is LLaVA? LLaVA is a Multi-Modal model that connects a Vision Encoder and an LLM for general purpose visual
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Jan
06
Practical ML Dive - Building RAG from Open Source Pt 1

Practical ML Dive - Building RAG from Open Source Pt 1

RAG was introduced by the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in May of 2020 as an end-to-end way to include
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Dec
23
Arxiv Dives - How Mistral 7B works

Arxiv Dives - How Mistral 7B works

What is Mistral 7B? Mistral 7B is an open weights large language model by Mistral.ai that was build for
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Dec
20
Practical ML Dive - How to train Mamba for Question Answering

Practical ML Dive - How to train Mamba for Question Answering

What is Mamba 🐍? There is a lot of hype about Mamba being a fast alternative to the Transformer architecture. The
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Dec
15
Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces - Arxiv Dives

Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces - Arxiv Dives

What is Mamba 🐍? Mamba at it's core is a recurrent neural network architecture, that outperforms Transformers with faster
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Dec
13
Practical ML Dive - How to customize a Vision Transformer on your own data

Practical ML Dive - How to customize a Vision Transformer on your own data

Welcome to Practical ML Dives, a series spin off of Arxiv Dives. In Arxiv Dives, we cover state of the
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Dec
08
Arxiv Dives - Zero-shot Image Classification with CLIP

Arxiv Dives - Zero-shot Image Classification with CLIP

CLIP explores the efficacy of learning image representations from scratch with 400 million image-text pairs, showcasing zero-shot transfer capabilities across
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