October 2024 – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Improving Language Models, Practical Size

By Andrew Fairless on October 15, 2024July 14, 2024

https://amaarora.github.io/posts/2024-07-07%20Gemma.html Gemma 2, Improving Open Language Models at a Practical SizeAman AroraJuly 9, 2024 “…we take a deep dive into the architectural components of Gemma 2 such as Grouped QueryContinue readingWhat I Read: Improving Language Models, Practical Size

What I Read: Hidden Infinity, Preference Learning

By Andrew Fairless on October 10, 2024July 14, 2024

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~smalladi/blog/2024/07/09/dpo-infinity The Hidden Infinity in Preference LearningSadhika MalladiJuly 09 2024 “I demonstrate from first principles how offline preference learning algorithms (e.g., SimPO) can benefit from length normalization, especially when trainingContinue readingWhat I Read: Hidden Infinity, Preference Learning

What I Read: Illustrated AlphaFold

By Andrew Fairless on October 9, 2024July 14, 2024

https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2024/the-illustrated-alphafold The Illustrated AlphaFoldElana Simon, Jake Silberg “A visual walkthrough of the AlphaFold3 architecture…”

What I Read: Extrinsic Hallucinations, LLMs

By Andrew Fairless on October 7, 2024July 14, 2024

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2024-07-07-hallucination Extrinsic Hallucinations in LLMsLilian WengJuly 7, 2024 “This post focuses on extrinsic hallucination. To avoid hallucination, LLMs need to be (1) factual and (2) acknowledge not knowing the answerContinue readingWhat I Read: Extrinsic Hallucinations, LLMs

What I Read: decision analysis, significance testing

By Andrew Fairless on October 3, 2024July 14, 2024

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/10/a-misunderstanding-about-decision-analysis-and-significance-testing (Trying to) clear up a misunderstanding about decision analysis and significance testingAndrew Gelman7/10/24 9:03 AM “…we’re just saying that screening based on statistical significance has lots of problems. P-valuesContinue readingWhat I Read: decision analysis, significance testing

What I Read: What can LLMs never do?

By Andrew Fairless on October 1, 2024July 14, 2024

https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-can-llms-never-do What can LLMs never do?Rohit KrishnanApr 23, 2024 “Every time over the past few years that we came up with problems LLMs can’t do, they passed them with flyingContinue readingWhat I Read: What can LLMs never do?

Month: October 2024