This article introduces model merging, a technique that combines the weights of multiple customized large language models to increase resource utilization and add value to successful models.
NVIDIA introduces NIM Agent Blueprints, a collection of pre-trained, customizable AI workflows for common use cases like customer service avatars, PDF extraction, and drug discovery, aiming to simplify generative AI development for businesses.
Run:ai offers a platform to accelerate AI development, optimize GPU utilization, and manage AI workloads. It is designed for GPUs, offers CLI & GUI interfaces, and supports various AI tools & frameworks.
A startup called Backprop has demonstrated that a single Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU, released in 2020, can handle serving a modest large language model (LLM) like Llama 3.1 8B to over 100 concurrent users with acceptable throughput. This suggests that expensive enterprise GPUs may not be necessary for scaling LLMs to a few thousand users.
A method that uses instruction tuning to adapt LLMs for knowledge-intensive tasks. RankRAG simultaneously trains the models for context ranking and answer generation, enhancing their retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities.
NVIDIA and Georgia Tech researchers introduce RankRAG, a novel framework instruction-tuning a single LLM for top-k context ranking and answer generation. Aiming to improve RAG systems, it enhances context relevance assessment and answer generation.
A discussion post on Reddit's LocalLLaMA subreddit about logging the output of running models and monitoring performance, specifically for debugging errors, warnings, and performance analysis. The post also mentions the need for flags to output logs as flat files, GPU metrics (GPU utilization, RAM usage, TensorCore usage, etc.) for troubleshooting and analytics.
This gist provides instructions on how to create a systemd service that sets the Nvidia power limit after booting up. The power limit can be adjusted to increase longevity or performance, depending on the user's needs. The instructions include checking the current power settings, setting up the systemd service, and an example output after reboot.
- Discusses the use of consumer graphics cards for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs)
- Compares consumer graphics cards, such as NVIDIA GeForce RTX Series GPUs, to data center and cloud computing GPUs
- Highlights the differences in GPU memory and price between consumer and data center GPUs
- Shares the author's experience using a GeForce 3090 RTX card with 24GB of GPU memory for fine-tuning LLMs
- Compares consumer graphics cards, such as NVIDIA GeForce RTX Series GPUs, to data center and cloud computing GPUs
- Highlights the differences in GPU memory and price between consumer and data center GPUs
- Shares the author's experience using a GeForce 3090 RTX card with 24GB of GPU memory for fine-tuning LLMs
ChatQA, a new family of conversational question-answering (QA) models developed by NVIDIA AI. These models employ a unique two-stage instruction tuning method that significantly improves zero-shot conversational QA results from large language models (LLMs). The ChatQA-70B variant has demonstrated superior performance compared to GPT-4 across multiple conversational QA datasets.
