Verba is an open-source application designed to offer an end-to-end, streamlined, and user-friendly interface for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) out of the box. It supports various RAG techniques, data types, LLM providers, and offers Docker support and a fully-customizable frontend.
The Towards Data Science team highlights recent articles on the rise of open-source LLMs, ethical considerations with chatbots, potential manipulation of LLM recommendations, and techniques for temperature scaling and re-ranking in generative AI.
- Proxy fine-tuning is a method to improve large pre-trained language models without directly accessing their weights.
- It operates on top of black-box LLMs by utilizing only their predictions.
- The approach combines elements of retrieval-based techniques, fine-tuning, and domain-specific adaptations.
- Proxy fine-tuning can be used to achieve the performance of heavily-tuned large models by only tuning smaller models.