An article explaining why and how beginners in machine learning should read academic papers, highlighting the vast amount of information available on arXiv and the benefits of engaging with these papers for learning and staying updated.
MIT researchers developed a system that uses large language models to convert AI explanations into narrative text that can be more easily understood by users, aiming to help with better decision-making about model trustworthiness.
The system, called EXPLINGO, leverages large language models (LLMs) to convert machine-learning explanations, such as SHAP plots, into easily comprehensible narrative text. The system consists of two parts: NARRATOR, which generates natural language explanations based on user preferences, and GRADER, which evaluates the quality of these narratives. This approach aims to help users understand and trust machine learning predictions more effectively by providing clear and concise explanations.
The researchers hope to further develop the system to enable interactive follow-up questions from users to the AI model.
The system, called EXPLINGO, leverages large language models (LLMs) to convert machine-learning explanations, such as SHAP plots, into easily comprehensible narrative text. The system consists of two parts: NARRATOR, which generates natural language explanations based on user preferences, and GRADER, which evaluates the quality of these narratives. This approach aims to help users understand and trust machine learning predictions more effectively by providing clear and concise explanations.
The researchers hope to further develop the system to enable interactive follow-up questions from users to the AI model.
David Ferrucci, the founder and CEO of Elemental Cognition, is among those pioneering 'neurosymbolic AI' approaches as a way to overcome the limitations of today's deep learning-based generative AI technology.
Snowflake recently announced the launch of Arctic Embed L 2.0 and Arctic Embed M 2.0, two small and powerful embedding models tailored for multilingual search and retrieval. The models are available in medium and large variants, with the medium model incorporating 305 million parameters and the large variant with 568 million parameters. Both models support context lengths of up to 8,192 tokens. They demonstrate high-quality retrieval across multiple languages and excel in benchmarks like MTEB and CLEF.
Learn how to build Llama 3.2-Vision locally in a chat-like mode, and explore its Multimodal skills on a Colab notebook.
HunyuanVideo is an open-source video generation model that showcases performance comparable to or superior to leading closed-source models. It includes features like a unified image and video generative architecture, a large language model text encoder, and a causal 3D VAE for spatial-temporal compression.
The paper titled "Attention Is All You Need" introduces the Transformer, a novel architecture for sequence transduction models that relies entirely on self-attention mechanisms, dispensing with traditional recurrence and convolutions. Key aspects of the model include:
- Architecture: The Transformer consists of an encoder-decoder structure, with both components utilizing stacked layers of multi-head self-attention mechanisms and feed-forward networks. It avoids recurrence and convolutions, allowing for greater parallelism and faster training.
- Attention Mechanism: The model uses scaled dot-product attention for computing attention scores, which scales down the dot products to prevent softmax from saturating.
- Multi-head attention is employed to allow the model to attend to information from different representation subspaces at different positions.
- Training and Regularization: The authors use the Adam optimizer with a particular learning rate schedule that initially increases the rate and then decreases it based on the number of training steps. They also employ techniques like dropout and label smoothing to regularize the model during training.
- Performance: The Transformer achieves state-of-the-art results on machine translation benchmarks (WMT 2014 English-to-German and English-to-French), outperforming previous models with significantly less training time and computational resources.
- Generalization: The model demonstrates strong performance on tasks other than machine translation, such as English constituency parsing, indicating its versatility and ability to learn complex dependencies and structures.
The paper emphasizes the efficiency and scalability of the Transformer, highlighting its potential for various sequence transduction tasks, and provides a foundation for subsequent advancements in natural language processing and beyond.
- Architecture: The Transformer consists of an encoder-decoder structure, with both components utilizing stacked layers of multi-head self-attention mechanisms and feed-forward networks. It avoids recurrence and convolutions, allowing for greater parallelism and faster training.
- Attention Mechanism: The model uses scaled dot-product attention for computing attention scores, which scales down the dot products to prevent softmax from saturating.
- Multi-head attention is employed to allow the model to attend to information from different representation subspaces at different positions.
- Training and Regularization: The authors use the Adam optimizer with a particular learning rate schedule that initially increases the rate and then decreases it based on the number of training steps. They also employ techniques like dropout and label smoothing to regularize the model during training.
- Performance: The Transformer achieves state-of-the-art results on machine translation benchmarks (WMT 2014 English-to-German and English-to-French), outperforming previous models with significantly less training time and computational resources.
- Generalization: The model demonstrates strong performance on tasks other than machine translation, such as English constituency parsing, indicating its versatility and ability to learn complex dependencies and structures.
The paper emphasizes the efficiency and scalability of the Transformer, highlighting its potential for various sequence transduction tasks, and provides a foundation for subsequent advancements in natural language processing and beyond.
An article detailing how to build a flexible, explainable, and algorithm-agnostic ML pipeline with MLflow, focusing on preprocessing, model training, and SHAP-based explanations.
This article provides a non-technical guide to interpreting SHAP analyses, useful for explaining machine learning models to non-technical stakeholders, with a focus on both local and global interpretability using various visualization methods.
The article discusses the evolution of search databases and how vector databases are emerging as a powerful alternative to traditional search engines like Elasticsearch.
