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DECEMBER 17, 2023

*= Equal Contributors Federated Learning (FL) is a technique to train models using data distributed across devices. Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee for sensitive data. Our goal is to train a large neural network language model (NNLM) on compute-constrained devices while preserving privacy using FL and DP. However, the DP-noise introduced to the model increases as the model size grows, which often prevents convergence.

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More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment at France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

With the help of creative prompt engineering and in-context learning, large language models (LLMs) are known to generalize well on a variety of text-based natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, for performing well on spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks, LLMs either need to be equipped with in-built speech modality or they need to rely on speech-to-text conversion from an off-the-shelf automation speech recognition (ASR) system.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume. Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

This paper was accepted at the workshop Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice at NeurIPS 2023. *=Equal Contributors Understanding model uncertainty is important for many applications. We propose Bootstrap Your Own Variance (BYOV), combining Bootstrap Your Own Latent (BYOL), a negative-free Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) algorithm, with Bayes by Backprop (BBB), a Bayesian method for estimating model posteriors.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Lund University in Sweden reorganizes in the face of years of accusations against two professors. Lund University in Sweden reorganizes in the face of years of accusations against two professors.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

AMD continued to engage with Nvidia's claims by showing some of its results, including further optimizations, while others accounted for latency, typically the situation with servers.

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As the generative AI boom took off in early 2023 , there were plenty of predictions about how soon — and to what extent — companies would start using generative AI in their marketing. Nearly a year later, it’s clear many are feeling increasingly comfortable. Just last week, the global hotel search company Trivago released a new ad campaign as part of a broader rebrand.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

AMD has a long history of vying for GPU compute market share. Ever since Nvidia got first dibs with their Tesla architecture, AMD has been playing catch up. Terascale 3 moved from VLIW5 to VLIW4 to improve execution unit utilization in compute workloads.

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In an audacious move that defies conventional wisdom, generative AI companies have embraced a cutting-edge approach to quality assurance: Releasing large language models (LLMs) directly into the wild, untamed realms of the internet.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

I gave a talk on my Masters Thesis Project in Architecture focusing on Altering Soundscapes in Exterior Environments using Helmholtz Resonators in Ceramic Br.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

A software company is offering a free artificial intelligence system that can help security detect weapons at schools in an effort to combat school shootings. Iterate.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Transparency and authenticity are critical for organizations that intend to use AI in any shape and form. As 2023 comes to a close, it has become evident that the once-unstoppable global AI race is quickly transforming into a mad dash.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Researchers have taken photographs of children’s retinas and screened them using a deep learning AI algorithm to diagnose autism with 100% accuracy.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

To reach the Senior level, you need to increase your scope, impact, and ownership. One of the best ways to do that is to become a “go-to” person or an expert. You could be the “database expert”, “Python expert”, “caching expert”, “frontend expert”, “Typescript expert”, etc.

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Cook up an AI-powered recipe with Taste Bud, summarize a YouTube video with Summarize.tech, and more. You can do some amazing things with AI in a minute or less. Read on for eight ways to start making something new. They’re all free, fast, and fun. 1.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Caspar Hauser died on 17 December 1833, but was it murder or a self-inflicted wound? Hauser’s mysterious death raised as many questions as his mysterious life.

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Last month, Amdocs and NVIDIA announced a strategic collaboration aimed at optimising LLMs to accelerate the adoption of generative AI applications …

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

More than 72 million years ago, the western seas of the Pacific Ocean were home to one of the fiercest ocean predators of all time.

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Intel rolled out a portfolio of AI products aimed at the data center, cloud, network, edge and PC at its AI Everywhere event in New York City last week. "Intel is on a mission to bring AI everywhere through exceptionally engineered platforms, secure solutions and support for open ecosystems," CEO.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Motivation To support high-performance GEMM code generation on Intel GPU, we propose XeGPU dialect. XeGPU dialect provides an abstraction that closely models Xe instructions. XeGPU ops are introduced when a special Xe instruction can’t be expressed by LLVM/SPIR-V dialect, for example, like matrix instruction (AKA DPAS) and 2D block load. It matches the hardware instructions’ semantics including the matrix sizes.

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*=Equal Contributors Multimodal datasets are a critical component in recent breakthroughs such as Stable Diffusion and GPT-4, yet their design does not receive the same research attention as model architectures or training algorithms. To address this shortcoming in the ML ecosystem, we introduce DataComp, a testbed for dataset experiments centered around a new candidate pool of 12.8 billion image-text pairs from Common Crawl.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Qatar Airways has banned YouTube flight reviewer Josh Cahill for posting a negative review. Here's the backstory.

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AI use is skyrocketing in the workplace, with over half of companies now employing generative AI tools to enhance productivity and creativity, despite concerns about regulation and job loss. At JLL, a proprietary AI tool streamlines tedious tasks, allowing employees to focus on high-level work, demonstrating AI’s ability to reveal insights quickly and aid in complex decision-making.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Generate AI-created images and photos with Stable Diffusion using a distributed computing cluster powered by the AI Horde. No login required and free to use.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

The tech industry is obsessed with the idea of being able to remember everything, but when it comes to your personal life, there need to be limits.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

3M knew its chemicals were toxic decades ago, but didn’t tell the public or government, internal documents show.

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In the rapidly evolving world of language processing, the integration of advanced tools like Gemini Pro with LangChain is a significant step forward for …

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.