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CharED: Character-wise Ensemble Decoding for Large Language Models

CharED: Character-wise Ensemble Decoding for Large Language Models

arXiv:2407.11009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable potential for problem solving, with open source models achieving increasingly impressive performance on benchmarks measuring areas from logical reasoning to mathematical ability. Ensembling models can further improve capabilities across a variety of domains. However, conventional methods of combining models at inference time such as shallow fusion necessitate a shared vocabulary and tokenization, and alternatives like fine-tuning for domain-specific performance are both time consuming and computationally expensive. We therefore present an inference-time ensembling algorithm aimed at "averaging" outputs from multiple LLMs and illustrate its improved performance across multiple domains…
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Fundamentals of Entity Framework: Simplifying Data Access in .NET

Fundamentals of Entity Framework: Simplifying Data Access in .NET

IntroductionImagine you are building a large library of books. Organizing, cataloging, and finding information quickly can be a challenge. Now, think of Entity Framework (EF) as an intelligent librarian that makes this process easy for your .NET applications. Entity Framework is an Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) that allows developers to work with a database using .NET objects, eliminating the need to write most of the data access code. Let's explore the fundamentals of Entity Framework and understand why it is such a powerful tool. What is Entity Framework?Entity Framework is a Microsoft technology for .NET that automates the mapping between domain…
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Chatbot Iris offers students individual support

Chatbot Iris offers students individual support

How can a chatbot support students in lectures and with assigned exercises? Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the chatbot Iris, which offers computer science students personalized assistance with programming assignments. A study has now confirmed the chatbot's success: Iris improves the understanding of programming concepts and represents a valuable complement to human tutors. A packed auditorium with over 1000 students. This is not a rare sight in introductory informatics lectures. To meet the needs of each individual student under these conditions, Stephan Krusche, professor of Software Engineering, and his team have been building the Artemis…
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You’re thinking of the metaverse all wrong, says Matthew Ball

Sign up for the Freethink Weekly newsletter! A collection of our favorite stories straight to your inbox Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, announced that his company was changing its name to Meta Platforms and pursuing the development of the three-dimensional internet, as the successor to mobile computing. He called it the “Metaverse,” borrowing the term from the 1992 Neal Stephenson sci-fi novel Snow Crash. Since then, the metaverse has become increasingly synonymous with Meta, and most laypeople — if they understand it at all — assume that partaking in it…
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More student-loan borrowers are getting debt cancellation through bankruptcy 2 years after Biden streamlined the process

More student-loan borrowers are getting debt cancellation through bankruptcy 2 years after Biden streamlined the process

On Wednesday, the Justice Department released an update on bankruptcy for borrowers following new guidance it released in 2022. According to the department, 588 new cases were filed from October 2023 to March 2024, marking a 36% increase from the prior 6-month period. Most of those borrowers have also seen success in court — per the department, 98% of them received full or partial debt relief from November 2022 through March 2024.Prior to the guidance, borrowers had to prove an "undue hardship" standard, in which they had to show that they could not maintain a minimal standard of living, that…
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MKDTI: Predicting drug-target interactions via multiple kernel fusion on graph attention network

MKDTI: Predicting drug-target interactions via multiple kernel fusion on graph attention network

arXiv:2407.10055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drug-target relationships may now be predicted computationally using bioinformatics data, which is a valuable tool for understanding pharmacological effects, enhancing drug development efficiency, and advancing related research. A number of structure-based, ligand-based and network-based approaches have now emerged. Furthermore, the integration of graph attention networks with intricate drug target studies is an application area of growing interest. In our work, we formulate a model called MKDTI by extracting kernel information from various layer embeddings of a graph attention network. This combination improves the prediction ability with respect to novel drug-target relationships. We first build a…
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Large Vision-Language Models as Emotion Recognizers in Context Awareness

Large Vision-Language Models as Emotion Recognizers in Context Awareness

arXiv:2407.11300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context-aware emotion recognition (CAER) is a complex and significant task that requires perceiving emotions from various contextual cues. Previous approaches primarily focus on designing sophisticated architectures to extract emotional cues from images. However, their knowledge is confined to specific training datasets and may reflect the subjective emotional biases of the annotators. Furthermore, acquiring large amounts of labeled data is often challenging in real-world applications. In this paper, we systematically explore the potential of leveraging Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) to empower the CAER task from three paradigms: 1) We fine-tune LVLMs on two CAER datasets, which…
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Figuring out Figures: Using Textual References to Caption Scientific Figures

Figuring out Figures: Using Textual References to Caption Scientific Figures

arXiv:2407.11008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Figures are essential channels for densely communicating complex ideas in scientific papers. Previous work in automatically generating figure captions has been largely unsuccessful and has defaulted to using single-layer LSTMs, which no longer achieve state-of-the-art performance. In our work, we use the SciCap datasets curated by Hsu et al. and use a variant of a CLIP+GPT-2 encoder-decoder model with cross-attention to generate captions conditioned on the image. Furthermore, we augment our training pipeline by creating a new dataset MetaSciCap that incorporates textual metadata from the original paper relevant to the figure, such as the title,…
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Amazon Prime Day Apple deals on AirPods, MacBooks and iPads that you shouldn’t miss today

Amazon Prime Day Apple deals on AirPods, MacBooks and iPads that you shouldn’t miss today

It's impressive how comprehensive the deals on Apple gear has been during Amazon's Prime Day sale. Here we are on day two and the deals are still available. We're seeing all-time low prices on all three models of the Apple Watch, all four current-generation iPads and both the AirPods Pro and the over-ear AirPods Max.Apart from accessories, any new Apple gear you buy now should get even better this fall when the software updates Apple announced at WWDC go wide. There'll be a new watchOS, iPadOS and macOS. Of course there will be a new iOS too, for the iPhone,…
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