Clover-2: Accurate Inference for Regressive Lightweight Speculative Decoding
02 Aug

Clover-2: Accurate Inference for Regressive Lightweight Speculative Decoding

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arXiv:2408.00264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently suffer from inefficiencies, largely attributable to the discord between the requirements of auto-regressive decoding and the architecture of contemporary GPUs. Recently, regressive lightweight speculative decoding has garnered attention for its notable efficiency improvements in text generation tasks. This approach utilizes a lightweight regressive draft model, like a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) or a single transformer decoder layer, leveraging sequential information to iteratively predict potential tokens. Specifically, RNN draft models are computationally economical but tend to deliver lower accuracy, while attention decoder layer models exhibit the opposite traits. This paper presents…
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CAPTCHAs: The struggle to tell real humans from fake
02 Aug

CAPTCHAs: The struggle to tell real humans from fake

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CAPTCHAs are those now ubiquitous challenges you encounter to prove that you’re a human and not a bot when you go to log in to many websites. Websites and mobile apps have long been attacked by bots on a massive scale. Those malicious bots are programmed to automatically consume a large amount of computing resources, post spam messages, collect data from websites and even register and perform user authentication. This state of affairs led to the introduction of CAPTCHA, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. As a computer scientist, I see CAPTCHAs…
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Apple is staring down 2 different futures for the iPhone
02 Aug

Apple is staring down 2 different futures for the iPhone

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What does the future of the iPhone look like? That depends on how Apple's AI plans work out.For a while now, the outlook has been rather bleak. In Apple's last fiscal year, which ended in September 2023, iPhone sales fell to $200.6 billion from $205.5 billion the year prior.It did see a small quarterly jump in sales in the three months after that — driven by the new phone it launches in September each year — but net sales of the iPhone look set to be down again this year.As Apple announced record June quarter revenue of $85.8 billion on…
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The Essence & Impact of Pre-Designed Templates in Software Development Project Management
02 Aug

The Essence & Impact of Pre-Designed Templates in Software Development Project Management

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In the fast-paced software development environment, efficient project management is vital for delivering high-quality products on schedule and within budget. By utilizing ready-made templates, you have many chances to enhance your PM processes in the IT sector and other areas. These templates offer standardized frameworks that simplify planning, execution, and monitoring processes in software development projects. They provide a structured approach to managing tasks, resources, and timelines, ensuring consistency and minimizing the risk of errors. Let’s delve deeper into the role and essence of pre-made templates in software development project management, as well as their benefits, types, and examples. What…
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02 Aug

Protect AI Raises $60M in Series B Financing

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Led by former AWS and Oracle AI executives, Protect AI leads in security posture management with the most comprehensive end-to-end platform Protect AI, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, today announced it has closed a $60M Series B round of funding led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from 01 Advisors, StepStone Group, Samsung, and existing investors Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. To date, the company has raised a total of $108.5M to help organizations protect ML systems and AI applications from unique security vulnerabilities and emerging threats. Protect…
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Penzai + Treescope: A Toolkit for Interpreting, Visualizing, and Editing Models As Data
02 Aug

Penzai + Treescope: A Toolkit for Interpreting, Visualizing, and Editing Models As Data

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[Submitted on 1 Aug 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Penzai + Treescope: A Toolkit for Interpreting, Visualizing, and Editing Models As Data, by Daniel D. Johnson View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Much of today's machine learning research involves interpreting, modifying or visualizing models after they are trained. I present Penzai, a neural network library designed to simplify model manipulation by representing models as simple data structures, and Treescope, an interactive pretty-printer and array visualizer that can visualize both model inputs/outputs and the models themselves. Penzai models are built using declarative combinators that expose the model forward pass in…
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Putin got a pretty great deal, experts say
02 Aug

Putin got a pretty great deal, experts say

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The US claimed a major victory on Thursday, orchestrating a sweeping prisoner exchange with Russia that returned high-profile captives.The deal — the result of months of negotiations between the US, a slew of allies, and Russia — spanned 24 people in total.Russia got 8 people in exchange — one captive for every two it released.But, experts said, the numbers obscure the true power dynamic at play: Russia regained dangerous operatives in exchange for relatively everyday figures caught up in events.Smiles in the KremlinAndrew Payne, a City University of London lecturer in foreign policy, told BI that Putin won the historic…
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Strike the Balance: On-the-Fly Uncertainty based User Interactions for Long-Term Video Object Segmentation
02 Aug

Strike the Balance: On-the-Fly Uncertainty based User Interactions for Long-Term Video Object Segmentation

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[Submitted on 31 Jul 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Strike the Balance: On-the-Fly Uncertainty based User Interactions for Long-Term Video Object Segmentation, by St'ephane Vujasinovi'c and Stefan Becker and Sebastian Bullinger and Norbert Scherer-Negenborn and Michael Arens View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In this paper, we introduce a variant of video object segmentation (VOS) that bridges interactive and semi-automatic approaches, termed Lazy Video Object Segmentation (ziVOS). In contrast, to both tasks, which handle video object segmentation in an off-line manner (i.e., pre-recorded sequences), we propose through ziVOS to target online recorded sequences. Here, we strive to strike a…
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Mapping the misuse of generative AI
02 Aug

Mapping the misuse of generative AI

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Responsibility & Safety Published 2 August 2024 Authors Nahema Marchal and Rachel Xu New research analyzes the misuse of multimodal generative AI today, in order to help build safer and more responsible technologiesGenerative artificial intelligence (AI) models that can produce image, text, audio, video and more are enabling a new era of creativity and commercial opportunity. Yet, as these capabilities grow, so does the potential for their misuse, including manipulation, fraud, bullying or harassment.As part of our commitment to develop and use AI responsibly, we published a new paper, in partnership with Jigsaw and Google.org, analyzing how generative AI technologies…
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