Reuse, Don’t Retrain: A Recipe for Continued Pretraining of Language Models

Reuse, Don’t Retrain: A Recipe for Continued Pretraining of Language Models

arXiv:2407.07263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As language models have scaled both their number of parameters and pretraining dataset sizes, the computational cost for pretraining has become intractable except for the most well-resourced teams. This increasing cost makes it ever more important to be able to reuse a model after it has completed pretraining; allowing for a model's abilities to further improve without needing to train from scratch. In this work, we detail a set of guidelines that cover how to design efficacious data distributions and learning rate schedules for continued pretraining of language models. When applying these findings within a…
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Clarence Thomas accepted a free yacht trip to Russia and got flown out on a complimentary helicopter ride to Putin’s hometown, 2 Democratic senators say

Clarence Thomas accepted a free yacht trip to Russia and got flown out on a complimentary helicopter ride to Putin’s hometown, 2 Democratic senators say

Two Democratic senators have accused Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of accepting free trips to Russian President Vladimir Putin's hometown.The letter highlighted the "serious possibility of tax fraud" and accused Thomas of having "secretly accepted gifts and income potentially worth millions of dollars."The letter's appendix, which lists 35 undisclosed gifts, shows a "yacht trip to Russia and the Baltics" and a "helicopter ride to Yusupov Palace, St. Petersburg," both listed under the year 2003.St. Petersburg is Putin's birthplace and where he grew up. The president currently resides in Moscow.The appendix list is titled "Likely Undisclosed Gifts and Income from Harlan Crow…
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Amazon’s Kindle Scribe drops to a new record-low ahead of Prime Day

Amazon’s Kindle Scribe drops to a new record-low ahead of Prime Day

doesn’t officially start until July 16, but early deals have been trickling in for days. For instance, the well-reviewed Kindle Scribe e-reader and includes the company’s Basic Pen stylus thingamajig. All told, that’s a discount of $105, making this a record-low price. The downside? This deal’s only for Prime members.The Kindle Scribe easily made our list of the . It would have nabbed the top spot, if not for the exorbitant original asking price and some stiff competition from the reMarkable 2. However, this deal makes the Scribe much cheaper than comparable products.AmazonThis is a record-low price, but only for…
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Cardinality-Aware Set Prediction and Top-$k$ Classification

Cardinality-Aware Set Prediction and Top-$k$ Classification

arXiv:2407.07140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a detailed study of cardinality-aware top-$k$ classification, a novel approach that aims to learn an accurate top-$k$ set predictor while maintaining a low cardinality. We introduce a new target loss function tailored to this setting that accounts for both the classification error and the cardinality of the set predicted. To optimize this loss function, we propose two families of surrogate losses: cost-sensitive comp-sum losses and cost-sensitive constrained losses. Minimizing these loss functions leads to new cardinality-aware algorithms that we describe in detail in the case of both top-$k$ and threshold-based classifiers. We establish…
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What specific data inputs are required to use the HECS repayment calculator effectively?

What specific data inputs are required to use the HECS repayment calculator effectively?

The HECS repayment calculator is an essential tool for Australian graduates to estimate their Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) loan repayments. To obtain accurate estimates, users need to provide specific data inputs. Here’s a detailed look at the required information for using the HECS repayment calculator effectively. 1. Annual Income Gross Annual Income: The most critical input is your annual pre-tax income. This figure includes all sources of taxable income, such as: Salary and wages: The primary source of income for most individuals.Bonuses and overtime payments: Any additional earnings from your employment.Freelance or contractor income: For those who work independently…
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CamFreeDiff: Camera-free Image to Panorama Generation with Diffusion Model

CamFreeDiff: Camera-free Image to Panorama Generation with Diffusion Model

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Identification of emotions on Twitter during the 2022 electoral process in Colombia

Identification of emotions on Twitter during the 2022 electoral process in Colombia

[Submitted on 9 Jul 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Identification of emotions on Twitter during the 2022 electoral process in Colombia, by Juan Jose Iguaran Fernandez and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The study of Twitter as a means for analyzing social phenomena has gained interest in recent years due to the availability of large amounts of data in a relatively spontaneous environment. Within opinion-mining tasks, emotion detection is specially relevant, as it allows for the identification of people's subjective responses to different social events in a more granular way than traditional sentiment analysis based…
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Russia’s thwarting of precision Western weapons in Ukraine shows the value of things like old-fashioned, unguided artillery, European general says

Russia’s thwarting of precision Western weapons in Ukraine shows the value of things like old-fashioned, unguided artillery, European general says

Russia's thwarting of precision weapons provided to Ukraine by the West shows there are still use cases for unguided artillery in technologically advanced warfare, a Finnish general told The Wall Street Journal.Weapons guided by a GPS system provide precision strikes against enemy targets and have been crucial for some of Ukraine's prior countermeasures against Russia during the war.The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), which can hit targets up to 50 miles away, was once seen as a vital lifeline for Ukraine in order to stop Russia's advance in the summer of 2022. But those same precision weapons, which…
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