The rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research underscores the importance of accurately evaluating AI agents’ capabilities in replicating complex, empirical research tasks traditionally performed by human researchers. Currently, systematic evaluation tools that precisely measure the ability of AI agents to autonomously reproduce ML research findings remain limited, posing challenges in […] The post Open AI Releases PaperBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Assessing AI Agents’ Abilities to Replicate Cutting-Edge Machine Learning Research appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more

Hallucination remains a significant challenge in deploying Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), as these models often generate text misaligned with visual inputs. Unlike hallucination in LLMs, which arises from linguistic inconsistencies, LVLMs struggle with cross-modal discrepancies, leading to inaccurate image descriptions or incorrect spatial relationships. These models leverage vision encoders, such as CLIP, alongside pretrained text […] The post Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models: A Latent Space Steering Approach appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more

Nomic has announced the release of “Nomic Embed Multimodal,” a groundbreaking embedding model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on visual document retrieval tasks. The new model seamlessly processes interleaved text, images, and screenshots, establishing a new high score on the Vidore-v2 benchmark for visual document retrieval. This advancement is particularly significant for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) […] The post Nomic Open Sources State-of-the-Art Multimodal Embedding Model appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more

Deploying LLMs presents challenges, particularly in optimizing efficiency, managing computational costs, and ensuring high-quality performance. LLM routing has emerged as a strategic solution to these challenges, enabling intelligent task allocation to the most suitable models or tools. Let’s delve into the intricacies of LLM routing, explore various tools and frameworks designed for its implementation, and […] The post A Comprehensive Guide to LLM Routing: Tools and Frameworks appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more

Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly benefit from attention mechanisms, enabling the effective retrieval of contextual information. Nevertheless, traditional attention methods primarily depend on single token attention, where each attention weight is computed from a single pair of query and key vectors. This design inherently constrains the model’s ability to discern contexts requiring the integration of […] The post Meta AI Proposes Multi-Token Attention (MTA): A New Attention Method which Allows LLMs to Condition their Attention Weights on Multiple Query and Key Vectors appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more

The Transformer architecture revolutionised natural language processing with its self-attention mechanism, enabling parallel computation and effective context retrieval. However, Transformers face significant limitations when processing longer sequences due to their quadratic computational complexity. Linear Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have emerged as a promising alternative, offering parallel training capabilities while maintaining linear inference-time complexity. The expressivity […] The post DeltaProduct: An AI Method that Balances Expressivity and Efficiency of the Recurrence Computation, Improving State-Tracking in Linear Recurrent Neural Networks appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more

Amazon has revealed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model called Amazon Nova Act. This AI agent is designed to operate and take actions within a web browser, automating tasks like filling out forms, navigating interfaces, and handling popups. Think of it as an assistant working directly on websites. Amazon has also released Nova Act SDK, […] The post Meet Amazon Nova Act: An AI Agent that can Automate Web Tasks appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is crucial for aligning LLMs with human values and preferences. Despite introducing non-RL alternatives like DPO, industry-leading models such as ChatGPT/GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini continue to rely on RL algorithms like PPO for policy optimization. Recent research focuses on algorithmic improvements, including eliminating critic models to reduce computational costs, […] The post This AI Paper from ByteDance Introduces a Hybrid Reward System Combining Reasoning Task Verifiers (RTV) and a Generative Reward Model (GenRM) to Mitigate Reward Hacking appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more

The terminal (on Mac/Linux) or command prompt (on Windows) is a powerful tool that allows you to interact with your computer using text commands instead of clicking through a graphical interface. While it might seem intimidating at first, mastering basic terminal commands can help you: This guide will introduce you to the essential commands and […] The post The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Terminal/Command Prompt appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant progress across various tasks, particularly in reasoning capabilities. However, effectively integrating reasoning processes with external search operations remains challenging, especially for multi-hop questions requiring intricate reasoning chains and multiple retrieval steps. Current methods primarily depend on manually designed prompts or heuristics, posing limitations in scalability and flexibility. Additionally, […] The post Meet ReSearch: A Novel AI Framework that Trains LLMs to Reason with Search via Reinforcement Learning without Using Any Supervised Data on Reasoning Steps appeared first on MarkTechPost. read more