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Jul 8, 2024 • 27min
ML-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models and Agents for Machine Learning Tasks on Repository-Level Code
Despite Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 achieving impressive results in function-level code generation, they struggle with repository-scale code understanding (e.g., coming up with the right arguments for calling routines), requiring a deeper comprehension of complex file interactions. Also, recently, people have developed LLM agents that attempt to interact with repository code (e.g., compiling and evaluating its execution), prompting the need to evaluate their performance. These gaps have motivated our development of ML-Bench, a benchmark rooted in real-world programming applications that leverage existing code repositories to perform tasks. Addressing the need for LLMs to interpret long code contexts and translate instructions into precise, executable scripts, ML-Bench encompasses annotated 9,641 examples across 18 GitHub repositories, challenging LLMs to accommodate user-specified arguments and documentation intricacies effectively. To evaluate both LLMs and AI agents, two setups are employed: ML-LLM-Bench for assessing LLMs' text-to-code conversion within a predefined deployment environment, and ML-Agent-Bench for testing autonomous agents in an end-to-end task execution within a Linux sandbox environment. Our findings indicate that while GPT-4o leads with a Pass@5 rate surpassing 50%, there remains significant scope for improvement, highlighted by issues such as hallucinated outputs and difficulties with bash script generation. Notably, in the more demanding ML-Agent-Bench, GPT-4o achieves a 76.47% success rate, reflecting the efficacy of iterative action and feedback in complex task resolution. Our code, dataset, and models are available at https://github.com/gersteinlab/ML-bench.
2023: Yuliang Liu, Xiangru Tang, Zefan Cai, Junjie Lu, Yichi Zhang, Yan Shao, Zexuan Deng, Helan Hu, Zengxian Yang, Kaikai An, Ruijun Huang, Shuzheng Si, Sheng Chen, Haozhe Zhao, Zheng Li, Liang Chen, Yiming Zong, Yan Wang, Tianyu Liu, Zhiwei Jiang, Baobao Chang, Yujia Qin, Wangchunshu Zhou, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan, Mark B. Gerstein
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.09835

Jul 5, 2024 • 22min
Unique3D: High-Quality and Efficient 3D Mesh Generation from a Single Image
In this work, we introduce Unique3D, a novel image-to-3D framework for efficiently generating high-quality 3D meshes from single-view images, featuring state-of-the-art generation fidelity and strong generalizability. Previous methods based on Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) can produce diversified 3D results by distilling 3D knowledge from large 2D diffusion models, but they usually suffer from long per-case optimization time with inconsistent issues. Recent works address the problem and generate better 3D results either by finetuning a multi-view diffusion model or training a fast feed-forward model. However, they still lack intricate textures and complex geometries due to inconsistency and limited generated resolution. To simultaneously achieve high fidelity, consistency, and efficiency in single image-to-3D, we propose a novel framework Unique3D that includes a multi-view diffusion model with a corresponding normal diffusion model to generate multi-view images with their normal maps, a multi-level upscale process to progressively improve the resolution of generated orthographic multi-views, as well as an instant and consistent mesh reconstruction algorithm called ISOMER, which fully integrates the color and geometric priors into mesh results. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our Unique3D significantly outperforms other image-to-3D baselines in terms of geometric and textural details.
2024: Kailu Wu, Fangfu Liu, Zhihan Cai, Runjie Yan, Hanyang Wang, Yating Hu, Yueqi Duan, Kaisheng Ma
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20343

Jul 4, 2024 • 37min
DeepSeek-Coder-V2: Breaking the Barrier of Closed-Source Models in Code Intelligence
We present DeepSeek-Coder-V2, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code language model that achieves performance comparable to GPT4-Turbo in code-specific tasks. Specifically, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 is further pre-trained from an intermediate checkpoint of DeepSeek-V2 with additional 6 trillion tokens. Through this continued pre-training, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 substantially enhances the coding and mathematical reasoning capabilities of DeepSeek-V2, while maintaining comparable performance in general language tasks. Compared to DeepSeek-Coder-33B, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 demonstrates significant advancements in various aspects of code-related tasks, as well as reasoning and general capabilities. Additionally, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 expands its support for programming languages from 86 to 338, while extending the context length from 16K to 128K. In standard benchmark evaluations, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 achieves superior performance compared to closed-source models such as GPT4-Turbo, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini 1.5 Pro in coding and math benchmarks.
2024: DeepSeek-AI, Qihao Zhu, Daya Guo, Zhihong Shao, Dejian Yang, Peiyi Wang, Runxin Xu, Y. Wu, Yukun Li, Huazuo Gao, Shirong Ma, Wangding Zeng, Xiao Bi, Zihui Gu, Hanwei Xu, Damai Dai, Kai Dong, Liyue Zhang, Yishi Piao, Zhibin Gou, Zhenda Xie, Zhewen Hao, Bing-Li Wang, Jun-Mei Song, Deli Chen, Xin Xie, Kang Guan, Yu-mei You, A. Liu, Qiushi Du, W. Gao, Xuan Lu, Qinyu Chen, Yaohui Wang, Chengqi Deng, Jiashi Li, Chenggang Zhao, Chong Ruan, Fuli Luo, W. Liang
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11931v1

Jun 28, 2024 • 38min
Model soups: averaging weights of multiple fine-tuned models improves accuracy without increasing inference time
The podcast discusses how averaging weights of multiple fine-tuned models can improve accuracy without increasing inference time. They introduce the concept of 'model soups,' which outperforms conventional ensemble methods. The approach is showcased on pre-trained models like CLIP, ALIGN, and ViT-G, leading to state-of-the-art results. Additionally, they explore the benefits of model soups in various tasks and analyze the relation between weight-averaging and flatness of loss.

Jun 27, 2024 • 1h 7min
RAG vs Fine-tuning: Pipelines, Tradeoffs, and a Case Study on Agriculture
Exploring the effectiveness of RAG vs Fine-tuning methods in Large Language Models for agriculture applications. Discussing the generation of questions and answers, nutrient management in citrus fruits, evaluating question quality, and performance of base vs fine-tuned models with RAG integration. Revealing insights on location-specific agricultural knowledge and the benefits of utilizing both approaches.

Jun 26, 2024 • 21min
Seven Failure Points When Engineering a Retrieval Augmented Generation System
Discover the failure points of Retrieval Augmented Generation systems, combining semantic search with large language models. Explore lessons from case studies in research, education, and biomedical domains. Learn about validation challenges and the evolving nature of system robustness. Dive into potential research directions for enhancing RAG systems in software engineering.

Jun 25, 2024 • 42min
Husky: A Unified, Open-Source Language Agent for Multi-Step Reasoning
Language agents perform complex tasks by using tools to execute each step precisely. However, most existing agents are based on proprietary models or designed to target specific tasks, such as mathematics or multi-hop question answering. We introduce Husky, a holistic, open-source language agent that learns to reason over a unified action space to address a diverse set of complex tasks involving numerical, tabular, and knowledge-based reasoning. Husky iterates between two stages: 1) generating the next action to take towards solving a given task and 2) executing the action using expert models and updating the current solution state. We identify a thorough ontology of actions for addressing complex tasks and curate high-quality data to train expert models for executing these actions. Our experiments show that Husky outperforms prior language agents across 14 evaluation datasets. Moreover, we introduce HuskyQA, a new evaluation set which stress tests language agents for mixed-tool reasoning, with a focus on retrieving missing knowledge and performing numerical reasoning. Despite using 7B models, Husky matches or even exceeds frontier LMs such as GPT-4 on these tasks, showcasing the efficacy of our holistic approach in addressing complex reasoning problems. Our code and models are available at https://github.com/agent-husky/Husky-v1.
2024: Joongwon Kim, Bhargavi Paranjape, Tushar Khot, Hanna Hajishirzi
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.06469

Jun 24, 2024 • 38min
Recurrent Context Compression: Efficiently Expanding the Context Window of LLM
Discover how Recurrent Context Compression (RCC) method expands context window length of LLMs efficiently, overcoming storage constraints. Learn about instruction reconstruction to improve model responses, achieving high accuracy in passkey retrieval task. Explore RCC's competitive performance in long-text question-answering tasks while significantly saving storage resources.

Jun 21, 2024 • 34min
Multi-Head RAG: Solving Multi-Aspect Problems with LLMs
Discover how Multi-Head RAG revolutionizes document retrieval for AI models by leveraging Transformer's attention layers, enhancing accuracy and relevance. The podcast also delves into acknowledgments and funding sources for the research project, showcasing support from various organizations and programs.

Jun 20, 2024 • 41min
StreamSpeech: Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation with Multi-task Learning
Simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (Simul-S2ST, a.k.a streaming speech translation) outputs target speech while receiving streaming speech inputs, which is critical for real-time communication. Beyond accomplishing translation between speech, Simul-S2ST requires a policy to control the model to generate corresponding target speech at the opportune moment within speech inputs, thereby posing a double challenge of translation and policy. In this paper, we propose StreamSpeech, a direct Simul-S2ST model that jointly learns translation and simultaneous policy in a unified framework of multi-task learning. Adhering to a multi-task learning approach, StreamSpeech can perform offline and simultaneous speech recognition, speech translation and speech synthesis via an"All-in-One"seamless model. Experiments on CVSS benchmark demonstrate that StreamSpeech achieves state-of-the-art performance in both offline S2ST and Simul-S2ST tasks. Besides, StreamSpeech is able to present high-quality intermediate results (i.e., ASR or translation results) during simultaneous translation process, offering a more comprehensive real-time communication experience.
2024: Shaolei Zhang, Qingkai Fang, Shoutao Guo, Zhengrui Ma, Min Zhang, Yang Feng
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.03049