Natural Language Processing

ORID framework leverages organ-regional information to boost radiology report generation, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy by integrating multi-modal data and reducing noise from unrelated organs.

Hymba: Hybrid-head architecture boosts small language model performance by 11.67x cache size reduction and 3.49x throughput, surpassing existing models.

BALROG benchmark rigorously evaluates LLMs’/VLMs’ abilities in complex games, revealing their strengths and weaknesses in long-term planning and decision-making, highlighting the need for improved vis…

New data-free methodology creates effective, generalizable LLMs guardrails against off-topic prompts, significantly improving LLM safety and responsible use.

UltraMem, a novel ultra-sparse memory network, drastically speeds up LLM inference by 6x compared to MoE while maintaining performance, paving the way for efficient large-scale model deployment.

RedPajama, two massive open-source datasets, are released for training LLMs, improving transparency and facilitating the development of high-performing open-source models.

SUTRA tokenizer outperforms other LLMs in Indian languages, improving efficiency and facilitating better model performance.

Verifier engineering: A new post-training paradigm for foundation models using automated verifiers to provide effective supervision signals, enhancing capabilities beyond traditional data-centric meth…

Scaling reranker inference surprisingly degrades retrieval quality beyond a certain point, prompting the need for more robust reranking techniques.

SageAttention2 achieves 4-bit accurate attention, boosting inference speed by 2x compared to FlashAttention2, while maintaining end-to-end accuracy across diverse models.

New German-only LLMs, LLäMmlein 120M & 1B, trained from scratch & openly released, show competitive performance and offer insights into efficient model training.

SlimLM: Efficient small language models (SLMs) optimized for mobile document assistance, achieving comparable or superior performance to existing SLMs.

LLaMA-Mesh: Unifying 3D mesh generation with LLMs by directly representing meshes as text, enabling efficient text-to-3D conversion within a single model.

MedRGB benchmark reveals current LLMs struggle with noisy medical data, emphasizing the need for robust RAG systems in healthcare AI.

LLMs can dynamically adjust decoding temperature using Adaptive Decoding and Latent Preference Optimization, improving performance across creative and factual tasks.

Cut Cross-Entropy (CCE) dramatically reduces the memory footprint of training large language models by cleverly computing the cross-entropy loss without materializing the full logit matrix.

Sparse autoencoders fail to accurately decompose and interpret steering vectors due to distribution mismatch and the inability to handle negative feature projections; this paper identifies these issue…

CamemBERT 2.0: Two new French language models (CamemBERTav2 & CamemBERTv2) outperform predecessors by addressing temporal concept drift via larger, updated datasets and enhanced tokenization, demonstr…

Top-ησ: A novel LLM sampling method outperforms existing approaches by using a statistical threshold on pre-softmax logits, achieving higher accuracy while maintaining diversity, even at high temperat…

LLMs can now self-improve long-context reasoning via SEALONG, a novel method leveraging multiple model outputs and minimum Bayes risk scoring to enable effective supervised fine-tuning or preference o…