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Language AI
Chain-of-Verification for Hallucination Reduction
Chain-of-Verification (CoVe) is a prompting method where a model drafts an answer, generates its own fact-checking questions, answers them independently…
Language AIEntity Linking and Disambiguation
Entity linking maps mentions of names in text to unique entries in a knowledge base, deciding, for example, whether 'Paris' means the city or the person.
ApplicationsAI in Sign Language Translation
AI sign language translation uses computer vision and machine learning to turn signed languages like ASL into text or speech, and sometimes the reverse.
ApplicationsAI in Lip Reading and Visual Speech Recognition
Visual speech recognition uses AI to read lips, predicting spoken words from the movement of a person's mouth, jaw, and face, sometimes without any audio.
ApplicationsAI in Crop Yield Prediction
AI crop yield prediction forecasts how much a field or region will harvest by learning from satellite imagery, weather, and soil data.
Language AILogit Lens and Intermediate Layer Decoding
The logit lens is an interpretability trick that decodes a transformer's hidden states at every layer into vocabulary predictions, letting you watch a guess…
Language AIInduction Heads in Transformers
Induction heads are attention heads that implement a simple but powerful copy rule: 'I saw [A][B] earlier, and now I see [A] again, so predict [B].
Language AIPosition Interpolation for Context Extension
Position Interpolation (PI) is a technique that stretches a language model's usable context window far beyond its training length by rescaling positional…
Language AIYaRN Context Window Scaling
YaRN (Yet another RoPE extensioN) is a technique that stretches a transformer's usable context window far beyond what it was trained on, with minimal…
Language AIJamba Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Models
Jamba is a large language model from AI21 Labs that interleaves Transformer attention layers with Mamba state-space layers (plus mixture-of-experts) to get…
Language AIChinchilla Scaling Laws
The Chinchilla scaling laws, from DeepMind in 2022, showed that most large language models were badly undertrained: for a fixed compute budget, you should…
IndustriesAI in Dairy Herd Management
AI helps dairy farmers monitor every cow individually—tracking milk yield, health, fertility, and feeding—turning herds of hundreds into precisely managed…
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