NLP News

The Evolving Landscape of LLM Evaluation

Throughout recent years, LLM capabilities have outpaced evaluation benchmarks. This is not a new development. What is new is that the set of standard…

May 13, 2024 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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April 2024

Command R+

The Top Open-Weights LLM + RAG and Multilingual Support

Apr 15, 2024 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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February 2024

True Zero-shot MT

Teaching Machines a New Language Like Humans

Feb 27, 2024 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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Thoughts on the 2024 AI Job Market

And Why I Joined Cohere

Feb 12, 2024 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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January 2024

The Big Picture of AI Research

A Workshop Retrospective

Jan 18, 2024 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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December 2023

NLP Research in the Era of LLMs

5 Key Research Directions Without Much Compute

Dec 19, 2023 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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📄 EMNLP 2023 Primer

In this newsletter, I’ll discuss a selection of exciting papers and workshops I’m looking forward to at EMNLP 2023 and the trends I observed.

Dec 5, 2023

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📄 NeurIPS 2023 Primer

A Round-up of 20 Exciting LLM-related Papers

Dec 1, 2023 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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November 2023

Instruction Tuning Vol. 2

We cover the latest generation of instruction-tuning datasets that are much closer to real-world use cases—but still have their limitations!

Nov 15, 2023 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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October 2023

🌍⏳ Do LMs Represent Space and Time?

In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the question “Do LMs represent space and time?” inspired by a recent paper.

Oct 9, 2023 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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🧑‍🏫 Instruction Tuning Vol. 1

The most popular instruction datasets

Oct 4, 2023 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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August 2023

🛠 Tool-Augmented LLMs

In this edition, we’ll explore tool use—arguably one of the hottest new capabilities of LLMs. We’ll look at types of tools, benefits of tool use, recent…

Aug 28, 2023 • 

Sebastian Ruder

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