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Thoughts on the 2024 AI Job Market
And Why I Joined Cohere
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Sebastian Ruder
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NLP Research in the Era of LLMs
5 Key Research Directions Without Much Compute
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Sebastian Ruder
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🧑‍🏫 Instruction Tuning Vol. 1
The most popular instruction datasets
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Sebastian Ruder
📄 NeurIPS 2023 Primer
A Round-up of 20 Exciting LLM-related Papers
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Sebastian Ruder
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…
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Sebastian Ruder
🛠 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…
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Sebastian Ruder
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Command R+
The Top Open-Weights LLM + RAG and Multilingual Support
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Sebastian Ruder
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✨ Flashier Attention, 🤐 Gzip Classifiers
This newsletter discusses attention that enables modeling long sequences and simple but surprisingly competitive classifiers such as based on gzip…
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The Big Picture of AI Research
A Workshop Retrospective
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Sebastian Ruder
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True Zero-shot MT
Teaching Machines a New Language Like Humans
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Sebastian Ruder
📄 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.
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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!
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Sebastian Ruder
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