MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

'Pluribus' Season 2 Needs To Address These 5 Things (or Else)

Pluribus, starring Rhea Seehorn, has finished its first season, and the Apple TV sci-fi show has things it desperately needs ...
Mathrubhumi EnglishOpinion

America and the planetary state of exception; When power becomes terror

The alarming shift from non-state to state terrorism, its impact on international law, and the new era of global governance ...
GitHub

Free Draft-and-Verification: Toward Lossless Parallel Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models

We propose FreeDave (Free Draft-and-Verification), a fast sampling algorithm for diffusion language models, which achieves lossless parallel decoding via a pipeline of parallel-decoded candidate ...
InfoQ

Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

Karthik Ramgopal and Daniel Hewlett discuss the evolution of AI at LinkedIn, from simple prompt chains to a sophisticated ...
Electronic Design

Parallel Programming Language Brings Software Closer To Hardware

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...
BMJ

Parallel pressures: the common roots of doctor bullshit and large language model hallucinations

13 Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA 14 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA 15 ...
GitHub

Can Large Language Models Predict Parallel Code Performance?

We took this version of HeCBench and are modifying it to build the CUDA and OMP codes to gather their roofline performance data. So far we have a large portion of the CUDA and OMP codes building ...