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UberUber

Fast Copy-On-Write within Apache Parquet for Data Lakehouse ACID Upserts

Experience the power of row-level secondary indexing in Apache Parquet, enabling 3-20X faster upserts and efficient table ACID operations in Lakehouse architecture.

6/29/2023
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

The future of large language models is faster and more robust

Reducing computational expense of large language models to make them faster and more robust.

6/29/2023
OpenAIOpenAI

Insights from global conversations

Sharing insights gathered from conversations in 22 countries and discussing how to incorporate them moving forward.

6/29/2023
MetaMeta

Meta’s Evenstar is transitioning to OCP to accelerate open RAN adoption

Meta is transferring its IP for Evenstar to the Open Compute Project (OCP) to accelerate the adoption of open RAN technologies, providing the telecom industry with an open, white box radio unit solution.

6/29/2023
Google AIGoogle AI

On-device diffusion plugins for conditioned text-to-image generation

This technical blogpost discusses the development of on-device diffusion plugins for conditioned text-to-image generation, enabling controllable text-to-image generation to be run on mobile devices.

6/29/2023
Google AIGoogle AI

Announcing the first Machine Unlearning Challenge

The blogpost announces the first Machine Unlearning Challenge, which aims to develop efficient, effective, and ethical unlearning algorithms to remove the influence of specific training examples from machine learning models while maintaining model utility and generalization.

6/29/2023
DuolingoDuolingo

7 unique Spanish words that don't *quite* translate

Discover 7 Spanish words that cannot be fully translated into English!

6/29/2023
DuolingoDuolingo

How to order food in Italian in Italy

Guide on how to use Italian language to order food in Italy

6/29/2023
Cohere AICohere AI

Intriguing Properties of Quantization at Scale

Exploring whether quantization difficulties at scale can be altered and conditioned by optimization choices in Large Language Models (LLMs).

6/29/2023
Cohere AICohere AI

How to Create Custom Command Models

A guide on creating and utilizing custom command models with a focus on finetuning and its advantages.

6/29/2023
Cohere AICohere AI

Using the Command Model in Amazon SageMaker Studio

Learn how to leverage Cohere's Command model in Amazon SageMaker Studio with the help of Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.

6/29/2023
Berkeley AIBerkeley AI

Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention

This technical blogpost introduces CoarsenConf, an SE(3)-equivariant hierarchical variational autoencoder (VAE) that generates low-energy 3D molecular conformers by pooling information from fine-grain atomic coordinates to a coarse-grain subgraph level representation for efficient autoregressive generation.

6/29/2023