Mubashara Akhtar @Neurips
akhtarmubashara.bsky.social
Mubashara Akhtar @Neurips
@akhtarmubashara.bsky.social
PhD @ King’s College London • prev CambridgeNLP, TU Wien, intern GoogleDeepmind • NLP, Data-centric ML, Multimodality

http://mubasharaakhtar.com
Happening in half an hour at #NeurIPS2024!📢

Come by our poster in West Ballroom #5706 about the @mlcommons.org Croissant metadata format.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19546

Croissant format: github.com/mlcommons/cr...
December 14, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos.

Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs

Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
November 26, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Meet Tülu 3, a set of state-of-the-art instruct models with fully open data, eval code, and training algorithms.
We invented new methods for fine-tuning language models with RL and built upon best practices to scale synthetic instruction and preference data.
Demo, GitHub, paper, and models 👇
November 21, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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I've found starter packs on NLP, vision, graphics, etc. But personally, I would love to know and hear from researchers working on vision-language. So, let me know if you'd like to join this starter pack, would be happy to add!

go.bsky.app/TENRRBb
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Hey all! I started a second starter pack with people who didn't make the first one, please let me know if you'd like to be added:

go.bsky.app/JgneRQk
November 13, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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After going to NAACL, ACL and #EMNLP2024 this year, here are a few tips I’ve picked up about attending #NLP conferences.

Would love to hear any other tips if you have them!

This proved very popular on another (more evil) social media platform, so sharing here also 🙂

My 10 tips:
November 18, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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The NLP labs starter pack is here! go.bsky.app/LKGekew Let us know if you want to be added!
November 13, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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Trying to bring ML/NLP/etal people from ETH Zürich together. Ping me to add you. 🙂
bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 18, 2024 at 10:51 AM