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Alessandro Sordoni
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ML Team MSR Montreal. Adjunct Prof UdeM MILA. Modularity & reasoning.
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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. According to the UN, more than 50 000 women were killed by a partner or family member in 2023 news.un.org/en/story/202... This number is an underestimate given that only 37 countries reported in 2023.
November 26, 2024 at 6:16 AM
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distributed learning for LLM?

recently, @primeintellect.bsky.social have announced finishing their 10B distributed learning, trained across the world.

what is it exactly?

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November 25, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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Last 5 days to apply for a PhD at #EdinburghNLP!

Deadline: November 25

www.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

If you are passionate about:

- adaptive tokenization and memory in foundation models
- modular deep learning
- computational typology

please message me or meet me at #NeurIPS2024!
Informatics: ILCC: Language Processing, Speech Technology, Information Retrieval, Cognition
Study Informatics: ILCC: Language Processing, Speech Technology, Information Retrieval, Cognition at the University of Edinburgh. Our postgraduate degree programmes focus on natural language processin...
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November 21, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Another nano gem from my amazing student
Piotr Nawrot!

A repo & notebook on sparse attention for efficient LLM inference: github.com/PiotrNawrot/...

This will also feature in my #NeurIPS 2024 tutorial "Dynamic Sparsity in ML" with André Martins: dynamic-sparsity.github.io Stay tuned!
November 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Explore zero-shot routing of parameter-efficient experts with Phatgoose arxiv.org/abs/2402.05859 and Arrow arxiv.org/abs/2405.11157 w. github.com/microsoft/mttl

👉 github.com/sordonia/pg_mb…

Part of "Dynamic Sparsity in ML" tut#neurips202424, feedback welcome and join for discussions! 😊
November 21, 2024 at 3:47 PM