Sarath Swaminathan
sarathkrishna.bsky.social
Sarath Swaminathan
@sarathkrishna.bsky.social
Research Scientist @ IBM
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There's a lot of enthusiasm in the community about transformers trained on chemical or biological data.

Here's some interesting results and some thoughts on future directions.
this is nuts

a new 7B llama-style LLM for embedding of genomes & detection of pathogens in wastewater

i’ve had a hunch that LLMs could lead to some big bio breakthroughs, since it feels like genes & proteins are a lot like a language
📈METAGENE-1 achieves state-of-the-art results in:
- Pathogen detection
- Genomic embedding benchmarks
- Generalization to multi-species tasks
It already shows promise in public health and biosurveillance, and we are collaborating with experts to unlock its full impact.
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January 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Episode 36 of the IBM #MixtureOfExperts with Kate Soule, Chris Hay, and me, along with the best host in the world, @timhwang.bsky.social! We talk o3, DeepSeek-V3, what it means to be an author, and switching between different models with different personalities.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzER...
OpenAI o3, DeepSeek-V3, and the Brundage/Marcus AI bet
YouTube video by IBM Technology
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I showed this cool demo last week @neuripsconf.bsky.social Now we have a public version on Hugging Face that you can play with to see the "judge" model in action. huggingface.co/spaces/ibm-g...
Enjoy!

Open source repo & benchmarks: github.com/ibm-granite/...
Granite Guardian Demo - a Hugging Face Space by ibm-granite
demo
huggingface.co
December 16, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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Another great talk of the day by @krvarshney.bsky.social discussing his work on building harm detectors and guardian models for large generative models! He also addressed the need to broaden the dimensions of harms in different use cases
December 14, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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🎺 Here comes the official 2024 NeurIPS paper browser:
- browse all NeurIPS papers in a visual way
- select clusters of interest and get cluster summary
- ZOOOOM in
- filter by human assigned keywords
- filter by substring (authors, titles)

neurips2024.vizhub.ai

#neurips by IBM Research Cambridge
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Starter pack for IBM Research! Follow awesome IBM researchers! IBMers, let me know and I will add you! go.bsky.app/2SXcRmA
November 19, 2024 at 1:13 PM