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Google Releases New Infinite Context Method

Google researchers have introduced a new concept called Infini-attention, enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to process inputs of any length. This is a significant departure from traditional transformers, which reset their attention memory after each context window, losing the previous context.

Infini-attention retains and compresses the attention memory from all previous segments. This means that in a 500K document, each 100K window maintains access to the full document’s context. The model compresses and reuses key-value states across all segments, allowing it to pull relevant information from any part of the document.

The method utilizes standard local attention mechanisms found in transformers, integrates a global attention mechanism through a compression technique, and merges both local and global attention to manage extended contexts efficiently. In other words, the method effectively gives each window a view of the entire document, achieving what’s termed as “infinite context.”

Key Performance Metrics:

• 1B Model: Effectively manages sequences up to 1 million tokens.
• 8B Model: Achieves state-of-the-art results in tasks like summarizing books up to 500K tokens in length.

Key Highlights:

• Memory Efficiency: Constant memory footprint regardless of sequence length.
• Computational Efficiency: Reduces computational overhead compared to standard mechanisms.
• Scalability: Adapts to very long sequences without the need for retraining from scratch.

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gemini-cookbook

A collection of guides and examples for the Gemini API, including quickstart tutorials for writing prompts and using different features of the API, and examples of things you can build.

Code Assistants

aider

Aider is a command line tool that lets you pair program with GPT-3.5/GPT-4, to edit code stored in your local git repository. Aider will directly edit the code in your local source files, and git commit the changes with sensible commit messages. You can start a new project or work with an existing git repo. Aider is unique in that it lets you ask for changes to pre-existing, larger codebases.

RAG

ragflow

RAGFlow is an open-source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine based on deep document understanding. It offers a streamlined RAG workflow for businesses of any scale, combining LLM (Large Language Models) to provide truthful question-answering capabilities, backed by well-founded citations from various complex formatted data.

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Build an LLM from Scratch Chapter 5: “Pretraining an LLM on Unlabeled Data”

Chapter 5 of Sebastian Raschka’s “Build an LLM from Scratch” book, titled “Pretraining an LLM on Unlabeled Data,” is now available. This chapter advances the series by focusing on the implementation of a training function and the initiation of pretraining for the LLM.

Key topics covered include:

• Computing the training and validation set losses to assess the quality of text generated by the LLM during training.
• Implementing a training function and starting the pretraining process.
• Techniques for saving and loading model weights, allowing for the continuation of training at different stages.
• Loading pretrained weights from OpenAI to enhance model performance.

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