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Research Focus: Week of January 8, 2024

January 10, 2024
Mixture-of-linear-experts for long-term time series forecasting; Weakly-supervised streaming multilingual speech model with truly zero-shot capability; KBFormer: Diffusion model for structured entity completion; Identifying risks of AI-mediated data access:
  1. Research Focus - week of January 8, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of January 8, 2024 

    January 10, 2024

    Mixture-of-linear-experts for long-term time series forecasting; Weakly-supervised streaming multilingual speech model with truly zero-shot capability; KBFormer: Diffusion model for structured entity completion; Identifying risks of AI-mediated data access:

  2. Research Focus 31

    Research Focus: Week of December 18, 2023 

    December 20, 2023

    In this issue of Research Focus: Optimized exit-augmented models for scalable efficient inference; NeurIPS LLM Efficiency Challenge; LLM-empowered automated data exploration; Boosting cloud efficiency with data-driven decision-making and optimization.

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    Steering at the Frontier: Extending the Power of Prompting 

    December 12, 2023 | Eric Horvitz, Harsha Nori, and Yin Tat Lee

    We’re seeing exciting capabilities of frontier foundation models, including intriguing powers of abstraction, generalization, and composition across numerous areas of knowledge and expertise. Even seasoned AI researchers have been impressed with the ability to steer the models with straightforward, zero-shot prompts. Beyond basic, out-of-the-box prompting, we’ve been…

  4. Research Focus Edition 30 December 6, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of December 4, 2023 

    December 6, 2023

    Research Focus: Using LLMs in a Rust-based formal verification framework; Rethinking network measurements with user feedback; 3D telemedicine using HoloportationTM communication technology could enhance overseas surgical visits.

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