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FACT rewrites context to retrieve multiple facts

Published on October 30, 2024, the paper presents FACT, an iterative context-rewriting approach for retrieving multiple facts. It examines how important information can be lost in long contexts and lead to incomplete answers.

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Guides

SimpleQA evaluates model factuality

Published on October 30, 2024, SimpleQA contains 4,000 human-written factual questions, each with a single indisputable answer. An autograder labels answers correct, incorrect, or not attempted; two annotators verified the reference answers.

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Engineering

E2-F5-TTS adds a fine-tuning interface

A post dated October 21, 2024, says the E2-F5-TTS project added a Gradio app for fine-tuning the model with user-provided audio, with automatic transcription of audio clips.

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Engineering

RAG technique tutorials in notebooks

Published on October 15, 2024, the RAG_Techniques repository collects notebooks on retrieval-augmented generation, including reranking, chunking, filtering, and Graph RAG.

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Engineering

Radar: French Parler-TTS Mini model

A September 25, 2024 post highlights the French Parler-TTS Mini model by PHBJT, hosted on a model platform. It also mentions XTTS and FishAudio and speculates about a future multilingual version.

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Engineering

Open-source tools for studying network filtering

A 2024 publication highlights GoodbyeDPI for Windows, ByeDPIAndroid, and zapret as open-source tools related to bypassing deep packet inspection. Engineers can evaluate them in the context of network filtering and censorship.

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Engineering

ADAS explores search for agent design

Published on August 26, 2024, the entry describes an iterative search approach to proposing and evaluating agentic systems. The excerpt does not report the results of the tests it mentions.

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Engineering

Five recent RAG papers in a curated selection

Published on August 26, 2024, this briefing lists five papers on retrieval-augmented generation, covering metadata and synthetic QA, modular research frameworks, graph RAG, fact-checking, and dense retrieval with weak supervision.

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Engineering

VoiceCraft: speech editing and zero-shot TTS

Published on August 25, 2024, VoiceCraft is described as a neural codec language model for speech editing and zero-shot text-to-speech. The publication says it can clone or edit an unseen voice using a few seconds of reference audio.

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Engineering

AI21 announces Jamba 1.5 Mini and Large

On August 22, 2024, AI21 Labs announced two MoE models combining Mamba and Joint Attention, with a 256K context window, ExpertInt8 quantization, JSON mode, tool use, and Transformers integration.

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Engineering

Llama 3.1 8B on an RTX 3090 under load

Published on August 16, 2024, the summary reports a benchmark of Llama 3.1 8B in fp16 on an RTX 3090: token-per-second performance was described as reasonable with more than 100 simultaneous requests.

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