Deep Learning

Deep dives into AI, research, coding, and other topics.

Decoding Strategies: How LLMs Choose The Next Word
Decoding Strategies: How LLMs Choose The Next Word

Large Language Models are trained to guess the next word. But when generating text, the combination of their probability estimates with algorithms known as decoding strategies is what determines how they actually choose words. Learn how decoding strategies work in this article.

Florence-2: How it works and how to use it
Florence-2: How it works and how to use it

Microsoft's Florence-2 is a foundational image model that can perform almost every common task in computer vision. Learn how Florence-2 works and how to use it in this guide.

AI trends in 2024: Graph Neural Networks
AI trends in 2024: Graph Neural Networks

From fundamental research to productionized AI models, let’s discover how this cutting-edge technology is powering production applications and may be shaping the future of AI.

AI for Universal Audio Understanding: Qwen-Audio Explained
AI for Universal Audio Understanding: Qwen-Audio Explained

Recently, researchers have made progress towards universal audio understanding, marking an advancement towards foundational audio models. The approach is based on a joint audio-language pre-training that enhances performance without task-specific finetuning.

Combining Speech Recognition and Diarization in one model
Combining Speech Recognition and Diarization in one model

A new approach towards multi-speaker speech processing integrates Speaker Diarization and Automatic Speech Recognition in a unified framework. We discuss the key insights from this recent exciting development in Speech AI research.

How DALL-E 2 Actually Works
How DALL-E 2 Actually Works

How does OpenAI's groundbreaking DALL-E 2 model actually work? Check out this detailed guide to learn the ins and outs of DALL-E 2.

What AI Music Generators Can Do (And How They Do It)
What AI Music Generators Can Do (And How They Do It)

Text-to-Music Models are advancing rapidly with the recent release of new platforms for AI-generated music. This guide focuses on MusicLM, MusicGen, and Stable Audio, exploring the technical breakthroughs and challenges in creating music with AI.

Is Word Error Rate Useful?
Is Word Error Rate Useful?

What is Word Error Rate and is it a useful measurement of accuracy for speech recognition systems? In this article, we examine the answer to these questions, as well as explore other alternatives to Word Error Rate.

Residual Vector Quantization RVQ for Neural Compression
What is Residual Vector Quantization?

Neural Audio Compression methods based on Residual Vector Quantization are reshaping the landscape of modern audio codecs. In this guide, learn the basic ideas behind RVQ and how it enhances Neural Compression.

RLHF vs RLAIF for language model alignment
RLHF vs RLAIF for language model alignment

RLHF is the key method used to train AI assistants like ChatGPT, but it has strong limitations and can produce harmful outputs. RLAIF improves upon RLHF by using AI feedback. Learn the differences between the two methods and what these differences mean in practice in this guide.

Why Language Models Became Large Language Models And The Hurdles In Developing LLM-based Applications
Why Language Models Became Large Language Models And The Hurdles In Developing LLM-based Applications

What’s the difference between Language Models and Large Language Models? Let’s understand AI development trends and the difficulties of integrating LLMs into real-world applications.

How RLHF Models Works - Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback
How RLHF Preference Model Tuning Works (And How Things May Go Wrong)

Large Language Models like ChatGPT are trained with Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF) to learn human preferences. Let’s uncover how RLHF works and survey its current strongest limitations.

How Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback works
How Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback works

Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF) is a supervision technique that uses a "constitution" to make AI assistants like ChatGPT safer. Learn everything you need to know about RLAIF in this guide.

Recent developments in Generative AI for Audio
Recent developments in Generative AI for Audio

The spotlight has been on language and images for Generative AI, but there's been a lot of recent progress in the audio domain. Learn everything you need to know about generative audio models in this article.

How to evaluate Speech Recognition models
How to evaluate Speech Recognition models

Speech Recognition models are key in extracting useful information from audio data. Learn how to properly evaluate speech recognition models in this easy-to-follow guide.

Large Language Models for Product Managers: 5 Things to Know
Large Language Models for Product Managers: 5 Things to Know

A Product Manager's guide to understanding Large Language Models and the building blocks of Conversational AI.

Introduction to Large Language Models for Generative AI
Introduction to Large Language Models for Generative AI

Generative AI language models like ChatGPT are changing the way humans and AI interact and work together, but how do these models actually work? Learn everything you need to know about modern Generative AI for language in this simple guide.

Modern Generative AI for images
Modern Generative AI for images

Modern Generative AI models for images are powering a range of creative applications and changing the way we work. This guide will overview everything you need to know about these models and how they work.

The Full Story of Large Language Models and RLHF
The Full Story of Large Language Models and RLHF

Large Language Models have been in the limelight since the release of ChatGPT, with new models being announced seemingly every week. This guide walks through the essential ideas of how these models came to be.

Introduction to Generative AI
Introduction to Generative AI

Generative AI has made tremendous strides recently, from models like Stable Diffusion to ChatGPT. Get up to speed on the latest advancements with this easy-to-follow introduction to Generative AI.

Everything you need to know about Generative AI
Everything you need to know about Generative AI

Generative AI has taken the world by storm in the last several months, but what actually is Generative AI, and how does it work? Learn everything you need to know about Generative AI in this easy-to-follow series.

How physics advanced Generative AI
How physics advanced Generative AI

Many cutting-edge Generative AI models are inspired by concepts from physics. In this guide, we’ll take a high-level look at how physics is driving advancements in AI.

Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

Emergence can be defined as the sudden appearance of novel behavior. Large Language Models apparently display emergence by suddenly gaining new abilities as they grow. Why does this happen, and what does this mean?

AI research review – Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT
AI research review – Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT

This week’s AI Research Review is Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT.

How ChatGPT works
How ChatGPT actually works

Since its release, the public has been playing with ChatGPT and seeing what it can do, but how does ChatGPT actually work? While the details of its inner workings have not been published, we can piece together its functioning principles from recent research.