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Mubashara Akhtar @Neurips

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PhD @ King’s College London • prev CambridgeNLP, TU Wien, intern GoogleDeepmind • NLP, Data-centric ML, Multimodality http://mubasharaakhtar.com

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Happening in half an hour at #NeurIPS2024!📢

Come by our poster in West Ballroom #5706 about the @mlcommons.org Croissant metadata format.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19546

Croissant format: github.com/mlcommons/cr...

14.12.2024 00:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos.

Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs

Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm

26.11.2024 16:58 👍 231 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 1
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Meet Tülu 3, a set of state-of-the-art instruct models with fully open data, eval code, and training algorithms.
We invented new methods for fine-tuning language models with RL and built upon best practices to scale synthetic instruction and preference data.
Demo, GitHub, paper, and models 👇

21.11.2024 17:15 👍 111 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 7

I've found starter packs on NLP, vision, graphics, etc. But personally, I would love to know and hear from researchers working on vision-language. So, let me know if you'd like to join this starter pack, would be happy to add!

go.bsky.app/TENRRBb

19.11.2024 19:52 👍 55 🔁 13 💬 42 📌 2

Hey all! I started a second starter pack with people who didn't make the first one, please let me know if you'd like to be added:

go.bsky.app/JgneRQk

13.11.2024 00:15 👍 65 🔁 30 💬 70 📌 8

Can you add me pls, thanks!

18.11.2024 18:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

After going to NAACL, ACL and #EMNLP2024 this year, here are a few tips I’ve picked up about attending #NLP conferences.

Would love to hear any other tips if you have them!

This proved very popular on another (more evil) social media platform, so sharing here also 🙂

My 10 tips:

18.11.2024 12:31 👍 83 🔁 16 💬 14 📌 2

The NLP labs starter pack is here! go.bsky.app/LKGekew Let us know if you want to be added!

13.11.2024 07:20 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 15 📌 1

Trying to bring ML/NLP/etal people from ETH Zürich together. Ping me to add you. 🙂
bsky.app/starter-pack...

18.11.2024 10:51 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0