davidad 🎇 on X: "When @GaryMarcus and others (including myself) say that LLMs do not “reason,” we mean something quite specific, but it’s hard to put one’s finger on it, until now. Specifically, Transformers do not generalize algebraic structures out of distribution." / X

x.com/davidad/status/1802576341470216362

abhav on X: "Something weird is afoot. quick story involving: - open source "reasoning" SOTA LLM (only 7B params, and from china!) - big math doing small math - a $1M opportunity well, almost $1m and that is really tough. anyway, strap in 🍿🧵" / X

x.com/abhav_k/status/1802572167617626399

Hesam on X: "Reasoning with LLM is Hard! ​ Large Language Models need help with generalized reasoning capabilities, and a key factor is how we prompt them. ​ 📌 Traditional prompting methods such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) or Tree-of-Thought (ToT) often require multiple assumptions or numerous… https://t.co/XtRVXNSydX" / X

x.com/itsHesamSheikh/status/1801934604334477355

AlphaMath Almost Zero: process Supervision without process

arxiv.org/abs/2405.03553

Aran Komatsuzaki on X: "@jeremyphoward Btw there are many other recent papers with LLM + MCTS for reasoning with successful results. Here are some interesting ones: - https://t.co/TpE92UMx2C - https://t.co/1Kh8rVyTat" / X

x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1803482585378726379

Alessio Fanelli on X: "How AI is eating Finance 📈 @vagabondjack is back on @latentspacepod! He shared all the AI Engineering wisdom he acquired while turning LLMs into AI thought partners @brightwaveio for customers with >$120B under management 💰 - Why he lost faith in long context windows - 3 https://t.co/AKJ82amHDC" / X

x.com/FanaHOVA/status/1800553625607155856

Xing Han Lu on X: "Announcing ⚡BM25S, a fast lexical retrieval library! 🏎️ Up to 500x faster than the most popular Python lib, matches @Elastic search (BM25 default) 🤗 First BM25 library that is directly integrated with @huggingface hub: load or save in 1 line! GitHub: https://t.co/iuQleXIGgX https://t.co/trNv0QbUao" / X

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Naomi Saphra on X: "Modern generative models are trained to imitate human experts, but can they actually beat those experts? Our new paper uses imitative chess agents to explore when a model can "transcend" its training distribution and outperform every human it's trained on. https://t.co/oKsIh5nVBk https://t.co/rA3TzmIXm7" / X

x.com/nsaphra/status/1803114822445465824

Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products

eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-patterns/

Arvind Narayanan on X: "Tired: train/test leakage. Wired: benchmark contamination. Inspired: resample until answer is correct." / X

x.com/random_walker/status/1803392358093857127

(1) Alex Cheema - e/acc on X: "Llama 3 running locally on iPhone with MLX Built by @exolabs_ team @mo_baioumy h/t @awnihannun MLX & @Prince_Canuma for the port https://t.co/4swkM7mOfI" / X

x.com/ac_crypto/status/1781061013716037741

2406.11741v1.pdf

arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11741

Context caching  |  Google AI for Developers  |  Google for Developers

ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/caching?lang=python

x.com/johnathanbi/status/1803096216299090267?s=12

Pass@k or Pass@1? · Issue #1 · trotsky1997/MathBlackBox

github.com/trotsky1997/MathBlackBox/issues/1

quickwit-oss/tantivy: Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

Olympiad Solutions - Search / X

x.com/search?q=Olympiad%20Solutions&src=typed_query

The 100 Rep Squat Challenge

kettlebellaerobics.substack.com/p/the-100-rep-squat-challenge

Applied LLMs - What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs

applied-llms.org/

(1) Terry Yue Zhuo on X: "In the past few months, we’ve seen SOTA LLMs saturating basic coding benchmarks with short and simplified coding tasks. It's time to enter the next stage of coding challenge under comprehensive and realistic scenarios! -- Here comes BigCodeBench, benchmarking LLMs on solving… https://t.co/w3Z6N5wnVk" / X

x.com/terryyuezhuo/status/1803076834520945117

(2) François Chollet on X: "I believe that program synthesis will solve reasoning. And I believe that deep learning will solve program synthesis (by guiding a discrete program search process). But I don't think you can go all that far with just prompting a LLM to generate end-to-end Python programs (even…" / X

x.com/fchollet/status/1803096195684012371

Caiming Xiong on X: "🎆I am pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Salesforce Embedding Model (SFR-embedding-v2), which has reclaimed the top-1 position on the MTEB benchmark. ✨ Key Highlights: 🥇 Achieved the distinction of being the second model to surpass a 70+ performance… https://t.co/ucs4gXfp1v" / X

x.com/CaimingXiong/status/1802879572385714496

Debunking the Chessboard: Confronting GPTs Against Chess Engines to Estimate Elo Ratings and Assess Legal Move Abilities

blog.mathieuacher.com/GPTsChessEloRatingLegalMoves/

Beyond the Basics of Retrieval for Augmenting Generation – Parlance

parlance-labs.com/education/rag/ben.html

TaskMeAnything

www.task-me-anything.org/

John David Pressman on X: "My problem with "transformers don't generalize algebraic structures and therefore don't reason" is that while I agree this is a real limitation there are important aspects of reason which these models in fact do and other methods don't. We may need to divide "reason" up." / X

x.com/jd_pressman/status/1802835378451185733

François Chollet on X: "@RyanPGreenblatt @TomDAAVID @AndrewTBurks @dwarkesh_sp This isn't reasoning, it's intuition. Intuition is a fast, perception-like, inexact, approximate way of navigating a complex space. Your LLM has "intuition" over the space of program, which can be used to fight combinatorial complexity and make discrete program search more…" / X

x.com/fchollet/status/1802790666420035646

(1) François Chollet on X: "@mahaoo_ASI @wintermoat SOTA did not go from 35% to 50%. The 50% is on the evaluation set, the 35% is on the private test set. The solution that does ~35% on the private test set also did ~50% on the evaluation set, so 50% on the eval set is not clearly a new SOTA (it might be, but it isn't clear)" / X

x.com/fchollet/status/1802807579489468846

(1) Warp on X: "Type plain English on the command line. Accomplish any dev task. This is the command line for the AI era. New Agent Mode is available today. https://t.co/ptqib32w8o" / X

x.com/warpdotdev/status/1802736163507118387

(2) Gergely Orosz on X: "After having read it, I can say this is probably the best book to explain how ChatGPT (and LLMs) work (written by Stephen Wolfram, who excels at explaining complex topics simply, so perhaps not a surprise) There's also a blog post form for those wanting to read online." / X

x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1802798002081251497