GitHub

Free Draft-and-Verification: Toward Lossless Parallel Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models

We propose FreeDave (Free Draft-and-Verification), a fast sampling algorithm for diffusion language models, which achieves lossless parallel decoding via a pipeline of parallel-decoded candidate ...
techtimes

Implantable Brain–Computer Interface Breakthrough: INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI Achieves High-Accuracy, Generalizable Decoding of Chinese Language from Neural Signals

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...
Psychology Today

Decoding Aphasia: Separating Language From Thought

Imagine you’re a physician and you are called in to evaluate a patient who has had a sudden change in his neurological status, likely a stroke. You find him alert, mobile, and talking. But when you ...
AOL

Train Talk ‘Jupiter’ At 25 On ‘Lipps Service’

Train frontman Pat Monahan is the guest on the newest installment of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about the 25th anniversary of the band’s hit “Drops of Jupiter” and the ...
Wall Street Journal

Large Language Models Get All the Hype, but Small Models Do the Real Work

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.
Quanta Magazine

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...
CNN

Masked Hamas fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as the group fights with rival powers

Violent clashes have erupted between Hamas and rival groups in several areas across Gaza, including an incident that culminated in an apparent public execution, as worries grow about the security ...
GitHub

Taming Masked Diffusion Language Models via Consistency Trajectory Reinforcement Learning with Fewer Decoding Step

📢 If you also engaged in the research of MDLMs or RL, we welcome your suggestions. And feel free to create an issue, when you have any questions about the code. If you are interested in our work, ...
VentureBeat

Tencent’s new AI technique teaches language models ‘parallel thinking’

In a new paper, researchers from Tencent AI Lab Seattle and the University of Maryland, College Park, present a reinforcement learning technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to utilize ...