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  • Data
    • Datasets
      • Pre Training Data
      • Types of Fine Tuning
      • Self Instruct Paper
      • Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation
      • Systematic Evaluation of Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models on Open Datasets
      • Instruction Tuning
      • Instruction Fine Tuning - Alpagasus
      • Less is More For Alignment
      • Enhanced Supervised Fine Tuning
      • Visualising Data using t-SNE
      • UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction
      • Training and Evaluation Datasets
      • What is perplexity?
  • MODELS
    • Foundation Models
      • The leaderboard
      • Foundation Models
      • LLama 2 - Analysis
      • Analysis of Llama 3
      • Llama 3.1 series
      • Google Gemini 1.5
      • Platypus: Quick, Cheap, and Powerful Refinement of LLMs
      • Mixtral of Experts
      • Mixture-of-Agents (MoA)
      • Phi 1.5
        • Refining the Art of AI Training: A Deep Dive into Phi 1.5's Innovative Approach
      • Phi 2.0
      • Phi-3 Technical Report
  • Training
    • The Fine Tuning Process
      • Why fine tune?
        • Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations?
        • Explanations in Fine Tuning
      • Tokenization
        • Tokenization Is More Than Compression
        • Tokenization - SentencePiece
        • Tokenization explore
        • Tokenizer Choice For LLM Training: Negligible or Crucial?
        • Getting the most out of your tokenizer for pre-training and domain adaptation
        • TokenMonster
      • Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning
        • P-Tuning
          • The Power of Scale for Parameter-Efficient Prompt Tuning
        • Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation
        • Harnessing the Power of PEFT: A Smarter Approach to Fine-tuning Pre-trained Models
        • What is Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) - explained by the inventor
        • Low Rank Adaptation (Lora)
        • Practical Tips for Fine-tuning LMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
        • QLORA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
        • Bits and Bytes
        • The Magic behind Qlora
        • Practical Guide to LoRA: Tips and Tricks for Effective Model Adaptation
        • The quantization constant
        • QLORA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized Language Models
        • QLORA and Fine-Tuning of Quantized Language Models (LMs)
        • ReLoRA: High-Rank Training Through Low-Rank Updates
        • SLoRA: Federated Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning of Language Models
        • GaLora: Memory-Efficient LLM Training by Gradient Low-Rank Projection
      • Hyperparameters
        • Batch Size
        • Padding Tokens
        • Mixed precision training
        • FP8 Formats for Deep Learning
        • Floating Point Numbers
        • Batch Size and Model loss
        • Batch Normalisation
        • Rethinking Learning Rate Tuning in the Era of Language Models
        • Sample Packing
        • Gradient accumulation
        • A process for choosing the learning rate
        • Learning Rate Scheduler
        • Checkpoints
        • A Survey on Efficient Training of Transformers
        • Sequence Length Warmup
        • Understanding Training vs. Evaluation Data Splits
        • Cross-entropy loss
        • Weight Decay
        • Optimiser
        • Caching
      • Training Processes
        • Extending the context window
        • PyTorch Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP)
        • Train Short, Test Long: Attention with Linear Biases Enables Input Length Extrapolation
        • YaRN: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models
        • Sliding Window Attention
        • LongRoPE
        • Reinforcement Learning
        • An introduction to reinforcement learning
        • Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)
        • Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
  • INFERENCE
    • Why is inference important?
      • Grouped Query Attention
      • Key Value Cache
      • Flash Attention
      • Flash Attention 2
      • StreamingLLM
      • Paged Attention and vLLM
      • TensorRT-LLM
      • Torchscript
      • NVIDIA L40S GPU
      • Triton Inference Server - Introduction
      • Triton Inference Server
      • FiDO: Fusion-in-Decoder optimised for stronger performance and faster inference
      • Is PUE a useful measure of data centre performance?
      • SLORA
  • KNOWLEDGE
    • Vector Databases
      • A Comprehensive Survey on Vector Databases
      • Vector database management systems: Fundamental concepts, use-cases, and current challenges
      • Using the Output Embedding to Improve Language Models
      • Decoding Sentence-BERT
      • ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT
      • SimCSE: Simple Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings
      • Questions Are All You Need to Train a Dense Passage Retriever
      • Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
      • Massive Text Embedding Benchmark
      • RocketQAv2: A Joint Training Method for Dense Passage Retrieval and Passage Re-ranking
      • LLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders
      • Embedding and Fine-Tuning in Neural Language Models
      • Embedding Model Construction
      • Demystifying Embedding Spaces using Large Language Models
      • Fine-Tuning Llama for Multi-Stage Text Retrieval
      • Large Language Model Based Text Augmentation Enhanced Personality Detection Model
      • One Embedder, Any Task: Instruction-Finetuned Text Embeddings
      • Vector Databases are not the only solution
      • Knowledge Graphs
        • Harnessing Knowledge Graphs to Elevate AI: A Technical Exploration
        • Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap
      • Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN)
      • High Dimensional Data
      • Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
      • Vector Similarity Search - HNSW
      • FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search)
      • Unsupervised Dense Retrievers
    • Retrieval Augmented Generation
      • Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
      • Fine-Tuning or Retrieval?
      • Revolutionising Information Retrieval: The Power of RAG in Language Models
      • A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation
      • REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training
      • Retrieve Anything To Augment Large Language Models
      • Generate Rather Than Retrieve: Large Language Models Are Strong Context Generators
      • Active Retrieval Augmented Generation
      • DSPy: LM Assertions: Enhancing Language Model Pipelines with Computational Constraints
      • DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls
      • DSPy: In-Context Learning for Extreme Multi-Label Classification
      • Optimizing Instructions and Demonstrations for Multi-Stage Language Model Programs
      • HYDE: Revolutionising Search with Hypothetical Document Embeddings
      • Enhancing Recommender Systems with Large Language Model Reasoning Graphs
      • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) versus fine tuning
      • RAFT: Adapting Language Model to Domain Specific RAG
      • Summarisation Methods and RAG
      • Lessons Learned on LLM RAG Solutions
      • Stanford: Retrieval Augmented Language Models
      • Overview of RAG Approaches with Vector Databases
      • Mastering Chunking in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems
    • Semantic Routing
    • Resource Description Framework (RDF)
  • AGENTS
    • What is agency?
      • Rephrase and Respond: Let Large Language Models Ask Better Questions for Themselves
      • Types of Agents
      • The risk of AI agency
      • Understanding Personality in Large Language Models: A New Frontier in AI Psychology
      • AI Agents - Reasoning, Planning, and Tool Calling
      • Personality and Brand
      • Agent Interaction via APIs
      • Bridging Minds and Machines: The Legacy of Newell, Shaw, and Simon
      • A Survey on Language Model based Autonomous Agents
      • Large Language Models as Agents
      • AI Reasoning: A Deep Dive into Chain-of-Thought Prompting
      • Enhancing AI Reasoning with Self-Taught Reasoner (STaR)
      • Exploring the Frontier of AI: The "Tree of Thoughts" Framework
      • Toolformer: Revolutionising Language Models with API Integration - An Analysis
      • TaskMatrix.AI: Bridging Foundational AI Models with Specialised Systems for Enhanced Task Completion
      • Unleashing the Power of LLMs in API Integration: The Rise of Gorilla
      • Andrew Ng's presentation on AI agents
      • Making AI accessible with Andrej Karpathy and Stephanie Zhan
  • Regulation and Ethics
    • Regulation and Ethics
      • Privacy
      • Detecting AI Generated content
      • Navigating the IP Maze in AI: The Convergence of Blockchain, Web 3.0, and LLMs
      • Adverse Reactions to generative AI
      • Navigating the Ethical Minefield: The Challenge of Security in Large Language Models
      • Navigating the Uncharted Waters: The Risks of Autonomous AI in Military Decision-Making
  • DISRUPTION
    • Data Architecture
      • What is a data pipeline?
      • What is Reverse ETL?
      • Unstructured Data and Generatve AI
      • Resource Description Framework (RDF)
      • Integrating generative AI with the Semantic Web
    • Search
      • BM25 - Search Engine Ranking Function
      • BERT as a reranking engine
      • BERT and Google
      • Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)
      • Billion-scale similarity search with GPUs
      • FOLLOWIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions
      • Neural Collaborative Filtering
      • Federated Neural Collaborative Filtering
      • Latent Space versus Embedding Space
      • Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
    • Recommendation Engines
      • On Interpretation and Measurement of Soft Attributes for Recommendation
      • A Survey on Large Language Models for Recommendation
      • Model driven recommendation systems
      • Recommender AI Agent: Integrating Large Language Models for Interactive Recommendations
      • Foundation Models for Recommender Systems
      • Exploring the Impact of Large Language Models on Recommender Systems: An Extensive Review
      • AI driven recommendations - harming autonomy?
    • Logging
      • A Taxonomy of Anomalies in Log Data
      • Deeplog
      • LogBERT: Log Anomaly Detection via BERT
      • Experience Report: Deep Learning-based System Log Analysis for Anomaly Detection
      • Log-based Anomaly Detection with Deep Learning: How Far Are We?
      • Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection in Log Data: A Survey
      • LogGPT
      • Adaptive Semantic Gate Networks (ASGNet) for log-based anomaly diagnosis
  • Infrastructure
    • The modern data centre
      • Enhancing Data Centre Efficiency: Strategies to Improve PUE
      • TCO of NVIDIA GPUs and falling barriers to entry
      • Maximising GPU Utilisation with Kubernetes and NVIDIA GPU Operator
      • Data Centres
      • Liquid Cooling
    • Servers and Chips
      • The NVIDIA H100 GPU
      • NVIDIA H100 NVL
      • Lambda Hyperplane 8-H100
      • NVIDIA DGX Servers
      • NVIDIA DGX-2
      • NVIDIA DGX H-100 System
      • NVLink Switch
      • Tensor Cores
      • NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip
      • NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip
      • NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
      • Hopper versus Blackwell
      • HGX: High-Performance GPU Platforms
      • ARM Chips
      • ARM versus x86
      • RISC versus CISC
      • Introduction to RISC-V
    • Networking and Connectivity
      • Infiniband versus Ethernet
      • NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand
      • PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express)
      • NVIDIA ConnectX InfiniBand adapters
      • NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express)
      • NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)
      • NVIDIA Spectrum-X
      • NVIDIA GPUDirect
      • Evaluating Modern GPU Interconnect
      • Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP)
      • Next-generation networking in AI environments
      • NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL)
    • Data and Memory
      • NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs)
      • Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
      • High Bandwidth Memory (HBM3)
      • Flash Memory
      • Model Requirements
      • Calculating GPU memory for serving LLMs
      • Transformer training costs
      • GPU Performance Optimisation
    • Libraries and Complements
      • NVIDIA Base Command
      • NVIDIA AI Enterprise
      • CUDA - NVIDIA GTC 2024 presentation
      • RAPIDs
      • RAFT
    • Vast Data Platform
      • Vast Datastore
      • Vast Database
      • Vast Data Engine
      • DASE (Disaggregated and Shared Everything)
      • Dremio and VAST Data
    • Storage
      • WEKA: A High-Performance Storage Solution for AI Workloads
      • Introduction to NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS)
        • GDS cuFile API
      • NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage (GDS)
      • Vectors in Memory
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