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Alibaba Open-Sources Zvec: An Embedded Vector Database Bringing SQLite-like Simplicity and High-Performance On-Device RAG to Edge Applications
Alibaba Tongyi Lab research team released ‘Zvec’, an open source, in-process vector database that targets edge and on-device retrieval workloads. It is positioned as ‘the SQLite of vector databases’ because it runs as a library inside your application and does not require any external service or daemon. It is designed for retrieval augmented generation…

3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint | MIT News
Olympic figure skating looks effortless. Athletes sail across the ice, then soar into the air, spinning like a top, before landing on a single blade just 4-5 millimeters wide. To help figure skaters land quadruple axels, Salchows, Lutzes, and maybe even the elusive quintuple without looking the least bit stressed, Jerry Lu MFin ’24…

How to Build a Privacy-Preserving Federated Pipeline to Fine-Tune Large Language Models with LoRA Using Flower and PEFT
!pip -q install -U “protobuf<5” “flwr[simulation]” transformers peft accelerate datasets sentencepiece import torch if torch.cuda.is_available(): !pip -q install -U bitsandbytes import os os.environ[“RAY_DISABLE_USAGE_STATS”] = “1” os.environ[“TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM”] = “false” import math import random import numpy as np from typing import Dict, List, Tuple, Optional from torch.utils.data import DataLoader from datasets import Dataset import flwr as…
Microsoft AI Proposes OrbitalBrain: Enabling Distributed Machine Learning in Space with Inter-Satellite Links and Constellation-Aware Resource Optimization Strategies
Earth observation (EO) constellations capture huge volumes of high-resolution imagery every day, but most of it never reaches the ground in time for model training. Downlink bandwidth is the main bottleneck. Images can sit on orbit for days while ground models train on partial and delayed data. Microsoft Researchers introduced ‘OrbitalBrain’ framework as a…

Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable | MIT News
A firm that wants to use a large language model (LLM) to summarize sales reports or triage customer inquiries can choose between hundreds of unique LLMs with dozens of model variations, each with slightly different performance.To narrow down the choice, companies often rely on LLM ranking platforms, which gather user feedback on model interactions…
Meet OAT: The New Action Tokenizer Bringing LLM-Style Scaling and Flexible, Anytime Inference to the Robotics World
Robots are entering their GPT-3 era. For years, researchers have tried to train robots using the same autoregressive (AR) models that power large language models (LLMs). If a model can predict the next word in a sentence, it should be able to predict the next move for a robotic…
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