Characterizing Datasets and Building Better Models with Continued Pre-Training

What’s the most effective way to add new domain knowledge into an open LLM? A new blog post from my team covers experiments we did at the beginning of the year to start answering this question. It starts, unsurprisingly, with sweeping your learning rate… www.databricks.com/blog/charact...

PLDI 2025 Artifact Evaluation Committee Self Nomination This form allows any member of the community to nominate *yourself* to be part of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for PLDI 2025. While we cannot select all qualified candidates, we will do our best ...

Attention🚨 We are looking for motivated students and researchers to be members of the PLDI 2025 Artifact Evaluation Committee. This year, we are accepting self-nominations (the form is here: forms.gle/2TPmixasDmqM...). Deadline: Dec 23rd, 2024.

For more info: pldi25.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2...

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If you are looking for a quick way to follow everyone you used to follow on the vile site, there’s a solution! “Sky Follower Bridge” - works like a charm. Make sure to give some monetary love to the developer!

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Mat: are rerankers supposed to do this?
Team: 👀

<2 months later>

Paper!

This has been incredibly fun work to be a part; my favorite kind of science is finding holes in commonly held assumptions.