2025-07-22

Real-World Code Performance: Multi-Token Finetuning on CodeContests

This section outlines the practical evaluation of multi-token pretrained models finetuned on the CodeContests dataset, assessing their real-world coding understanding and generation capabilities across various temperatures.

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Deep Dive into LLM Scaling: Multi-Token Prediction's Impact on Coding Accuracy

This section provides a meticulous analysis (Table S7) of multi-token prediction's influence on LLM scaling behavior, detailing pass@k metrics on MBPP and HumanEval across six different model sizes.

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Unveiling Nuances: Multi-Token Prediction's Impact on Llama 2 Finetuning

Explore surprising finetuning results for Llama 2 with multi-token prediction (n=4) on coding benchmarks. Our analysis (Table S6) reveals that this loss, while promising, doesn't always yield significant improvements, possibly...

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Unleashing LLM Training Efficiency: Multi-Token Prediction's Near-Zero Overhead

Explore Table S5 revealing multi-token prediction's remarkable training efficiency across LLM sizes (0.3B-13B), showing minimal overhead relative to next-token prediction—a solvable issue for even faster future training.

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Will Wonders Never Cease?

Brody Ford and Hannah Miller, reporting for Bloomberg: Oracle Corp. is in discussions with Skydance Media LLC for a major software deal once the media company’s acquisition of Paramount Global...

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Descenders Next just shadowdropped into early access, and it's Steam Deck verified as well

The sequel to 2018's best cycling game is here, with snowboarding and mountainboarding.

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The Comfort Trap

There’s a difference between being successful and feeling successful. One creates results. The other prevents them.

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Textual v4.0.0: The Streaming Release

Textual v4.0.0: The Streaming Release Will McGugan may no longer be running a commercial company around Textual, but that hasn't stopped his progress on the open source project. He recently...

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Commanders : Goofus :: Guardians : Gallant

Mike Florio, NBC Sports: And while the Guardians stood up and responded to Trump, the Commanders are hiding under the bed. With the NFL right next to them. We’ve sent...

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tidwall/pogocache

tidwall/pogocache New project from Josh Baker, author of the excellent tg C geospatial libarry (covered previously) and various other interesting projects: Pogocache is fast caching software built from scratch with...

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EA finally proves it's listening to fans, will let Battlefield 6 beta players have classic class weapons

Closed class weapons will be an option in the beta, but nothing's guaranteed for launch.

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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Call for Translators (for Supplementary Materials)

Published on July 21, 2025 10:37 PM GMTIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is a book Eliezer and Nate have coming out this September. In our other posts talking about...

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Soundverse iOS and Android App

Ethical, advanced AI Music generator & AI song generator Discussion | Link

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Why Reality Has A Well-Known Math Bias

Published on July 21, 2025 10:13 PM GMTI've written up a post offering my take on the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics." My core argument is that we can potentially resolve...

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The Most Observed Plants & Animals in Each US State

XKCD mapped the most observed plant and animal for all 50 US states as reported by iNaturalist users. I had no idea bumble bees were such a popularly observed animal...

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2025-07-21

Questions about animal welfare markets

Published on July 21, 2025 9:54 PM GMTLast week, I joined “Revolutionist’s Night” — a cabal aiming to radically improve animal welfare, with some flavor of 1800s slavery abolitionism or...

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Directly Try Solving Alignment for 5 weeks

Published on July 21, 2025 9:51 PM GMTThe Moonshot Alignment Program is a 5-week research sprint from August 2nd to September 6th, focused on the hard part of alignment: finding...

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234. If Writing is Thinking…

Then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?

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Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion

For years now, experts have warned that the AI industry is a massive bubble waiting to burst, enormous hype that drives a market frenzy, leading to a near collapse when...

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