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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
The Comfort Trap
There’s a difference between being successful and feeling successful. One creates results. The other prevents them.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Soundverse iOS and Android App
Ethical, advanced AI Music generator & AI song generator Discussion | Link
John Romero says indies are the future of game development: 'These people are the ones that make triple-A studios go, 'Wait a minute, we need to start doing this''
Finding funding for those indies is another matter.
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...
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...
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...
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...
234. If Writing is Thinking…
Then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?
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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