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Alex Dimakis

@alexgdimakis

UT Austin Professor working in AI. Co-Director: National AI Institute on the Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML). Bespoke Labs cofounder (we are hiring)

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Some messages from the DMLR data curation workshop: Lucas Beyer (bl16) proposed an experiment for measuring performance when emergence may happen-- please write a tweet about it ! Synthetic data works for text but not for so much for images right now. We think it's because of spurious

Some messages from the DMLR data curation workshop: <a href="/giffmana/">Lucas Beyer (bl16)</a> proposed an experiment for measuring performance when emergence may happen-- please write a tweet about it ! 

Synthetic data works for text but not for so much for images right now. We think it's because of spurious
Brian Chau (SF 08/18-09/03) (@psychosort) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Precisely correct. SB 1047 is an attack on AI research itself and will hurt both the creation and distribution of models, particularly open weight models.

Precisely correct. SB 1047 is an attack on AI research itself and will hurt both the creation and distribution of models, particularly open weight models.
lmsys.org (@lmsysorg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Does style matter over substance in Arena? Can models "game" human preference through lengthy and well-formatted responses? Today, we're launching style control in our regression model for Chatbot Arena — our first step in separating the impact of style from substance in

Does style matter over substance in Arena? Can models "game" human preference through lengthy and well-formatted responses?

Today, we're launching style control in our regression model for Chatbot Arena — our first step in separating the impact of style from substance in
Alex Dimakis (@alexgdimakis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hey collective Twitter AI hivemind: which Supervised FineTuning library should we use for our research? We are exploring libraries for SFT, e.g. TRL, Axolotl, Torchtune, or other options?

Alex Dimakis (@alexgdimakis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

GPT is having a profound effect on how students write. Its verbose style, full of cliches and 'fancy', out of place vocabulary is in every paper and draft I read. A few years back, there were grammar errors and awkwardness -- but at least people had their own voice. Now,