Important announcement!

Meta heard the issues that the community raised and they have changed the Winoground license to be more permissive!!

We hope that everyone can use Winoground for their research now. Check it out here:

huggingface.co/datasets/faceb…

👶 BabyLM Challenge is back!
Can you improve pretraining with a small data budget?

BabyLMs for better LLMs
& for understanding how humans learn from 100M words

New:
How vision affects learning
Bring your own data
Paper track

babylm.github.io
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Baltimore's Latino Racial Justice Circle is raising funds for the workers who lost their lives in the bridge collapse. Let's all pitch in. gofund.me/4e9b8535

Improving Text-to-Image Consistency via Automatic Prompt Optimization

Impressive advances in text-to-image (T2I) generative models have yielded a plethora of high performing models which are able to generate aesthetically appealing, photorealistic images. Despite the progress,

As my siblings try and pick up the pieces we are looking for assistance with a send off. Anything and everything helps. Even a retweet.

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I refuse to normalize the killing of Black youth. Ryan Gainer deserved to live a full life. No amount of trainings can undo the anti-black racist foundations of our police force. Nor are they equipped to address the needs of our community members living with disabilities.

New open SOTA on *both* generative and embedding benchmarks, using *one single model*. Plus big speedups in RAG. Niklas Muennighoff is incredible - also check out his previous work on SGPT that this work builds on top of.

Excited to partner with Hugging Face on developing the LLM leaderboard for real world use cases 🎉

1) Real world tasks (finance, customer support..)
2) Closed source datasets (no training on test sets!)

Awesome collaborating with Clémentine Fourrier 🍊 and the team on LLM evals!

Are you an undergrad interested in NLP research? Intern with us through the MIT summer research program! Includes stipend, travel, housing. URM / first-gen / disabled students are strongly encouraged to apply. Deadline is 16 Jan 2024. More info at oge.mit.edu/msrp/.

Nothing brings me more joy than seeing my brilliant and wonderful friends winning.

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Randi Williams, Ph.D. who just PASSED her #phd defense. Her research sits the intersection of education and AI. #BlackinTech #BlackinEngineering BlackInX

Today's the day!

So excited that mine and @abebab's chapter on AI and decoloniality is now available!
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In the chapter, we focus on the tension between AI and decolonization.

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