Want scalable LLM agents for websites and APIs, without human labeled data? We propose BAGEL, a method where agents synthesize their own data by exploring the environment first, leading to upto 13% improvement over zero shot agents, & automated discovery of use-cases in envs!

Check out Shikhar's internship project 👇 (Still debating if we should have just used the 🥯 emoji everywhere.)

I've seen a lot of tweets on high-skilled immigration in the US on my TL over the last few days. Most of them stay away from the issue of discriminatory country quotas. This one provides an excellent summary:

Excited to release our work from last year showcasing a stable training recipe for fully token-based multi-modal early-fusion auto-regressive models! arxiv.org/abs/2405.09818 Huge shout out to Armen Aghajanyan Ramakanth Luke Zettlemoyer Gargi Ghosh and other co-authors. (1/n)

Excited to share new work from Google DeepMind / Google Research on “Robust Preference Optimization through Reward Model Distillation”. arxiv.org/abs/2405.19316

Excited to share new work from Google DeepMind: “ProtEx: A Retrieval-Augmented Approach for Protein Function Prediction” biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I (w/ Kristina Toutanova, Jesse Thomason) will be presenting a poster on Rationale Distillation for visual reasoning at #NAACL2024! ⏰ Today 4-5:30pm 📍 Don Diego 2,3,4 🌐 Website: rationaledistillation.github.io 📜 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2311.09612 Stop by if you’d like to chat about it!

Super excited to open-source Chameleon 7B and 34B model weights today. These early-fusion models can understand and generate any sequence of interleaved images and text! Image-gen capabilities are masked for safety reasons, but everything else is enabled. Happy fine-tuning!

Evidence of Hindu Temples attacked by Islamist mobs in Bangladesh. This ISCKON Temple in Meherpur, Khulna Division of Bangladesh. I spoke to senior ISCKON office bearers who confirmed that at least 5 temples in Bangladesh have been attacked and gutted. Many Hindus are in hiding.

Houses and shops of minority people were attacked, vandalised and looted, at least 97 places in #Bangladesh in two days. At least 10 Hindu temples were attacked. One man was lynched in Bagerhat. Ahmadi homes were also targeted. The house of musician Rahul Ananda was torched.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair released a statement today omitting any mention of Hindus being targeted & their temples ransacked. Also neglects reports that Bangladeshi Hindus are at the Indian border seeking refuge under the very same #CAA he condemned. Do better. foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/rele…

As Bangladesh prepares to swear in its interim government, I urge all government officials, the new administration and police chief, and the people of Bangladesh to do all they can to end the violence that has emerged across the country, including the brutal targeting of the

Excited to share a new paper: “ALTA: Compiler-Based Analysis of Transformers” (w/ James Cohan, Jacob Eisenstein, Kenton Lee, Jonathan Berant, Kristina Toutanova) arxiv.org/abs/2410.18077

Excited to finally release Magentic-One! The thing I love about this multi-agent team is that the same implementation achieves very strong performance across three challenging agentic benchmarks. If you are someone working on agentic systems, you know how challenging this can

To our collaborators & community: We’ve seen questions about AutoGen forks/clones vs. the official project. Here's a summary of the latest. Please share with others. - The official repo is github.com/microsoft/auto…. - We're actively working on AutoGen v0.2, with v0.4 innovations

Super excited to share NNetnav : A new method for generating complex demonstrations to train web agents—driven entirely via exploration! Here's how we’re building useful browser agents, without expensive human supervision: 🧵👇 Code: github.com/MurtyShikhar/N… Preprint:

New paper! Byte-Level models are finally competitive with tokenizer-based models with better inference efficiency and robustness! Dynamic patching is the answer! Read all about it here: dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/blt/BLT__Patch… (1/n)

Wohoo! Gagan Bansal

Breaking | The largest Hindu temple in California, BAPS Public Affairs temple in Chino Hills, was vandalized with profanities earlier today. We ask Chino Hills P.D., FBI FBI Director Kash Patel DNI Tulsi Gabbard to investigate this latest in a string of anti-Hindu hate crimes on our sacred

We're hiring a research scientist on the Foundational Research in Language team at GDM. The role is right here in sunny Seattle! job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/…