Xin Wen

We're excited to announce that @BingchenZhao, who built the predecessor of AutoResearch, has joined @WecoAI full-time! Bingchen is the first author of LLMSpeedrunner at Meta FAIR, which ran the automated research loop on @karpathy's NanoGPT, which later evolved into NanoChat and the speedrun community where AutoResearch operates today. Weco has been committed to ML research automation for 2.5 years, starting with AIDE. We're super pumped by how large an impact AIDE has had, topping @OpenAI's MLE-Bench and @METR_Evals' RE-Bench, and becoming a foundation for AI Scientist v2, AIRA-Dojo, and LLMSpeedrunner itself. And AutoResearch, with AIDE's simple greedy discard/keep loop reaching a mass audience, is really building consensus that the empirical research loop can and should be automated. We're excited to keep pushing this frontier, not just as a concept but seriously bringing it to the real world, and materially accelerating the knowledge generation of humanity.

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) is building a new breed of AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, can reason and plan, and are controllable and safe. We’ve raised a $1.03B (~€890M) round from global investors who believe in our vision of universally intelligent systems centered on world models. This round is co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, along with other investors and angels across the world. We are a growing team of researchers and builders, operating in Paris, New York, Montreal and Singapore from day one. Read more: amilabs.xyz AMI - Real world. Real intelligence.

COLM Keynotes: Luke Zettlemoyer Mixed-modal Language Modeling youtu.be/PdsKNtEofFY

I contemplated whether I should post this, because it seems kind of obvious. But it's often taken for granted, so we might underestimate the impact: e.g. these days, diffusion papers don't usually show samples without guidance anymore (figures from GLIDE arxiv.org/abs/2112.10741)

🧠 How can we equip LLMs with memory that allows them to continually learn new things? In our new paper with @AIatMeta, we show how sparsely finetuning memory layers enables targeted updates for continual learning, w/ minimal interference with existing knowledge. While full finetuning and LoRA see drastic drops in held-out task performance (📉-89% FT, -71% LoRA on fact learning tasks), memory layers learn the same amount with far less forgetting (-11%). 🧵: