Waterloo's David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

uwcheritoncs.bsky.social

21 January 2025 01:16

📣 Congrats to CS Professor Kate Larson on being named an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow. AAAI is recognizing Kate for her significant contributions to the foundations of multiagent systems and for service to the AI community: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/kate-la...

Simon Willison

simonwillison.net

21 January 2025 00:59

DeepSeek released a whole family of inference-scaling / "reasoning" models today, including distilled variants based on Llama and Qwen Here are my notes on the new models, plus how I ran DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on my Mac using Ollama and LLM simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/...

Andreas Steiner

andreaspsteiner.bsky.social

05 December 2024 21:27

🚀🚀PaliGemma 2 is our updated and improved PaliGemma release using the Gemma 2 models and providing new pre-trained checkpoints for the full cross product of {224px,448px,896px} resolutions and {3B,10B,28B} model sizes. 1/7

Lucas Beyer (bl16)

giffmana.ai

05 December 2024 06:50

Our big_vision codebase is really good! And it's *the* reference for ViT, SigLIP, PaliGemma, JetFormer, ... including fine-tuning them. However, it's criminally undocumented. I tried using it outside Google to fine-tune PaliGemma and SigLIP on GPUs, and wrote a tutorial: lb.eyer.be/a/bv_tuto.html

Lucas Beyer (bl16)

giffmana.ai

05 December 2024 06:48

So, now that our move to OpenAI became public, @kolesnikov.ch @xzhai.bsky.social and I are drowning in notifications. I read everything, but may not reply. Excited about this new journey! 🚀 Quick FAQ thread...