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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark

   Muennighoff, Tazi, Magne and Reimers · Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023

   The paper introduces MTEB, a benchmark of 8 embedding tasks, 58 datasets and 112 languages, and uses it to compare 33 text embedding models.

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   1. UncheckedIn the MTEB benchmark of 33 models, no single text embedding method came out best on every one of the tasks.“We find that no particular text embedding method dominates across all tasks.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Reweighted belief propagation and quiet planting for random K-SAT

   Krząkała, Mézard and Zdeborová · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2012

   The authors reweight solutions of random K-satisfiability, apply belief propagation and the cavity method, and obtain new results on clustering, planted instances and hard satisfiable benchmarks.

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   1. UncheckedReweighting solutions in random K-SAT lets the authors define a planted ensemble that, in some parameter region, is equivalent to random instances.“In particular the reweighting allows to introduce a planted ensemble that generates instances that are, in some region of parameters, equivalent to random instances.”
   2. UncheckedIn some parameter regions of random K-satisfiability, the barriers between clusters of solutions are purely entropic rather than energetic, the authors report.“We study the relation between clustering and belief propagation fixed points and we give a direct evidence for the existence of purely entropic (rather than energetic) barriers between clusters in some region of parameters in the random K-satisfiability problem.”