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3 claims from 2 papers

  1. Social Sciences › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

    On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

    Bommasani, Hudson, Adeli et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

    A report setting out the opportunities and risks of foundation models, AI models trained on broad data at scale and adaptable to many tasks, covering their capabilities, technical principles, applications and societal impact.

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    1. UncheckedBuilding many AI systems on one shared foundation model gives strong leverage, but any flaws in that model pass on to every system adapted from it.“Homogenization provides powerful leverage but demands caution, as the defects of the foundation model are inherited by all the adapted models downstream.”
    2. UncheckedThe paper says foundation models use standard techniques, but their scale brings new emergent abilities and their wide usefulness encourages homogenization.“Though foundation models are based on standard deep learning and transfer learning, their scale results in new emergent capabilities,and their effectiveness across so many tasks incentivizes homogenization.”
  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Diverse Sample Generation: Pushing the Limit of Generative Data-Free Quantization

    Qin, Ding, Zhang, Wang, Liu and Lu · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Comprehensive experiments show that for large-scale image classification tasks, our DSG can consistently quantization performance on different neural architectures, especially under ultra-low bit-width.”

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