How Nvidia trained Nemotron, better agents, and more #31

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In today’s video, I dive into key learnings from Nvidia’s Nemotron family of models and insights for training an LLM using synthetic data. Training large language models is such a massive challenge due to the enormous need for high-quality data. But getting that data is incredibly tough. While many people have tried to solve this problem in various ways, synthetic data is one of the most promising approaches. It’s less expensive than other methods but has a major drawback: the lack of diversity. Recently, Nvidia’s new LLMs from their Nemotron family of models have addressed this issue. They’ve shared a pipeline for generating synthetic data that’s used for training and refining large language models (LLMs). Watch the video or read the article version!

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Article of the week

KAN (Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks): A Starter Guide

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, KANs emerge as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). Unlike traditional neural networks, KANs place activation functions along the connections between nodes, not at the nodes themselves. This innovative approach opens doors for further enhancing deep learning models that heavily rely on MLPs. The goal of this article is to give some basic understanding of KAN and explore the parts or building blocks of KAN in this Article.

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