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🚨Excited to share our new work “Sharpness-Aware Minimization Leads to Low-Rank Features” arxiv.org/abs/2305.16292! ❓We know SAM improves generalization, but can we better understand the structure of features learned by SAM? (with Dara Bahri, Hossein Mobahi, N. Flammarion) 🧵1/n

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🤔We know that linear mode connectivity doesn't hold for two independently trained models. But what about *layer-wise* LMC? Well, it is very different! 📄Our new work explores this (+ applications to federated averaging) arxiv.org/abs/2307.06966. 🧵1/6

Hey All! The PhDs volunteers from EPFL's Computer & Communication Sciences department can help review and provide feedback on the SoPs and resumes of people who lack mentorship. Register in this form forms.gle/zfcArtVitihteS…

Check our **Open-sourced** 70B medical expert MEDITRON! 🤖🏥 Still a long way to go towards safe&accurate medical AI, but one more step closer! ;)

NEW PAPER ALERT: Tools help #LLMs access world knowledge, but can LLMs efficiently invoke tools to improve multi-step reasoning? Our new paper proposes Chain-of-Abstraction (CoA), a novel method for LLMs to learn general multi-step reasoning strategies with efficient tool use.

Interested to see whether there will be a “De-Chatgptize” trend after some time e.g. I really liked to use “delve in” in academic writing before the boom of ChatGPT 😅

Attending ICML from July 21-27. Will be presenting on Poster Session 1 on Tuesday and DMLR workshop on Saturday :) Come across to the poster if you are interested in data attribution for LLM training! Or catch me for a coffee chat anytime 💬

Happy to announce that I'm joining as an Asst. Prof. in CS at UToronto U of T Department of Computer Science+Vector Institute in Fall '25, working on #NLProc, Causality, and AI Safety! I want to sincerely thank my dear mentors, friends, collabs & many who mean a lot to me. Welcome #PhDs/Research MSc to apply!

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It is disappointing that while most of faithful and upright AI researchers are working very hard to remove bias from foundation models, some, I hope are outliers, are sabotaging this effort. As a Chinese, I thank the Chinese female researcher for standing up and defending us.

super cool work from Tongtian! 🎉