Articles for category: AI Tools

March 9, 2025

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DINOv2 Segmentation – Fine-Tuning and Transfer Learning

DINOv2’s SSL training leads to its learning extremely powerful image features. We can use such a trained backbone for numerous downstream tasks like image classification, image segmentation, feature matching, and object detection. In this article, we will experiment with DINOv2 segmentation for fine-tuning and transfer learning. Figure 1. A comparison between the segmentation maps of the best weights obtained through DINOv2 segmentation fine-tuning and transfer learning training experiments. What are we going to cover in DINOv2 fine-tuning and transfer learning segmentation experiments? What are the contributions of this article? How do we build a simple model and training pipeline? How

March 9, 2025

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Data Machina #258 – by Carlos

AI and While You Were Out IRL. The speed and breadth of AI R&D these days is mind-boggling! This w/e I’ve been immersed IRL joys, including being trapped in airplanes, trains and automobiles. (Apologies for publishing this a day later than usual.) This issue is a bit like an AP News bulletin on what happened in AI when I was AWK. The latest version of DeepSeek-Coder is now the top open model for coding. DeepSeek-Coder-v2 is an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code language model that achieves performance comparable to GPT4-Turbo in code-specific tasks. Repo & paper: DeepSeek-Coder-V2: Breaking the Barrier of

March 9, 2025

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Taming the Wild West of AI Agents: Addressing the Challenges of Real-World Deployment

AI agents are autonomous systems that combine language (and multimodal) understanding with the decision-making prowess of foundation models to interpret complex inputs, reason through multifaceted scenarios, and execute tasks autonomously. The business landscape is abuzz with excitement, as industry analysts forecast billions of dollars in value creation and early adopters report significant improvements in operational efficiency, customer engagement, and data-driven decision-making. With substantial market investments driving this momentum, the critical question for application builders is not whether to deploy AI agents, but how to seamlessly integrate them into existing ecosystems to unlock measurable business impact. Yet, realizing the full potential

March 9, 2025

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How to Run a Weekly Paper Club (and Build a Learning Community)

Over the past 18 months, the Latent Space Paper Club has had an unbroken streak of hosting paper club every single week. That’s at least 80 papers, and likely more, when we consider weeks where we cover related papers (e.g., LoRA + QLoRA). Together, we’ve pre-read and discuss a paper weekly, covering the fundamentals such as: Key components: Attention, LayerNorm, FlashAttention, LoRA/QLoRA, ALiBi, RoPE Models: Transformer, BERT, T5, GPTs, Codex, LLaMAs, Mistral, CLIP, ViT, RWKV, Jamba, Mamba, Latent Consistency Models, Whisper, Moshi, Molmo, TimeGPT Training: InstructGPT, RLHF, RLAIF/CAI, PPO, REST, SPIN, Self-Play, Upcycling Inference: Speculative Decoding, Writing in the Margins,

March 9, 2025

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🌟 The Ultimate Guide to DevOps: Unlocking Speed, Efficiency, and Innovation (With a Dash of Fun!)

🚀 Introduction Ever wondered how tech giants like Netflix, Amazon, and Google manage to roll out updates multiple times a day without breaking anything? 🤯 Welcome to DevOps!🚀 It’s not just a buzzword—it’s a game-changing methodology that brings together development (Dev) and operations (Ops) to enable automation, speed, and reliability in software delivery. 🔹 Real-World Example: Imagine an e-commerce platform handling millions of users. A sudden traffic surge during a flash sale could crash the system! DevOps helps scale resources automatically, recover from failures, and deploy fixes in minutes instead of hours. 📖 Success Story: A fintech startup struggled with

March 9, 2025

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Part 2: A Survey of Analytics Engineering Work at Netflix | by Netflix Technology Blog

This article is the second in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. Need to catch up? Check out Part 1. In this article, we highlight a few exciting analytic business applications, and in our final article we’ll go into aspects of the technical craft. Yimeng Tang, Claire Willeck, Sagar Palao Netflix has been launching games for the past three years, during which it has initiated various marketing efforts, including User Acquisition (UA) campaigns, to promote these games across different countries. These UA campaigns

March 9, 2025

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Database ACID Properties: Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable – BMC Software

Understanding the foundation of reliable and consistent database transactions I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that data is pretty important. Data is especially important for modern organizations. In fact, The Economist went so far as to say that data surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable resource, which was back in 2017. One of the problems with data, though, is the massive amounts that need to be processed daily. There’s so much data being generated across the globe these days that we have to come up with a new term just to express how much data there is:

March 9, 2025

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Doubling Neural Network Finetuning Efficiency with 16-bit Precision Techniques

Takeaways This guide targets PyTorch model training, illustrating how you can adjust the floating point precision to drastically enhance training speed and halve memory consumption, all without compromising the prediction accuracy. An excerpt of the improvements we can gain from leveraging the techniques introduced in this article.   In this article, we will work with a vision transformer from PyTorch’s Torchvision library, providing simple code examples that you can execute on your own machine without the need to download and install numerous code and dataset dependencies. The self-contained baseline training script comprises approximately 100 lines of code, excluding whitespace and