March 29, 2025
A Bit of AI Episode 7
A Bit of AI Episode 7 Source link
Articles for category: AI Tools
March 29, 2025
LoRA training scripts of the world, unite!
A community derived guide to some of the SOTA practices for SD-XL Dreambooth LoRA fine tuning TL;DR We combined the Pivotal Tuning technique used on Replicate’s SDXL Cog trainer with the Prodigy optimizer used in the Kohya trainer (plus a bunch of other optimizations) to achieve very good results on training Dreambooth LoRAs for SDXL. Check out the training script on diffusers🧨. Try it out on Colab. If you want to skip the technical talk, you can use all the techniques in this blog and train on Hugging Face Spaces with a simple UI and curated parameters (that you can
March 29, 2025
Supercharging Your MERN Stack App with Redis Caching: A Deep Dive
In today’s competitive digital landscape, application performance isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential for user retention and business success. While the MERN (MongoDB, Express, Node.js, React) stack offers a robust foundation for modern web applications, introducing Redis as a caching layer can dramatically enhance performance, reduce database load, and improve scalability. This guide will walk you through implementing Redis caching in a MERN stack application, covering everything from basic setup to advanced patterns and real-world optimization techniques. Understanding Why Redis Matters for MERN Applications Before diving into implementation, let’s understand why Redis is particularly valuable in a MERN context: MongoDB Query
March 29, 2025
Building industrial-strength NLP applications with Ines Montani
In this episode of Science Talks, Explosion AI’s Ines Montani sat down with Snorkel AI’s Braden Hancock to discuss her path into machine learning, key design decisions behind the popular spaCy library for industrial-strength NLP, the importance of bringing together different stakeholders in the ML development process, and more.This episode is part of the #ScienceTalks video series hosted by the Snorkel AI team. You can watch the episode here: Below are highlights from the conversation, lightly edited for clarity: How did you get into machine learning? Ines: I have always been into computers, and I spent time making websites as a teenager. However, I
March 29, 2025
Welcome aMUSEd: Efficient Text-to-Image Generation
We’re excited to present an efficient non-diffusion text-to-image model named aMUSEd. It’s called so because it’s a open reproduction of Google’s MUSE. aMUSEd’s generation quality is not the best and we’re releasing a research preview with a permissive license. In contrast to the commonly used latent diffusion approach (Rombach et al. (2022)), aMUSEd employs a Masked Image Model (MIM) methodology. This not only requires fewer inference steps, as noted by Chang et al. (2023), but also enhances the model’s interpretability. Just as MUSE, aMUSEd demonstrates an exceptional ability for style transfer using a single image, a feature explored in depth
March 29, 2025
5 Awesome ownCloud Alternatives to consider in 2025
If you’ve been using ownCloud, you might recently be reconsidering. Maybe you’re frustrated by feature limitations, licensing costs, or concerned about its uncertain future since the acquisition. Switching solutions after a product changes ownership isn’t unusual—products do sometimes deteriorate under new management. Luckily, there are strong options if you’re looking for a reliable file syncing and sharing alternative to ownCloud! Here are five alternatives worth considering: 1. Nextcloud Nextcloud started as a fork of ownCloud, and it quickly became a strong alternative. It gives users the ability to synchronize files seamlessly, while at the same time offering extensive collaboration options.
March 29, 2025
Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence
Figure A2 shows a stylized version of the custom interface we built using the Prodigy annotation tool. Annotators are presented with an entire document, with sentences sequentially highlighted. Source link
March 29, 2025
Make LLM Fine-tuning 2x faster with Unsloth and 🤗 TRL
Pulling your hair out because LLM fine-tuning is taking forever? In this post, we introduce a lightweight tool developed by the community to make LLM fine-tuning go super fast! Before diving into Unsloth, it may be helpful to read our QLoRA blog post, or be familiar with LLM fine-tuning using the 🤗 PEFT library. Unsloth – 2x faster, -40% memory usage, 0% accuracy degradation Unsloth is a lightweight library for faster LLM fine-tuning which is fully compatible with the Hugging Face ecosystem (Hub, transformers, PEFT, TRL). The library is actively developed by the Unsloth team (Daniel and Michael) and the
March 29, 2025
Beyond the Basics: HCDN, CMS, and Hosting – A Performance Powerhouse Guide
Turbocharge Your Website: Unveiling the Power of HTTP Content Delivery Networks In today’s digital landscape, speed is king. A slow website isn’t just an inconvenience; it’s a conversion killer, a user experience nightmare, and a search engine ranking liability. That’s where HCDNs (HTTP Content Delivery Networks) come in. Imagine a global network of super-fast servers working tirelessly to deliver your content with lightning speed, no matter where your visitors are located. Let’s dive into the hype behind HCDNs and discover how they can transform your website from sluggish to sensational. I. What’s the HCDN Hype? Let’s start with the pain
March 29, 2025
spaCy v3: State-of-the-art NLP from Prototype to Production
spaCy v3: State-of-the-art NLP from Prototype to Production Source link