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✋🏻 Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
🔮 LLMs Are Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters
🏁 Accessing GPT-4 Level Mathematical Olympiad Solutions via Monte Carlo Tree Self-Refine With Llama-3 8B
👨🏻🚒 Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch
🍎 Apple’s Intelligent Strategy
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (🔗 Read Paper)
Researchers have looked into the internal mechanisms behind the safety-critical refusal behavior of conversational large language models (LLMs). They found that the refusal behavior in conversational LLMs, designed to avoid harmful requests, is controlled by a single direction in the model's internal representations.
By identifying this direction, the researchers have developed a powerful technique for “jailbreaking” these models and disabling their refusal capabilities. The study also revealed how certain prompts can suppress the refusal-controlling direction, enabling bypasses of safety restrictions. This paper investigates the internal mechanisms behind refusal behavior across 13 popular open-source chat models.
Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters (🔗 Read Paper)
Researchers have discovered that large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 can effectively forecast time series data without specialized training, performing on par with or better than traditional models. By encoding time series as numerical strings, LLMs can predict future values similarly to next-word prediction in text. The study introduces the LLMTime framework, demonstrating that LLMs can handle missing data, incorporate textual side information, and explain predictions.
Experiments show that LLMs outperform traditional forecasting models in various domains, such as macroeconomic and financial time series. This success suggests that LLMs inherently understand and can forecast time series data, making them powerful and versatile tools for numerous forecasting applications.
Accessing GPT-4 Level Mathematical Olympiad Solutions via Monte Carlo Tree Self-Refine With Llama-3 8B (🔗 Read Paper)
Researchers have introduced the MCT Self-Refine (MCTSr) algorithm, leveraging the reasoning and problem-solving capabilities of the state-of-the-art LLaMa-3 8B model. Integrating large language models (LLMs) with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), the goal is to match the performance of GPT-4 in advanced mathematical problem-solving.
The algorithm constructs an MCTS through iterative Selection, self-refine, self-evaluation, and Backpropagation processes, optimizing with an improved Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) formula. Extensive experiments show that MCTSr significantly improves success rates in solving Olympiad-level math problems across various datasets.
Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch (🔗 Read Paper)
This paper introduces a technique called DARE (Decoupled Alignment and Robust Embedding) that allows language models (LMs) to acquire new capabilities by assimilating parameters from similar models without retraining or specialized hardware. DARE sets most delta parameters (differences between fine-tuned and pre-trained parameters) to zero, maintaining the performance of supervised fine-tuning (SFT) LMs. DARE drops and rescales delta parameters to approximate the original embeddings, allowing for the efficient merging of multiple SFT models into a single, more capable model.
Experiments show that DARE can eliminate up to 99% of redundant delta parameters and successfully merge task-specific LMs, especially in large-scale models. This merged LM can potentially outperform any individual source model, as evidenced by its top ranking among 7-billion-parameter models on the Open LLM Leaderboard.
Apple’s Intelligent Strategy (🔗 Read Paper)
Apple is poised to dominate the AI landscape, leveraging the personal nature of iPhones and the high utility of AI assistants accessing personal data. As one of the most trusted brands, Apple excels in handling user information securely. Despite entering emerging technologies later than competitors, Apple consistently delivers polished, superior versions. At WWDC, Apple introduced the Private Cloud, ensuring data privacy and security through local and cloud processing.
The Private Cloud's design emphasizes zero-trust architecture, non-targetability, and custom hardware, setting a new standard for secure AI applications. This strategic approach positions Apple as a leader in AI, combining innovation with user trust and robust privacy measures.
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