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    Salesforce AI Research Blog

    blog.salesforceairesearch.com · Company blog · on HN since 2022

    Salesforce's AI research team publishes posts on its models and methods, including CodeGen, CodeRL, XGen, Moirai, and CausalAI.

    Visit blogHN submissions
    AI & Machine LearningProgramming
    What HN says

    HN commenters cite it for code-generation work like CodeRL and CodeGen, the GeDi discriminator approach, and its model training data choices.

    Stats for nerds
    20HN people shared it
    14linked in comments
    286story points
    Aug 2024last shared
    2022people per year2024

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Moirai: A time series foundation model for universal forecasting
      1 person · 196 points · first shared 2024 · 37 comments on HN
    2. 2
      AI Coding with CodeRL: Toward Mastering Program Synthesis with Deep RL
      2 people · 67 points · first shared 2022 · 21 comments on HN
    3. 3
      XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens
      2 people · 9 points · first shared 2023 · 2 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Conversational AI Programming with CodeGen: Let AI Write Code for You
      3 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Toward Actionable Generative AI
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
    6. 6
      CodeGen2.5: Small, but Mighty
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
    7. 7
      CausalAI: Answering Causality Questions Using Observational Data
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2023 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      AI Economist Research on Improving Tax Policies with RL
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2022 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Responsible AI Matters: How Leading Practitioners Are Implementing It (2022)
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2023 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Prototyping XGen-Image-1 – 860M text-to-image diffusion model from Salesforce
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2023 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • kromemMar 2022

      My whole point is that the way in which AI progress can intersect itself can lead to compounding effects in ways technology has not.

      One way to improve upon GPT-3 is almost certainly going to be adding discriminators into the mix:

      "GeDi: A Powerful New Method for Controlling Language Models"

      https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/gedi/

      And it may be that rather than it being a CNN discriminator such as in that case, it will be a second transformer:

      "[2102.07074] TransGAN: Two Pure Transformers Can Make One Strong GAN, and That Can Scale Up"

      https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07074

      My point is we may not need to reinvent some new model separate from transformers/GANs and the work so far as long as novel ways of intersecting trained models produces results that can in turn feed intersect with other models.

      NVIDIA in particular has had some interesting focus on using AI to generate training data for AI.

      "NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator Generates Synthetic Training Data for Robots | NVIDIA Technical Blog"

      https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/generating-synthetic-datasets-isaac-sim-data-replicator/

      I think it's very unlikely we need to wait 25 years for a new paradigm.

      In fact, I'm willing to wager a bet that whatever new paradigm will arrive will itself be the output of AI simulating different models.

    • TheBengaluruGuyAug 2024

      Interesting. Just a few weeks back, I was reading about their previous work https://atscaleconference.com/the-evolution-of-aiops-at-meta-beyond-the-buzz/ -- didn't realise there's more work!

      Also, some more researches in the similar space by other enterprises:

      Microsoft: https://yinfangchen.github.io/assets/pdf/rcacopilot_paper.pdf

      Salesforce: https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/pyrca/

      Personal plug: I'm building a self-service AIOps platform for engineering teams (somewhat similar to this work by Meta). If you're looking to read more about it, visit -- https://docs.drdroid.io/docs/doctor-droid-aiops-platform

    • visargaJan 2023

      > Yes, in a very very very very very limited environment like a board game.

      They work in math and coding, and these two are quite general.

      > CodeRL is a new framework for program synthesis through holistic integration of pretrained language models and deep reinforcement learning. By utilizing unit test feedback as part of model training and inference, and integrating with an improved CodeT5 model, CodeRL achieves state-of-the-art results on competition-level programming tasks.

      https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/coderl/

    • imrehgJun 2023

      Those look all programming related tokens, and I think they should relate to their focus of improving this model's code generation capabilities, and adding quite a bit of data related to that (BigCode Starcoder in the Second stage in pre-training https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/xgen/#pre-training-data )

    • freemintMay 2022

      DALL-E so far has no way to create consistent characters across multiple pictures. However good news if this discriminator approach https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/gedi/ caries over to images such constraints could be imposed. This is just a handful of follow up publications away.

    • markphipJul 2022

      Anyone could just push the repos to GitHub, including GitHub employees.

      Here are links to Amazon and Salesforce

      https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/
      https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/codegen/

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