Tag: OPTIMIZATION

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Samsung & Meta AI’s Adaptive Parameter-Free Learning Rate Method Matches Hand-Tuned Adam Optimizer

In a new paper Prodigy: An Expeditiously Adaptive Parameter-Free Learner, a research team from Samsung AI Center and Meta AI presents two novel modifications, Prodigy and Resetting, to enhance the D-Adaptation method’s worst-case non-asymptotic convergence rate, achieving faster convergence rates and better optimization outputs.

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Microsoft’s Automatic Prompt Optimization Improves Prompts to Boost LLM Performance

In the new paper Automatic Prompt Optimization with “Gradient Descent” and Beam Search, a Microsoft research team presents Automatic Prompt Optimization, a simple and general prompt optimization algorithm that automatically improves prompts for large language models, significantly reducing the time and energy spent on manual prompting approaches.

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Google & Lund U’s Optimus Learned Optimization Architecture Efficiently Captures Complex Dependencies

In the new paper Transformer-Based Learned Optimization, a Google Research and Lund University team presents Optimus, an expressive neural network architecture for learned optimization that captures complex dependencies in the parameter space and achieves competitive results on real-world tasks and benchmark optimization problems.

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Google & UC Berkeley’s Data-Driven Offline Optimization Approach Significantly Boosts Hardware Accelerator Performance, Reduces Simulation Time by More Than 90%

A research team from Google Research and UC Berkeley proposes PRIME, an offline data-driven approach that can architect hardware accelerators without any form of simulations. Compared to state-of-the-art simulation-driven methods, PRIME achieves impressive performance improvements of up to 1.54× while reducing the total required simulation time by up to 99 percent.

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How AI Can Help The Oil Industry

To apply AI technology to the oil and gas industry, oil companies and startups generally first establish either a research group or a research center for the purpose. AI for oil and gas is a huge potential market, expected to reach US$2.85 billion by 2022.