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Papers that changed AI, with a plain-language explainer for each.
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- 2024
The FineWeb Datasets: Decanting the Web for the Finest Text Data at Scale
arXiv
FineWeb is a 15-trillion-token pretraining dataset built from 96 Common Crawl snapshots and released in 2024 with its curation code and ablation models; its educational subset, FineWeb-Edu, improves results on knowledge- and reasoning-heavy benchmarks.
- 2024
τ-bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domains
arXiv
τ-bench is a benchmark, submitted to arXiv in June 2024, that tests language agents in dynamic conversations with a simulated user, with domain-specific API tools and policy rules, and scores them by database state rather than by the text of their replies.
- 2024
MMLU-Pro: A More Robust and Challenging Multi-Task Language Understanding Benchmark
arXiv
MMLU-Pro is a 2024 benchmark that makes the widely used MMLU knowledge test harder: its questions are reasoning-focused and each has ten answer options instead of four.
- 2024
Transformers are SSMs: Generalized Models and Efficient Algorithms Through Structured State Space Duality
ICML
Tri Dao and Albert Gu's paper introduces state space duality, a framework showing that structured state space models and attention variants are closely related, and uses it to derive Mamba-2, whose core layer runs 2 to 8 times faster than Mamba's.
- 2024
Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
Nature
AlphaFold 3, published in Nature in May 2024, extends structure prediction to biomolecular interactions, reporting greater accuracy than docking tools for protein–ligand binding and than AlphaFold-Multimer v.2.3 for antibody–antigen complexes.
- 2024
OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
arXiv
OSWorld is a benchmark and environment for testing multimodal agents on 369 real computer tasks in Ubuntu, Windows and macOS; humans complete over 72.36% of the tasks, while the best model reaches only 12.24%.
- 2024
LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code
arXiv
A benchmark for code LLMs that keeps collecting fresh contest problems from LeetCode, AtCoder and CodeForces, so that scores reflect ability rather than memorised test data, and that also tests code repair and execution reasoning.
- 2024
Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context
arXiv
A report from Google's Gemini Team introducing the Gemini 1.5 family, multimodal models built around very long context, with Gemini 1.5 Pro recalling information across up to 10 million tokens.[^1]
- 2024
Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research
arXiv
Dolma is an openly released English corpus of three trillion tokens, built from web text, papers, code, books, social media and Wikipedia, with a paper documenting both the dataset and the pipeline used to curate it.
- 2024
Mixtral of Experts
arXiv
Mixtral 8x7B is a sparse mixture-of-experts language model from Mistral AI. A router sends each token to two of eight experts per layer, so the model holds 47B parameters but uses 13B during inference.
- 2023
Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
arXiv
Mamba is a sequence-model architecture introduced by Albert Gu and Tri Dao that replaces attention with selective state space models, giving linear-time scaling, faster inference, and language-model quality competitive with Transformers twice its size.
- 2023
Scaling deep learning for materials discovery
Nature
A 2023 Nature paper from researchers at Google DeepMind presenting a scaled-up deep-learning approach to predicting stable crystal structures, screening 2.2 million candidates and reporting a large jump in stability-prediction accuracy.
- 2023
GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants
arXiv
GAIA is a benchmark of real-world questions that are easy for humans but hard for AI assistants, testing reasoning, multimodality, web browsing, and tool use. It compares AI progress against average human performance.
- 2023
GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark
arXiv
GPQA is a benchmark of 448 expert-written multiple-choice questions in biology, physics and chemistry, built so that skilled non-experts cannot look the answers up, and hard enough that the strongest GPT-4 baseline scored 39% while domain experts reached 65%.
- 2023
SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
arXiv
A benchmark of 2,294 real software engineering problems taken from GitHub issues and the pull requests that resolved them, in which a model must edit a codebase to fix an issue; on release the best model solved under 2% of them.
- 2023
WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents
arXiv
WebArena is a reproducible environment of four fully functional websites — e-commerce, a social forum, collaborative software development and content management — built for testing language-guided web agents. Its best GPT-4 agent completed 14.41% of tasks; humans completed 78.24%.[^1]
- 2023
Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
arXiv 2307.09288
A July 2023 paper from Meta led by Hugo Touvron that introduces and releases Llama 2, a family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models from 7 to 70 billion parameters, together with a detailed account of how the chat versions were tuned and made safer.
- 2023
FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning
arXiv
FlashAttention-2 is a 2023 revision of the FlashAttention attention kernel that reorganizes work across GPU thread blocks and warps, roughly doubling speed and reaching up to 73% of the A100's theoretical peak throughput.
- 2023
Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
arXiv 2305.18290
A 2023 paper by Rafailov and colleagues that rewrites the reinforcement-learning-from-human-feedback objective so a language model can be aligned to preferences with a simple classification loss, without a separate reward model or reinforcement learning.
- 2023
QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
arXiv
QLoRA is a finetuning method that trains a 65B-parameter language model on a single 48GB GPU while matching full 16-bit finetuning quality, using 4-bit quantization, double quantization and paged optimizers.