🚨 Model Merging competition @NeurIPSConf! 🚀

Can you revolutionize model selection and merging?

Let's create the best LLMs! 🤖+🤖=🧠✨

💻 Come for science
💰 Stay for $8K

🔗 Sign up: https://llm-merging.github.io/
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Sponsors: @huggingface sakana.ai arcee.ai
#ml #machinelearning #nlp #merging #nlproc #llm #llms #OpenScience #huggingFace #DataScience

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

^Discord

The #FreeUniversity of #Berlin, one of the best-known #universities of #Germany has decided to close its account on #X:
"In light of developments on the social media platform X, Freie Universität Berlin has decided to shut down this channel."
https://www.fu-berlin.de/informationen-fuer/beschaeftigte/aktuelles/news/240424-ausstieg-x/index.html

In its justification, it commits itself to the principles of the #Fediverse and #OpenScience:
"Freie Universität Berlin has been present on Mastodon since December 2022. #Mastodon is part of the decentralized Fediverse network. Compared to large commercial social networks, Mastodon relies on chronological feeds and reduces the algorithmic sorting of posts. This ensures that information is always openly available and reduces the likelihood of so-called filter bubbles forming."

Bravo, @freieuniversitaet ! A good decision!

#Unis4Mastodon 🌻 #AlleInsFediverse 🐘 🐘 🐘

You too, physics, can benefit from #openscience:

[conference attendees] "discussed how to persuade the community to view data sharing positively, rather than seeing the demand for it as a sign of distrust. They also brought up the practical challenges of asking graduate students to do even more work by preparing their data for outside scrutiny when it may already take them over five years to complete their degree."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/15/1092535/a-wave-of-retractions-is-shaking-physics/

A wave of retractions is shaking physics

Grappling with problematic papers and poorly documented data, researchers and journal editors gathered in Pittsburgh to hash out the best way forward.

^{Sophia Chen (MIT Technology Review)}