Hunting for the Higgs

Hunting for the Higgs

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Chasing Away Repetitive LLM Responses with Verbalized Sampling

One of the things that LLMs can be really helpful with is brainstorming or generating new creative content. They are called Generative AI, after all—not just for summarization and question-and-answer tasks. But if you use LLMs for creative generation, you may find that their outp ...  Show more

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It's been (*checks watch*) about five and a half years since we last talked. Fortunately nothing much has happened in the AI/data science world in that time. So let's just pick up where we left off, shall we? 

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