Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to widespread adoption, most LLMs are developed by resource-rich organizations and are frequently kept from the public. As a step towards democratizing this powerful technology, we present BLOOM, a 176B-parameter open-access language model designed and built thanks to a collaboration of hundreds of researchers. BLOOM is a decoder-only Transformer language model that was trained on the ROOTS corpus, a dataset comprising hundreds of sources in 46 natural and 13 programming languages (59 in total). We find that BLOOM achieves competitive performance on a wide variety of benchmarks, with stronger results after undergoing multitask prompted finetuning. To facilitate future research and applications using LLMs, we publicly release our models and code under the Responsible AI License.

这项研究讨论了半监督学习的影响与验证的语言模型，以生成数据到文本。当还补充大规模语言模型时，尚不清楚半监督学习是否仍然有用。这项研究的目的是通过将仅补充语言模型的数据到文本系统与两个数据到文本系统进行比较，这些系统通过数据增强或伪标记的半固定学习方法而富含数据。结果表明，半监督学习会导致多样性指标的得分更高。在输出质量方面，使用伪标记方法扩展数据到文本系统的训练集确实提高了文本质量分数，但是数据增强方法在没有训练设置扩展的情况下得出了与系统相似的分数。这些结果表明，即使也存在语言模型，半监督的学习方法也可以增强产出质量和多样性。

语言模型既展示了定量的改进，又展示了新的定性功能，随着规模的增加。尽管它们具有潜在的变革性影响，但这些新能力的特征却很差。为了为未来的研究提供信息，为破坏性的新模型能力做准备，并改善社会有害的效果，至关重要的是，我们必须了解目前和近乎未来的能力和语言模型的局限性。为了应对这一挑战，我们介绍了超越模仿游戏基准（Big Bench）。 Big Bench目前由204个任务组成，由132家机构的442位作者贡献。任务主题是多样的，从语言学，儿童发展，数学，常识性推理，生物学，物理学，社会偏见，软件开发等等。 Big-Bench专注于被认为超出当前语言模型的功能的任务。我们评估了OpenAI的GPT型号，Google内部密集变压器体系结构和大型基础上的开关稀疏变压器的行为，跨越了数百万到数十亿个参数。此外，一个人类专家评估者团队执行了所有任务，以提供强大的基准。研究结果包括：模型性能和校准都随规模改善，但绝对的术语（以及与评估者的性能相比）；在模型类中的性能非常相似，尽管带有稀疏性。逐渐和预测的任务通常涉及大量知识或记忆成分，而在临界规模上表现出“突破性”行为的任务通常涉及多个步骤或组成部分或脆性指标；社交偏见通常会随着含糊不清的环境而随着规模而增加，但这可以通过提示来改善。

我们使用条件扩散模型介绍调色板，这是一种简单而一般的框架，可用于图像到图像到图像转换。在四个具有挑战性的图像到图像转换任务（着色，染色，un折叠和JPEG减压），调色板优于强大的GaN和回归基线，并建立了新的最新状态。这是在没有特定于任务特定的超参数调整，架构定制或任何辅助损耗的情况下实现的，展示了理想的一般性和灵活性。我们揭示了使用$ l_2 $与vs. $ l_1 $损失在样本多样性上的越来越多的影响，并通过经验架构研究表明自我关注的重要性。重要的是，我们倡导基于想象项目的统一评估协议，并报告包括预先训练的Reset-50的FID，成立得分，分类准确度的多个样本质量评分，以及针对各种基线的参考图像的感知距离。我们预计这一标准化评估协议在推进图像到图像翻译研究方面发挥着关键作用。最后，我们表明，在3个任务（着色，染色，JPEG减压）上培训的单个通用调色板模型也表现或优于特定于任务专家的专家对应物。

AI正在经历范式转变，随着模型的兴起（例如Bert，Dall-E，GPT-3），这些模型经过大规模的数据训练，并且可以适应广泛的下游任务。我们称这些模型基础模型来强调其至关重要但不完整的特征。该报告提供了基础模型的机会和风险的详尽说明，包括其功能（例如语言，愿景，机器人技术，推理，人类互动）和技术原则（例如，模型架构，培训程序，数据，系统，安全，安全性，评估，理论）对其应用（例如法律，医疗保健，教育）和社会影响（例如不平等，滥用，经济和环境影响，法律和道德考虑）。尽管基础模型基于标准的深度学习和转移学习，但它们的规模导致了新的新兴能力，以及它们在许多任务中的有效性都激发了同质化。同质化提供了强大的杠杆作用，但要求谨慎，因为基础模型的缺陷均由下游的所有适应模型继承。尽管即将广泛地部署基础模型，但我们目前对它们的工作方式，失败以及由于其新兴属性的影响而缺乏清晰的了解。为了解决这些问题，我们认为基础模型的许多批判性研究都需要与他们的基本社会技术性质相称。

背景：精确诊断颅底肿瘤对于提供个性化的手术治疗策略至关重要。由于肿瘤多样性和缺乏术中病理资源，术中诊断可能具有挑战性。目的：开发独立且平行的术中病理学工作流程，可以使用无标签的光学成像和人工智能提供快速准确的颅底肿瘤诊断。方法：我们使用了基于光纤激光，无标签，非消费性，高分辨率显微镜方法（$ <$ <$ <$ <$ 60秒，每1 $ \ times $ 1 mm $ $^\ text {2} $），称为刺激的拉曼组织学（SRH），以对颅底肿瘤患者的连续多中心队列进行成像。然后，使用三种表示学习策略：跨渗透性，自我监督的对比度学习和监督对比度学习，使用SRH图像来训练卷积神经网络（CNN）模型。我们训练有素的CNN模型在持有的多中心SRH数据集上进行了测试。结果：SRH能够成像良性和恶性颅底肿瘤的诊断特征。在三种表示策略中，有监督的对比度学习最有效地学习了每种颅底肿瘤类型的独特和诊断SRH图像特征。在我们的多中心测试集中，跨渗透性达到了91.5％的总体诊断准确性，自我监督的对比度学习为83.9％，并且有监督的对比度学习为96.6％。我们训练有素的模型能够鉴定出肿瘤正常的边缘，并检测整个SRH图像中微观肿瘤浸润的区域。结论：具有训练有素的人工智能模型的SRH可以对颅底肿瘤标本进行快速准确的术中分析，以告知手术决策。

Traditional approaches to RL have focused on learning decision policies directly from episodic decisions, while slowly and implicitly learning the semantics of compositional representations needed for generalization. While some approaches have been adopted to refine representations via auxiliary self-supervised losses while simultaneously learning decision policies, learning compositional representations from hand-designed and context-independent self-supervised losses (multi-view) still adapts relatively slowly to the real world, which contains many non-IID subspaces requiring rapid distribution shift in both time and spatial attention patterns at varying levels of abstraction. In contrast, supervised language model cascades have shown the flexibility to adapt to many diverse manifolds, and hints of self-learning needed for autonomous task transfer. However, to date, transfer methods for language models like few-shot learning and fine-tuning still require human supervision and transfer learning using self-learning methods has been underexplored. We propose a self-supervised loss policy called contrastive distillation which manifests latent variables with high mutual information with both source and target tasks from weights to tokens. We show how this outperforms common methods of transfer learning and suggests a useful design axis of trading off compute for generalizability for online transfer. Contrastive distillation is improved through sampling from memory and suggests a simple algorithm for more efficiently sampling negative examples for contrastive losses than random sampling.

Our earlier research built a virtual shake robot in simulation to study the dynamics of precariously balanced rocks (PBR), which are negative indicators of earthquakes in nature. The simulation studies need validation through physical experiments. For this purpose, we developed Shakebot, a low-cost (under $2,000), open-source shake table to validate simulations of PBR dynamics and facilitate other ground motion experiments. The Shakebot is a custom one-dimensional prismatic robotic system with perception and motion software developed using the Robot Operating System (ROS). We adapted affordable and high-accuracy components from 3D printers, particularly a closed-loop stepper motor for actuation and a toothed belt for transmission. The stepper motor enables the bed to reach a maximum horizontal acceleration of 11.8 m/s^2 (1.2 g), and velocity of 0.5 m/s, when loaded with a 2 kg scale-model PBR. The perception system of the Shakebot consists of an accelerometer and a high frame-rate camera. By fusing camera-based displacements with acceleration measurements, the Shakebot is able to carry out accurate bed velocity estimation. The ROS-based perception and motion software simplifies the transition of code from our previous virtual shake robot to the physical Shakebot. The reuse of the control programs ensures that the implemented ground motions are consistent for both the simulation and physical experiments, which is critical to validate our simulation experiments.

Since early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there has been interest in using artificial intelligence methods to predict COVID-19 infection status based on vocal audio signals, for example cough recordings. However, existing studies have limitations in terms of data collection and of the assessment of the performances of the proposed predictive models. This paper rigorously assesses state-of-the-art machine learning techniques used to predict COVID-19 infection status based on vocal audio signals, using a dataset collected by the UK Health Security Agency. This dataset includes acoustic recordings and extensive study participant meta-data. We provide guidelines on testing the performance of methods to classify COVID-19 infection status based on acoustic features and we discuss how these can be extended more generally to the development and assessment of predictive methods based on public health datasets.

The UK COVID-19 Vocal Audio Dataset is designed for the training and evaluation of machine learning models that classify SARS-CoV-2 infection status or associated respiratory symptoms using vocal audio. The UK Health Security Agency recruited voluntary participants through the national Test and Trace programme and the REACT-1 survey in England from March 2021 to March 2022, during dominant transmission of the Alpha and Delta SARS-CoV-2 variants and some Omicron variant sublineages. Audio recordings of volitional coughs, exhalations, and speech were collected in the 'Speak up to help beat coronavirus' digital survey alongside demographic, self-reported symptom and respiratory condition data, and linked to SARS-CoV-2 test results. The UK COVID-19 Vocal Audio Dataset represents the largest collection of SARS-CoV-2 PCR-referenced audio recordings to date. PCR results were linked to 70,794 of 72,999 participants and 24,155 of 25,776 positive cases. Respiratory symptoms were reported by 45.62% of participants. This dataset has additional potential uses for bioacoustics research, with 11.30% participants reporting asthma, and 27.20% with linked influenza PCR test results.