Publications

Implications of conscious AI in primary healthcare
One-shot Learning for MIPs with SOS1 Constraints
Charly Robinson La Rocca
Jean-François Cordeau
Bugs in Large Language Models Generated Code: An Empirical Study
Florian Tambon
Arghavan Moradi Dakhel
Amin Nikanjam
Michel C. Desmarais
Giuliano Antoniol
Scattered Mixture-of-Experts Implementation
Shawn Tan
Yikang Shen
Rameswar Panda
We present ScatterMoE, an implementation of Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) on GPUs. ScatterMoE builds upon existing implementations, and o… (voir plus)vercoming some of the limitations to improve inference and training speed, and memory footprint. This implementation achieves this by avoiding padding and making excessive copies of the input. We introduce ParallelLinear, the main component we use to build our implementation and the various kernels used to speed up the operation. We benchmark our implementation against Megablocks, and show that it enables a higher throughput and lower memory footprint. We also show how ParallelLinear enables extension of the Mixture-of-Experts concept by demonstrating with an implementation of Mixture of Attention.
Simple and Scalable Strategies to Continually Pre-train Large Language Models
Adam Ibrahim
Benjamin Thérien
Kshitij Gupta
Mats Leon Richter
Quentin Anthony
Timothee LESORT
Large language models (LLMs) are routinely pre-trained on billions of tokens, only to start the process over again once new data becomes ava… (voir plus)ilable. A much more efficient solution is to continually pre-train these models, saving significant compute compared to re-training. However, the distribution shift induced by new data typically results in degraded performance on previous data or poor adaptation to the new data. In this work, we show that a simple and scalable combination of learning rate (LR) re-warming, LR re-decaying, and replay of previous data is sufficient to match the performance of fully re-training from scratch on all available data, as measured by the final loss and the average score on several language model (LM) evaluation benchmarks. Specifically, we show this for a weak but realistic distribution shift between two commonly used LLM pre-training datasets (English
Maxwell's Demon at Work: Efficient Pruning by Leveraging Saturation of Neurons
Simon Dufort-Labbé
Pierluca D'Oro
Evgenii Nikishin
Razvan Pascanu
Aristide Baratin
Rethinking Machine Learning Benchmarks in the Context of Professional Codes of Conduct
Peter Henderson
Jieru Hu
Mona Diab
Simulating Weighted Automata over Sequences and Trees with Transformers
Michael Rizvi
Maude Lizaire
Clara Lacroce
Ant Colony Sampling with GFlowNets for Combinatorial Optimization
Minsu Kim
Sanghyeok Choi
Jiwoo Son
Hyeon-Seob Kim
Jinkyoo Park
Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers via Search Dynamics Bootstrapping
Lucas Lehnert
Sainbayar Sukhbaatar
Paul McVay
Yuandong Tian
While Transformers have enabled tremendous progress in various application settings, such architectures still lag behind traditional symboli… (voir plus)c planners for solving complex decision making tasks. In this work, we demonstrate how to train Transformers to solve complex planning tasks. This is accomplished by training an encoder-decoder Transformer model to predict the _search dynamics_ of the
Improving and Generalizing Flow-Based Generative Models with Minibatch Optimal Transport
Alexander Tong
Nikolay Malkin
Guillaume Huguet
Yanlei Zhang
Jarrid Rector-Brooks
Kilian FATRAS
Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) are an attractive generative modeling technique, but they have been held back by limitations in their si… (voir plus)mulation-based maximum likelihood training. We introduce the generalized \textit{conditional flow matching} (CFM) technique, a family of simulation-free training objectives for CNFs. CFM features a stable regression objective like that used to train the stochastic flow in diffusion models but enjoys the efficient inference of deterministic flow models. In contrast to both diffusion models and prior CNF training algorithms, CFM does not require the source distribution to be Gaussian or require evaluation of its density. A variant of our objective is optimal transport CFM (OT-CFM), which creates simpler flows that are more stable to train and lead to faster inference, as evaluated in our experiments. Furthermore, OT-CFM is the first method to compute dynamic OT in a simulation-free way. Training CNFs with CFM improves results on a variety of conditional and unconditional generation tasks, such as inferring single cell dynamics, unsupervised image translation, and Schrödinger bridge inference.
IntentGPT: Few-shot Intent Discovery with Large Language Models
Juan A. Rodriguez
Nicholas Botzer
David Vazquez
Marco Pedersoli
Issam Hadj Laradji