Date: May 7th
Hour: 1 p.m.
Venue: PA2 amphitheatre, Técnico –Alameda Campus
Speaker: João Gante (HuggingFace)
Title: “Llama to Llama 3 – a year of open-access LLMs in retrospective”
Abstract:
Llama was originally released in February 2023, sparking a revolution in non-commercial usage of LLMs. However, Llama’s quality was subpar when compared to the best closed LLMs. Fast forward to April 2024, and Llama 3 is very close to the best closed LLMs, despite their significant improvements. How did we get here? This talk will cover recent major advances in LLMs, focusing on the evolution of the Llama family.
Speaker bio:
João Gante is a Machine Learning Engineer in the Open-Source team at Hugging Face, leading text generation in the well-known “transformers” library. João has 6 years of experience in the AI industry, as well as a PhD in AI applied to telecommunications from Instituto Superior Técnico.
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