2024년 8월 16일 AI 소식

오늘의 소식에서는 xAI, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Intel, TII, Alibaba, Meta, AmorePacific, LG전자, 그리고 Gartner의 AI와 관련된 주요 발표와 업데이트가 포함되어 있습니다. 각각의 회사는 다양한 분야에서 AI 기술을 활용하고 있으며, 이를 통해 기술 발전을 도모하고 있습니다. xAI는 새로운 Grok-2 모델을 공개하였으며, OpenAI는 SWE-bench Verified를 소개했습니다. Google은 Gemini Live 기능을 발표했고, Anthropic은 Claude에 대한 새로운 프롬프트 캐싱 기능을 공개했습니다. 또한 Intel과 TII는 각각 RAG Foundry와 Falcon Mamba 7B를 발표하며 AI 기술의 최전선을 선도하고 있습니다. AmorePacific과 LG전자도 AI를 활용한 혁신적인 솔루션을 통해 각각 뷰티 테크와 소비자 데이터 분석을 강화하고 있습니다.

xAI, Grok-2 Beta Release

링크, 2024년 8월 13일

• Grok-2와 Grok-2 mini 출시, 𝕏 플랫폼 사용자에게 베타 버전 제공
• Grok-2는 Grok-1.5 모델에서 크게 개선된 버전으로, 특히 논리적 추론, 대화 및 코딩에서 뛰어난 성능을 발휘
• LMSYS 리더보드에서 “sus-column-r”이라는 이름으로 초기 버전을 테스트, Claude 3.5 Sonnet과 GPT-4-Turbo를 능가하는 성능 기록
• 모델 평가 기준에서, Grok-2는 지시를 따르는 능력과 정확하고 사실적인 정보를 제공하는 능력에서 두드러진 성능을 보임
• Grok-2 mini는 Grok-2의 소형 버전으로, 메모리와 계산 자원이 제한된 환경에서도 유사한 성능을 제공
• Grok-2와 Grok-2 mini는 학문적 벤치마크에서 논리, 독해, 수학, 과학, 코딩 등 다양한 분야에서 기존 모델 대비 현저한 성능 향상

OpenAI, Introducing SWE-bench Verified

링크, 2024년 8월 13일

• SWE-bench는 대규모 언어 모델(LLM)의 소프트웨어 엔지니어링 과제 해결 능력을 평가하기 위한 벤치마크로, GitHub에서 실제로 해결된 문제를 기반으로 샘플을 구성
• SWE-bench Verified는 기존의 SWE-bench에서 어려운 문제를 제거하고, 500개의 엄선된 샘플로 구성된 새로운 테스트 세트를 포함
• 각 샘플은 문제 설명과 코드베이스를 제공하며, 모델은 이를 바탕으로 문제를 해결하고 관련된 단위 테스트를 통과해야 함
• SWE-bench Verified는 테스트 설정이 올바르게 작동하지 않는 문제를 개선하여, GPT-4o가 33.2%의 샘플을 해결할 수 있도록 성능이 향상됨
• SWE-bench Verified의 데이터셋은 잘 정의된 문제와 엄격한 테스트 기준을 갖추고 있어, 모델의 소프트웨어 엔지니어링 능력을 더 정확하게 평가할 수 있도록 설계됨

Google, Gemini Live 기능 발표

링크, 2024년 8월 13일

• Gemini Live, Android 사용자를 위한 대화형 AI 경험 제공, 사용자는 자유로운 대화를 통해 아이디어를 브레인스토밍하거나 질문을 할 수 있음
• 대화 중단 후 재개 기능을 포함하여, 대화 흐름을 끊지 않고 이어갈 수 있는 기능 추가
• Gemini는 10개의 새로운 목소리 옵션을 제공하여, 사용자가 선호하는 음색과 스타일을 선택할 수 있음
• Google Keep, Tasks, Utilities, YouTube Music 등과의 새로운 확장 기능을 통해 더 넓은 범위의 작업 처리 가능
• Gemini Flash 1.5 모델은 속도와 품질을 크게 개선하여, 더 빠르고 정확한 응답 제공

Anthropic, Prompt Caching with Claude

링크, 2024년 8월 15일

• 프롬프트 캐싱 기능을 통해, 사용자가 Claude와의 상호작용에서 자주 사용되는 프롬프트 컨텍스트를 캐싱하여 비용과 대기 시간을 절감할 수 있음
• 캐시된 프롬프트는 최대 90%의 비용 절감 및 85%의 대기 시간 감소를 제공하며, 특히 긴 대화나 복잡한 작업에서 유용함
• 예를 들어, 책이나 긴 문서를 기반으로 한 대화에서는 100,000개의 토큰을 캐싱하여 응답 시간을 11.5초에서 2.4초로 단축
• 프롬프트 캐싱은 대규모 문서 처리, 코드 자동완성, 반복적인 도구 호출 등 다양한 상황에서 성능을 크게 향상시킴
• 캐싱된 프롬프트를 사용하는 비용은 일반 입력 토큰 가격의 10%에 불과해, 비용 효율적으로 AI 활용 가능

Intel, RAG Foundry

링크, 2024년 8월 14일

• Intel의 RAG Foundry는 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) 시스템 구현 및 평가를 간소화하기 위한 오픈소스 프레임워크
• 이 프레임워크는 데이터 생성, 모델 학습, 추론 및 평가를 하나의 워크플로우로 통합하여, RAG 시스템의 복잡성을 크게 줄임
• RAG Foundry는 Llama-3, Phi-3와 같은 LLM의 미세 조정에 효과적이며, 지식 집약적인 데이터셋에 대한 성능을 개선함
• Intel의 RAG Foundry는 데이터 설계 및 피드백 루프를 포함한 포괄적인 평가 프로세스를 제공하여, 모델의 정확성과 성능을 최적화함
• 이 프레임워크는 특히 학술 연구 및 산업 분야에서 RAG 시스템의 신뢰성과 효율성을 높이기 위한 강력한 도구로 평가됨

TII, Falcon Mamba 7B 발표

링크, 2024년 8월 12일

• TII의 Falcon Mamba 7B는 새로운 Mamba State Space Architecture(SSLM)를 기반으로 한 최첨단 언어 모델로, 긴 텍스트 처리에서 뛰어난 성능을 발휘
• SSLM 아키텍처는 연속적인 상태 업데이트를 통해 모델이 텍스트를 처리하며, 메모리나 계산 자원 추가 없이 긴 문맥도 처리 가능
• Falcon Mamba 7B는 Mistral 7B, Llama 3 8B와 같은 최신 트랜스포머 기반 모델과의 벤치마크 비교에서 경쟁력 있는 성능을 보임
• Arc, TruthfulQA, GSM8K 등 여러 벤치마크에서 우수한 성과를 기록하며, 특히 장문의 텍스트 생성 및 문서 기반 질문 응답에서 뛰어난 성능을 보임
• TII는 이 모델을 오픈소스로 공개하여, 연구자들과 개발자들이 모델의 성능을 더 확장하고 다양한 애플리케이션 시나리오에 적용할 수 있도록 지원

Alibaba, Qwen2-Audio 출시

링크, 2024년 8월 9일

• Qwen2-Audio는 음성과 텍스트 입력을 받아 텍스트 출력을 생성하는 오디오-언어 모델로, 다양한 언어와 방언을 지원
• 음성 인식 모듈 없이 음성 명령을 통한 대화 기능 제공, 사용자는 직접 음성으로 모델에 지시할 수 있음
• Qwen2-Audio는 음악, 소리, 언어 분석과 같은 오디오 정보를 텍스트 지시에 따라 분석할 수 있는 능력을 갖춤
• 모델은 7B 파라미터를 갖춘 버전으로 Hugging Face와 ModelScope에서 오픈 웨이트로 제공되며, 사용자는 직접 모델을 활용하여 다양한 오디오 기반 애플리케이션을 개발 가능

Meta, Llama 3.1 모델 최적화 발표

링크, 2024년 8월 14일

• NVIDIA는 Llama 3.1 8B 모델을 최적화하여 Llama-Minitron 4B 모델을 생성, 구조적 가중치 가지치기 및 지식 증류 기법 사용
• 가지치기(pr

uning)와 지식 증류(distillation)를 통해 모델 크기를 축소하면서도 성능 유지, 특히 MMLU 점수가 16% 향상

• 가지치기 기법은 네트워크의 깊이(depth)와 너비(width)를 모두 고려하여, 모델의 불필요한 부분을 제거하고 성능을 보존하는 데 중점을 둠
• 지식 증류는 원래의 대형 모델이 작은 학생 모델에게 지식을 전수하여, 성능 저하 없이 모델을 경량화하는 방법
• Llama-Minitron 4B 모델은 GPT-4o-mini와 같은 소형 모델과 비교하여 유사한 성능을 보이면서도, 비용과 자원을 크게 절감할 수 있음

AmorePacific, AI 기반 뷰티테크 SaaS 플랫폼 개발

링크, 2024년 8월 14일

• 아모레퍼시픽은 AI 기반의 뷰티테크 플랫폼을 SaaS 형태로 개발, 30여 개의 브랜드에 신속하게 확산
• 피부 측정, 진단, 제품 추천과 같은 AI 기술을 통합하여 사용자 경험을 개선
• 스마트폰 카메라를 사용한 피부 측정 기술에서 87%의 정확도를 달성, 연구소에서 확보한 임상 사진을 AI 모델에 학습시켜 고정밀 분석 가능
• AI 기반 제품 추천 시스템은 고객의 피부 타입에 맞춘 맞춤형 제품 추천을 제공, 구매 전환율을 50% 이상으로 증가시킴
• AWS 프로토타이핑 프로그램을 통해 클라우드 기반으로 빠르게 서비스를 구축, 글로벌 시장 확장 지원

LG전자, Azure OpenAI를 활용한 소비자 데이터 분석 플랫폼 구축

링크, 2024년 4월 30일

• LG전자는 Azure OpenAI를 활용하여 CHATDA라는 AI 기반의 빅데이터 분석 솔루션을 개발, 소비자 행동 분석을 통해 제품 기획과 개발에 혁신적 접근
• ChatGPT를 활용해 자연어로 데이터 분석 요청을 하면, 적절한 데이터를 찾아 분석하고 결과를 제공
• 이 솔루션은 비정형 데이터를 안전하게 처리하며, 데이터 유출 위험을 방지하기 위한 보안 기능을 갖춤
• CHATDA는 데이터 추출 및 분석 시간을 획기적으로 단축, 이전에는 수일이 걸리던 작업이 이제는 수분 내에 완료 가능
• 이 플랫폼을 통해 소비자 행동 분석을 기반으로 한 제품 개선이 빠르게 이루어져, 제품 개발 초기 단계에서 소비자 요구를 반영할 수 있음

Gartner, Generative AI 프로젝트의 30%가 2025년까지 중단될 것이라고 예측

링크, 2024년 8월 14일

• Gartner의 보고서에 따르면, 최소 30%의 Generative AI 프로젝트가 2025년 말까지 개념 증명 이후 중단될 것으로 예상됨
• 그 주요 원인으로는 낮은 데이터 품질, 부적절한 위험 통제, 증가하는 비용 및 불분명한 사업 가치가 지목됨
• 특히, GenAI 프로젝트는 즉각적인 ROI(투자 수익률)를 기대하기 어렵기 때문에, 장기적인 관점에서의 투자 기준이 필요함
• 하지만 일부 초기 도입자들은 GenAI를 통해 매출 15.8% 증가, 비용 15.2% 절감, 생산성 22.6% 향상 등 긍정적인 결과를 보고함
• 보고서에서는 각 기업이 GenAI를 도입할 때 직면할 수 있는 다양한 비용, 위험 및 전략적 영향을 고려해야 한다고 강조

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This GPT assists users by creating a detailed daily newspaper in Korean based on provided links. It follows these steps: read the content, summarize each content with detailed points, and write a report. The report format is:

(today’s date in 년 월 일) AI 소식,

Summary

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https://x.ai/blog/grok-2
xAI, elon musk
August 13, 2024

Grok-2 Beta Release
Grok-2 is our frontier language model with state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. This release includes two members of the Grok family: Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini. Both models are now being released to Grok users on the 𝕏 platform.

We are excited to release an early preview of Grok-2, a significant step forward from our previous model Grok-1.5, featuring frontier capabilities in chat, coding, and reasoning. At the same time, we are introducing Grok-2 mini, a small but capable sibling of Grok-2. An early version of Grok-2 has been tested on the LMSYS leaderboard under the name "sus-column-r." At the time of this blog post, it is outperforming both Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4-Turbo.

Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini are currently in beta on 𝕏, and we are also making both models available through our enterprise API later this month.

Grok-2 language model and chat capabilities
We introduced an early version of Grok-2 under the name "sus-column-r" into the LMSYS chatbot arena, a popular competitive language model benchmark. It outperforms both Claude and GPT-4 on the LMSYS leaderboard in terms of its overall Elo score.


Internally, we employ a comparable process to evaluate our models. Our AI Tutors engage with our models across a variety of tasks that reflect real-world interactions with Grok. During each interaction, the AI Tutors are presented with two responses generated by Grok. They select the superior response based on specific criteria outlined in our guidelines. We focused on evaluating model capabilities in two key areas: following instructions and providing accurate, factual information. Grok-2 has shown significant improvements in reasoning with retrieved content and in its tool use capabilities, such as correctly identifying missing information, reasoning through sequences of events, and discarding irrelevant posts.

Benchmarks
We evaluated the Grok-2 models across a series of academic benchmarks that included reasoning, reading comprehension, math, science, and coding. Both Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini demonstrate significant improvements over our previous Grok-1.5 model. They achieve performance levels competitive to other frontier models in areas such as graduate-level science knowledge (GPQA), general knowledge (MMLU, MMLU-Pro), and math competition problems (MATH). Additionally, Grok-2 excels in vision-based tasks, delivering state-of-the-art performance in visual math reasoning (MathVista) and in document-based question answering (DocVQA).

𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸-𝟮 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 : 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝟯! 🚀
Grok-2 was just released in beta version this morning.
With this model, Elon Musk's xAI joins the club of top LLM makers Google, OpenAI, Meta & Anthropic.
The model does a strong leap performance compared to its predecessor Grok-1.5 : considering that Grok-1.5 was released this March, so only 5 months ago, this is blazing fast iteration from the xAI team!
🥉 3rd in Chatbot Arena (behind Gemini-1.5 and GPT-4o)
🥊 On par with other top models: Llama-3.1-405B, Claude Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4o on many benchmarks
👀 Great vision capabilities
👶 Also has a strong "mini" version, similar to GPT-4o-mini
⏱️ API access to the model coming "later this month"!
And let's hope that after this release we'll get the open weights for Grok-1.5, as was done for Grok-1.0 when its successor was released ✨
Announcement post 👉
https://x.ai/blog/grok-2

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https://openai.com/index/introducing-swe-bench-verified/
OpenAI
August 13, 2024

Introducing SWE-bench Verified
We’re releasing a human-validated subset of SWE-bench that more reliably evaluates AI models’ ability to solve real-world software issues.

Download SWE-bench Verified(opens in a new window)
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As part of our Preparedness Framework, OpenAI develops a range of metrics to track, evaluate, and forecast models’ abilities to act autonomously. The ability to autonomously complete software engineering tasks is a key component of our Medium risk level in the Model Autonomy risk category. Evaluating these capabilities is challenging due to the complexity of software engineering tasks, the difficulty of accurately assessing generated code, and the challenge of simulating real-world development scenarios. Therefore, our approach to Preparedness must also involve careful examination of evaluations themselves, to reduce the potential for underestimating or overestimating performance in important risk categories.

One of the most popular evaluation suites for software engineering is SWE-bench(opens in a new window)1—a benchmark for evaluating large language models’ (LLMs’) abilities to solve real-world software issues sourced from GitHub. The benchmark involves giving agents a code repository and issue description, and challenging them to generate a patch that resolves the problem described by the issue. Coding agents have made impressive progress on SWE-bench, with top scoring agents scoring 20% on SWE-bench and 43% on SWE-bench Lite according to the SWE-bench leaderboard(opens in a new window) as of August 5, 2024.

Our testing identified some SWE-bench tasks which may be hard or impossible to solve, leading to SWE-bench systematically underestimating models’ autonomous software engineering capabilities. We’ve collaborated with the authors of SWE-bench to address those issues in a new release of the benchmark that should provide more accurate evaluations.

Background on SWE-bench
Each sample in the SWE-bench test set is created from a resolved GitHub issue in one of 12 open-source Python repositories on GitHub. Each sample has an associated pull request (PR), which includes both the solution code and unit tests to verify code correctness. These unit tests fail before the solution code in the PR is added, but pass afterwards, and are therefore called FAIL_TO_PASS tests. Each sample also has associated PASS_TO_PASS tests, which pass both before and after the PR is merged, and are used to check that existing unrelated functionality in the codebase has not been broken by the PR.

For each sample in SWE-bench, agents are provided with the original text from the GitHub issue, known as the problem statement, and are given access to the codebase. Given these, agents must edit the files in the codebase to resolve the issue. The tests are not shown to the agent.

A proposed edit is evaluated by running both the FAIL_TO_PASS and PASS_TO_PASS tests. If the FAIL_TO_PASS tests pass, this means the edit solves the issue. If the PASS_TO_PASS tests pass, then the edit has not inadvertently broken unrelated sections of the codebase. Both sets of tests are required to pass for the edit to fully resolve the original GitHub issue.

Adapting SWE-bench as a Preparedness Evaluation
Given the potential relevance of SWE-bench for the Preparedness Framework, we aimed to find ways in which we could improve the robustness and reliability of the benchmark. We identified three major areas for improvement2:

The unit tests used to evaluate the correctness of a solution are often overly specific, and in some cases are even unrelated to the issue. This potentially causes correct solutions to be rejected.

Many samples have an issue description that is underspecified, leading to ambiguity on what the problem is and how it should be solved.

It is sometimes difficult to reliably set up the SWE-bench development environments for the agents, inadvertently causing unit tests to fail regardless of the solution. In such cases, perfectly valid solutions might be graded as incorrect.

Here is an example illustrating the first of these issues.

SWE-bench sample scikit-learn__scikit-learn-14520 tasks an agent with solving an issue in the scikit-learn repository(opens in a new window). This problem statement reports that a function’s copy argument could be specified by a user, but is ignored by the library (the behavior is instead hardcoded inside the function):

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Copy param ignored in TfidfVectorizer
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An agent approaching the above issue would first have to deal with the ambiguity in whether the function’s behavior is intended or a bug, then make changes to the codebase to resolve the issue. Per the SWE-bench setup, any solution the agent proposes then needs to pass the following test, extracted from the PR that originally resolved the issue(opens in a new window):

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This test explicitly checks that the solution must raise a DeprecationWarning whenever the copy parameter is used, although the original problem statement in the issue text above does not convey this requirement. Furthermore, even if the agent realized that a DeprecationWarning should be raised, the test also requires the agent to exactly match the deprecation message, which was only arrived at after some discussion in the PR which the agent has no access to.

Note that the agent is only given the problem description from the main issue text, and does not have visibility into the tests that it needs to pass. Given this setup, it would be nearly impossible for an agent to solve this sample in SWE-bench.

SWE-bench Verified
To address these issues, we launched a human annotation campaign with professional software developers to screen each sample of the SWE-bench test set for appropriately scoped unit tests and well-specified issue descriptions.

Together with the authors of SWE-bench, we are releasing SWE-bench Verified: a subset of the original test set from SWE-bench, consisting of 500 samples verified to be non-problematic by our human annotators. This version supersedes the original SWE-bench and SWE-bench Lite test sets. Additionally, we are releasing our human annotations for all SWE-bench test samples.

We also collaborated with the SWE-bench authors to develop a new evaluation harness for SWE-bench(opens in a new window) which uses containerized Docker environments to make evaluating on SWE-bench easier and more reliable.

On SWE-bench Verified, GPT-4o resolves 33.2% of samples3, with the best performing open-source scaffold, Agentless, doubling its previous score of 16% on SWE-bench.

Our Approach
We worked with 93 software developers experienced in Python to manually screen SWE-bench samples for quality. We annotated 1,699 random samples from the SWE-bench test set to produce SWE-bench Verified. The following analysis is based on the 1,699 samples.

We annotate samples to capture:

Whether we consider the issue description to be underspecified and hence unfair to be testing on.

Whether the FAIL_TO_PASS unit tests filter out valid solutions.

Each annotation criterion has a label ranging [0, 1, 2, 3] in increasing severity. Labels 0 and 1 are minor; labels 2 and 3 are severe and indicate that the sample is inadequate in some way and should be discarded. We choose to annotate across four ordinal categories rather than a single binary label of severe/not severe to capture more granular detail.

Additionally, we rate the difficulty of each sample by having annotators estimate how long it would take for a developer to decide upon and implement the solution, assuming the sample is non-problematic. Finally, we provide a freeform input option to flag any other major issues with the sample (for example, if the FAIL_TO_PASS unit tests are easily gamed, this could lead to an invalid solution being marked as correct).

Our team of engineers first hand-labeled 50 samples to a high degree of confidence for use in annotator onboarding tests. To take part in the annotation campaign, each prospective annotator had to pass our onboarding tests. We provided detailed feedback to each annotator throughout onboarding to better train them for the task.  Annotators were not necessarily prior experts in the codebases relevant to SWE-bench, but were given time to familiarize themselves with each codebase they worked with.

To ensure a high-quality dataset, each sample is labeled 3 times by separate annotators. It is easy to accidentally miss potential issues, and issues themselves can be ambiguous, so we conservatively ensemble annotations by taking the highest-severity label amongst the 3 annotators.

The full text of our annotation rubric can be found here(opens in a new window).

Annotation Criteria

Are the tasks well-specified?
Evaluated models are expected to generate a patch given the problem statement and codebase. If the problem statement is poorly specified, it can be significantly harder, or in some cases impossible, to generate a patch that solves the problem.

We label the problem statement with these 4 possible labels:

0: The issue is well-specified and it is clear what is required for a successful solution.

1: There are some blanks to fill in about the issue, but there is a sensible interpretation of what is required for a successful solution.

2: The issue is vague and there is room for ambiguity. It is unclear what a successful solution would look like.

3: It is almost impossible to understand what you are being asked to do without further information.



How valid are the evaluation criteria?









How difficult are the tasks?







Dataset construction
To construct SWE-bench Verified, we filter out any sample from the original test set where either the problem statement or the FAIL_TO_PASS unit tests have an ensemble label of 2 or above in severity. We also filter out all samples that have other major issues flagged. Given our ensembling method, this is equivalent to filtering out samples where any single annotator of three has flagged an issue with the sample. This approach leads to a higher false-positive rate in removing samples, but helps increase our confidence in sample quality for the final dataset.

We include as many samples with difficulty 1-4 hours and >4 hours as possible, and then we randomly sample the remainder to arrive at the 500 samples that constitute SWE-bench Verified.

Annotation Results
The results of our annotations are below:

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We see that 38.3% of samples were flagged for underspecified problem statements, and 61.1% were flagged for unit tests that may unfairly mark valid solutions as incorrect. Overall, our annotation process resulted in 68.3% of SWE-bench samples being filtered out due to underspecification, unfair unit tests, or other issues. As discussed previously, this filtering process is likely to be overzealous but allows us to have high confidence in the feasibility of the unfiltered samples.

We present a few examples of samples and their annotations below, cherry-picked to illustrate the diversity in sample quality:

Select sample:

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Commentary
This is an example of a good sample which has been verified by annotators for the SWE-bench Verified dataset. The problem statement gives a short but clear demonstration of a bug, and the FAIL_TO_PASStests directly assert that the example given in the problem statement has been resolved.

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kernS: 'kern' referenced before assignment
from sympy.core.sympify import kernS

text = "(2*x)/(x-1)"
expr = kernS(text)
// hit = kern in s
// UnboundLocalError: local variable 'kern' referenced beforeassignment

Are the tasks well-specified? (Raw annotation)
Severity: 0 - The issue is well-specified and it is clear what is required for a successful solution.

It is clear that kernS is throwing exception for (2*x)/(x-1)
It provides example input for which the error is occuring which can make it easy to reproduce the issue.

FAIL_TO_PASS test (Only showing lines added during the original PR for brevity)
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How valid are the evaluation criteria? (Raw annotation)
Severity: 0 - The tests perfectly cover all possible solutions.

The test case is exactly for kernS("(2*x)/(x-1)") for which the issue was occuring in issue description.
It will cover all possible solutions.

The chart below compares the difficulty distributions of the original SWE-bench datasets and our new SWE-bench Verified dataset. We estimate the difficulty distribution of SWE-bench based on our random subset of 1699 samples. Note that while these results provide estimates of the effort necessary to implement a solution (refer to our annotation instructions for the precise wording), they assume a software engineer who is able to figure out the solution. In practice, we expect the baseline solve rate of a typical human software engineer to be lower than 100%.

We observe that most (77.8%) of the samples in the original SWE-bench dataset were estimated to take less than an hour for an experienced software engineer to complete. Both SWE-bench Lite and our new SWE-bench Verified dataset skews this further, leaving fewer than 10% of issues estimated to take longer than an hour. However, the mechanism underlying this shift is importantly different: SWE-bench Lite subsampled the original dataset to make the benchmark easier, whereas SWE-bench Verified attempts to remove infeasible samples from the dataset. We further explore this effect in the next section.

Distribution of Difficulty Labels
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Performance on SWE-bench Verified
With our new SWE-bench Verified dataset, we tested GPT-4o’s performance using several open-source scaffolds that performed well on the original SWE-bench leaderboards4.

We found that GPT-4o’s performance on the best-performing scaffold reaches 33.2% on SWE-bench Verified, more than doubling its score of 16% on the original SWE-bench. In general, this validates our initial suspicion that the original SWE-bench dataset underestimates agent abilities. Note that the jump from SWE-bench Lite to SWE-bench Verified is not as significant, because SWE-bench Lite was already filtered in a way that makes it easier(opens in a new window) than the full dataset, though that process would not fully capture the same issues as our filtering procedure.

Performance of open-source scaffolds on SWE-bench subsets
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Performance stratified by difficulty
The increase in performance when evaluating on SWE-bench Verified may partly be explained by shifting the distribution toward easier samples (as shown in earlier analyses). However, our goal is not to inflate benchmark scores, but to make sure that the benchmark faithfully represents model capability at any given difficulty level.

We investigate this by plotting performance stratified by difficulty. If our new dataset merely shifted the difficulty distribution to contain more easy samples, the stratified performance within each category would not change, as appears to be the case going from the original SWE-bench to SWE-bench Lite. We instead observe that performance increases within individual difficulty categories when moving to SWE-bench Verified, which is consistent with the intended effect of removing impossible samples from all categories instead of removing difficult samples. The effect is clearest in the easiest two buckets of difficulty, where we have the most samples.

Averaged performance of all scaffolds stratified by difficulty
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Discussion & Limitations
We use SWE-bench as one of several evaluations tracking the Medium risk level of the Model Autonomy risk category in our Preparedness Framework. Tracking catastrophic risk levels via evaluations relies on ensuring that we can trust evaluation results and are calibrated about what the scores entail.

Our experiences suggest that we should:

Invest in deeply understanding our benchmarks. Although SWE-bench was designed thoughtfully, it underestimates model capabilities due to the issues mentioned in this blogpost. As our systems get closer to AGI, we need to evaluate them on increasingly more challenging tasks. This also elevates the level of expertise and care needed to curate and verify benchmarks to ensure that they are sufficiently challenging and robust (a case where work like CriticGPT, which explores ways in which AI can assist with annotation pipelines, may be helpful).

Account for progress in the ecosystem. Community-led progress in agent scaffolding highlights the need to consider potential external enhancements to a model when assessing risk. Looking at the difference between the worst- and best-performing scaffolds for a given model on the SWE-bench leaderboards(opens in a new window), we can see that, for example, GPT-4’s performance on SWE-bench Lite varies between 2.7% using an early RAG-based scaffold and 28.3% using CodeR. Thus the Preparedness Framework calls for evaluations to be run continually and as often as needed to identify any non-trivial capability change; which includes before, during, and even after training, where models can be enhanced via integration with external systems. Furthermore, curating evaluations is an ecosystem-wide effort, and we hope to continue collaborating with researchers on building trustworthy, high-quality evaluations.

Be cognizant of limitations. Evaluations based on static datasets are inherently limited, and SWE-bench is no exception. Given that the benchmark is composed of scrapes of public GitHub repos, large foundation models that are pre-trained on internet text are likely to be contaminated on the tasks. Furthermore, SWE-bench only covers a narrow distribution of the Medium risk level for model autonomy and so must be supplemented with other evaluations.

We believe in an empirical and scientific approach to tracking and protecting against catastrophic risk. Building and continually improving evaluations is a key element of this work. There remains much to be done, and we’re eager to see more work from the community in contributing valuable benchmarks like SWE-bench.

Data downloads
SWE-bench Verified is available for download here(opens in a new window); the full set of our annotations is here(opens in a new window), and our annotation rubric is here(opens in a new window).

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Clearer calls and easier note-taking
Clear Calling further improves audio quality12, and the new Call Notes feature sends you a private summary and full transcript of your phone call shortly after you hang up.13 So the next time you get that call back from your mechanic, you won’t have to scramble for a pen and paper. To protect privacy, Call Notes runs fully on-device and everyone on the call will be notified if you have activated the feature.

Satellite SOS for emergency help — even off the grid
Our newest Pixel 9 devices are the first Android phones to include our new Satellite SOS, so you can contact emergency responders via satellite14
Restrictions apply. Setup required. Service included at no additional charge for the first two years after activation of devices. Available in the U.S. Connection and response times vary based on location, site conditions and other factors. See g.co/satellitesos for more details.

 and share your location, even without cellular service. Satellite SOS will be available first in the U.S. on Pixel 9 devices, regardless of your carrier plan. And for the first two years on Pixel, it will be available at no extra cost.

Pre-order your phone today
Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL are all available for pre-order today starting at $799, $999, and $1099. Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro XL will be on shelves at the Google Store and our retail partners on August 22. Pixel 9 Pro will be on shelves on September 4 in the U.S., along with Pixel 9 Pro Fold, with other markets on-shelf in the following weeks.

Find out where each product will be available and sign up for product updates on the Google Store.

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https://www.anthropic.com/news/prompt-caching
Prompt caching with Claude
Anthropic
2024년 8월 15일
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2 min read
Illustration of Claude holding cached context in prompt
Prompt caching, which enables developers to cache frequently used context between API calls, is now available on the Anthropic API. With prompt caching, customers can provide Claude with more background knowledge and example outputs—all while reducing costs by up to 90% and latency by up to 85% for long prompts. Prompt caching is available today in public beta for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku, with support for Claude 3 Opus coming soon.

When to use prompt caching
Prompt caching can be effective in situations where you want to send a large amount of prompt context once and then refer to that information repeatedly in subsequent requests, including:

Conversational agents: Reduce cost and latency for extended conversations, especially those with long instructions or uploaded documents.
Coding assistants: Improve autocomplete and codebase Q&A by keeping a summarized version of the codebase in the prompt.
Large document processing: Incorporate complete long-form material including images in your prompt without increasing response latency.
Detailed instruction sets: Share extensive lists of instructions, procedures, and examples to fine-tune Claude's responses. Developers often include a few examples in their prompt, but with prompt caching you can get even better performance by including dozens of diverse examples of high quality outputs.
Agentic search and tool use: Enhance performance for scenarios involving multiple rounds of tool calls and iterative changes, where each step typically requires a new API call.
Talk to books, papers, documentation, podcast transcripts, and other long-form content: Bring any knowledge base alive by embedding the entire document(s) into the prompt, and letting users ask it questions.
Early customers have seen substantial speed and cost improvements with prompt caching for a variety of use cases—from including a full knowledge base to 100-shot examples to including each turn of a conversation in their prompt.

Use case	Latency w/o caching (time to first token)	Latency w/ caching (time to first token)	Cost reduction
Chat with a book (100,000 token cached prompt) [1]	11.5s	2.4s (-79%)	-90%
Many-shot prompting (10,000 token prompt) [1]	1.6s	1.1s (-31%)	-86%
Multi-turn conversation (10-turn convo with a long system prompt) [2]	~10s	~2.5s (-75%)	-53%
How we price cached prompts
Cached prompts are priced based on the number of input tokens you cache and how frequently you use that content. Writing to the cache costs 25% more than our base input token price for any given model, while using cached content is significantly cheaper, costing only 10% of the base input token price.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Our most intelligent model to date
200K context window
Input
$3 / MTok

Prompt caching
$3.75 / MTok - Cache write
$0.30 / MTok - Cache read
Output
$15 / MTok
Claude 3 Opus
Powerful model for complex tasks
200K context window
Input
$15 / MTok

Prompt caching Coming soon
$18.75 / MTok - Cache write
$1.50 / MTok - Cache read
Output
$75 / MTok
Claude 3 Haiku
Fastest, most cost-effective model
200K context window
Input
$0.25 / MTok
Prompt caching
$0.30 / MTok - Cache write
$0.03 / MTok - Cache read
Output
$1.25 / MTok
Customer spotlight: Notion
Notion is adding prompt caching to Claude-powered features for its AI assistant, Notion AI. With reduced costs and increased speed, Notion is able to optimize internal operations and create a more elevated and responsive user experience for their customers.

We're excited to use prompt caching to make Notion AI faster and cheaper, all while maintaining state-of-the-art quality.
— Simon Last, Co-founder at Notion

Get started
To start using the prompt caching public beta on the Anthropic API, explore our documentation and pricing page.



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https://github.com/IntelLabs/RAGFoundry/blob/main/docs/pubmed.md
Intel
Aug 14. 2024
𝗥𝗔𝗚 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝘆 is an 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 from Intel. Designed to simplify the implementation & evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
It streamlines the process by integrating data creation, model training, inference & evaluation into a single workflow.
The framework has proven effective in fine-tuning LLMs, like Llama-3 and Phi-3, by improving performance across various knowledge-intensive datasets.
As I have mentioned before, it is interesting to see how new technology is unfolding and how builders are converging on the same principles for implementing technology.
This development by Intel of fine-tuning models with diverse RAG configurations forms part of the latest trend of data design. Where data is designed in a granular fashion to closely mimic the task the model is intended for.
This development not only focusses on the improvement of the RAG implementation and fine-tuning the models, but also closing the feedback loop with a comprehensive evaluation process.

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https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-mamba-7b
Aug 12, 2024
Introducing Falcon Mamba 7B from TII! This state-of-the-art language model sets a new AI benchmark with its innovative state space architecture. This groundbreaking release marks a significant stride in AI research, underscoring Abu Dhabi's leadership in innovation.
Model Details
Model Description
Developed by: https://www.tii.ae
Model type: Causal decoder-only
Architecture: Mamba
Language(s) (NLP): Mainly English
License: TII Falcon-Mamba License 2.0
Today, Abu Dhabi-backed Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a research organization working on new-age technologies across domains like artificial intelligence, quantum computing and autonomous robotics, released a new open-source model called Falcon Mamba 7B.

Available on Hugging Face, the casual decoder-only offering uses the novel Mamba State Space Language Model (SSLM) architecture to handle various text-generation tasks and outperform leading models in its size class, including Meta’s Llama 3 8B, Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral 7B, on select benchmarks.

It comes as the fourth open model from TII after Falcon 180B, Falcon 40B and Falcon 2 but is the first in the SSLM category, which is rapidly emerging as a new alternative to transformer-based large language models (LLMs) in the AI domain.

The institute is offering the model under ‘Falcon License 2.0,’ which is a permissive license based on Apache 2.0.

What does the Falcon Mamba 7B bring to the table?
While transformer models continue to dominate the generative AI space, researchers have noted that the architecture can struggle when dealing with longer pieces of text.

Essentially, transformers’ attention mechanism, which works by comparing every word (or token) with other every word in the text to understand context, demands more computing power and memory to handle growing context windows.

If the resources are not scaled accordingly, the inference slows down and reaches a point where it can’t handle texts beyond a certain length.

To overcome these hurdles, the state space language model (SSLM) architecture that works by continuously updating a “state” as it processes words has emerged as a promising alternative. It has already been deployed by some organizations — with TII being the latest adopter.

According to TII, its all-new Falcon model uses ​​the Mamba SSM architecture originally proposed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities in a paper dated December 2023.

The architecture uses a selection mechanism that allows the model to dynamically adjust its parameters based on the input. This way, the model can focus on or ignore particular inputs, similar to how attention works in transformers, while delivering the ability to process long sequences of text – such as an entire book – without requiring additional memory or computing resources.

The approach makes the model suitable for enterprise-scale machine translation, text summarization, computer vision and audio processing tasks as well as tasks like estimation and forecasting, TII noted.

Taking on Meta, Google and Mistral
To see how Falcon Mamba 7B fares against leading transformer models in the same size class, the institute ran a test to determine the maximum context length the models can handle when using a single 24GB A10GPU.

The results revealed Falcon Mamba can “fit larger sequences than SoTA transformer-based models while theoretically being able to fit infinite context length if one processes the entire context token by token, or by chunks of tokens with a size that fits on the GPU, denoted as sequential parallel.”

Falcon Mamba 7B
Falcon Mamba 7B
In a separate throughput test, it outperformed Mistral 7B’s efficient sliding window attention architecture to generate all tokens at a constant speed and without any increase in CUDA peak memory.

Even in standard industry benchmarks, the new model’s performance was better than or nearly similar to that of popular transformer models as well as pure and hybrid state space models.

For instance, in the Arc, TruthfulQA and GSM8K benchmarks, Falcon Mamba 7B scored 62.03%, 53.42% and 52.54%, and convincingly outperformed Llama 3 8B, Llama 3.1 8B, Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B.

However, in the MMLU and Hellaswag benchmarks, it sat closely behind all these models.

That said, this is just the beginning. As the next step, TII plans to further optimize the design of the model to improve its performance and cover more application scenarios.

“This release represents a significant stride forward, inspiring fresh perspectives and further fueling the quest for intelligent systems. At TII, we’re pushing the boundaries of both SSLM and transformer models to spark further innovation in generative AI,” Dr. Hakim Hacid, the acting chief researcher of TII’s AI cross-center unit, said in a statement.

Overall, TII’s Falcon family of language models has been downloaded more than 45 million times — dominating as one of the most successful LLM releases from the UAE.

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https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2-audio/
Alibaba
Qwen2-Audio: Chat with Your Voice!
August 9, 2024
 · 10 min · 1999 words · Qwen Team | Translations:
简体中文
DEMO PAPER GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD

To achieve the objective of building an AGI system, the model should be capable of understanding information from different modalities. Thanks to the rapid development of large language models, LLMs are now capable of understanding language and reasoning. Previously we have taken a step forward to extend our LLM, i.e., Qwen, to more modalities, including vision and audio, and built Qwen-VL and Qwen-Audio. Today, we release Qwen2-Audio, the next version of Qwen-Audio, which is capable of accepting audio and text inputs and generating text outputs. Qwen2-Audio has the following features:

Voice Chat: for the first time, users can use the voice to give instructions to the audio-language model without ASR modules.

Audio Analysis: the model is capable of analyzing audio information, including speech, sound, music, etc., with text instructions.

Multilingual: the model supports more than 8 languages and dialects, e.g., Chinese, English, Cantonese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Japanese.


We open-weight Qwen2-Audio-7B and Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct in Hugging Face and ModelScope, and we have built a demo for users to interact with. Below are some examples to show the model performance:

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https://ai.meta.com/blog/nvidia-llama/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_content=image&utm_campaign=builtwithllama
Large Language Model
How NVIDIA is using structured weight pruning and knowledge distillation to build new Llama models
August 14, 2024
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1 minute read


Large language models like Llama can move with impressive speed and precision to handle a variety of challenging tasks, such as generating code, solving math problems, and helping doctors make life-saving medical decisions. Open source models are already leading to incredible breakthroughs across disciplines—however, they’re resource-intensive to deploy. It’s important that we work collaboratively across the industry to make it even easier for people to tap into the game-changing potential of LLMs.

Last month, we announced Llama 3.1, which includes our largest model yet, the 405B, as well as two smaller models with 70 billion and 8 billion parameters, respectively. Smaller models from a larger relative are typically cheaper to deploy to the masses and perform well across many language tasks. In a new research paper, our partners at NVIDIA explore how various large models can be made smaller using structured weight pruning and knowledge distillation—without having to train a new model from scratch. Working with Llama 3.1 8B, the team shares how it created Llama-Minitron 3.1 4B, its first work within the Llama 3.1 open source family.

Learn more about this work, and get the pruning and distillation strategy and additional resources by reading NVIDIA’s blog post.
How to Prune and Distill Llama-3.1 8B to an NVIDIA Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B Model
Aug 14, 2024
By Sharath Sreenivas, Vinh Nguyen, Saurav Muralidharan, Marcin Chochowski and Raviraj Joshi

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Large language models (LLM) are now a dominant force in natural language processing and understanding, thanks to their effectiveness and versatility. LLMs such as Llama 3.1 405B and NVIDIA Nemotron-4 340B excel in many challenging tasks, including coding, reasoning, and math. They are, however, resource-intensive to deploy. As such, there is another trend in the industry to develop small language models (SLMs), which are sufficiently proficient in many language tasks but much cheaper to deploy to the masses.

Recently, NVIDIA researchers showed that structured weight pruning combined with knowledge distillation forms an effective and efficient strategy for obtaining progressively smaller language models from an initial larger sibling. NVIDIA Minitron 8B and 4B are such small models, obtained by pruning and distilling their larger 15B sibling in the NVIDIA Nemotron family.

Pruning and distillation lead to several benefits:

Improvement in MMLU scores by 16% compared to training from scratch.
Fewer training tokens are required for each additional model, ~100B tokens with an up to 40x reduction.
Compute cost saving to train a family of models, up to 1.8x compared to training all models from scratch.
Performance is comparable to Mistral 7B, Gemma 7B, and Llama-3 8B trained on many more tokens, up to 15T.
The paper also presents a set of practical and effective structured compression best practices for LLMs that combine depth, width, attention, and MLP pruning with knowledge distillation-based retraining.

In this post, we first discuss these best practices and then show their effectiveness when applied to the Llama 3.1 8B model to obtain a Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B model. Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B performs favorably against state-of-the-art open-source models of similar size, including Minitron 4B, Phi-2 2.7B, Gemma2 2.6B, and Qwen2-1.5B. Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B will be released to the NVIDIA HuggingFace collection soon, pending approvals.

Pruning and distillation
Pruning is the process of making the model smaller and leaner, either by dropping layers (depth pruning) or dropping neurons and attention heads and embedding channels (width pruning). Pruning is often accompanied by some amount of retraining for accuracy recovery.

Model distillation is a technique used to transfer knowledge from a large, complex model, often called the teacher model, to a smaller, simpler student model. The goal is to create a more efficient model that retains much of the predictive power of the original, larger model while being faster and less resource-intensive to run.

Classical knowledge distillation vs. SDG finetuning
There are two main styles of distillation:

SDG finetuning: The synthetic data generated from a larger teacher model is used to further fine-tune a smaller, pretrained student model. Here, the student mimics only the final token predicted by the teacher. This is exemplified by the Llama 3.1 Azure Distillation in Azure AI Studio and AWS Use Llama 3.1 405B for synthetic data generation and distillation to fine-tune smaller models tutorials.
Classical knowledge distillation: The student mimics the logits and other intermediate states of the teacher on the training dataset rather than just learning the token that has to be predicted. This can be viewed as providing better labels (a distribution compared to a one-shot label). Even with the same data, the gradient contains richer feedback, improving the training accuracy and efficiency. However, there must be training framework support for this style of distillation as the logits are too large to store.
These two styles of distillation are complementary to one another, rather than mutually exclusive. This post primarily focuses on the classical knowledge distillation approach.

Pruning and distillation procedure
We proposed combining pruning with classical knowledge distillation as a resource-efficient retraining technique (Figure 1).

We started from a 15B model. We estimated the importance of each component (layer, neuron, head, and embedding channel) and then ranked and trimmed the model to the target size: an 8B model.
We performed a light retraining procedure using model distillation with the original model as the teacher and the pruned model as the student.
After training, the small model (8B) served as a starting point to trim and distill to a smaller 4B model.
The diagram shows progressively pruning and distilling models of smaller sizes, from 15B to 8B and from 8B to 4B.
Figure 1. Iterative model pruning and distillation procedure
Figure 1 shows the pruning and distillation process of a single model (top) and the chain of model pruning and distillation (bottom). In the latter, the output model of a previous stage serves as the input model for the next stage.

Importance analysis
To prune a model, it is critical to understand which parts of the model are important. We propose using a purely activation-based importance estimation strategy that simultaneously computes sensitivity information for all the axes considered (depth, neuron, head, and embedding channel) using a small (1024 samples) calibration dataset and only forward propagation passes. This strategy is more straightforward and cost-effective to implement compared to strategies that rely on gradient information and require a backward propagation pass.

While pruning, you can iteratively alternate between pruning and importance estimation for a given axis or combination of axes. However, our empirical work shows that it is sufficient to use single-shot importance estimation and iterative estimation provides no benefit.

Retraining with classical knowledge distillation
Figure 2 shows the distillation process with a student model (pruned model) with N layers distilled from a teacher model (original unpruned model) with M layers. The student learns by minimizing a combination of embedding output loss, logit loss, and transformer encoder-specific losses mapped across student block S and teacher block T.

The workflow diagram shows classical knowledge distillation from teacher to student, with loss function from several layers of the transformer architecture.
Figure 2. Distillation training losses
Pruning and distillation best practices
Based on the extensive ablation studies carried out in Compact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation, we summarized our learnings into several structured compression best practices:

Sizing:
To train a family of LLMs, first train the largest one, then prune and distill iteratively to obtain smaller LLMs.
If the largest model is trained using a multi-phase training strategy, it is best to prune and retrain the model obtained from the final stage of training.
Prune an available source model closest to the target size.
Pruning:
Prefer width over depth pruning. This worked well for the model scales considered (≤ 15B).
Use single-shot importance estimation. Iterative importance estimation provided no benefit.
Retraining:
Retrain exclusively with distillation loss instead of conventional training.
Use logit plus intermediate state plus embedding distillation when the depth is reduced significantly.
Use logit-only distillation when depth isn’t reduced significantly.
Llama-3.1-Minitron: putting best practices to work
Meta recently introduced the powerful Llama 3.1 model family, a first wave of open-source models that are comparable with closed-source models across many benchmarks. Llama 3.1 ranges from the gigantic 405B model to the 70B and 8B.

Equipped with experience of Nemotron distillation, we set out to distill the Llama 3.1 8B model to a smaller and more efficient 4B sibling:

Teacher fine-tuning
Depth-only pruning
Width-only pruning
Accuracy benchmarks
Performance benchmarks
Teacher fine-tuning
To correct for the distribution shift across the original dataset the model was trained on, we first fine-tuned the unpruned 8B model on our dataset (94B tokens). Experiments showed that, without correcting for the distribution shift, the teacher provides suboptimal guidance on the dataset when being distilled.

Depth-only pruning
To go from an 8B to a 4B, we pruned 16 layers (50%). We first evaluated the importance of each layer or continuous subgroup of layers by dropping them from the model and observing the increase in LM loss or accuracy reduction on a downstream task.

Figure 5 shows the LM loss value on the validation set after removing 1, 2, 8, or 16 layers. For example, the red plot at layer 16 indicates the LM loss if we dropped the first 16 layers. Layer 17  indicates the LM loss if we leave the first layer and drop layers 2 to 17. We observed that the layers at the beginning and end are the most important.

Line chart showing multiple sets of layer importance in depth-only pruning as measured by lm_loss. Layers at the beginning and the end are most important.
Figure 5. Layer importance in depth-only pruning
However, we observed that this LM loss is not necessarily directly correlated with downstream performance.

Figure 6 shows the Winogrande accuracy for each pruned model. It indicates that it is best to remove layers 16 to 31, with 31 being the second-to-last layer, where the pruned model 5-shot accuracy is significantly greater than random (0.5). We adopted this insight and removed layers 16 to 31.

Line chart shows the best accuracy on layer 32 out of layers 16-32.
Figure 6. Accuracy on the Winogrande task when removing 16 layers
Width-only pruning
We pruned both the embedding (hidden) and MLP intermediate dimensions along the width axis to compress Llama 3.1 8B. Specifically, we computed importance scores for each attention head, embedding channel, and MLP hidden dimension using the activation-based strategy described earlier. Following importance estimation, we:

Pruned (trim) the MLP intermediate dimension from 14336 to 9216.
Pruned the hidden size from 4096 to 3072.
Retrained the attention headcount and number of layers.
It is worth mentioning that immediately after one-shot pruning, the LM loss of width pruning is higher than that of depth pruning. However, after a short retraining, the trend reverses.

Accuracy benchmarks
We distilled the model with the following parameters:

Peak learning rate=1e-4
Minimum learning rate=1e-5
Linear warm-up of 40 steps
Cosine decay schedule
Global batch size=1152
Table 1 shows the comparative performance of Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B model variants (width-pruned and depth-pruned) when compared with the original Llama 3.1 8B models and other models of similar size on benchmarks spanning several domains.

Overall, we reconfirmed the effectiveness of a width-pruning strategy compared to depth pruning, which follows the best practices.

Benchmark	No. of shots	Metric	Llama-3.1 8B	Minitron 4B	Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B	Phi-2 2.7B	Gemma2 2.6B†	Qwen2-1.5B†
Width-pruned	Depth-pruned	Width-pruned
winogrande	5	acc	0.7727	0.7403*	0.7214	0.7348	0.7400**	0.709	0.662
arc_challenge	25	acc_norm	0.5794	0.5085	0.5256	0.5555**	0.6100*	0.554	0.439
MMLU	5	acc	0.6528	0.5860**	0.5871	0.6053*	0.5749	0.513	0.565
hellaswag	10	acc_norm	0.8180	0.7496	0.7321	0.7606*	0.7524**	0.73	0.666
gsm8k	5	acc	0.4860	0.2411	0.1676	0.4124	0.5500**	0.239	0.585*
truthfulqa	0	mc2	0.4506	0.4288	0.3817	0.4289	0.4400**	–	0.459*
XLSum en (20%)	3	rougeL	0.3005	0.2954*	0.2722	0.2867**	0.0100	–	–
MBPP	0	pass@1	0.4227	0.2817	0.3067	0.324	0.4700*	0.29	0.374**
Training Tokens	15T	94B	1.4T	3T	7T
Table 1. Accuracy of Minitron 4B base models compared to similarly sized base community models
* Best model
** Second-best model
– Unavailable results
† Results as reported in the model report by the model publisher.

To verify that the distilled models can be strong instruct models, we fine-tuned the Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B models using NeMo-Aligner. We used training data used for Nemotron-4 340B and evaluated the models on IFEval, MT-Bench, ChatRAG-Bench, and Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) to test instruction-following, roleplay, RAG, and function-calling capabilities. We confirmed that Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B models can be solid instruct models, which outperform other baseline SLMs (Table 2).

Minitron 4B	Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B	Gemma 2B	Phi-2 2.7B	Gemma2 2.6B	Qwen2-1.5B
Benchmark	Width-pruned	Depth-pruned	Width-pruned
IFEval	0.4484	0.4257	0.5239**	0.4050	0.4400	0.6451*	0.3981
MT-Bench	5.61	5.64	6.34**	5.19	4.29	7.73*	5.22
ChatRAG†	0.4111**	0.4013	0.4399*	0.3331	0.3760	0.3745	0.2908
BFCL	0.6423	0.6680*	0.6493**	0.4700	0.2305	0.3562	0.3275
Training Tokens	94B	3T	1.4T	2T	7T
Table 2. Accuracy of aligned Minitron 4B base models compared to similarly sized aligned community models
* Best model
** Second-best model
† Based on a representative subset of ChatRAG, not the whole benchmark.

Performance benchmarks
We optimized the Llama 3.1 8B and Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B models with NVIDIA
TensorRT-LLM, an open-source toolkit for optimized LLM inference.

Figures 7 and 8 show the throughput requests per second of different models in FP8 and FP16 precision on different use cases, represented as input sequence length/output sequence length (ISL/OSL) combinations at batch size 32 for the 8B model and batch size 64 for the 4B models, thanks to the smaller weights allowing for larger batches, on one NVIDIA H100 80GB GPU.

The Llama-3.1-Minitron-4B-Depth-Base variant is the fastest, at an average of ~2.7x throughput of Llama 3.1 8B, while the Llama-3.1-Minitron-4B-Width-Base variant is at an average of ~1.8x throughput of Llama 3.1 8B. Deployment in FP8 also delivers a performance boost of ~1.3x across all three models compared to BF16.

Bar chart shows the Llama-Minitron-3.1-4B-Depth-Base model being the fastest, followed by Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B-Width-Base and LLama 3.1 8B.
Figure 7. Performance benchmarks for request BF16 throughput at different input/output length combinations
Bar chart shows the Llama-3.1-Minitron-4B-Depth-Base model being fastest, followed by Llama-3.1-Minitron-4B-Width-Base and LLama 3.1 8B.
Figure 8. Performance benchmarks for request FP8 throughput at different input/output length combinations
Combinations: BS=32 for Llama 3.1 8B and BS=64 for Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B models. 1x H100 80GB GPU.

Conclusion
Pruning and classical knowledge distillation is a highly cost-effective method to progressively obtain LLMs of smaller size, achieving superior accuracy compared to training from scratch across all domains. It serves as a more effective and data-efficient approach compared to either synthetic-data-style finetuning or pretraining from scratch.

Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is our first work with the state-of-the-art open-source Llama 3.1 family. To use SDG finetuning of Llama-3.1 in NVIDIA NeMo, see the /sdg-law-title-generation notebook on GitHub.

For more information, see the following resources:

Compact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation
/NVlabs/Minitron GitHub repo
Llama-3.1-Minitron models on Hugging Face:
Llama-3.1-Minitron-4B-Width-Base
Llama-3.1-Minitron-4B-Depth-Base


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https://huggingface.co/neuralmagic/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16
Neural Magic
Aug 15. 2024
📢 4-bit Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, 8B Now Available! 📢
We've successfully quantized all the Llama 3.1 models from AI at Meta to INT4— with 405B and 70B maintaining ~100% accuracy recovery! These new versions enable deployments on much smaller systems, like reducing the 405B model from 2 8x80GB GPU nodes to just one 4 GPU server (e.g., 4xA100 or 4xH100), making your deployments four times cheaper.
Check out the models below with full evaluations and deployment instructions:
- INT4 405B:
- INT4 70B:
- INT4 8B:
- Llama 3.1 quantized collection (FP8, INT8, INT4):

This latest work finalizes our initial Llama 3.1 quantization project, so stay tuned for performance benchmarks and a recap of our results and learnings. Additionally, we'll be kicking off some significant expansions as our next steps, including comprehensive benchmarks and improvements to our GPTQ algorithm

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https://huggingface.co/spaces/raj-tomar001/MGT-New
Aug 13. 2024
📣Introducing LLM-DetectAIve: Fine-grained detection of machine-generated text🔥

Classifies given text into 4 categories: Human-written, Machine-generated, Machine-written machine-humanized, and Human-written machine-polished💡😀

> More nuanced compared to the current binary classification sota

> LLM-DetectAIve is live on 🤗 Hugging Face Space! Demo: https://lnkd.in/g82Ps87m

✅ Provide any text and check the origin! OR

✅ Challenge yourself if you can identify if the text is machine generated or not.

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뷰티테크 SaaS 만든 아모레퍼시픽 "30여 브랜드에 AI 확산 비결이죠"
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[이데일리 임유경 기자] 30여 개의 화장품 브랜드를 거느리고 있는 아모레퍼시픽이 인공지능(AI) 기반 서비스형 뷰티테크 플랫폼(Beauty tech as a Service) 자체 개발했다. 피부 측정, 진단부터 제품 추천까지 AI를 접목하려는 브랜드가 늘어나면서 수요에 민첩하게 대응하기 위해서다. 브랜드들은 뷰티테크 플랫폼으로 AI를 접목한 효과를 톡톡히 보는 중이다. 오프라인 매장에서 AI 진단을 기반으로 상담할 때 구매전환율이 50%에 이른다고 느낀다는 매장 직원들의 평가가 나올 정도다. 아모레퍼시픽은 해외 공략을 위한 핵심 무기로도 뷰티테크 플랫폼을 활용한다는 전략이다.

노치국 아모레퍼시픽 AI솔루션팀장은 지난 9일 서울 용산 아모레퍼시픽 본사에서 진행한 이데일리와의 인터뷰에서 뷰티테크 플랫폼을 개발하게 된 배경에 대해 “AI 기능 필요로 하는 브랜드에 서비스를 빠르게 확장하기 위해서”라고 설명했다.


노치국 아모레퍼시픽 노치국 AI솔루션팀 팀장
그가 이끄는 AI솔루션팀은 30명 규모로, 그동안 피부진단, 리뷰 분석 등 요소 기술로서 브랜드에 AI 기술을 제공해 왔는데, 아예 클라우드 기반 SaaS형 서비스로 개발해 제공하기 시작했다. 그룹 내 브랜드만 30개가 넘는데 모든 브랜드가 빠르게 AI를 원하는 방식으로 활용하려면 SaaS 플랫폼이 필요하겠다는 판단이 섰다는 설명이다.

SaaS 형태로 서비스를 구성하면서 신규 기능 추가는 브랜드의 해외 진출 지원도 용이해졌다. 그는 특히 뷰티테크 플랫폼이 아모레퍼시픽 브랜드들의 글로벌 진출에 힘이 될 것이라고 기대했다. 노 팀장은 “이미 일부 브랜드에서 동남아 시장에 진출해 뷰티테크 플랫폼 덕을 톡톡히 봤다”며 “앞으로 더 큰 시장인 북미까지 진출할 수 있도록 다인종을 측정 기술 개발 등 지원을 계속하겠다”고 강조했다.

아래는 노 팀장과의 1문 1답이다.

△뷰티 회사에‘AI솔루션팀’이 있는 것이 신기하다. 팀은 어떤 역할을 하나.

피부를 진단, 추천부터 리뷰 요약 분석까지 AI 기술이 모두 들어간다. 우리팀은 그동안 요소요소 필요한 AI 기술을 개발해 왔고, 최근엔 이를 망라해 뷰티테크 플랫폼으로 만들었다. 또 생성형 AI를 기반으로 뷰티카운셀러를 콘셉트로 대화형 서비스를 개발 중이다. 이 서비스에 물어보면 피부에 대한 정보을 얻고 고민도 해결하고 적절한 추천도 받을 수 있해 구성했다. AI 솔루션팀은 30명 규모다.

△그룹 내 브랜드를 대상으로 AI를 지원하는 데, SaaS형태로 뷰티테크 플랫폼을 만든 이유는 무엇인지.

브랜드 니즈는 다양하고 상황에 따라서 바뀌는데 우리가 그때 그때 시간과 비용과 들이면 효율적이지가 못하다. AI 기능 필요로 하는 브랜드에 서비스를 빠르게 확장하기 위해 SaaS 형태가 되어야 한다고 판단했다. 플랫폼 개발은 2022년에시작했는데, 완성까지 1년 걸렸고 작년 2월에 라네즈에 먼저 도입했다. 이후 에스트라, AP뷰티 브랜드 등이 벌써 도입했다. 빠른 확산은 ‘파트너 센터’ 구축 덕분이라고 본다. 파트너 센터에서 브랜드들은 원하는 기능과 구성을 선택하기만 하면 서비스를 완성할 수 있다. 원래 일반적으로 개발하면 몇 개월 걸려서 기획하고 요구사항 분석하고 개발해야 하는 데, 파트너 센터를 이용하면 6~8주 안에 서비스 하나가 만들어진다.

△뷰티테크 플랫폼에 AI 기술이 어떻게 접목되었는지

피부 측정, 진단, 제품 추정 부분에 모두 AI가 들어간다. 측정은 스마트폰이나 태블릿 카메라로 고객의 얼굴 사진을 찍어서 이뤄지는 데 실제 피부과에서 사용하는 측정 기구인 ‘전안기’ 대비 87% 정확도를 확보하는 데 AI가 큰 역할을 했다. 연구소가 보유한 수만 장의 임상 사진을 AI 모델에 학습시켰는데, 사진 마다 홍반이나 주름, 색소침착 같은 특징을 일일이 레이블링했다. 또 모바일 기기 카메라의 특상 생길 수 있는 변수도 모두 학습시켰다.

또 진단은 측정 데이터와 문진 결과를 종합해 고객의 피부 타입을 정의하는 과정이다. 역시 연구소와 함께 48가지 피부타입을 정의했고, 기준에 맞춰 데이터를 매칭하는 데 AI기술을 활용했다. 제품 추천은 진단에 근거해서 제공되는데, 제품의 효능 혹은 원료에 기반해 제품이 소구하고자 하는 포인트 뭐가 무엇인지 파악하고, 고객의 피부 타입에 맞는 스토리를 만들어주는 식으로 AI 추천 알고리즘이 굉장히 깊게 들어갔다.


△뷰티 플랫폼 개발 과정에서 AWS의 지원을 받았다고

8주간 AWS 프로토타이핑 프로그램을 진행했는데, 큰 도움을 받았다. 아모레퍼시픽 입장에서도 레퍼런스가 없고 처음부터 시작해야 하는 상황이라 이런 플랫폼을 만든 것이 굉장히 새로운 시도였다. 우리가 기존에 가지고 있던 피부 진단, 리뷰 서비스, 추천·검색 플랫폼이 다 조합되서 최종적으로 플랫폼 형태 서비스로 나와야 하는데 이런 생각의 흐름을 이끌어 가면서 비즈니스나 시스템 로직을 구성하는 데 도움을 받았다고 할 수 있다.

△뷰티테크 플랫폼에 대한 브랜드들의 반응은 어떤가

뷰티테크 플랫폼으로 AI 서비스를 브랜드의 다양한 채널에 접목하면서 실질적인 효과를 보고 있다는 긍정적인 반응이다. 특히 오프라인에서는 매장 직원들이 체감했을 때 구매전환률이 50%까지 올라갔다는 의견을 주신다. AI 측정·진단·추천 서비스를 통해 고객과 근거를 가지고 상담하게 되니까, 짧은 시간 안에 신뢰를 형성할 수 있다는 반응이다.

△향후 뷰티플랫폼 적용 확대 계획은

특히 글로벌 오프라인 매장에서 힘을 발휘할 것이란 확신을 가지고 있다. 라네즈를 통해서 이미 동남아 시장을 중심으로 글로벌에 작은 성공을 거뒀다. 이제 북미까지 진출해야 한다. 피부는 인종과도 밀접한 관련이 있기 때문에 다인종을 측정할 수 있도록 측정 기술 연구 개발을 계속하고 있다.

△SaaS인데 외부 사업 가능성은 없나

지금은 내부의 브랜드와 채널에 도입을 지원하고 글로벌 확장도 준비해야 하기 때문에 외부 사업 계획은 없다. 하지만, AWS 마켓플레이스 등에 입점해 외부 기업을 대상으로 서비스를 제공해도 충분히 경재력 있다는 생각은 든다. 우리 뷰티테크 기술을 손쉽게 연동할 수 있다면 굉장히 임팩트가 있는 저 디지털 혁신이 아닐까 싶다.


△생성형 AI 기반 피부상담 서비스도 준비하고 있다고

서비스는 이미 완성으로 돼 있다. 생성형 AI 모델이 피부진단을 해줄 순 없기 때문에 우리 나름대로 기술 개발을 많이 했다. 우리가 보유한 지식들 특히 비정형 데이터로 된 정보를 AI가 읽어들일 수 있도록 잘 모으고 전처리하는 과정을 오래 거쳤고 검색증강생성(RAG) 기술을 활용해 우리가 보유한 로컬 지식들을 불러오는 구조를 만들었다. 이렇게 모아온 정보를 가지고 GPT 4.0을 가지고 말을 만들어 봤는데, 썩 나쁘진 않았지만 뷰티카운셀러라고 할 정도의 수준은 아니었다. 그래서 중간에 우리가 파인팅튜닝(미세조종)한 모델을 집어넣어 만족할 만한 수준으로 완성했다.

△이 AI 뷰티카운셀러는 어디에 활용될 수 있나

브랜드가 원하는 곳에 모두 붙일 수 있다. CS가 가장 먼저일 것 같다. 어디든 QR 코드만 하나 있으면, 고객이 휴대폰으로 찍었을 때 이 챗봇이 나오게 할 수 있다. 또 오프라인 매장 키오스크에 넣고 음성으로 대화하는 것도 가능하다.

△AI솔루션팀 미션은

우리는 브랜드·채널의 성공을 지원하는 조직이고 비즈니스의 혁신이 우리의 혁신이라는 생각을 하고 있다. 궁극적으로 브랜드와 채널이 개인화 서비스를 할 수 있게 해주는 게 우리의 핵심 가치라고 본다. 궁극적으로 AI 기술을 기반으로 하는 뷰티테크는 개인화 서비스들에 초점을 맞춰야 한다고 본다.


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LG전자 H&A사업본부는 Azure OpenAI를 활용하여 고객의 요구 사항을 효과적으로 파악할 수 있는 생성형 AI기반 빅데이터 분석 솔루션을 개발했습니다. LG전자는 가전 시장의 글로벌 선두 기업으로, 인공지능(AI) 가전 시장에서도 UP가전, 공감지능, 가전OS, 온디바이스 AI칩 등의 차별화 기술을 통해 두각을 드러내며 시장을 개척해 나가고 있습니다. LG전자 H&A사업본부는 고객의 요구를 이해하고 더 나은 고객 경험을 제공하기 위해 노력하고 있으며, 이를 위해 데이터와 인공지능을 활용합니다. 이를 통해 고객의 필요를 적극적으로 파악하고 제품 및 서비스를 개선하는 데 중점을 두고 있습니다. LG전자 H&A사업본부는 새로운 데이터 분석 솔루션인 CHATDA를 도입하여 빅데이터 활용의 병목 현상을 해결하고 있으며, 이를 통해 제품 및 서비스의 기획과 개발에 필요한 데이터 업무에 혁신을 가져오고 있습니다. Azure OpenAI를 활용함으로써 데이터의 안전성과 보안을 유지하면서 소비자들의 행동을 분석하고, 필요를 효율적으로 이해하는 것이 가능해졌습니다. LG전자 H&A사업본부는 이를 통해 가전 제품의 가치를 높이고 소비자들에게 더 나은 경험을 제공하는 데 집중하고 있으며 최근 선포한 스마트홈솔루션 기업의 비전을 실행해 나가고 있습니다.

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LG전자, Azure OpenAI로 소비자 마음 읽는 데이터 분석 플랫폼 구축
LG전자는 가전시장의 글로벌 선두 기업입니다. 생활 가전 시장에서 글로벌 1위를 차지하고 있고, 지속 성장하고 있는 인공지능(AI)  가전 시장에서도 UP가전, 공감지능, 가전OS, 온디바이스 AI칩 등의 차별화 기술을 통해 두각을 드러내며 시장을 개척해 나가고 있습니다.

LG전자가 중요하게 여기는 것은 단순한 제품 판매량과 순위가 아니라 빠르게 변화하는 고객의 요구 사항을 효과적으로 이해해 더 나은 고객 경험을 만들어가는 데에 있습니다. LG전자 H&A사업본부는 최근 제품과 서비스를 통해 소비자들이 더 나은 삶을 누릴 수 있도록, 스마트홈솔루션 기업의 비전을 선포하기도 했습니다.

“가전에 대한 고객의 기대치는 계속 높아지고 있습니다. 당장 사람들이 세탁기에 더 이상 더러운 옷을 빨지 않습니다. 빠르고 조용히 세탁하고, 옷감이 상하지 않게 관리해주는 데에 기대가 크고, 더 나은 디자인으로 삶의 공간에 녹아드는 것에 높은 가치를 느낍니다.

LG전자 H&A사업본부 우정훈 상무는 생활가전 비즈니스를 맡고 있는 H&A사업본부가 변화하고 진화하는 고객의 민감한 기대를 만족시키기 위해 새로운 차원의 빅데이터를 사용하기 시작한 이유로 변화하는 가전의 가치를 꼽았습니다.

고객의 속마음을 명확하게 이해하고 제품에 반영하는 것은 상당히 어렵습니다. 고객에 대한 이해는 기업에 늘 중요했기 때문에 시장 조사는 끊임없이 이뤄집니다. 빅데이터로 소비자를 이해하려는 움직임과 기대도 현실과는 조금 거리가 있었습니다.”

오랫동안 가전은 용량이나 시간처럼 각 제품의 근본적인 성능이 강조됐고, 기업 입장에서는 원가와 품질 관리 등 명확한 지표를 바탕으로 성장했습니다. 하지만 시대가 변화하면서 하드웨어 외적인 가치에 대한 요구가 커지고 있습니다. 제품의 근원 경쟁력은 기본적으로 이끌어 가야 하지만 라이프스타일에 바탕을 둔 새로운 시장의 기대가 시장의 리더십에 가장 중요한 요소가 되었습니다. LG전자 H&A사업본부는 인공지능 기술과 더 높은 차원의 빅데이터 분석을 통해 그 답을 찾을 것이라 기대하고 있습니다.

오랫동안 이어진 데이터에 대한 가능성, 그리고 현실적인 한계
기업들은 오랫동안 소비자들의 목소리를 듣기 위해 설문, 시장조사 등에 노력을 쏟아 왔습니다. 소비자 조사는 높은 비용과 오랜 시간이 걸리는 작업이지만, 충분한 조사 대상을 모집하고 솔직한 속내를 듣기도 어려웠습니다. 글로벌 시장을 이끌어가는 LG전자 입장에서는 큰 고민이었습니다.

“가전제품에서 수집되는 빅데이터는 이 문제를 해결해 줄 중요한 열쇠였습니다. LG전자는 제품 품질 개선을 위해 여러가지 센서와 제품의 동작에 대한 데이터를 수집하고 분석하며 제품 고장의 원인 파악과 대응을 빠르게 처리할 수 있었습니다. 더 나아가 데이터가 고객 이해와 고객 가치 실현의 도구로 활용될 수 있다는 가능성에 주목해 왔습니다.

LG전자 퓨리케어 정수기는 초기에 가정에서 물을 쓰는 방법에 따라 125ml, 500ml, 1000ml 등의 급수 버튼을 두었습니다. 작은 컵, 라면, 밥솥 등을 고려한 것인데, 실제 이용자들이 125ml 버튼을 두 번 누르는 빈도가 높다는 것을 데이터를 통해 알게 되었습니다. 이는 곧바로 제품에 반영되면서 더 나은 경험을 만들었습니다. 또한 세탁 종료 후 세탁물을 곧바로 꺼내지 않는다는 점도 데이터 분석으로 확인할 수 있었는데, 이 때도 세탁물을 그대로 방치하는 대신 주기적으로 움직여 주어서 옷에 주름이나 냄새가 생기지 않도록 한 UP가전 세탁기는 데이터를 통한 고객 경험 개선의 큰 예입니다.”

하지만 데이터가 품고 있는 가능성에 비해 실제 데이터에서 실질적인 가치를 뽑아내는 것은 상당히 어려운 일입니다. 비정형으로 수집된 데이터를 데이터베이스에 넣을 수 있도록 적절히 가공을 해야 하고, 제품 개발자 관점에서 정리된 데이터를 고객 이해를 위해 활용하려면 해당 데이터에 대한 지식과 경험, 그리고 기본적으로 데이터 분석을 위한 데이터 리터러시가 두루 필요합니다. 빅데이터를 기반으로 나온 성공사례가 조직 전체로 확장하기 위해서는 데이터 접근에 대한 장벽을 허무는 큰 변화가 필요했습니다.

LG전자는 개인정보를 침해하지 않으면서도 소비자들이 만들어내는 데이터를 안전하고 효율적으로 활용할 수 있도록 데이터 플랫폼을 구축하고, 데이터 전문 조직을 운용하기 시작하였습니다

“적절한 가전 빅데이터를 추출, 가공하고 사용 승인까지 이뤄지는 데에는 적어도 3-4일이 걸렸습니다. 이렇게 데이터를 받은 후 분석과 인사이트 발굴에는 일주일에서 열흘이 더 필요했습니다. 소비자들과 공감할 수 있는 제품을 기획하는 입장에서는 적절한 가설을 세우고 이를 검증하는 데까지 다양한 각도로 데이터를 빠르게 검토해야 하는데 한 번 데이터를 확인할 때마다 시간적인 부담이 너무 컸습니다.”

LG전자 H&A본부 상품기획담당 김성락 책임은 늘 데이터에 대한 기대만큼 현실의 벽이 두터웠다고 말합니다. 정확한 인사이트를 얻기 위해서는 데이터를 다각도로 살펴야 하는데, 그 것만으로도 몇 주의 시간이 필요했기 때문입니다. 현업에서는 데이터의 가능성이 커질수록 더 쉽고 빠르게, 입체적인 데이터를 받을 수 있는 시스템에 대한 갈증이 커졌습니다. 그러던 차에 ChatGPT를 비롯한 대규모 언어 모델이 나오면서 새로운 가능성이 열렸습니다.

“CHATDA는 누구나 이용할 수 있는 인공지능 기술에서 시작”
“ChatGPT는 인공지능이 비싸고 어렵다는 인식에서 벗어나 누구나 인공지능과 대화를 통해 원하는 것을 얻어낼 수 있다는 것을 보여주었고, 기술의 대중화를 현실화했다고 판단했습니다. 특히 ChatGPT가 자연어를 이해해 적절한 소프트웨어 코드를 만들어낼 수 있다는 점에 주목했습니다. 그 동안 코딩의 장벽을 허물고 데이터 접근성을 개선하기 위해 제로 코드, 로우 코드, 혹은 전문 BI 도구가 제시됐지만 이 역시 기본적인 학습이 필요했고, 숙련도에 따라 다른 결과 차이가 컸습니다.”

LG전자 H&A사업본부는 ChatGPT의 가능성을 읽었고 곧바로 기업의 빅데이터 활용의 병목을 해결할 수 있는 방법을 고민했습니다. 바로 LG전자의 생성형 AI에 기반한 빅데이터 분석 솔루션인 CHATDA (Chat based Data Analytics)의 출발입니다.

생성형 AI의 도입에는 두 가지 장벽이 있었습니다. 고객 데이터가 외부로 흘러나가고, 의도치 않게 범용 AI모델에 학습될 수 있다는 개인정보보호와 정보보안 측면의 이슈, 그리고 수 십 테라바이트를 넘나드는 빅데이터를 매번 ChatGPT 프롬프트 창에 입력할 수 없다는 기술적 현실입니다.

LG전자 H&A사업 본부는 이를 위해 Microsoft Azure 환경 위에서 데이터를 보내는 것이 아닌, 데이터 카탈로그를 활용하는 새로운 방법으로 이 문제를 풀어냈습니다. H&A데이터플랫폼Task 김성일 선임은 Azure OpenAI가 엔터프라이즈 인공지능의 현실적인 플랫폼이었다고 말합니다.

“AI로 데이터를 직접 분석하는 대신 그 동안 데이터 전문가를 통해 검증된 데이터 탐색, 추출, 및 분석을 유지하기로 했습니다. 대신 그 코드 작성을 ChatGPT에 맡기기로 했습니다. 또한 OpenAI를 기업이 요구하는 보안환경에 맞춘 Microsoft의 Azure OpenAI 서비스를 이용해 데이터 유출을 막고 샌드박스 환경을 통해 안전한 인공지능 사용 환경을 갖추었습니다.”

Azure OpenAI를 이용하면서 보안과 안정성, 기술적인 부분을 해결했고, 다음 단계로 LG전자의 데이터베이스 환경에서 적절한 쿼리를 뽑아낼 수 있는 코드를 ChatGPT에게 부탁하기로 했습니다. 구성원들이 원하는 형태의 데이터와 분석 요구사항을 자연어로 말하면 ChatGPT는 H&A사업본부의 다양한 현업의 의도를 파악하고, 적절한 데이터를 찾아 분석하는 코드를 만든 뒤 직접 실행까지 처리합니다. ChatGPT는 원하는 데이터를 뽑아내는 것뿐 아니라 언어 생성을 통해 데이터에 담긴 적절한 인사이트도 알려줍니다.

명확한 데이터를 추출하고, 그 안에서만 제한적인 대답을 하도록 구성했기 때문에 인공지능이 왜곡된 값을 뽑아내는 것에 대한 부담도 없었고, 데이터를 ChatGPT에 보내는 것이 아닌 데이터에 대한 설명을 보내 개인정보 등 데이터 정보보안 측면에서도 안전하게 처리됩니다. 현업에서는 기존에 데이터 전문가에게 요청하던 것과 똑같은 방법으로 ChatGPT와 대화하고, 적절한 데이터와 답을 언제든지 얻어낼 수 있게 됐습니다.

"무엇보다 데이터를 다루는 시간이 비교할 수 없을 만큼 빨라졌습니다. CHATDA의 입력창에 원하는 데이터의 형태를 입력하면 2분-3분 안에 답을 얻을 수 있고, 이를 다시 가공하고 다른 형태로 다시 뽑아내는 것을 반복해도 몇 분 정도면 충분했습니다. 실제로 20~30분 정도면 데이터를 여러 측면으로 바라볼 수 있게 됐고, 한 시간이면 데이터를 통한 확신을 가질 수 있게 됐습니다. 몇 주가 걸려도 속 시원히 답을 내기 어려웠던 기존 환경과는 비교할 수 없었습니다.”

H&A상품기획담당 이민아 선임은 CHATDA를 통해 상품 개발 첫 단계에서 소비자들의 마음에 대한 가설을 빠르게 확인할 수 있다는 점이 획기적인 변화를 만들어내고 있다고 말했습니다. 더 고도화되고 다양한 가설을 바탕으로 소비자들의 행동을 분석하고 마음을 이해할 수 있게 되면서 제품에 대한 실질적인 피드백이 다시 제품 개발에 적극적으로 반영이 되고 있습니다.

쉽게는 ‘소비자들이 냉장고 문을 하루에 몇 번 여는지’를 분석할 수도 있지만 ‘냉장고를 열고 전자레인지를 이어서 쓰는 시간과 빈도’를 분석하면 식습관부터 야식 선호도 등의 가설을 확인할 수 있게 됩니다. 인구구조의 변화와 함께 개인화되는 가전 사용 환경을 고려할 때  단순히 가전제품 하나하나가 아니라 주방이라는 공간과 그 안에서 이뤄지는 라이프스타일 이해를 통해 고객의 기대에 더 부합하는 제품과 서비스를 제공하려는 목표에 다가설 수 있었습니다.

누구나 쓸 수 있는 일상의 인공지능, 업무 환경에 녹일 계획
고객 이해를 통해 제품과 서비스를 기획하고 개발하는 부서들의 업무 효율성이 높아졌습니다. 이전에는 데이터를 뽑아내는 데에 걸리는 시간이 길다 보니 원하는 인사이트를 얻을 때까지 몇 번의 데이터 추출이 필요한지 알기 어려웠습니다. 결과적으로 프로젝트에 주어진 시간을 데이터와 씨름하는 데에 더 많이 썼고, 확신을 얻기도 어려웠습니다. 데이터 분석에 대한 지연이나 이를 통한 변수가 사라지면서 모든 부분이 명료해지고 있습니다.

무엇보다 이 변화에서 현업 구성원들이 새로운 업무 환경을 학습할 필요가 없었습니다. 평소에 쓰는 언어로 빅데이터 AI인 CHATDA에게 물어보면 되기 때문입니다. 데이터를 필요로 하는 사람들이 직접 데이터와 상호작용하면서 가설을 검증하는 속도가 빨라졌다는 것은 큰 의미가 있습니다. H&A데이터플랫폼 태스크 서인원 선임연구원은 곧 데이터를 통한 구성원 역량의 성장과 이를 연결 지었습니다.

“초기에는 현업에서 데이터를 직접 다루는 것에 대한 막연한 두려움이 느껴졌습니다. 하지만 대화하듯 자연어로 데이터를 뽑아내는 UX를 적용하고, 데이터를 쉽게 뽑아내는 경험이 이어지면서 가전 빅데이터 활용도는 더 높아지고 있습니다. 전체적으로 LG전자 모두가 데이터를 통해 성장이 이뤄지고 있다는 생각이 듭니다.”

LG전자는 구매 후에도 지속 업그레이드하는, 소프트웨어를 통해 가전의 가치를 높이는 ‘UP가전’ 전략을 내세우고 있습니다. CHATDA는 가전이 가야 할 방향을 소비자들의 행동을 통해서 얻어낼 수 있는 방법을 제시해 주었습니다. 가전제품이 판매 후에 소비자와 관계가 끊어지고 시간이 지나며 낡는다는 인상 대신 꾸준한 업그레이드로 기대에 맞춰 진화하는 경험을 만들어내는 것입니다.

“결국 일상의 업무 환경에 늘 공기처럼 녹아 있는 빅데이터 인공지능 에이전트가 목표입니다. Microsoft의 Copilot이 각 상황에서 아이디어와 생산성을 높여주는 것처럼 LG전자도 CHATDA를 시작으로 복잡한 가전 빅데이터 안에서 더 많은 영감을 얻고, 빠른 실행을 통해 소비자들이 원하는 경험을 만들 수 있도록 하는 것입니다.”

우정훈 상무는 앞으로 데이터 사이언스, 데이터 엔지니어링 역량과 함께 기업의 데이터 거버넌스 역량이 더욱 중요해질 것이라고 말했습니다. 과거에는 데이터 품질 문제가 있어도 도메인 지식이 있는 사람이 그를 해결해 주었습니다. CHATDA와 같은 AI가 기업 데이터 분석을 주관하게 되면, AI가 실수하지 않도록, AI가 이해할 수 있도록 데이터 품질 관리, 데이터 카탈로그 품질의 개선이 꼭 필요하다고 강조합니다.

아직 CHATDA는 초기 단계이지만 경험과 감각, 혹은 소규모 데이터에 의존할 수밖에 없던 기존 의사결정 체계를 바꿔 나가고 있습니다. 더 나아가 모든 구성원들이 데이터 접근성 개선을 기반으로 더 깊은 고객 이해와 더 빠른 제품 개선의 속도를 이룰 것이라는 가능성을 만들어냈습니다. 데이터는 모두에게 가치를 만들어주고, Azure OpenAI는 LG전자의 누구든 더 안전하고 편리하게 데이터를 접할 수 있는 밑바탕이 된 것입니다.

결국 일상의 업무 환경에 늘 공기처럼 녹아 있는 빅데이터 인공지능 에이전트가 목표입니다. Microsoft의 Copilot이 각 상황에서 아이디어와 생산성을 높여주는 것처럼 LG전자도 CHATDA를 시작으로 복잡한 가전 빅데이터 안에서 더 많은 영감을 얻고, 빠른 실행을 통해 소비자들이 원하는 경험을 만들 수 있도록 하는 것입니다.
우정훈 상무: H&A사업본부

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One-third of generative AI projects will be abandoned by 2025, Gartner says
Reasons include poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs, or unclear business value.
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August 14, 2024DC Velocity StaffNo Comments
At least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs, or unclear business value, according to a report from Gartner Inc.

“After last year's hype, executives are impatient to see returns on GenAI investments, yet organizations are struggling to prove and realize value. As the scope of initiatives widen, the financial burden of developing and deploying GenAI models is increasingly felt,” Rita Sallam, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, said in a release.

In addition, many organizations struggle to justify the substantial investment in GenAI for productivity enhancement, which can be difficult to directly translate into financial benefit. That means that GenAI projects require a higher tolerance for indirect, future financial investment criteria versus immediate return on investment (ROI). And historically, many CFOs have not been comfortable with investing today for indirect value in the future, the report found.

“Unfortunately, there is no one size fits all with GenAI, and costs aren’t as predictable as other technologies,” Sallam said. “What you spend, the use cases you invest in and the deployment approaches you take, all determine the costs. Whether you’re a market disruptor and want to infuse AI everywhere, or you have a more conservative focus on productivity gains or extending existing processes, each has different levels of cost, risk, variability and strategic impact.”

Despite those challenges, some earlier adopters are reporting a range of business improvements. In a recent Gartner survey, respondents reported 15.8% revenue increase, 15.2% cost savings and 22.6% productivity improvement on average. The survey of 822 business leaders was conducted between September and November 2023.
Gartner Inc.의 보고서에 따르면, 최소 30%의 GenAI 프로젝트가 2025년 말까지 개념 증명 이후에 중단될 것으로 예상됩니다. 그 이유는 데이터 품질이 낮고, 위험 통제가 부족하고, 비용이 증가하고, 사업 가치가 불분명하기 때문입니다.
Gartner의 Distinguished VP Analyst인 Rita Sallam은 보도자료에서 "작년 하이프사이클 이후 임원들은 GenAI 투자에 대한 수익을 보기를 간절히 원하지만, 조직들은 가치를 증명하고 실현하기 위해 고군분투하고 있습니다. 이니셔티브의 범위가 확대됨에 따라 GenAI 모델을 개발하고 배포하는 데 따른 재정적 부담이 점점 더 커지고 있습니다."라고 말했습니다.
또한 많은 조직이 생산성 향상을 위해 GenAI에 상당한 투자를 정당화하는 데 어려움을 겪고 있으며, 이는 재정적 이익으로 직접 전환하기 어려울 수 있습니다. 즉, GenAI 프로젝트는 즉각적인 투자 수익률(ROI)보다 간접적인 미래 재정 투자 기준에 대한 더 높은 허용 범위가 필요합니다. 그리고 역사적으로 많은 CFO가 미래의 간접적 가치를 위해 오늘 투자하는 데 편안하지 않았습니다.
"안타깝게도 GenAI에는 하나의 솔루션으로 모든 사람을 맞추기 어렵고 비용은 다른 기술만큼 예측 가능하지 않습니다."라고 Sallam은 말했습니다. "지출하는 금액, 투자하는 사용 사례, 사용하는 배포 접근 방식은 모두 비용을 결정합니다. 시장을 교란하는 기업으로서 모든 곳에 AI를 주입하고자 하든, 생산성 향상이나 기존 프로세스 확장에 보다 보수적으로 집중하든, 각각 비용, 위험, 변동성 및 전략적 영향의 수준이 다릅니다."
이러한 어려움에도 불구하고 일부 얼리 어답터들은 다양한 비즈니스 개선 사항을 보고하고 있습니다.
최근 Gartner 설문 조사에서 응답자는 평균적으로 매출이 15.8% 증가하고, 비용이 15.2% 절감되고, 생산성이 22.6% 향상되었다고 보고했습니다.
822명의 비즈니스 리더를 대상으로 한 이 설문 조사는 2023년 9월에서 11월 사이에 실시되었습니다.