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Self-Consistent Decoding for More Factual Open Responses
Christopher Malon, Xiaodan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00696 https://arxi…

Self-Consistent Decoding for More Factual Open Responses
Self-consistency has emerged as a powerful method for improving the accuracy of short answers generated by large language models. As previously defined, it only concerns the accuracy of a final answer parsed from generated text. In this work, we extend the idea to open response generation, by integrating voting into the decoding method. Each output sentence is selected from among multiple samples, conditioning on the previous selections, based on a simple token overlap score. We compare this "S…

Is there a better way to only `git add` non-whitespace changes these days than this 10 year old answer (which does work still)?
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inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

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Benchmarking Private Population Data Release Mechanisms: Synthetic Data vs. TopDown
Differential privacy (DP) is increasingly used to protect the release of hierarchical, tabular population data, such as census data. A common approach for implementing DP in this setting is to release noisy responses to a predefined set of queries. For example, this is the approach of the TopDown algorithm used by the US Census Bureau. Such methods have an important shortcoming: they cannot answer queries for which they were not optimized. An appealing alternative is to generate DP synthetic da…

"By 1973, the first volume of the defining work of our craft, “The Art of Computer Programming” had been available in bookstores since 1968, and its first chapter literally consisted of a 100-something page long introduction to various mathematical concepts. Induction, logarithms, series, matrices, elementary number theory, permutations and factorials, Fibonacci numbers, are some of the subjects exposed in those beautifully typeset pages."

In Praise Of Mathematics
How much math knowledge does a programmer need to know to fulfill their job? How deep should the mathematical knowledge of full-stack engineers, computer security experts, or large language model engineers be? The spectrum of possible answers to these questions is too large to be useful. Perhaps the eternal answer "it depends" is enough?

Quantum Preference Query
Hao Liu, Xiaotian You, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20429 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.204…

Quantum Preference Query
Given a large dataset of many tuples, it is hard for users to pick out their preferred tuples. Thus, the preference query problem, which is to find the most preferred tuples from a dataset, is widely discussed in the database area. In this problem, a utility function is given by the user to evaluate to what extent the user prefers a tuple. However, considering a dataset consisting of N tuples, the existing algorithms need O(N) time to answer a query, or need O(N) time for a cold start to answer…

Industriespionage: VW jahrelang Ziel mutmaßlich chinesischer Angreifer
Zwischen 2010 und 2015 erbeuteten mutmaßlich chinesische Cyberspione rund 19.000 Dateien über E-Mobilität und Antriebstechnologien vom Volkswagen-Konzern.

China: Haben keine Waffen an Russland geliefert
Dem chinesischen Verteidigungsminister Dong Jun zufolge achtet sein Land darauf, weder Russland noch die Ukraine zu unterstützen. "In der Ukraine-Krise hat China die Friedensgespräche mit einer verantwortungsvollen Haltung gefördert", sagt Dong in einer Rede beim Shangri-La-Dialog. Man habe niemals Waffen an eine der Konfliktparteien geliefert und strenge Kontrollen für die Ausf…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Notfall-Stromabschaltungen nach russischen Attacken ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf die Energieinfrastruktur ist in weiten Teilen der Ukraine der Strom abgeschaltet worden. Präsident Selenskyj erwartet mehr als 100 Teilnehmer bei der Friedenskonferenz in der Schweiz. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Is there a better way to only `git add` non-whitespace changes these days than this 10 year old answer (which does work still)?
#git

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.18024 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Benchmarking Private Population Data Release Mechanisms: Synthetic Data vs. TopDown
Differential privacy (DP) is increasingly used to protect the release of hierarchical, tabular population data, such as census data. A common approach for implementing DP in this setting is to release noisy responses to a predefined set of queries. For example, this is the approach of the TopDown algorithm used by the US Census Bureau. Such methods have an important shortcoming: they cannot answer queries for which they were not optimized. An appealing alternative is to generate DP synthetic da…