On this day: Dec 20

6 records from this date, 2013 to 2024, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.

2024

2 years ago · 3 records
Brian J Chan et al. present Cache-Augmented GenerationBrian J Chan et al. (National Chengchi University, Academia Sinica)

A branch that skips RAG altogether in the long-context era

Deliberative AlignmentOpenAI (Guan, Wallace, Barak et al.)

Trains models to reason explicitly over safety specifications in CoT; the basic recipe for aligning reasoning models

ARC Prize releases o3's ARC-AGI resultsFrançois Chollet / ARC Prize

Created the practice of reporting capability and cost together

2022

4 years ago · 1 record
Self-InstructUW, AI2 (Wang et al.)

A bootstrap in which a model creates its own training data; the starting point of the synthetic data industry

2021

5 years ago · 1 record
The Latent Diffusion Model paperLMU Munich, Heidelberg University IWR, Runway

Diffusion in latent space rather than pixel space sharply cut compute; the direct basis of Stable Diffusion

2013

13 years ago · 1 record
Kingma and Welling publish Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes on arXivDiederik P. Kingma, Max Welling

Made it possible to train probabilistic generative models with backpropagation, becoming one pillar of the generative model lineage