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Training Azerbaijani language models on Amazon SageMaker AI

This solution builds on open source tools including PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, and Liger Kernels. The authors would also like to thank Aiham Taleb, Arefeh Ghahvechi, Manav Choudhary, Rohit Thekkanal, Daz Akbarov, Jamila Jamilova, Ross Povelikin, Almas Moldakanov, Christelle Xu, and Ivan Khvostishkov for their contributions in making this project possible. Azercell Telecom LLC, Azerbaijan’s …

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AI in SRE: Where and how Google is deploying agentic AI to improve operations

Since its inception over 20 years ago, Google has used Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to keep services like Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube and Google Cloud reliable and highly available, adhering to the principles and practices of the reliability-first mindset. Recently though, the emergence of AI has driven multiple step-changes in system complexity. Interactions between components …

Using depth maps and weight noising to get better character LoRAs

A few weeks ago I introduced a new method for training style LoRAs which has been quite successful. A bunch of folks asked if this would also help with character training. The short answer is yes, but it needed a separate technique on top of the depth stuff. I’ve got something dialed in well enough …