# Dec 16, 2024

## ML Times

### Daily

### Weekly

- **Konwinski Prize**  
  - **$1M K Prize** will reward the first open source AI to achieve **90% accuracy** on a new, contamination-free version of **SWE-bench**, promoting integrity in AI benchmarking.

- **Veo 2: Our video generation model**  
  - **Veo 2** is a cutting-edge video generation model that produces **realistic motion** and **high-quality output** up to **4K resolution**, significantly enhancing detail and reducing artifacts compared to previous models.

- **Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)**  
  - **Building an LLM inference engine from scratch using C++ and CUDA** allows for deep insights into optimizations that enhance inference speed, particularly for single-batch processing on consumer devices, surpassing existing implementations like [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp).

- **Best-of-N Jailbreaking**  
  - **Best-of-N (BoN) Jailbreaking** is a novel black-box algorithm that effectively exploits AI systems by generating variations of prompts, achieving **high attack success rates (ASRs)** of **89% on GPT-4o** and **78% on Claude 3.5 Sonnet** with 10,000 samples.

- **In Search of a Faster SQLite**  
  - Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge have achieved a **100x reduction in tail latency** for SQLite by implementing **asynchronous I/O** and **disaggregated storage** in their paper, [“Serverless Runtime / Database Co-Design With Asynchronous I/O”](https://penberg.org/papers/penberg-edgesys24.pdf).

- **🤗Introducing the Synthetic Data Generator - build Datasets with Natural Language**  
  - The **Synthetic Data Generator** enables users to create custom datasets using **natural language prompts**, streamlining the process with a no-code interface powered by **Hugging Face's text-generation API** and **distilabel**.

- **Researchers discover new third class of magnetism**  
  - **Altermagnetism**, a newly discovered class of magnetism, could revolutionize digital devices by enabling magnetic memory with speeds up to **a thousand times faster** than current technologies.

- **Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal**  
  - **PReQuaL** (Probing to Reduce Queuing and Latency) is a novel load balancer that prioritizes **minimizing real-time request latency** over traditional CPU load balancing, utilizing asynchronous and reusable probes to select servers based on estimated latency and active requests-in-flight (RIF).

- **High-Fidelity 3D Mesh Generation at Scale with Meshtron – Nvidia Technical Blog**  
  - **Meshtron** enables **high-fidelity 3D mesh generation** at scale, significantly enhancing the efficiency and quality of 3D modeling in various applications, including gaming and simulations.

- **[R] Optimizing LLM merging to reduce performance tradeoffs**  
  - **Optimizing LLM merging** can yield **Pareto-optimal models** by effectively combining checkpoints trained under varying conditions, enhancing performance across multiple tasks without the need for extensive hyperparameter tuning.

- **LinGen: Towards High-Resolution Minute-Length Text-to-Video Generation with Linear Computational Complexity**  
  - **LinGen** introduces a **linear-complexity** framework for text-to-video generation, enabling high-resolution minute-length videos on a single GPU without sacrificing quality, a significant advancement over traditional models limited to 10-20 seconds.

- **[N] Special session on Privacy-Preserving Machine and Deep Learning at IJCNN 2025**  
  - The **special session** on **Privacy-Preserving Machine and Deep Learning** at IJCNN 2025 seeks innovative papers on techniques like **Homomorphic Encryption** to enhance AI applications, emphasizing the need for new **ML and DL models**.

- **State-of-the-art video and image generation with Veo 2 and Imagen 3**  
  - **Veo 2** and **Imagen 3** are now available, showcasing **state-of-the-art** capabilities in video and image generation, with Veo 2 offering high-quality video creation at **4K resolution** and Imagen 3 enhancing artistic diversity and detail accuracy.