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Code World Models and AutoHarness for LLM Agents
At our latest Snorkel AI Reading Group, Carter Wendelken of Google DeepMind walked us through two related papers he presented at ICLR: Code World Models for General Game Playing and AutoHarness: Improving LLM Agents by Automatically Synthesizing a Code Harness. Both ask the same question from opposite ends: when you want an LLM to act reliably in a complex, possibly…
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Understanding Olmix: A Framework for Data Mixing Throughout Language Model Development
At our latest Snorkel AI Reading Group, Mayee Chen (Stanford, Hazy Research) stopped by our San Francisco office to walk us through Olmix: A Framework for Data Mixing Throughout LM Development — work she contributed to during her internship at Ai2 on OLMo 3. Olmix tackles one of the messiest, least-documented levers in LLM pre-training: how to set the ratios…
