The scaling of large language models has greatly improved natural language understanding, generation, and reasoning. In this work, we develop a system that trained a trillion-parameter language model on a cluster of Ascend 910 AI processors and MindSpore framework, and present the language model with 1.085T parameters named PanGu-{\Sigma}. With parameter inherent from PanGu-{\alpha}, we extend the dense Transformer model to sparse one with Random Routed Experts (RRE), and efficiently train the model over 329B tokens by using Expert Computation and Storage Separation(ECSS). This resulted in a 6.3x increase in training throughput through heterogeneous computing. Our experimental findings show that PanGu-{\Sigma} provides state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot learning of various Chinese NLP downstream tasks. Moreover, it demonstrates strong abilities when fine-tuned in application data of open-domain dialogue, question answering, machine translation and code generation.

Numerous physics theories are rooted in partial differential equations (PDEs). However, the increasingly intricate physics equations, especially those that lack analytic solutions or closed forms, have impeded the further development of physics. Computationally solving PDEs by classic numerical approaches suffers from the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency and is not applicable to the empirical data generated by unknown latent PDEs. To overcome this challenge, we present KoopmanLab, an efficient module of the Koopman neural operator family, for learning PDEs without analytic solutions or closed forms. Our module consists of multiple variants of the Koopman neural operator (KNO), a kind of mesh-independent neural-network-based PDE solvers developed following dynamic system theory. The compact variants of KNO can accurately solve PDEs with small model sizes while the large variants of KNO are more competitive in predicting highly complicated dynamic systems govern by unknown, high-dimensional, and non-linear PDEs. All variants are validated by mesh-independent and long-term prediction experiments implemented on representative PDEs (e.g., the Navier-Stokes equation and the Bateman-Burgers equation in fluid mechanics) and ERA5 (i.e., one of the largest high-resolution global-scale climate data sets in earth physics). These demonstrations suggest the potential of KoopmanLab to be a fundamental tool in diverse physics studies related to equations or dynamic systems.

We have entered the brave new world of AI chatbots. This means everything from reenvisioning how students learn in school to protecting ourselves from mass-produced misinformation. It also means heeding the mounting calls to regulate AI to help us navigate an era in which computers write as fluently as people. So far, there is more agreement on the need for AI regulation than on what this would entail. Mira Murati, head of the team that created the chatbot app ChatGPT--the fastest growing consumer-Internet app in history--said governments and regulators should be involved, but she didn't suggest how.

Many large vision models have been deployed on the cloud for real-time services. Meanwhile, fresh samples are continuously generated on the served mobile device. How to leverage the device-side samples to improve the cloud-side large model becomes a practical requirement, but falls into the dilemma of no raw sample up-link and no large model down-link. Specifically, the user may opt out of sharing raw samples with the cloud due to the concern of privacy or communication overhead, while the size of some large vision models far exceeds the mobile device's runtime capacity. In this work, we propose a device-cloud collaborative controlled learning framework, called DC-CCL, enabling a cloud-side large vision model that cannot be directly deployed on the mobile device to still benefit from the device-side local samples. In particular, DC-CCL vertically splits the base model into two submodels, one large submodel for learning from the cloud-side samples and the other small submodel for learning from the device-side samples and performing device-cloud knowledge fusion. Nevertheless, on-device training of the small submodel requires the output of the cloud-side large submodel to compute the desired gradients. DC-CCL thus introduces a light-weight model to mimic the large cloud-side submodel with knowledge distillation, which can be offloaded to the mobile device to control its small submodel's optimization direction. Given the decoupling nature of two submodels in collaborative learning, DC-CCL also allows the cloud to take a pre-trained model and the mobile device to take another model with a different backbone architecture.

Currently, the dominant paradigm in AI safety is alignment with human values. Here we describe progress on developing an alternative approach to safety, based on ethical rationalism (Gewirth, 1978), and propose an inherently safe implementation path via hybrid theorem provers in a sandbox. As AGIs evolve, their alignment may fade, but their rationality can only increase (otherwise more rational ones will have a significant evolutionary advantage) so an approach that ties their ethics to their rationality has clear long-term advantages.

Federated learning (FL), an effective distributed machine learning framework, implements model training and meanwhile protects local data privacy. It has been applied to a broad variety of practice areas due to its great performance and appreciable profits. Who owns the model, and how to protect the copyright has become a real problem. Intuitively, the existing property rights protection methods in centralized scenarios (e.g., watermark embedding and model fingerprints) are possible solutions for FL. But they are still challenged by the distributed nature of FL in aspects of the no data sharing, parameter aggregation, and federated training settings. For the first time, we formalize the problem of copyright protection for FL, and propose FedRight to protect model copyright based on model fingerprints, i.e., extracting model features by generating adversarial examples as model fingerprints. FedRight outperforms previous works in four key aspects: (i) Validity: it extracts model features to generate transferable fingerprints to train a detector to verify the copyright of the model. (ii) Fidelity: it is with imperceptible impact on the federated training, thus promising good main task performance. (iii) Robustness: it is empirically robust against malicious attacks on copyright protection, i.e., fine-tuning, model pruning, and adaptive attacks. (iv) Black-box: it is valid in the black-box forensic scenario where only application programming interface calls to the model are available. Extensive evaluations across 3 datasets and 9 model structures demonstrate FedRight's superior fidelity, validity, and robustness.

Data-driven algorithms are only as good as the data they work with, while data sets, especially social data, often fail to represent minorities adequately. Representation Bias in data can happen due to various reasons ranging from historical discrimination to selection and sampling biases in the data acquisition and preparation methods. Given that "bias in, bias out", one cannot expect AI-based solutions to have equitable outcomes for societal applications, without addressing issues such as representation bias. While there has been extensive study of fairness in machine learning models, including several review papers, bias in the data has been less studied. This paper reviews the literature on identifying and resolving representation bias as a feature of a data set, independent of how consumed later. The scope of this survey is bounded to structured (tabular) and unstructured (e.g., image, text, graph) data. It presents taxonomies to categorize the studied techniques based on multiple design dimensions and provides a side-by-side comparison of their properties. There is still a long way to fully address representation bias issues in data. The authors hope that this survey motivates researchers to approach these challenges in the future by observing existing work within their respective domains.

We've spent the past several years researching artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare -- exploring how it can help detect diseases early, expand access to care and more. We've taken a "move slow and test things" approach to prove efficacy, equity, helpfulness and safety above all. Today, at our annual health event, The Check Up, we shared health AI updates including our progress on our medical large language model (LLM) research, partnerships that are bringing solutions into real-world settings, and new ways AI can help with disease detection. Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) -- AI tools that demonstrate capabilities in language understanding and generation -- has opened up new ways to use AI to solve real-world problems. However, unlike some other LLM use cases, applications of AI in the medical field require the utmost focus on safety, equity, and bias to protect patient well-being.

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