Large Language Model
KUNPENG: An Embodied Large Model for Intelligent Maritime
Wang, Naiyao, Jiang, Tongbang, Wang, Ye, Qiu, Shaoyang, Zhang, Bo, Xie, Xinqiang, Li, Munan, Wang, Chunliu, Wang, Yiyang, Ren, Hongxiang, Wang, Ruili, Shan, Hongjun, Liu, Hongbo
Intelligent maritime, as an essential component of smart ocean construction, deeply integrates advanced artificial intelligence technology and data analysis methods, which covers multiple aspects such as smart vessels, route optimization, safe navigation, aiming to enhance the efficiency of ocean resource utilization and the intelligence of transportation networks. However, the complex and dynamic maritime environment, along with diverse and heterogeneous large-scale data sources, present challenges for real-time decision-making in intelligent maritime. In this paper, We propose KUNPENG, the first-ever embodied large model for intelligent maritime in the smart ocean construction, which consists of six systems. The model perceives multi-source heterogeneous data for the cognition of environmental interaction and make autonomous decision strategies, which are used for intelligent vessels to perform navigation behaviors under safety and emergency guarantees and continuously optimize power to achieve embodied intelligence in maritime. In comprehensive maritime task evaluations, KUNPENG has demonstrated excellent performance.
FedsLLM: Federated Split Learning for Large Language Models over Communication Networks
Zhao, Kai, Yang, Zhaohui, Huang, Chongwen, Chen, Xiaoming, Zhang, Zhaoyang
Addressing the challenges of deploying large language models in wireless communication networks, this paper combines low-rank adaptation technology (LoRA) with the splitfed learning framework to propose the federated split learning for large language models (FedsLLM) framework. The method introduced in this paper utilizes LoRA technology to reduce processing loads by dividing the network into client subnetworks and server subnetworks. It leverages a federated server to aggregate and update client models. As the training data are transmitted through a wireless network between clients and both main and federated servers, the training delay is determined by the learning accuracy and the allocation of communication bandwidth. This paper models the minimization of the training delay by integrating computation and communication optimization, simplifying the optimization problem into a convex problem to find the optimal solution. Additionally, it presents a lemma that describes the precise solutions to this problem. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed optimization algorithm reduces delays by an average of 47.63% compared to unoptimized scenarios.
FairyLandAI: Personalized Fairy Tales utilizing ChatGPT and DALLE-3
Makridis, Georgios, Oikonomou, Athanasios, Koukos, Vasileios
In the diverse world of AI-driven storytelling, there is a unique opportunity to engage young audiences with customized, and personalized narratives. This paper introduces FairyLandAI an innovative Large Language Model (LLM) developed through OpenAI's API, specifically crafted to create personalized fairytales for children. The distinctive feature of FairyLandAI is its dual capability: it not only generates stories that are engaging, age-appropriate, and reflective of various traditions but also autonomously produces imaginative prompts suitable for advanced image generation tools like GenAI and Dalle-3, thereby enriching the storytelling experience. FairyLandAI is expertly tailored to resonate with the imaginative worlds of children, providing narratives that are both educational and entertaining and in alignment with the moral values inherent in different ages. Its unique strength lies in customizing stories to match individual children's preferences and cultural backgrounds, heralding a new era in personalized storytelling. Further, its integration with image generation technology offers a comprehensive narrative experience that stimulates both verbal and visual creativity. Empirical evaluations of FairyLandAI demonstrate its effectiveness in crafting captivating stories for children, which not only entertain but also embody the values and teachings of diverse traditions. This model serves as an invaluable tool for parents and educators, supporting them in imparting meaningful moral lessons through engaging narratives. FairyLandAI represents a pioneering step in using LLMs, particularly through OpenAI's API, for educational and cultural enrichment, making complex moral narratives accessible and enjoyable for young, imaginative minds.
MaPPing Your Model: Assessing the Impact of Adversarial Attacks on LLM-based Programming Assistants
LLM-based programming assistants offer the promise of programming faster but with the risk of introducing more security vulnerabilities. Prior work has studied how LLMs could be maliciously fine-tuned to suggest vulnerabilities more often. With the rise of agentic LLMs, which may use results from an untrusted third party, there is a growing risk of attacks on the model's prompt. We introduce the Malicious Programming Prompt (MaPP) attack, in which an attacker adds a small amount of text to a prompt for a programming task (under 500 bytes). We show that our prompt strategy can cause an LLM to add vulnerabilities while continuing to write otherwise correct code. We evaluate three prompts on seven common LLMs, from basic to state-of-the-art commercial models. Using the HumanEval benchmark, we find that our prompts are broadly effective, with no customization required for different LLMs. Furthermore, the LLMs that are best at HumanEval are also best at following our malicious instructions, suggesting that simply scaling language models will not prevent MaPP attacks. Using a dataset of eight CWEs in 16 scenarios, we find that MaPP attacks are also effective at implementing specific and targeted vulnerabilities across a range of models. Our work highlights the need to secure LLM prompts against manipulation as well as rigorously auditing code generated with the help of LLMs.
Aligning Diffusion Behaviors with Q-functions for Efficient Continuous Control
Chen, Huayu, Zheng, Kaiwen, Su, Hang, Zhu, Jun
Drawing upon recent advances in language model alignment, we formulate offline Reinforcement Learning as a two-stage optimization problem: First pretraining expressive generative policies on reward-free behavior datasets, then fine-tuning these policies to align with task-specific annotations like Q-values. This strategy allows us to leverage abundant and diverse behavior data to enhance generalization and enable rapid adaptation to downstream tasks using minimal annotations. In particular, we introduce Efficient Diffusion Alignment (EDA) for solving continuous control problems. EDA utilizes diffusion models for behavior modeling. However, unlike previous approaches, we represent diffusion policies as the derivative of a scalar neural network with respect to action inputs. This representation is critical because it enables direct density calculation for diffusion models, making them compatible with existing LLM alignment theories. During policy fine-tuning, we extend preference-based alignment methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to align diffusion behaviors with continuous Q-functions. Our evaluation on the D4RL benchmark shows that EDA exceeds all baseline methods in overall performance. Notably, EDA maintains about 95\% of performance and still outperforms several baselines given only 1\% of Q-labelled data during fine-tuning.
Self-Prompt Tuning: Enable Autonomous Role-Playing in LLMs
Kong, Aobo, Zhao, Shiwan, Chen, Hao, Li, Qicheng, Qin, Yong, Sun, Ruiqi, Zhou, Xin, Zhou, Jiaming, Sun, Haoqin
Recent advancements in LLMs have showcased their remarkable role-playing capabilities, able to accurately simulate the dialogue styles and cognitive processes of various roles based on different instructions and contexts. Studies indicate that assigning LLMs the roles of experts, a strategy known as role-play prompting, can enhance their performance in the corresponding domains. However, the prompt needs to be manually designed for the given problem, requiring certain expertise and iterative modifications. To this end, we propose self-prompt tuning, making LLMs themselves generate role-play prompts through fine-tuning. Leveraging the LIMA dataset as our foundational corpus, we employ GPT-4 to annotate role-play prompts for each data points, resulting in the creation of the LIMA-Role dataset. We then fine-tune LLMs like Llama-2-7B and Mistral-7B on LIMA-Role. Consequently, the self-prompt tuned LLMs can automatically generate expert role prompts for any given question. We extensively evaluate self-prompt tuned LLMs on widely used NLP benchmarks and open-ended question test. Our empirical results illustrate that self-prompt tuned LLMs outperform standard instruction tuned baselines across most datasets. This highlights the great potential of utilizing fine-tuning to enable LLMs to self-prompt, thereby automating complex prompting strategies. We release the dataset, models, and code at this \href{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/Self-Prompt-Tuning-739E/}{url}.
STD-LLM: Understanding Both Spatial and Temporal Properties of Spatial-Temporal Data with LLMs
Huang, Yiheng, Mao, Xiaowei, Guo, Shengnan, Chen, Yubin, Lin, Youfang, Wan, Huaiyu
Spatial-temporal forecasting and imputation are important for real-world dynamic systems such as intelligent transportation, urban planning, and public health. Most existing methods are tailored for individual forecasting or imputation tasks but are not designed for both. Additionally, they are less effective for zero-shot and few-shot learning. While large language models (LLMs) have exhibited strong pattern recognition and reasoning abilities across various tasks, including few-shot and zero-shot learning, their development in understanding spatial-temporal data has been constrained by insufficient modeling of complex correlations such as the temporal correlations, spatial connectivity, non-pairwise and high-order spatial-temporal correlations within data. In this paper, we propose STD-LLM for understanding both spatial and temporal properties of \underline{S}patial-\underline{T}emporal \underline{D}ata with \underline{LLM}s, which is capable of implementing both spatial-temporal forecasting and imputation tasks. STD-LLM understands spatial-temporal correlations via explicitly designed spatial and temporal tokenizers as well as virtual nodes. Topology-aware node embeddings are designed for LLMs to comprehend and exploit the topology structure of data. Additionally, to capture the non-pairwise and higher-order correlations, we design a hypergraph learning module for LLMs, which can enhance the overall performance and improve efficiency. Extensive experiments demonstrate that STD-LLM exhibits strong performance and generalization capabilities across the forecasting and imputation tasks on various datasets. Moreover, STD-LLM achieves promising results on both few-shot and zero-shot learning tasks.
Navi2Gaze: Leveraging Foundation Models for Navigation and Target Gazing
Zhu, Jun, Du, Zihao, Xu, Haotian, Lan, Fengbo, Zheng, Zilong, Ma, Bo, Wang, Shengjie, Zhang, Tao
Task-aware navigation continues to be a challenging area of research, especially in scenarios involving open vocabulary. Previous studies primarily focus on finding suitable locations for task completion, often overlooking the importance of the robot's pose. However, the robot's orientation is crucial for successfully completing tasks because of how objects are arranged (e.g., to open a refrigerator door). Humans intuitively navigate to objects with the right orientation using semantics and common sense. For instance, when opening a refrigerator, we naturally stand in front of it rather than to the side. Recent advances suggest that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can provide robots with similar common sense. Therefore, we develop a VLM-driven method called Navigation-to-Gaze (Navi2Gaze) for efficient navigation and object gazing based on task descriptions. This method uses the VLM to score and select the best pose from numerous candidates automatically. In evaluations on multiple photorealistic simulation benchmarks, Navi2Gaze significantly outperforms existing approaches and precisely determines the optimal orientation relative to target objects.
Large Language Models for Integrating Social Determinant of Health Data: A Case Study on Heart Failure 30-Day Readmission Prediction
Fensore, Chase, Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M., Patel, Shivani A., Morris, Alanna A., Ho, Joyce C.
Social determinants of health (SDOH) $-$ the myriad of circumstances in which people live, grow, and age $-$ play an important role in health outcomes. However, existing outcome prediction models often only use proxies of SDOH as features. Recent open data initiatives present an opportunity to construct a more comprehensive view of SDOH, but manually integrating the most relevant data for individual patients becomes increasingly challenging as the volume and diversity of public SDOH data grows. Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise at automatically annotating structured data. Here, we conduct an end-to-end case study evaluating the feasibility of using LLMs to integrate SDOH data, and the utility of these SDOH features for clinical prediction. We first manually label 700+ variables from two publicly-accessible SDOH data sources to one of five semantic SDOH categories. Then, we benchmark performance of 9 open-source LLMs on this classification task. Finally, we train ML models to predict 30-day hospital readmission among 39k heart failure (HF) patients, and we compare the prediction performance of the categorized SDOH variables with standard clinical variables. Additionally, we investigate the impact of few-shot LLM prompting on LLM annotation performance, and perform a metadata ablation study on prompts to evaluate which information helps LLMs accurately annotate these variables. We find that some open-source LLMs can effectively, accurately annotate SDOH variables with zero-shot prompting without the need for fine-tuning. Crucially, when combined with standard clinical features, the LLM-annotated Neighborhood and Built Environment subset of the SDOH variables shows the best performance predicting 30-day readmission of HF patients.
A Perspective on Foundation Models for the Electric Power Grid
Hamann, Hendrik F., Brunschwiler, Thomas, Gjorgiev, Blazhe, Martins, Leonardo S. A., Puech, Alban, Varbella, Anna, Weiss, Jonas, Bernabe-Moreno, Juan, Massé, Alexandre Blondin, Choi, Seong, Foster, Ian, Hodge, Bri-Mathias, Jain, Rishabh, Kim, Kibaek, Mai, Vincent, Mirallès, François, De Montigny, Martin, Ramos-Leaños, Octavio, Suprême, Hussein, Xie, Le, Youssef, El-Nasser S., Zinflou, Arnaud, Belvi, Alexander J., Bessa, Ricardo J., Bhattari, Bishnu Prasad, Schmude, Johannes, Sobolevsky, Stanislav
Foundation models (FMs) currently dominate news headlines. They employ advanced deep learning architectures to extract structural information autonomously from vast datasets through self-supervision. The resulting rich representations of complex systems and dynamics can be applied to many downstream applications. Therefore, FMs can find uses in electric power grids, challenged by the energy transition and climate change. In this paper, we call for the development of, and state why we believe in, the potential of FMs for electric grids. We highlight their strengths and weaknesses amidst the challenges of a changing grid. We argue that an FM learning from diverse grid data and topologies could unlock transformative capabilities, pioneering a new approach in leveraging AI to redefine how we manage complexity and uncertainty in the electric grid. Finally, we discuss a power grid FM concept, namely GridFM, based on graph neural networks and show how different downstream tasks benefit.