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Real-life Snuffleupagus found swimming in the Great Barrier Reef
More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The pipefish was first spotted in 2001, but remained elusive for decades. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The bright reddish-orange hues, the fuzziness, the snout there simply is no other way to put it. This unique fish looks exactly like Mr. Snuffleupagus from .
Mr. Snuffleupagus at SemEval-2025 Task 4: Unlearning Factual Knowledge from LLMs Using Adaptive RMU
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation. However, their tendency to memorize training data raises concerns regarding privacy, copyright compliance, and security, particularly in cases involving Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Effective machine unlearning techniques are essential to mitigate these risks, yet existing methods remain underdeveloped for LLMs due to their open-ended output space. In this work, we apply the Adaptive Representation Misdirection Unlearning (RMU) technique to unlearn sensitive information from LLMs. Through extensive experiments, we analyze the effects of unlearning across different decoder layers to determine the most effective regions for sensitive information removal. Our technique ranked 4th on the official leaderboard of both 1B parameter and 7B parameter models.
Why are so many AI systems named after Muppets?
One of the biggest trends in AI recently has been the creation of machine learning models that can generate the written word with unprecedented fluidity. These programs are game-changers, potentially supercharging computers' ability to parse and produce language. But something that's gone largely unnoticed is a secondary trend -- a shadow to the first -- and that is: a surprising number of these tools are named after Muppets. To date, this new breed of language AIs includes an ELMo, a BERT, a Grover, a Big BIRD, a Rosita, a RoBERTa, at least two ERNIEs (three if you include ERNIE 2.0), and a KERMIT. Big tech players like Google, Facebook, and the Allen Institute for AI are all involved, and the craze has global reach, with Chinese search giant Baidu and Beijing's Tsinghua University contributing models.