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Last week, Technology Innovation Institute (TII) launched TII Falcon LLM, an open-source foundational large language model (LLM). Trained on 1 trillion tokens with Amazon SageMaker, Falcon boasts top-notch performance (#1 on the Hugging Face leaderboard at time of writing) while being comparatively lightweight and less expensive to host than other LLMs such as llama-65B. In […]

ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) is an open-source standard for representing deep learning models widely supported by many providers. ONNX provides tools for optimizing and quantizing models to reduce the memory and compute needed to run machine learning (ML) models. One of the biggest benefits of ONNX is that it provides a standardized format for […]

Data scientists need a consistent and reproducible environment for machine learning (ML) and data science workloads that enables managing dependencies and is secure. AWS Deep Learning Containers already provides pre-built Docker images for training and serving models in common frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet. To improve this experience, we announced a public beta […]

Training large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters can be challenging. In addition to designing the model architecture, researchers need to set up state-of-the-art training techniques for distributed training like mixed precision support, gradient accumulation, and checkpointing. With large models, the training setup is even more challenging because the available memory in a single […]

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a purpose-built service to store and retrieve feature data for use by machine learning (ML) models. Feature Store provides an online store capable of low-latency, high-throughput reads and writes, and an offline store that provides bulk access to all historical record data. Feature Store handles the synchronization of data between […]

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning has introduced Autotune, a new feature to automatically choose hyperparameters on your behalf. This provides an accelerated and more efficient way to find hyperparameter ranges, and can provide significant optimized budget and time management for your automatic model tuning jobs. In this post, we discuss this new capability and some […]

This post is co-written with Philipp Schmid from Hugging Face. We have all heard about the progress being made in the field of large language models (LLMs) and the ever-growing number of problem sets where LLMs are providing valuable insights. Large models, when trained over massive datasets and several tasks, are also able to generalize […]

The demand for multi-object tracking (MOT) in video analysis has increased significantly in many industries, such as live sports, manufacturing, and traffic monitoring. For example, in live sports, MOT can track soccer players in real time to analyze physical performance such as real-time speed and moving distance. Since its introduction in 2021, ByteTrack remains to […]

Running machine learning (ML) workloads with containers is becoming a common practice. Containers can fully encapsulate not just your training code, but the entire dependency stack down to the hardware libraries and drivers. What you get is an ML development environment that is consistent and portable. With containers, scaling on a cluster becomes much easier. […]

PyTorch is a machine learning (ML) framework based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing. One of the primary reasons that customers are choosing a PyTorch framework is its simplicity and the fact that it’s designed and assembled to work with Python. PyTorch supports dynamic computational graphs, […]