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We are excited to open-source 🍃MINT-1T, the first trillion token multimodal interleaved dataset and a valuable resource for the community to study and build large multimodal models.

Creating the world’s first LLM Benchmark for CRM

Meet the Office of Ethical and Humane Use Salesforce's Office of Ethical and Humane Use provides navigational guidance for the tough questions that arise when human potential meets emergent technology. We work across the company to guide the design, development, and deployment of trusted products, with a strong

TL;DR: We introduce INDICT, a novel framework that empowers Large Language Models (LLMs) with Internal Dialogues of Critiques for both safety and helpfulness guidance. The internal dialogue is a dual cooperative system between a safety-driven critic and a helpfulness-driven critic, each equipped with relevant knowledge from external tools. LLMs

HIVE is accepted to CVPR 2024. Other authors include: Chia-Chih Chen, Ning Yu, Zeyuan Chen, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Stefano Ermon, Caiming Xiong We have seen the success of ChatGPT, which incorporates human feedback to align text generated by large language models to human preferences. Is it possible to align

How can a computer discern the meaning of a sentence? By “discern its meaning,” I’m referring to grasping the words within the sentence, their context, nuances, and relationships with other words.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Salesforce Women’s Network hosted its inaugural Women in AI Day event on March 26th, 2024 in the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. The event was a gathering of Salesforce women leading the work on ethical and responsible AI at Salesforce.

TL;DR: Moirai is a cutting-edge time series foundation model, offering universal forecasting capabilities. It stands out as a versatile time series forecasting model capable of addressing diverse forecasting tasks across multiple domains, frequencies, and variables in a zero-shot manner.  To achieve this, Moirai tackles four major challenges: (i) construction

We're thrilled to announce the integration of fuzzy matching across all features in the Contact object, providing customers with the tailored solutions they require.

While we’ve seen amazing improvements in model performance over the last several years, we must be aware of the remaining downsides of these models. We believe that by jointly improving these models as well as evolving our approaches to evaluating them is essential going forward.

The SFR-Embedding-Mistral marks a significant advancement in text-embedding models, building upon the solid foundations of E5-mistral-7b-instruct and Mistral-7B-v0.1.

We present a novel architecture, BootPIG, that enables personalized image generation without any test-time fine-tuning.

TLDR Learning from human preferences, specifically Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been a key recent component in the development of large language models such as ChatGPT or Llama2. Up until recently, the impact of human feedback training on text-to-image models was much more limited. In this work, Diffusion-DPO,

Recent AI media coverage has followed a familiar pattern: a massive new model is released, making the rounds with beta testers and eventually the public, but it’s barely a month or two before rumors start to swell about the even bigger one supposedly being trained to replace it. Yet

Almost 5 years ago, The Office of Ethical & Humane Use was inaugurated, setting out to achieve ethical product excellence for Salesforce. We are celebrating by posting 12 days of our best ethical use content.

Conference Overview Next week, the Thirty-seventh annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana from Sunday, December 10th, through Saturday, December 16th. NeurIPS will include invited talks, demonstrations, oral and poster presentations of accepted papers. NeurIPS 2023 will be held again at the

Background Graphic layout designs serve as the foundation of communication between media designers and their target audience. They play a pivotal role in organizing various visual elements, including rendered text, logos, product images, calls to action (such as buttons), and background textures/images. The arrangement of these elements is the

Einstein Copilot has arrived! Find out more about the conversational AI for CRM here. Introduction I’ve written a lot in recent months about what I call Large Action Models, or LAMs—a more active, autonomous variation on LLMs that don’t merely generate content like text or images but

TL;DR: With CodeChain, a pretrained large language model (LLM) can solve challenging coding problems by integrating modularity in generation samples and self-improve by employing a chain of self-revisions on representative sub-modules. CodeChain can achieve state-of-the-art results with both OpenAI GPT models and open-source LLMs on challenging coding benchmarks like

TL;DR: We adapted our protein language model ProGen to optimize antibodies that bind to a protein called “CD40L”, a critical target for autoimmune disorders. We tested our AI designed antibodies in the laboratory and found that they bound very tightly to CD40L, showcasing the potential of this approach for

Other authors include: Can Qin, Stefano Ermon, Yun Fu GlueGen was accepted by ICCV. In the rapidly advancing field of text-to-image synthesis, the remarkable progress in generating lifelike images from textual prompts has been evident. However, a significant challenge remains: how can we seamlessly integrate powerful pre-trained text encoders into

Einstein Copilot has arrived! Find out more about the conversational AI for CRM here. Introduction Open source has become one of the hottest topics in AI, and the fanfare is well-deserved. The open source community is keeping a nimble pace with the state of the art, delivering ever-growing and ever-more-capable

TLDR Generative AI methods for image generation have a wide variety of potential applications in marketing, sales, and e-commerce. With these applications in mind, the Salesforce Research team has developed several techniques based on image-generative diffusion models, including methods for image editing, improved classifier guidance, and improved controlled generation methods.

TL;DR: PyRCA is an open-source machine learning library specifically designed for conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in IT operations. It offers a comprehensive framework that allows users to easily identify the complicated metric causal dependencies and automatically locate the root causes of incidents. The library provides a unified interface

Equal contribution between Erik Nijkamp and Hiroaki Hayashi. Paper Code Tweet Abstract The family of Salesforce CodeGen models is growing with CodeGen2.5 – a small, but mighty model! While there has been a recent trend of large language models (LLM) of increasing size, we show that a small model can

TLDR We trained a series of 7B LLMs named XGen-7B with standard dense attention on up to 8K sequence length for up to 1.5T tokens. We also fine tune the models on public-domain instructional data. The main take-aways are: * On standard NLP benchmarks, XGen achieves comparable or better results

LAMs: From Large Language Models to Large Action Models There’s no question that we’re living in the era of generative AI, and its impact is only growing. More and more, AI is helping us write emails, create imagery, consume information, and even code. But as empowering as it

Authors: Vibashan Vishnukumar Sharmini, Ning Yu, Ran Xu Have you ever wondered how long it takes for a human annotator to annotate a dataset like COCO? MORE THAN A YEAR. Not to mention, even training a detection model on this dataset would only equip it to detect those specific 80

TL;DR: Imagine a world where machines comprehend 3D objects just as humans do. The ULIP (CVPR2023) and ULIP-2 projects, backed by Salesforce AI, are making this a reality by revolutionizing 3D understanding. ULIP uniquely pre-trains models with 3D point clouds, images, and texts, aligning them into a unified representation

TL;DR: CodeT5+ is a new family of open code large language models (LLMs) with improved model architectures and training techniques. CodeT5+ achieves the state-of-the-art performance among the open-source LLMs on many challenging code intelligence tasks, including zero-shot evaluation on the code generation benchmark HumanEval.   Background: Code LLMs Large language

TLDR We present ConRad, a novel approach for generating a 3D model from a single RGB image. We introduce a 3D representation that allows us to explicitly constrain the appearance of the object using the input image which leads to preservation of depicted details.   Background Over the last few years,

We have established a set of five guidelines that build upon our Trusted AI Principles to provide more detailed guidance for the responsible development and implementation of GenAI.

It is not enough to deliver only the technological capabilities of AI – we also have an important responsibility to ensure that AI is safe and inclusive for all. These are our commitments to building AI responsibly.

TL;DR LogAI is an open-source library designed for log analytics and intelligence. It can process raw logs generated by computer systems and support log analytics tasks such as log clustering and summarization, as well as log intelligence tasks such as log anomaly detection and root-cause analysis. LogAI is compatible

The Salesforce AI Team is mourning the loss of our beloved friend and mentor, Dragomir Radev. Our team was first introduced to Drago in November 2018 when he gave a talk at our Research Speaker Series. His passion for research beamed through his talk and our leadership team unanimously decided

BLIP-2: Scalable Pre-training of Multimodal Foundation Models for the World's First Open-source Multimodal Chatbot

Salesforce Data Cloud, the first real-time CRM, is turning your data into real-time customer magic. You might have witnessed how our AI research is powering intelligent experiences with Identity Resolution for Fuzzy Matching featured at Dreamforce. The goal of identity resolution is to identify the same individuals across datasets and

TLDR; We introduce the Salesforce CausalAI Library, an open source library for causal analysis of time series and tabular data. The Salesforce CausalAI Library aims to provide a one-stop solution to the various needs in causal analysis including handling different data types, data generation, multi-processing for speed-up, utilizing domain knowledge

TL;DR: Text-to-image diffusion models are very adept at generating novel images from a text prompt, but current adaptations of these methods to image editing suffer from a lack of consistency and faithfulness to the original image. Many of these discrepancies can be traced to the difficulty of inverting the

TL;DR: Slack is a powerful productivity tool that professionals and teams around the globe depend on to communicate and keep up with vital information at work, making async work efficient. However, with an increase in the number (and variety) of conversations on Slack that a typical user keeps track

TL;DR: We present BotSIM, a data-efficient end-to-end Bot SIMulation toolkit for evaluation, diagnosis, and improvement of commercial task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems. BotSIM's “generation-simulation-remediation'' paradigm can accelerate the end-to-end bot evaluation and iteration process by: (1) reducing the effort needed to create test cases; (2) enabling

We introduce an automated method for evaluating the quality of AI-generated text by repurposing prior human evaluation data. The method is called Near-Negative Distinction.

Conference Overview Next week, the Thirty-sixth annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana from Monday, November 28th, through Friday, December 9th. NeurIPS will include invited talks, demonstrations, oral and poster presentations of accepted papers. Along with the conference is a professional exposition

Background We live in a digital world where many of us depend on customer service to be at its best. Whether it's calling about an order issue or needing help to activate an account, we are always reaching out to customer service to save the day. We are

TL;DR: Applications are now open for the next cohort of Salesforce’s AI Residency Program. We invite researchers and engineers to join our 12-month training program, designed to help launch their careers while serving as AI Residents at Salesforce AI Research. Candidates based in the U.S. can apply

We summarize insights from our FAccT 2022 CRAFT workshop that focused on Concepts of Fairness & Transparency, Applied RAI Practices, Organizational Approaches to RAI & Cultural Change, and Public Policy & Regulation.

TL;DR: Deep reinforcement learning (RL), a powerful learning framework to train AI agents, can be slow as it requires repeated interaction with a simulation of the environment. Our original WarpDrive accelerates multi-agent deep RL on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling 10-100x speedups compared to alternative CPU+GPU implementations of multi-agent simulations.

AUTHORS: Chenghao Liu, Quang Pham, Doyen Sahoo, Donald Rose TL;DR: Nonstationary data, which changes its statistical properties over time, can make time series forecasting difficult. Despite the recent success of deep learning techniques for time series forecasting tasks, these methods are not scalable for applications where data arrives sequentially

TL;DR: The performance of existing time-series forecasting methods can degrade due to non-stationarity, where the statistical distribution of time-series data changes over time. Our new DeepTime method overcomes non-stationarity issues by leveraging a “forecasting as meta-learning” framework on deep time-index models. DeepTime achieves competitive accuracy on the long-sequence time-series