ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (Benchmarks, Reasoning & Agents) — ft. Graham Neubig, Aman Sanger, Moritz Hardt)

Our second wave of speakers for AI Engineer World’s Fair were announced ! The conference sold out of Platinum/Gold/Silver sponsors and Early Bird tickets! See our Microsoft episode for more info and buy now with code LATENTSPACE . This episode is straightforwardly a part 2 to our ICLR 2024 Part 1 episode , so without further ado, we’ll just get right on with it! Timestamps [00:03:43] Section A: Code Edits and Sandboxes, OpenDevin, and Academia vs Industry — ft. Graham Neubig and Aman Sanger * [00:07:44] WebArena * [00:18:45] Sotopia * [00:24:00] Performance Improving Code Edits * [00:29:39] OpenDevin * [00:47:40] Industry and Academia [01:05:29] Section B: Benchmarks * [01:05:52] SWEBench * [01:17:05] SWEBench/SWEAgent Interview * [01:27:40] Dataset Contamination Detection * [01:39:20] GAIA Benchmark * [01:49:18] Moritz Hart - Science of Benchmarks [02:36:32] Section C: Reasoning and Post-Training * [02:37:41] Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique through Self-Reflection * [02:51:00] Let’s Verify Step By Step * [02:57:04] Noam Brown * [03:07:43] Lilian Weng - Towards Safe AGI * [03:36:56] A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis * [03:48:43] MetaGPT: Meta Programming for A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework [04:00:51] Bonus: Notable Related Papers on LLM Capabilities Section A: Code Edits and Sandboxes, OpenDevin, and Academia vs Industry — ft. Graham Neubig and Aman Sanger * Guests * Graham Neubig * Aman Sanger - Previous guest and NeurIPS friend of the pod ! * WebArena * * Sotopia (spotlight paper, website ) * * Learning Performance-Improving Code Edits * OpenDevin * Junyang Opendevin * Morph Labs , Jesse Han * SWE-Bench * SWE-Agent * Aman tweet on swebench * LiteLLM * Livecodebench * the role of code in reasoning * Language Models of Code are Few-Shot Commonsense Learners * Industry vs academia * the matryoshka embeddings incident * other directions * Unlimiformer Section A timestamps * [00:00:00] Introduction to Guests and the Impromptu Nature of the Podcast * [00:00:45] Graham's Experience in Japan and Transition into Teaching NLP * [00:01:25] Discussion on What Constitutes a Good Experience for Students in NLP Courses * [00:02:22] The Relevance and Teaching of Older NLP Techniques Like Ngram Language Models * [00:03:38] Speculative Decoding and the Comeback of Ngram Models * [00:04:16] Introduction to WebArena and Zotopia Projects * [00:05:19] Deep Dive into the WebArena Project and Benchmarking * [00:08:17] Performance Improvements in WebArena Using GPT-4 * [00:09:39] Human Performance on WebArena Tasks and Challenges in Evaluation * [00:11:04] Follow-up Work from WebArena and Focus on Web Browsing as a Benchmark * [00:12:11] Direct Interaction vs. Using APIs in Web-Based Tasks * [00:13:29] Challenges in Base Models for WebArena and the Potential of Visual Models * [00:15:33] Introduction to Zootopia and Exploring Social Interactions with Language Models * [00:16:29] Different Types of Social Situations Modeled in Zootopia * [00:17:34] Evaluation of Language Models in Social Simulations * [00:20:41] Introduction to Performance-Improving Code Edits Project * [00:26:28] Discussion on DevIn and the Future of Coding Agents * [00:32:01] Planning in Coding Agents and the Development of OpenDevon * [00:38:34] The Changing Role of Academia in the Context of Large Language Models * [00:44:44] The Changing Nature of Industry and Academia Collaboration * [00:54:07] Update on NLP Course Syllabus and Teaching about Large Language Models * [01:00:40] Call to Action: Contributions to OpenDevon and Open Source AI Projects * [01:01:56] Hiring at Cursor for Roles in Code Generation and Assistive Coding * [01:02:12] Promotion of the AI Engineer Conference Section B: Benchmarks * Carlos Jimenez & John Yang (Princeton) et al: SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-world Github Issues? ( ICLR Oral , Paper , website ) * “We introduce SWE-bench, an evaluation framework con