Company
Date Published
Author
Ian Kelk
Word count
866
Language
English
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None

Summary

Clarifai's platform has been updated to Release 8.1, featuring a suite of advanced NLP models designed for various text processing tasks, such as generation, detection, and inference. Among these models are T5-base fine-tuned on SQuAD for question generation, which explores optimal transfer learning techniques by converting language problems into a unified text-to-text format, achieving state-of-the-art results on numerous benchmarks. The update also includes models like t5-base-en-generate-headline for headline creation, distilbart-cnn-12-6 for text summarization, a Chinese Poem GPT2 model for generating ancient Chinese poems, and CodeBERT for detecting insecure code, which excels in natural language and programming language tasks. Additionally, the release incorporates the nli-distilroberta-base model for natural language inference and the disease-ner-ncbi model, fine-tuned for named entity recognition in biomedical texts, highlighting Clarifai's focus on enhancing NLP capabilities across a diverse range of applications.