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Shawon Ashraf

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Multi-Modal NLP, LLM and RAG

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reacted to gabrielchua's post with 👀 29 days ago
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Sharing my first paper!

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful, but they're prone to off-topic misuse, where users push them beyond their intended scope. Think harmful prompts, jailbreaks, and misuse. So how do we build better guardrails?

Traditional guardrails rely on curated examples or classifiers. The problem?
⚠️ High false-positive rates
⚠️ Poor adaptability to new misuse types
⚠️ Require real-world data, which is often unavailable during pre-production

Our method skips the need for real-world misuse examples. Instead, we:
1️⃣ Define the problem space qualitatively
2️⃣ Use an LLM to generate synthetic misuse prompts
3️⃣ Train and test guardrails on this dataset

We apply this to the off-topic prompt detection problem, and fine-tune simple bi- and cross-encoder classifiers that outperform heuristics based on cosine similarity or prompt engineering.

Additionally, framing the problem as prompt relevance allows these fine-tuned classifiers to generalise to other risk categories (e.g., jailbreak, toxic prompts).

Through this work, we also open-source our dataset (2M examples, ~50M+ tokens) and models.

paper: A Flexible Large Language Models Guardrail Development Methodology Applied to Off-Topic Prompt Detection (2411.12946)

artifacts: govtech/off-topic-guardrail-673838a62e4c661f248e81a4
reacted to jsulz's post with 🔥 about 1 month ago
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When the XetHub crew joined Hugging Face this fall, @erinys and I started brainstorming how to share our work to replace Git LFS on the Hub. Uploading and downloading large models and datasets takes precious time. That’s where our chunk-based approach comes in.

Instead of versioning files (like Git and Git LFS), we version variable-sized chunks of data. For the Hugging Face community, this means:

⏩ Only upload the chunks that changed.
🚀 Download just the updates, not the whole file.
🧠 We store your file as deduplicated chunks

In our benchmarks, we found that using CDC to store iterative model and dataset version led to transfer speedups of ~2x, but this isn’t just a performance boost. It’s a rethinking of how we manage models and datasets on the Hub.

We're planning on our new storage backend to the Hub in early 2025 - check out our blog to dive deeper, and let us know: how could this improve your workflows?

https://huggingface.co/blog/from-files-to-chunks