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Denis Rothman
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Denis Rothman graduated from Sorbonne University and Paris-Diderot University, designing one of the very first word2matrix patented embedding and patented AI conversational agents. He began his career authoring one of the first AI cognitive Natural Language Processing (NLP) chatbots applied as an automated language teacher for Moet et Chandon and other companies. He authored an AI resource optimizer for IBM and apparel producers. He then authored an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solution used worldwide.
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Architecture

PaLM and PaLM2 were built on top of Pathways. Pathways is a Google technology that improves the efficiency of training LLMs through data parallelism, model parallelism, and execution-level parallelism.

We will begin with Pathways, the cornerstone of Google AI’s impressive achievements.

Pathways

The title of the Pathways paper may seem esoteric. Pathways: Asynchronous Distributed Dataflow by Barham et al. (2022) indeed appears like something you might want to avoid looking into. However, once you start reading the paper, you will be hooked!

If we look at some of the key features, we are somewhat stunned:

  • Heterogeneous execution: Pathways can run programs on many devices, including TPUs, CPUs, and GPUs. This is a significant advance when assembling all the computing power we can get.
  • Asynchronous execution: Pathways allows programs to be executed asynchronously. This might seem uninteresting, but PaLM will build on this technology...
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Denis Rothman

Denis Rothman graduated from Sorbonne University and Paris-Diderot University, designing one of the very first word2matrix patented embedding and patented AI conversational agents. He began his career authoring one of the first AI cognitive Natural Language Processing (NLP) chatbots applied as an automated language teacher for Moet et Chandon and other companies. He authored an AI resource optimizer for IBM and apparel producers. He then authored an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solution used worldwide.
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