Hu Xia

Jiayi Yuan, Jiamu Zhang, Andrew Wen et al.

The emergent phenomena of large foundation models have revolutionized natural language processing. However, evaluating these models presents significant challenges due to their size, capabilities, and deployment across diverse applications. Existing literature often focuses on individual aspects, such as benchmark performance or specific tasks, but fails to provide a cohesive process that integrates the nuances of diverse use cases with broader ethical and operational considerations. This work focuses on three key aspects: (1) Formalizing the Evaluation Process by providing a structured framework tailored to specific use-case contexts, (2) Offering Actionable Tools and Frameworks such as checklists and templates to ensure thorough, reproducible, and practical evaluations, and (3) Surveying Recent Work with a targeted review of advancements in LLM evaluation, emphasizing real-world applications.

Yifan Wu, Yuntao Yang, Zirui Liu et al.

Gene-gene interactions play a crucial role in the manifestation of complex human diseases. Uncovering significant gene-gene interactions is a challenging task. Here, we present an innovative approach utilizing data-driven computational tools, leveraging an advanced Transformer model, to unearth noteworthy gene-gene interactions. Despite the efficacy of Transformer models, their parameter intensity presents a bottleneck in data ingestion, hindering data efficiency. To mitigate this, we introduce a novel weighted diversified sampling algorithm. This algorithm computes the diversity score of each data sample in just two passes of the dataset, facilitating efficient subset generation for interaction discovery. Our extensive experimentation demonstrates that by sampling a mere 1\% of the single-cell dataset, we achieve performance comparable to that of utilizing the entire dataset.