[kamranjon]

Unfortunately Fermion Research appears to entirely AI generate all of their content here, even for the research section: https://www.fermionresearch.com/research/neutrino-8b/

"Neutrino-1 8B was trained natively in its shipping format. There is no full-precision product model that was rounded afterward: the ternary representation is the medium the weights learned in, and the training methods that hold this quality at this depth are the lab’s unpublished work. The findings below are the part that travels."

This statement seems misleading at best.

Both the model page and the release page are basically unintelligible - I don't have a ton of faith in the work here, at least PrismML write coherent releases for their models.

Edit: Another beautiful piece of prose here, I almost wonder if they used the 8b model to generate the content for this release...

"Across the 6.95B coded weights, 62.63% sit at zero and the remainder splits 18.68% plus to 18.69% minus: sign-balanced to a hundredth of a point with no constraint asking for it."

[LtdJorge]

I guess it's saying how many of the weights are -1, 0 or +1.

[jdiff]

It is, but why? And what's with the bizarre way of phrasing that? Why the bizarre observation that, indeed, nobody asked for it?

[mapt]

> sign-balanced to a hundredth of a point with no constraint asking for it."

This isn't their model, this is (probably?) ChatGPT doing a brag / promo deck authorial voice. It routinely uses half a dozen sentence constructions that are relatively uncommon in normal or technical speech. Eccentric. Persuasive. Trying too hard. Restating its point in a promotional way that doesn't sound natural, leading into a sentence where it hyperbolically sells you on having done the impossible.

Normal persuasive speech uses these constructions, especially public speaking doing a VC pitch or an Ancient Aliens, but it would be fucking strange if a person started chaining them in normal conversation and using little else, trying to insinuate competence.

You start to recognize it pretty quickly on Youtube.

[K0balt]

I’m hoping it becomes a trend for mocking AI output by ironically using AI tells.

[rcxdude]

Also, wouldn't normalisation tend to produce a mean of zero in the weights, anyhow?