Sunil Mallya, co-founder and CTO of Flip AI, discusses small language fashions with host Brijesh Ammanath. They start by contemplating the technical distinctions between SLMs and huge language fashions.
LLMs excel in producing complicated outputs throughout numerous pure language processing duties, leveraging in depth coaching datasets on with huge GPU clusters. Nonetheless, this functionality comes with excessive computational prices and considerations about effectivity, significantly in purposes which are particular to a given enterprise. To deal with this, many enterprises are turning to SLMs, fine-tuned on domain-specific datasets. The decrease computational necessities and reminiscence utilization make SLMs appropriate for real-time purposes. By specializing in particular domains, SLMs can obtain better accuracy and relevance aligned with specialised terminologies.
The choice of SLMs relies on particular software necessities. Extra influencing components embrace the supply of coaching information, implementation complexity, and adaptableness to altering info, permitting organizations to align their selections with operational wants and constraints.
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Brijesh Ammanath 00:00:18 Welcome to Software program Engineering Radio. I’m your host Brijesh Ammanath. Immediately I will probably be discussing small language fashions with Sunil Mallya. Sunil is the co-founder and CTO of Flip AI. Previous to this, Sunil was the pinnacle of AWS NLP service, comprehend and helped begin AWS pet. He’s the co-creator of AWS deep appraiser. He has over 25 patents filed within the space of machine studying, reinforcement studying, and LP and distributed methods. Sunil, welcome to Software program Engineering Radio.
Sunil Mallya 00:00:49 Thanks Brijesh. So pleased to be right here and discuss this matter that’s close to and pricey to me.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:00:55 We now have lined language fashions in a few of our prior episodes, notably Episode 648, 611, 610, and 582. Let’s begin off Sunil, perhaps by explaining what small language fashions are and the way they differ from giant language fashions or LLMS.
Sunil Mallya 00:01:13 Yeah, it is a very attention-grabbing query as a result of, the time period itself is kind of time sure as a result of what’s giant at present can imply one thing else tomorrow because the underlying {hardware} get higher and larger. So if I am going again in time, it’s round 2020. That’s when the LLM time period begins to kind of emerge with the arrival of individuals constructing like billion parameter fashions and shortly after OpenAI releases GTP-3, which is like 175 billion parameter mannequin that kind of turns into like this gold commonplace of what a real LLM means, however the quantity retains altering. So I’d prefer to outline SLMs in a extra barely completely different method. Not when it comes to variety of parameters, however when it comes to like sensible phrases. So what meaning is one thing you could run with assets which are simply accessible. You’re not like constrained by GPU, availability otherwise you want the most important GPU, the very best GPU. I feel to distill all of this, I’d say as of at present, early 2025, a ten billion parameter mannequin that’s working with like say a max of like 10K context size, which suggests you could give it like an enter of round 10K phrases most, however the place the inference latency is round one second. So it’s fairly quick general. Like so I’d outline SLMs in that context, which is much more sensible.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:02:33 Is smart. And I imagine because the fashions turn out to be extra reminiscence intensive, the definition itself will change. I imagine after I was studying up GPT-4 truly has about 1.76 trillion parameters.
Sunil Mallya 00:02:46 Yeah. That really a few of these closed supply fashions are actually arduous when folks discuss numbers. As a result of what can occur is folks these days use like a combination of professional structure mannequin. What meaning is that they’ll kind of put collectively like a very giant mannequin that has specialised elements to it. Once more, I’m attempting to clarify in very straightforward language right here. What meaning is if you run inference by way of these fashions, not all of the parameters are activated. So that you don’t essentially want 1.7 trillion parameters value of compute to truly run the fashions. So you find yourself utilizing some proportion of that. That really makes it a little bit attention-grabbing once we say like, oh, how huge the mannequin is. However such as you need to truly discuss like variety of lively parameters as a result of that basically defines the underlying {hardware} and assets you want. So if we return once more one thing like GPT-3, once we, after I say one 75 billion parameters, all of the one 75 billion parameters are concerned in providing you with that last reply.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:03:49 Proper. So if I understood that appropriately, solely a subset of the parameters can be used for the inference in any specific use case.
Sunil Mallya 00:03:57 In combination of professional mannequin in that structure. And that’s a very fashionable for the final perhaps a 12 months and a half, has been a well-liked kind of method for folks to construct and practice as a result of coaching these actually, actually giant fashions is extraordinarily arduous. However coaching like combination of consultants, that are kind of assortment of smaller fashions, comparatively smaller fashions are a lot simpler. And then you definitely put them collectively, so to talk. That’s a rising development even at present. Highly regarded and a really pragmatic method of truly going ahead in coaching after which working inference.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:04:34 Okay. And what differentiates an SLM from an professional mannequin? Or are they the identical?
Sunil Mallya 00:04:39 Yeah, I’d say how we’ve ended up coaching LMS have been basic objective fashions. As a result of these fashions are skilled on web corpus and no matter information you would get hand. So by the character of like if you take a look at web, web is all of the kind of matters of the world you could take into consideration and that defines the traits of the mannequin. So therefore you’d characterize them as general-purpose Giant Language Fashions. Skilled fashions are when mannequin has a sure experience or such as you don’t care about, let’s say you’re constructing a coding mannequin, which is an professional coding mannequin. You don’t essentially care about it understanding something about Napoleon or something to do with historical past as a result of that’s irrelevant to the dialog or the subject of alternative. So professional fashions are one thing which are targeted on one or two areas and go actually deep. And SLMs are the time period being simply Smaller Language Mannequin from a measurement and practicality perspective. However sometimes when you consider what folks find yourself doing is you’re saying that, hey, I don’t care about historical past, so I solely want this little a part of the mannequin, or I simply want the mannequin to be professional in just one factor. So I let me practice a smaller mannequin. We simply targeted on only one matter after which it turns into an professional. So that they’re interchangeable in some respect however needn’t be.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:06:00 Proper. I simply need to deep dive into the variations and attributes between SLMs and LLMs. Earlier than we go into the small print, I’d such as you to outline what a parameter is within the context of a language mannequin.
Sunil Mallya 00:06:12 So let’s discuss, this truly comes from, if we go background, the entire idea of neural nets and early days, we name them neural nets. They’re modeled on the organic mind and the way I assume the animal nervous system and mind features. So this elementary unit is a neuron, and neuron truly has a cell, has some kind of reminiscence, some kind of specialization. The neuron connects to many different neurons to kind your total mind and sure responses primarily based on stimuli like sure different units of neurons kind of activate and provide you with kind of the ultimate response. That’s type of what’s modeled. So a parameter like you may kind of give it some thought as equal to love a neuron or a compute unit. After which these parameters come collectively to kind of synthesize the ultimate response for you. Once more, I’m giving a really high-level reply right here that what interprets to, from a sensible standpoint.
Sunil Mallya 00:07:08 Like when, after I say 10 billion parameters or mannequin, that roughly interprets into X variety of gigabytes and there’s a, I’d say there’s an approximate formulation and, it relies on the precision that you simply need to use to characterize your information. So for those who take about like a 32-bit illustration floating bit, that’s about 4 bytes of information. So that you multiply 10 into 4, that’s 40 gigs of reminiscence that it is advisable to retailer these parameters so as to make them purposeful. And naturally you may go half precision. And then you definitely’re out of the blue solely 20 gigs of reminiscence to serve that 10 billion parameter mannequin.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:07:48 It’s an excellent instance evaluating it to neurons. It brings to life what parameters are and why it’s necessary within the context of language fashions.
Sunil Mallya 00:07:56 Yeah, it’s truly the origin itself, like how folks truly thought of this within the fifties and the way they modeled and the way this lastly advanced. So reasonably than it being an instance, I’d say folks went and modeled actual life neurons to lastly give you the terminology and the way the design of this stuff, and to today, folks kind of examine every little thing to rationalizing reasoning, understanding, et cetera, very human like ideas into how these LLMs behave.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:08:26 Proper. How does the computational footprint of an SLM examine to that with an LLM?
Sunil Mallya 00:08:33 Yeah, so computational footprint is immediately proportional to the scale. So measurement is the primary driver of the footprint, kind of like, I’d say perhaps like 90%. The remainder of the ten% will probably be one thing like how lengthy is your enter sequence? And these fashions sometimes have a sure like most vary again within the day. I’d say like a thousand tokens or roughly tokens. A definition of, let me kind of go a little bit segue into how these fashions work. As a result of I feel that could be related as we dive in. So these language fashions, proper there may be primarily a prediction system. The output of the language mannequin for you if you go to a chat GPT or anyplace else, prefer it’s providing you with lovely blogs and sentences and so forth. However the mannequin doesn’t essentially say perceive sentences as a complete.
Sunil Mallya 00:09:23 It understands elements of it. It’s made up of phrases and technically sub phrases, sub phrases are what we name as tokens. And the concept right here is the mannequin predicts a chance distribution on these sub phrase tokens that enables it to say, hey, the subsequent phrase ought to be now with 99% chance ought to be this. And then you definitely take the gathering of the final N phrases you predicted, and then you definitely predict the subsequent phrase, N + one phrase, and so forth. So it’s auto aggressive in nature. So that is how these language fashions work. So the token size as in what number of phrases if you’re predicting over 100 phrases versus 10,000 phrases is a fabric distinction as a result of now you must take, if you’re predicting the ten,000th phrase, you must take all of the 9999 phrases that you’ve got beforehand as context into that mannequin.
Sunil Mallya 00:10:16 In order that has a kind of a non-linear scaling impact on how you find yourself predicting your last output. In order that, together with the basic, as I mentioned, the mannequin measurement has an impact, not as a lot because the mannequin footprint itself, however I imply they kind of go hand in hand as a result of just like the bigger the mannequin, the slower it’s going to be on the subsequent token and subsequent token and so forth. So that they add up. However essentially, if you take a look at the bottleneck, it’s the measurement of the mannequin that defines the compute footprint that you simply want.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:10:47 Proper. So to carry it to life, that will imply an SLM would have a smaller computation footprint, or that’s not essentially the case?
Sunil Mallya 00:10:55 No, yeah, by definition it might, we’re defining LMS as a sure parameter threshold virtually all the time could have a smaller footprint when it comes to compute. And simply to offer you a comparability, it’s most likely if we examine the ten billion parameter mannequin that I talked about versus one thing like a one 75 billion parameter we’re speaking about two orders of magnitude, distinction when it comes to precise velocity. As a result of every little thing just isn’t, once more, issues are usually not linear truly.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:11:26 Are you able to present a comparability of the coaching information sizes sometimes used for SLMs in comparison with LLMs.
Sunil Mallya 00:11:32 Virtually talking, let me outline completely different coaching methods for SLM. So what we name as coaching from scratch whereby, your primarily your mannequin parameters. I imply, take into consideration mannequin parameters as this big matrix and this matrix every little thing begins with zero since you haven’t discovered something otherwise you’re beginning with these zero states and then you definitely give them certain quantity of information and then you definitely begin coaching. So there may be that permit’s name it zero weight coaching. That’s one strategy of coaching small language fashions. The opposite strategy is you may take like an enormous mannequin after which you may truly undergo completely different methods like pruning the place you are taking sure parameters out or you may distill it, which I can dive in later, or you may quantize it, which implies that I can go from a precision of 32 bits to eight bits or 4 bits.
Sunil Mallya 00:12:27 So I can take this, 100 billion parameter mannequin, which might be 400 gigs and, if I chop it by 4 technically it turns into a 25 billion parameter mannequin as a result of that’s the quantity of compute I would want. So there are completely different methods in creating these small language fashions. Now to the query of coaching information bigger the mannequin, the hungrier it’s, and the extra information it is advisable to feed, the smaller the mannequin, you will get away with smaller quantities of information as nicely. However it doesn’t imply that the precise finish result’s going to be the identical when it comes to accuracy and so forth. And what we discover virtually is given a kind of a hard and fast quantity of information, the bigger the mannequin, it’s prone to do higher. And the extra information you feed into any sort of mannequin, the extra seemingly it’s to do higher as nicely.
Sunil Mallya 00:13:19 So the fashions are literally very hungry for information and good information and also you get to coach, however I’ll discuss in regards to the subsequent step, which is reasonably than utilizing the SLMs or coaching the SLMs from scratch, wonderful tuning these LLMs, what meaning is as an alternative of the zero weights that I talked about earlier, we truly use a base mannequin, . Like a mannequin that has already skilled on a sure variety of coaching information, however then the concept is steering the mannequin to a really particular activity. Now this activity will be constructing a monetary analyst or an precise within the case of, healthcare, like you may construct like healthcare fashions in case of Flip AI, we constructed fashions to know observability information. So you may wonderful tune and construct these fashions. So now to offer you some actual examples.
Sunil Mallya 00:14:13 Like let’s take a few of the hottest open-source fashions the place Llama-3 is the most well-liked open-source mannequin on the market and that’s skilled on 14 trillion tokens of information. Prefer it’s seen a lot information already, however in no way it’s an professional in healthcare or in observability and so forth. What we will do is practice on high of those fashions utilizing the information that now we have curated. And for those who take a look at Meditron, which is, healthcare mannequin, they practice on roughly 50 billion tokens of information. Bloomberg skilled a monetary analyst mannequin and that was once more within the tons of of billions of tokens. And now we have skilled our fashions with like 100 billion tokens of information. Now that’s kind of the distinction. Like we’re speaking about two orders of magnitude much less information than what LLMs would want. Solely motive that is attainable is through the use of these base fashions, however the specialization half, you don’t require as a lot information because the generalization variety of tokens.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:15:20 Alright, received it. And the way do you make sure that SLMs preserve equity and keep away from area particular biases? As a result of SMS are by nature very specialised for a selected area?
Sunil Mallya 00:15:31 Yeah, excellent query. Really, it’s a double-edged sword as a result of on the one hand, if you discuss professional fashions, you do need them biased on the subject. Once I discuss credit score within the context of finance, it means sure factor and credit score can imply one thing else in a special context. So that you simply kind of needed bias in direction of your area. In any methods. In order that’s how I take into consideration bias when it comes to purposeful functionality. However let’s discuss bias when it comes to something that’s performing. Like when it comes to like now if the identical mannequin is getting used to cross a mortgage or decide who wants a mortgage or not, that’s a special sort of bias. Like that’s extra inherent of a decision-making bias. And that comes with information self-discipline.
Sunil Mallya 00:16:20 What it is advisable to do is, it is advisable to practice the mannequin or make sure the mannequin has information on all of the pragmatic issues that you simply’re prone to see in the true world. What meaning is that if the mannequin is being skilled to make choices on providing loans, we have to guarantee that underrepresented folks in society are being skilled, skilled within the mannequin. So, the mannequin, like if the mannequin is simply seen a sure demographic whereas coaching goes to say no to individuals who haven’t represented in that coaching information. In order that curation of coaching information and analysis information, I prefer to say that is the analysis information. Your check information is, is much extra necessary. Like that must be extraordinarily thorough and a mirrored image of what’s on the market in the true world. In order that no matter quantity you get is near the quantity that occurs if you deploy. There are such a lot of blogs, so many individuals I discuss to everyone’s concern as, hey, my check information says 90% correct. Once I deploy, I solely see like 60-70% accuracy as a result of, folks didn’t spend the correct quantity of time in curating the precise coaching information and extra importantly, the precise analysis information to verify the biases are taken care of or mirrored that you’d encounter in the true world. So to me it boils all the way down to good information practices and good analysis practices.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:17:50 For the good thing about our listeners, are you able to clarify the distinction between curation information and analysis information?
Sunil Mallya 00:17:56 Yeah, yeah. So after I say coaching information, that is the mannequin. These are the examples that the mannequin sees all through its coaching course of. So the analysis or check information is what we name as a held-out information set. As on this information is rarely proven to the mannequin for coaching. So it doesn’t know that this information exists. It’s only proven throughout inference and by inference, inference is a course of the place the mannequin doesn’t memorize something. It’s a static course of. Every thing is frozen, the mannequin is frozen at the moment, it doesn’t be taught with that instance, it simply sees the information, provides you an output and accomplished. It doesn’t full the suggestions loop of if that was appropriate or flawed.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:18:36 Bought it. So to make sure that we don’t have undesirable biases, it’s necessary to make sure that now we have curation information and analysis information that are match for objective.
Sunil Mallya 00:18:47 Yeah. So once more, curation, I name it a coaching information. Like curation can be the method. So your coaching information is what the examples that the mannequin will see, and the check information is what the mannequin won’t ever see through the coaching course of. And simply so as to add extra shade right here, we act good organizations observe the whole blind course of of coaching or annotating information. What meaning is you’d give the identical instance to many individuals, they usually don’t know what they’re labeling, and you could repeat labeling of the information, et cetera. So that you create this course of the place you’re creating this coaching information, a various set of coaching information that’s being labeled by a number of folks. And you may as well be sure that the people who find themselves labeling this information are usually not from a single demographic. You’re taking a slice of real-life demographics into consideration. So that you’re getting like range throughout. So that you’re guaranteeing that the biases don’t creep by way of in your course of. So I’d say 95% of mitigating bias is to do with the way you curate your coaching information and analysis information.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:20:00 Bought it. What about hallucinations in s SLMs in comparison with LLMs?
Sunil Mallya 00:20:05 Yeah. So LLMs by nature, as I mentioned, they’re basic objective in in nature. So that they know as a lot about Napoleon as a lot as like different matters like tips on how to write a great program in Python. Like so it’s this excessive factor and that comes with burden. So now let’s return to this entire inference course of that I talked about. Just like the mannequin is predicting this one token at a time. And now think about for some motive, let’s say anyone determined to call their variable Napoleon. And Napoleon predicted the variable as Napoleon and out of the blue the mannequin with the context of Napoleon issues like, oh, this should be a historical past. And it goes off and writes about, we requested you to develop a program, but it surely has written one thing about Napoleon. What are opposites when it comes to output? And that’s what hallucination, that’s the place it comes from, which is it’s truly an uncertain, the mannequin is uncertain as to okay, which path it must go all the way down to synthesize the output for the query you’ve requested.
Sunil Mallya 00:21:12 And by nature with s SLMs, there’s much less issues for it to consider in order that the house that it wants to love suppose from is diminished. The second is as a result of it’s skilled on a whole lot of coding information and so forth, even when say Napoleon could are available in as a decoded token, unlikely that the mannequin goes to veer right into a historical past matter as a result of majority of the time the mannequin is spent studying is simply on coding. So it’s going to imagine that’s a variable and decode. So yeah, that’s sort of the benefit of SLM as a result of it’s an professional, it doesn’t know anything. So it’s going to give attention to simply that matter or its experience reasonably than suppose. So sometimes an order of magnitude distinction in hallucination charges when you consider a great well-trained SLM versus an LLM.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:22:05 Proper. Okay. Do you have got any real-world instance of any difficult downside which has been solved extra effectively with SLMs reasonably than LLMs?
Sunil Mallya 00:22:15 Fascinating query and I’ll provide you with; it’s going to be a protracted reply. So I feel we’ll undergo a bunch of examples. I’d say historically talking for those who had the identical quantity of information and also you need to use an SLM versus an LLM, look, LLM is extra prone to win simply due to the facility. The extra parameters provide you with extra flexibility, extra creativity and so forth, that’s going to win. However the motive why you practice an SLM is for extra controllability deployment, price accuracy, that sort of causes and pleased to dive into that as nicely. So historically talking, that has been the norm that’s beginning to change a bit. If I take a look at examples of one thing like in healthcare, a pair examples like Meditron these are open-source healthcare fashions that they’ve skilled. And after I take a look at, if I recall the numbers, that they had their model one, which was like a few years in the past, even like their 70 billion mannequin was outperforming a 540 billion mannequin by Google.
Sunil Mallya 00:23:19 The Google had skilled like these fashions known as Palm, which had been healthcare particular. So Mediron. And so they not too long ago retrained the fashions on Llama-3, 8 billion and that truly beats their very own mannequin, which is 70 billion from the earlier 12 months. So for those who kind of examine in a timeline of those 5 40 billion parameter fashions from Google, which is sort of a general-purpose kind of healthcare mannequin versus a extra particular healthcare SLM by Meditron after which an SLM version-2, by them it’s like a 10X enchancment that has occurred within the final two and a half years. So I’d say, and if I recall even their hallucination charges are so much much less in comparison with what Google had. That’s one instance. One other instance I’d say is once more, within the healthcare house, it’s a radiology oncology report mannequin. I feel it’s known as RAD-GPT or RAD Oncology GPT.
Sunil Mallya 00:24:18 And that was the output I keep in mind was one thing just like the Llama fashions can be at equal of 1% accuracy and these fashions had been at 60-70% accuracy. That dramatic a soar that pertains to coaching information and pleased to dive in a little bit extra. So now you see that distinction. Like of like giant fashions. And that’s as a result of when you consider the general-purpose fashions, they’ve by no means seen like radiology, oncology, that sort of experiences or information like that doesn’t exist on the web. And now you have got a mannequin that’s skilled on these information that may be very constrained to a company and also you begin to see this superb, virtually loopy 1% versus 60% accuracy outcome and enhancements. So I’d say there are these examples the place the information units are very constrained to the setting that you simply function in that provides the SLMs benefit after which one thing that’s sensible. In order that’s one thing that’s like open on the earth. So hopefully I’m pleased to double click on. I do know I’ve talked so much right here.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:25:24 No good examples. That’s a very huge distinction from one individual to 60 to 70% enchancment when it comes to figuring out or inference.
Sunil Mallya 00:25:33 Yeah truly I’ve one thing extra so as to add there. That’s that is like sizzling off the press simply a few hours in the past. There’s a mannequin collection known as DeepSeek R1 that simply launched and DeepSeek, it’s truly a, if I overlook, perhaps someplace round like 600 billion parameter mannequin, but it surely’s a of professional mannequin. So activation parameters that I earlier talked about, that’s solely about 32 or 35 billion parameters. So virtually like 20x discount in measurement if you virtually discuss when it comes to the quantity of compute and that mannequin is outperforming the newest of open AI, 0103 collection fashions and Claude from Anthropic and so forth. And it’s insane. Like when you consider, once more, we don’t know the scale of, say Claude 3.5 or GPT-40, they don’t publish it. We do know these are most likely within the tons of of billions of parameters.
Sunil Mallya 00:26:35 However for a mannequin that’s successfully 35 billion parameters of activated measurement to truly be higher than these fashions are simply insane. And I feel it offers, once more, it offers with like how they practice, et cetera and so forth. However I feel it comes again to the query of the combination of professional mannequin. Once you take a bunch of small fashions and put them collectively, they’re prone to, as we see these numbers, they’re prone to carry out higher than like an enormous mannequin that has this one kind of big computational footprint finish to finish. I do suppose it is a signal of extra issues to return the place SLMs or assortment of s SLMs are going to be method higher than a single 1 trillion parameter or a ten trillion parameter mannequin. That’s the place I’d wager.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:27:22 Fascinating instances. I’d like to maneuver to the subsequent matter, which is round enterprise adoption. In case you can inform us a couple of time if you gave particular recommendation to an enterprise deciding between SLMs and LLMs, and what was the method, what questions did you requested them and the way did you assist them determine?
Sunil Mallya 00:27:39 Yeah, I’d say enterprise is a really attention-grabbing case and my definition enterprise has information that no one’s ever seen. It’s not the information that may be very distinctive to them. So I say like, enterprises have a final mile downside, and this final mile downside manifests in two methods. One is the information manifestation, which is the shortage of the mannequin is rarely most likely seen the information that you’ve got in your enterprise. It higher not,proper? Like as a result of you have got safety guardrails when it comes to like information and so forth. The second is making this mannequin sensible and deployed in your setting. So tackling the primary a part of it, which is information. As a result of the mannequin has by no means seen your information. You want to wonderful tune the information by yourself enterprise information corpus. So getting clear information. Like that’s my first recommendation is getting clear information.
Sunil Mallya 00:28:31 So kind of recommendation them on tips on how to produce this good information. After which the second is analysis information. How do you, to my earlier examples. Like I’ve individuals who say like, hey, I had 90% accuracy on my check set, however after I deploy, I solely see 60% or 70% accuracy as a result of your check set wasn’t a consultant of what you get in the true world. After which it is advisable to take into consideration tips on how to deploy the mannequin as a result of there’s a price related to it. So if you’re kind of pondering by way of SLMs, you’re all the time, there’s a trade-off that they’re all the time attempting to do, which is accuracy versus price. After which that turns into kind of like your predominant optimization level. Such as you don’t need one thing that’s low-cost and does no work otherwise you don’t need one thing that’s good, but it surely’s too costly so that you can justify bringing it in. So discovering that candy spot is what I feel is like extraordinarily necessary for enterprises to do. I’d say these are my basic recommendation on tips on how to kind of suppose by way of deploying within the enterprise, deploying SLMs within the enterprise.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:29:41 And do you have got any tales across the challenges confronted by enterprises once they adopted SLMs? How did they overcome it?
Sunil Mallya 00:29:48 Yeah, I feel as we glance by way of many of those open-source fashions that firms attempt to carry in-house as a result of the mannequin has by no means seen the information, issues maintain altering. There are two causes. One is you didn’t practice nicely, otherwise you didn’t consider nicely, so that you didn’t come up with the mannequin. The second is the underlying kind of information and what you get and the way folks use your product retains altering over time. So there’s a drift when it comes to you’re not in a position to seize all of the use instances at a given static time level. After which as time goes alongside, you have got folks utilizing your product or expertise another way and it is advisable to maintain evolving. So once more, comes again to the way you curate your information. How will you practice nicely after which irate on the mannequin. So it is advisable to herald observability into your mannequin, which implies that when the fashions are failing, you’re capturing that when a person just isn’t pleased a couple of sure output, you’re capturing that the why anyone who’s not pleased, you’re capturing these features.
Sunil Mallya 00:30:56 So bringing all of this in after which iterating on the mannequin. There’s additionally one factor which we haven’t talked about, particularly within the enterprise, like we’ve talked so much about wonderful tuning. The opposite strategy is named a Retrieval Augmented Era or RAG, which is extra generally used. So what occurs is if you carry a mannequin in, it doesn’t have, it’s by no means seen your information. And what you are able to do is definite terminologies or applied sciences or one thing jargons or one thing particular that you’ve got, let’s say in your organization Wiki web page or some kind of textual content spec that you simply’ve written, you may truly give the mannequin a utility to say, hey, when anyone asks a query on this, retrieve this info from this Wikipedia or this listed, storage you could herald as extra context since you’re by no means seen, you don’t perceive that information and you should utilize that as context to foretell what the person requested for. So that you’re augmenting the present base mannequin. So sometimes folks like strategy in two other ways as they deploy. So both you wonderful tune, which I talked about earlier, or you should utilize retrieval augmented era to get higher outcomes. And it’s a fairly attention-grabbing, there’s a those who debate RAG is best than wonderful tuning or wonderful tuning is best than RAG. That’s a subject we will dive in for those who’re .
Brijesh Ammanath 00:32:22 Perhaps for an additional day we’ll follow the enterprise theme and digging a bit deeper into the challenges. So what are the widespread challenges enterprises face? Not solely in bringing the fashions in, but in addition coaching them, but in addition from a deployment perspective.
Sunil Mallya 00:32:36 Yeah, let me discuss deployment first and it’s underrated. Like folks give attention to the coaching half. Folks don’t take into consideration the pragmatic facet. So one is how do you identify the precise footprint of the assets that you simply want. Like the correct of GPUs, as a result of your mannequin can most likely match on a number of GPUs, however there’s a price efficiency tradeoff. In case you take the massive GPU and also you’re underutilizing it, it’s not truly sensible. Such as you’re not going to get price range for that. So you have got this kind of turns into like these three axes reasonably than two axes. So the X axis, you may take into consideration the fee Y axis, you may take into consideration efficiency or latency and the Z axis, you may take into consideration accuracy. So that you’re now attempting to optimize in these three axes to search out this candy spot that, oh nicely I’ve price range permitted for X variety of {dollars} and I would like a minimal of this accuracy.
Sunil Mallya 00:33:37 What’s the trade-off I could make when it comes to, nicely, if anyone will get the reply in 200 milliseconds versus 100 milliseconds, that’s acceptable. So that you begin to like work out this commerce off you could have to pick the very best kind of optimum setting you could go deploy on. Now that requires you to have experience in a number of issues. It implies that it is advisable to know the mannequin deployment frameworks or the underlying instruments like TensorFlow, PyTorch. So these issues are specialised abilities. You want to know tips on how to decide the precise GPUs and create this commerce off or these trade-offs that I talked about. After which it is advisable to take into consideration individuals are consultants in DevOps when it’s mentioned a company, me consultants in DevOps with regards to CPU and conventional workloads, GPU workloads are completely different. Like now it is advisable to practice folks on tips on how to monitor GPUs, tips on how to perceive tips on how to the observative half is available in. So all of that must be kind of packaged and tackled so that you can deploy nicely on the enterprise. I do know if you wish to double click on on something on the deployment facet,
Brijesh Ammanath 00:34:48 Perhaps simply shortly for those who can contact on what are the important thing variations between deploying or the trade-offs between deploying on-prem and on the cloud?
Sunil Mallya 00:34:58 Yeah, I don’t know. Do you imply within the cloud? Do you imply an API primarily based service or
Brijesh Ammanath 00:35:03 Sure.
Sunil Mallya 00:35:04 Yeah, I imply API primarily based companies, there is no such thing as a distinction in you utilizing a funds API versus an ML API. Prefer it’s so long as you may make a relaxation name, you may truly use them, which makes them very simple. However for those who’re deploying on-prem, what I’d say is I’ll make it extra generic. If deploying in your VPC, then that comes with all of the significance that I talked about. With the addition of compliance and information governance. So since you need to deploy it in the precise kind of framework. One other instance like Flip AI truly we assist our deployments in two modes, which is you may deploy as a SaaS, or you may truly deploy on-prem. And this on-prem model are, it’s fully air-gapped. We truly, now we have scripts, whether or not it’s like Cloud Native scripts or Terraforms and Helm charts and so forth.
Sunil Mallya 00:35:59 So we make it straightforward for our prospects to go deploy this mainly with one click on as a result of every little thing is automated when it comes to mentioning the infrastructure and so forth. However so as to allow that, now we have accomplished these benchmarks, these price accuracy, efficiency kind of trade-offs, all of that. We now have packaged it, we’ve written a little bit bit about that in our blogs, and that is what an enterprise adopting any SLM would want to do themselves as nicely. However that comes with good bit of funding as a result of it’s not commoditized but when it comes to deploying LLMs in-house or SLMs as nicely.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:36:38 Yeah. However for those who decide on that Flip AI instance, what drives a buyer to choose up both the SaaS mannequin or the on-prem mannequin? What are they in search of or what they achieve? Yeah. Once they go for on-prem or for the SaaS one?
Sunil Mallya 00:36:50 Yeah we work with extremely regulated industries the place the client information must be not processed by any third social gathering and that can’t go away their safety boundaries. So it’s primarily pushed by compliance and information governance. There’s one other factor which is once more, applies to Flip AI, but in addition applies to a whole lot of enterprise adoption, which I didn’t discuss is robustness. So if you depend on robustness and SLAs and SLOs, if you depend on like a 3rd social gathering API, even Open AI or Cloud or Anthropic or any of these, they don’t provide you with SLAs. You don’t inform you like, hey, my request goes to complete in X variety of seconds. They don’t provide you with availability, ensures and so forth. In order an enterprise, take into consideration an enterprise who’s constructing a 5 nines availability and even increased nines of availability. Now they don’t have any management over no one’s promising them. Like we’re utilizing a SaaS service, no one’s promising them X variety of whether or not it’s accuracy and even the nines of availability that they want. However bringing in-house and deploying with finest practices and redundancy and all of this, you may assure sure degree of availability so far as these fashions come. After which the robustness half. These fashions are inclined to hallucinate much less. Like for those who’re utilizing an API primarily based service, which is a extra general-purpose mannequin, you can not have these sort of hallucination charges as a result of your efficiency goes to degrade.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:38:20 Hallucination wouldn’t be an element for on-prem and SaaS, proper? That will be the identical.
Sunil Mallya 00:38:25 Properly, it may be as a result of when it comes to general-purpose fashions, but when the identical mannequin is accessible for SaaS or on-prem, sure, then there’s equivalency there. The opposite is in-house experience. If a buyer doesn’t have in-house experience of managing or they don’t need to take out that burden, then they find yourself going SaaS versus going on-prem. The opposite issue, which is a basic issue I’d say is availability or different that is extra of a, I take that again, I used to be going to speak about LLMs versus SLMs, but when the identical mannequin being SaaS or on-prem, it mainly comes all the way down to compliance, information governance, the robustness facet and being in-house experience and the supply ensures you could give. It sometimes comes down to those components.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:39:13 Bought it. Compliance, availability, in-house experience. You touched on just a few key abilities which are required for deployment. So that you touched on mannequin deployment framework, you touched on the information about GPU and likewise about the way you observe the workload on GPU. What are the opposite abilities that, or information areas that engineers ought to give attention to to successfully construct and deploy SLMs?
Sunil Mallya 00:39:40 I feel these components I talked about ought to cowl most of them. And I’d recommend if anyone needs to try to get their fingers, strive deploying a mannequin regionally in your laptop computer. There are even these, you may with the newest {hardware} and stuff, like you may simply deploy a billion-parameter mannequin in your laptop computer. So I’d kick tires taking these fashions. Properly you don’t want a 1 billion parameter. You may even go along with 100 million parameter mannequin to kind of like have an concept of what it takes. So that you’ll get some experience in diving into these frameworks. Like deployment frameworks and mannequin frameworks. And then you definitely’ll kind of get an concept about as you run benchmarks on say completely different sorts of {hardware}, you’ll get a little bit little bit of concept on these trade-offs that I talked about. Finally what you’re attempting to construct is that this entry that I talked about like accuracy, efficiency, and value. So that could be a extra pragmatic take I’d do is begin in your laptop computer or a small occasion, you will get on the cloud, kick the tires after which that basically builds that have as a result of with kind of DevOps and different kind of applied sciences, I really feel just like the extra you learn, the extra you get confused and you may kind of condense that information studying by truly simply doing it.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:41:00 Agreed. I need to discuss, transfer onto the subsequent theme, which is round architectural and technical variations or distinctions of SLMs. However I feel now we have lined fairly just a few of these already, which is round coaching information, across the tradeoffs of mannequin measurement and accuracy, however perhaps just a few bits. So what are the principle safety vulnerabilities in SLMS and the way can they be mitigated?
Sunil Mallya 00:41:25 I feel virtually talking safety vulnerabilities are usually not particular to SLMs or LLMs. They’re not, one has higher over the opposite. I don’t suppose that that’s the precise framework to consider. I feel safety vulnerabilities exist in any kind of language fashions. They manifest in barely completely different method. What I imply by that’s you’re both attempting to retrieve information that the mannequin has seen. So you’re tricking the mannequin to offer some information within the hope that it has seen some PII information or one thing of curiosity. It’s not going to inform you. So that you’re attempting to exfiltrate that information out. Or the opposite is habits modification. Like you’re, you’re kind of injecting, it’s kind of equal to SQL injection. Like the place you’re attempting to get the database to do one thing by injecting one thing that’s malicious the identical method you’d do this within the immediate and trick the mannequin to do one thing completely different and provide the information. So these are the standard safety vulnerabilities I’d say that folks have a tendency to take advantage of, however they’re not unique to an SLM or an LLM, it occurs in each.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:42:34 Proper. And what are the important thing architectural variations between SLMs and LLMs and is there any elementary design philosophy which is completely different?
Sunil Mallya 00:42:42 Not likely the identical approach that you simply use to coach a ten billion parameter mannequin will be accomplished for 100 billion or a 1 trillion. Architecturally, they’re completely different on neither are the coaching methods. I’d say. Properly, folks do make use of completely different methods. It doesn’t imply that the methods are usually not going to work on LLMs as nicely. Like, so it’s only a measurement equation. However what’s attention-grabbing is how these SLMs get created. They are often skilled from scratch or fine-tuned, however you may take an LLM and make them an SLM and that’s a really attention-grabbing matter. So couple of most typical issues that folks do is quantization and distillation. Quantization is the place you are taking a big mannequin and you exchange the mannequin parameters and this may be accomplished like statically, it doesn’t even want a complete course of. What you’re mainly doing is chopping off the bits.
Sunil Mallya 00:43:36 You’re taking a 32-bit precision, and also you make it a 16-bit precision or you may make an eight bit precision and also you’re accomplished. Such as you’re mainly altering the precision of these floats in your mannequin weights, and also you’re accomplished. Now distillation is definitely a really attention-grabbing, and there are completely different sorts of approach. Distillation at a excessive degree is the place you are taking a big mannequin, and you are taking the outputs of these giant fashions and use that to coach a small mannequin. So what meaning is its kind of a teacher-student relationship, the trainer mannequin that is aware of so much and may produce top quality information, which a small mannequin simply can’t as a result of it has creativity limitations and since the variety of parameters is fewer. So you are taking this huge mannequin, you generate a whole lot of output from that, and you employ that to then practice your small language mannequin, which then can see equal performances.
Sunil Mallya 00:44:32 And there are a whole lot of examples of this. So if we take a look at the, what I talked in regards to the Meditron, even like these fashions known as this Open bio, even multilingual fashions, like what I’ve seen, there was this Taiwanese Mandarin mannequin, once more, like they used like giant fashions, took a whole lot of information, after which skilled, and the mannequin was doing higher than like GPT-4 and Claude et cetera. All as a result of it was skilled by way of distillation and so forth. That’s a very sensible strategy and a whole lot of fine-tuning occurs by way of distillation, which is generate the information. After which there is usually a extra complicated model of distillation the place you’re coaching each fashions in tandem, so to talk, and you’re taking the alerts that the bigger mannequin learns and giving that to the smaller mannequin to adapt. So that they’re very complicated methods of coaching and distillation as nicely.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:45:25 Okay. So distillation is the trainer scholar mannequin brings it to life. You may intuitively perceive that. Whereas quantization is taking a big mannequin and chopping off bits. I’m struggling to know that. How does that make it particular to a website or is that this not associated to a website?
Sunil Mallya 00:45:41 No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t. It simply makes it smaller so that you can deploy and handle. So it’s extra of a price efficiency, trade-off, cost-performance-accuracy, trade-off. It doesn’t make you want an professional mannequin by any means.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:45:56 So it’s nonetheless a general-purpose mannequin.
Sunil Mallya 00:45:57 Right. However what we see and there’s a whole lot of development is, let’s say I practice a mannequin with X quantity of information, a ten billion parameter mannequin versus 100 billion parameter mannequin after which quantize it. There’s a whole lot of examples had been taking 100 billion parameter mannequin and decreasing it, quantizing it to the scale of your 10 billion parameter mannequin was this coaching one you would get higher outcomes. So it’s the identical objective, similar information, besides you skilled a bigger mannequin and then you definitely quantize it. So there are individuals who have accomplished that with a whole lot of success.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:46:27 Proper. You additionally briefly talked about about mannequin pruning and once we mentioned in regards to the differentiation between SLM and LLM attributes, are you able to broaden on what pruning is and the way does that work?
Sunil Mallya 00:46:39 Yeah, so after I discuss 10, so one factor now we have to know essentially is after I say 10 billion parameters, it doesn’t imply that 10 billion parameters are all storing good quantity of information. They’re all wanted equally to supply the outcome. And that is truly analogous to the human mind. Like it’s predicted that the human mind solely makes use of 13% of its total capability. Like the opposite 87% is simply there. So, similar method these fashions are sparse in nature. By sparse, I imply one of the best ways to know is, keep in mind after I talked about these matrixes having zero weights? And as you practice a mannequin, like these numbers change. Like these numbers change and let’s say they increment, you’ve discovered one thing that that parameter is non-zero. So if you take a look at a skilled mannequin, it doesn’t imply that every one the fashions have gone, all of the parameters have gone from zero to one thing significant.
Sunil Mallya 00:47:32 Like there are nonetheless a whole lot of parameters which are near zero. So these don’t essentially add something significant to your final output. So you can begin to prune these fashions. Once more, I’m, I’m attempting to clarify virtually that’s extra nuance to this, however successfully that’s what’s taking place. You might be simply eradicating these elements of the mannequin that haven’t been activated or don’t contribute to activations as you run inference. So now out of the blue a ten billion parameter mannequin will be pruned to love a 3 billion parameter mannequin by doing that. That’s the overall concept of pruning. However I’d say pruning has turn out to be extraordinarily much less widespread as a technique lately. Moderately combination of consultants, as I talked initially within the podcast, that’s a extra pragmatic method by which the mannequin itself is kind of creating these specialised elements. Like in your coaching course of you have got an enormous mannequin, let’s say a ten billion parameter mannequin, however you’re creating these consultants, and the consultants are literally defining these paths which are historical past professional, math professional, coding professional, and so forth. Like so these successfully kind of using the house higher when you practice. In order that’s extra of a state by which we’re shifting. To not say you can not prune combination of professional mannequin and so forth, but it surely’s much less widespread that folks do this. And an element of that’s how a lot environment friendly and sooner GPUs and the underlying frameworks have turn out to be that you simply don’t essentially have to hassle with pruning.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:49:04 Alright, now we have lined a whole lot of floor over right here. We now have lined the fundamentals when it comes to what are SLMs, now we have appeared on the SLM attributes in comparison with LLMs. We now have checked out enterprise adoption and likewise checked out structure technical distinctions and the coaching variations between SLMs and LLMs. As we wrap up, only a last couple of questions Sunil, what rising analysis space are you most enthusiastic about for advancing SLMs?
Sunil Mallya 00:49:30 Love this query. I’ll discuss just a few issues that folks have labored on and one thing that thrilling that’s rising as nicely. Velocity is definitely an important factor. Like when you consider huge variety of purposes that exist on the web or folks use velocity is essential. Like simply because anyone one thing is AI powered, you’re not going to say like, oh you may give me the response in 60 minutes or 60 seconds. Like folks nonetheless need issues quick. So folks have spent a whole lot of time on inference and making inference sooner. So an enormous rising analysis space is tips on how to scale issues at inference. There’s a way that folks have kind of developed. It’s known as speculative decoding. Now that is similar to individuals who perceive like compilers and so forth. how you have got a speculative branching the place youíre attempting to guess the place the code goes to leap subsequent and so forth.
Sunil Mallya 00:50:24 Identical method in inference, whereas predicting the present token, you’re additionally attempting to get the subsequent token in a speculative method. So that you’re mainly in a single cross, you’re producing a number of tokens. Like which suggests now you may take like half the period of time or 25% of the time it might take to supply the complete inference. However once more, it’s speculative. Which suggests the accuracy takes a little bit of hit, however you’re getting sooner inference. So that could be a very, very thrilling space. The others I’d say like a whole lot of work has been accomplished on machine, tips on how to deploy these SLMs in your laptop computer, in your RaspberryPi. That’s an especially thrilling space. Privateness, preserving method of deploying these LLMs. That’s a fairly lively space and thrilling for me, I’ll maintain essentially the most thrilling. Is a few issues I’d say, which has began within the final perhaps six months for the reason that One collection of fashions that open AI launch, that are the place the mannequin truly is pondering primarily based by itself outputs.
Sunil Mallya 00:51:29 Now, one of the best ways to clarify that is, the way you most likely labored out math issues in class the place you have got a tough sheet on the right-hand facet, you’re doing the nitty gritty particulars and then you definitely’re bringing that into, substituting into your equations and so forth. So you have got this scratch pad of a whole lot of ideas and a whole lot of tough work that you simply’re utilizing to carry into your reply. The identical method that’s taking place is these fashions are producing all these intermediate outputs and concepts and issues that it could use to generate the ultimate output. And that’s tremendous thrilling since you’re beginning to see excessive accuracy in a whole lot of complicated duties. However on the flip facet, it’s one thing that used to take us like 5 seconds for inference, beginning to take 5 minutes.
Sunil Mallya 00:52:20 Or quarter-hour and so forth, since you’re beginning to generate a whole lot of these intermediate outputs or tokens that the mannequin has to make use of. Now this entire total paradigm is named inference time scaling. Now the bigger the mannequin you may think about, the extra time it takes to generate these tokens, a extra compute footprint and so forth. The smaller the mannequin, you are able to do it sooner and which is why I used to be speaking about all these sooner inference, et cetera, these begin to come into image as a result of now you may generate these tokens in a sooner method, and you can begin to make use of them to get increased accuracy on the finish. So inference time scaling is an especially thrilling space. There are a whole lot of open-source fashions now which have come out which are in a position to assist this. Second is, which is once more like contemporary off the press, there was a whole lot of hypothesis on utilizing reinforcement studying to coach the fashions from scratch.
Sunil Mallya 00:53:19 So sometimes talking in a coaching course of, reinforcement studying has been used. So simply to clarify the coaching course of, we do what is named a pre-training, the place the mannequin learns on self-supervised information after which we will discuss instruction tuning the place the mannequin is given sure directions or human curated information. They practice that. After which there’s reinforcement studying the place the mannequin is given reinforcement studying alerts to, nicely I choose the output in a sure method. Otherwise you give alerts to the mannequin, and also you practice utilizing that. However reinforcement studying was by no means used to coach a mannequin from scratch. Folks speculated it and so forth. However with this DeepSeek R1 mannequin, they’ve used reinforcement studying to coach from scratch. That’s a complete new, that opens a complete new chance of on how you’d practice. That is fully new. I’m but to learn the complete paper simply as I mentioned, it launched a pair hours in the past and I skimmed by way of it and it’s been all the time speculated, however they’ve put into analysis paper, they usually’ve produced the outcomes. So to me that is going to open a complete new method of how folks practice these fashions. And reinforcement studying is sweet at discovering hacks by itself. So I wouldn’t be stunned the place it will cut back the mannequin measurement and have a fabric affect on these SLMs being even higher. I’m extraordinarily excited with this stuff.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:54:53 Thrilling house. So you have got spoken about speculative decoding on machine deployment, inference time scaling and utilizing reinforcement studying to coach from scratch. Fairly just a few rising areas. Earlier than we shut, was there something we missed that you simply’d like to say?
Sunil Mallya 00:55:09 Yeah, perhaps I can carry by way of a sensible instance like that I’ve been engaged on for 3 years and placing all of the issues that I’ve talked about collectively. So at Flip AI we actually an enterprise first firm and we needed the mannequin to be sensible in all these tradeoffs that I discussed and deploy on-prem or SaaS, no matter possibility for our prospects needed to decide on, we needed to offer the client the flexibleness and all the information governance facet. And as we skilled these fashions, proper, we didn’t have any of the LLMs that had functionality of doing something within the observability information house. And this observability information is kind of very tuned to what an organization has. You don’t essentially have this information out within the wild. So what we did is to coach these fashions. We use, like lots of the methods that I talked by way of the beginning this podcast, first we do pre-training.
Sunil Mallya 00:56:00 So we acquire a whole lot of information from the web when it comes to like say Stack overflow logs which are accessible, et cetera. After which we put them to a rigorous information cleansing pipeline since you want high-quality information. So we spend a whole lot of time there to get high-quality information, however there’s solely a lot information that’s accessible. Like, so we curate, information which are human labeled. And we additionally do artificial information era much like that distillation course of that I talked about earlier. After which lastly, what I prefer to say is the mannequin trains and will get actually good however doesn’t have sensible information. And to achieve sensible information, what we do is now we have created this gymnasium, I name it this chaos gymnasium. Perhaps now we have an inner code title, known as “Otrashi,” and for those who’re a South Indian native speaker of any of these languages [[Konkani and Kannada]] you’ll admire, which mainly means chaos.
Sunil Mallya 00:56:55 And the concept is that this chaos framework goes in, breaks, all this stuff, and the Flip mannequin predicts the output after which we use reinforcement studying to align the mannequin higher on, hey, you made a mistake right here or, hey, that’s good, you predicted it appropriately, after which it goes and improves the mannequin. So all these methods, there’s nobody reply that provides you efficiency out of your SLMs. You should use a mixture of these methods to carry all of this collectively. So whoever is constructing enterprise grade SLMs, I’d advise them to suppose in comparable method. We’ve received a paper as nicely that’s out. You may examine it on our web site that walks us by way of all of those methods that we’ve used and so forth. Total, I’d say I stay bullish on the SLMs as a result of these are sensible in how enterprises can carry and provides utility to their finish prospects and LLMs don’t essentially give them that flexibility on a regular basis, and particularly in a regulated setting, LLMs are simply not an possibility.
Brijesh Ammanath 00:58:01 I’ll make certain we hyperlink to that paper in our present notes. Thanks, Sunil, for approaching the present. It’s been an actual pleasure. That is Brijesh Ammanath for Software program Engineering Radio. Thanks for listening.
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