Sergei Bogdanov - Data Scientist - Numind Title: NuNER & NuSentiment - Creating efficient Foundation Models thanks to LLMs Summary : How do you create small and data-efficient foundation models that are on-par with 7B LLMs? In this talk we will talk about how we managed to create NuNER & NuSentiment - 100M foundation models that outperform existing similar-sized models in few-shot learning Classification and Entity Recognition.

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Raphaël Bournhonesque - Machine Learning Engineer - Open Food Facts Title: Extracting ingredients from photos of food packaging: from LLM-augmented annotation to production Summary : Raphaël from Open Food Facts will present their latest machine learning project: the automatic extraction of ingredient lists from photos of food packaging. He will share his experience of using LLMs to pre-annotate data and of how this model was integrated in production.