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The Chronicles of RAG: The Retriever, the Chunk and the Generator
Paulo Finardi, Leonardo Avila, Rodrigo Castaldoni +5
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become one of the most popular paradigms for enabling LLMs to access external data, and also as a mechanism for grounding to mitigate again…
Portuguese FAQ for Financial Services
Paulo Finardi, Wanderley M. Melo, Edgard D. Medeiros Neto +3
Scarcity of domain-specific data in the Portuguese financial domain has disfavored the development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. To address this limitation, th…
Cabrita: closing the gap for foreign languages
Celio Larcher, Marcos Piau, Paulo Finardi +3
The strategy of training the model from scratch in a specific language or domain serves two essential purposes: i) enhancing performance in the particular linguistic or domain cont…
BERTaú: Itaú BERT for digital customer service
Paulo Finardi, José Dié Viegas, Gustavo T. Ferreira +2
In the last few years, three major topics received increased interest: deep learning, NLP and conversational agents. Bringing these three topics together to create an amazing digit…
Electricity Theft Detection with self-attention
Paulo Finardi, Israel Campiotti, Gustavo Plensack +4
In this work we propose a novel self-attention mechanism model to address electricity theft detection on an imbalanced realistic dataset that presents a daily electricity consumpti…
Equilibria in the Tangle
Serguei Popov, Olivia Saa, Paulo Finardi
We analyse the Tangle --- a DAG-valued stochastic process where new vertices get attached to the graph at Poissonian times, and the attachment's locations are chosen by means of ra…