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People use large language models to generate text and images, but the underlying transformer architecture can work on any kind of data. A group of researchers wanted to know what would happen if you fine-tuned a large language model on only astronomical data. According to their paper, the model could classify astrophysical phenomena, distinguish between types of gamma-ray bursts, and calculate the redshift of galaxies. This could be a handy assistant for future research.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10019