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To the authors, please rename this new algorithm from the boring Searchformer to more interesting name for example Optimus Prime.

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also because googling for "Searchformer" brings up a different paper and model: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01722...

"Planformer" seems unused and would reduce confusion

(also since "Search" implies RAG etc which is not what this model is about)

"Search" has been the name for the A* space. So it makes absolute sense. "Planning" means in the symbolic AI space often something quite in the direction of PDDL/STRIPS/ICAPS planning.

T*former or T-star

T* (T-star) is a great name.

It is the copyrighted name of a lens coating by Zeiss Optical, however.

T1* and T2* are common terms in magnetic nuclear resonance imaging, suggesting Tn* for any integer n should be free of bullshit IP protection. May I thus suggest T10*, following the pattern of a11y and i18n?

Funny that you mention RAG since the RAG authors had expressed their regret of not using a much better name and the name stucked once it becomes very popular.

On second thought, in the spirit of A* perhaps they can rename it to O' short for Optimus Prime but this probably will break most of the databases in the world [1],[2].

[1] Exploits of a Mom:

https://xkcd.com/327/

[2] Prime (symbol):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)

I can’t think of any database that doesn’t support the ' character in their varchar.

I think the concern was all the buggy apps that connect to databases will accidentally be getting SQL injected.

If they’re susceptible to injections this is the absolute least of their problems. In fact their DB is already dropped.

At this point we need a website cataloging all transformer related names.

Megatron would be better IMO.

Clearly Megatron because LLMs are decepticons.

Yes that was my reasoning :)

just deceptive

Nvidia: "We'll pretend you didn't say that."

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM

> Megatron is a large, powerful transformer [...]

I think Searchformer is kind of catchy. :shrug:

Sacagawea is my proposed name.

Wouldn't that be a trademark violation?

Trademarks are specific to classes of goods. A trademark for toys named Optimus Prime doesn't prevent you from making software called Optimus Prime.

While true, for something as famous as Optimus Prime, there could conceivably by liability for dilution by blurring.

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