computer vision – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Toy Models of Superposition

By Andrew Fairless on December 19, 2024September 29, 2024

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/toy_model/index.html Toy Models of SuperpositionNelson Elhage, Tristan Hume, Catherine Olsson, Nicholas Schiefer, Tom Henighan, Shauna Kravec, Zac Hatfield-Dodds, Robert Lasenby, Dawn Drain, Carol Chen, Roger Grosse, Sam McCandlish, Jared Kaplan,Continue readingWhat I Read: Toy Models of Superposition

What I Read: neural systems understanding

By Andrew Fairless on August 26, 2024June 15, 2024

Can an emerging field called ‘neural systems understanding’ explain the brain? Can an emerging field called ‘neural systems understanding’ explain the brain?George Musser5 June 2024 “This mashup of neuroscience, artificialContinue readingWhat I Read: neural systems understanding

What I Read: Labeling, Uncertainty Sampling

By Andrew Fairless on July 30, 2024May 24, 2024

https://code.groundlight.ai/python-sdk/blog/active-learning Reducing Data Labeling Costs with Uncertainty SamplingTed SandlerMay 15, 2024Senior Applied Scientist “With active learning, only informative images are prioritized for review, making it possible to label small aContinue readingWhat I Read: Labeling, Uncertainty Sampling

What I Read: Platonic Hypothesis

By Andrew Fairless on July 29, 2024May 24, 2024

https://phillipi.github.io/prh The Platonic Representation HypothesisMinyoung Huh, Brian Cheung, Tongzhou Wang, Phillip IsolaMITPosition Paper in ICML 2024 “Neural networks, trained with different objectives on different data and modalities, are converging toContinue readingWhat I Read: Platonic Hypothesis

What I Read: speed up code, Numba

By Andrew Fairless on June 5, 2024April 15, 2024

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/slow-numba The wrong way to speed up your code with Numbaby Itamar Turner-Trauring21 Mar 2024 “If your NumPy-based code is too slow, you can sometimes use Numba to speed itContinue readingWhat I Read: speed up code, Numba

What I Read: Safety, Autonomous Vehicles

By Andrew Fairless on March 12, 2024January 25, 2024

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-guarantee-the-safety-of-autonomous-vehicles-20240116/ How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous VehiclesSteve Nadis1/16/24 10:43 AM “Driverless cars and planes are no longer the stuff of the future…. But there are legitimate concerns aboutContinue readingWhat I Read: Safety, Autonomous Vehicles

What I Read: Salmon, Loop

By Andrew Fairless on March 5, 2024January 25, 2024

https://thegradient.pub/salmon-in-the-loop/ Salmon in the LoopKevin McCraney12/16/23 12:00 PM “Building a computer vision system for a highly-regulated industry, such as hydropower utilities, can be a challenging task due to the needContinue readingWhat I Read: Salmon, Loop

What I Read: Inducing hierarchy for multi-class classification

By Andrew Fairless on February 22, 2024January 7, 2024

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10263 Inducing a hierarchy for multi-class classification problemsHayden S. Helm, Weiwei Yang, Sujeeth Bharadwaj, Kate Lytvynets, Oriana Riva, Christopher White, Ali Geisa, Carey E. Priebe “In applications where categorical labelsContinue readingWhat I Read: Inducing hierarchy for multi-class classification

What I Read: Will Scaling Solve Robotics?

By Andrew Fairless on February 15, 2024December 19, 2023

https://nishanthjkumar.com/Will-Scaling-Solve-Robotics-Perspectives-from-CoRL-2023/ Will Scaling Solve Robotics?: Perspectives From Corl 2023Nishanth J. Kumar “…is training a large neural network on a very large dataset a feasible way to solve robotics?”

What I Read: 3D human pose estimation

By Andrew Fairless on February 14, 2024December 19, 2023

https://perceiving-systems.blog/en/news/third-wave-3d-human-pose-and-shape-estimation Third wave 3D human pose and shape estimationPerceiving Systems Blog04 December 2023 “…PoseGPT looks at the whole image and can reason about people in context…. we can now relateContinue readingWhat I Read: 3D human pose estimation

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