linear algebra – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Regularization, polynomial bases

By Andrew Fairless on November 7, 2024August 25, 2024

https://alexshtf.github.io/2024/06/03/PolynomialBasesRegProps.html Alex ShtoffRegularization properties of polynomial basesJun 3, 2024 “We used the Bernstein basis to demonstrate the importance of chosing a “good” polynomial basis, and that other well-known bases mayContinue readingWhat I Read: Regularization, polynomial bases

What I Read: Visual Guide, Quantization

By Andrew Fairless on October 30, 2024August 3, 2024

https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-to-quantization A Visual Guide to Quantization, Demystifying the Compression of Large Language ModelsMaarten GrootendorstJul 22, 2024 “…I will introduce the field of quantization in the context of language modeling andContinue readingWhat I Read: Visual Guide, Quantization

What I Read: Kernel, Convolutional Representations

By Andrew Fairless on October 24, 2024July 22, 2024

https://logb-research.github.io/blog/2024/ckn Kernel Trick I – Deep Convolutional Representations in RKHSOussama Zekri, Ambroise OdonnatJuly 18, 2024 “…we focus on the Convolutional Kernel Network (CKN) architecture proposed in End-to-End Kernel Learning withContinue readingWhat I Read: Kernel, Convolutional Representations

What I Read: Use-cases, inverted PCA

By Andrew Fairless on October 16, 2024July 14, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3_T-UgKWM Use-cases for inverted PCA:probabl.Jul 11, 2024 “A lot of people know of PCA for it’s ability to reduce the dimensionality of a dataset. It can turn a wide datasetContinue readingWhat I Read: Use-cases, inverted PCA

What I Read: Illustrated AlphaFold

By Andrew Fairless on October 9, 2024July 14, 2024

https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2024/the-illustrated-alphafold The Illustrated AlphaFoldElana Simon, Jake Silberg “A visual walkthrough of the AlphaFold3 architecture…”

What I Read: Sliding Window Attention

By Andrew Fairless on September 30, 2024July 14, 2024

https://amaarora.github.io/posts/2024-07-04%20SWA.html Sliding Window Attention, Longformer – The Long-Document TransformerAman AroraJuly 4, 2024 “…we will look take a deep dive into Sliding Window Attention (SWA) that was introduced as part ofContinue readingWhat I Read: Sliding Window Attention

What I Read: Merge Large Language Models

By Andrew Fairless on August 15, 2024June 4, 2024

https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/merge-models Merge Large Language Models with mergekitJanuary 9, 2024Maxime Labonne “Model merging is a technique that combines two or more LLMs into a single model. It’s a relatively new andContinue readingWhat I Read: Merge Large Language Models

What I Read: Transformers by Hand

By Andrew Fairless on August 14, 2024May 25, 2024

https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-dive-into-transformers-by-hand-%EF%B8%8E-68b8be4bd813?gi=b2b3c1885179 Deep Dive into Transformers by HandSrijanie Dey, PhDApr 12, 2024 “…the two mechanisms that are truly the force behind the transformers are attention weighting and feed-forward networks (FFN).”

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: time series, Gaussian processes

By Andrew Fairless on July 18, 2024May 24, 2024

https://hendersontrent.github.io/posts/2024/05/gaussian-process-time-series Interpretable time-series modelling using Gaussian processesTrent HendersonMay 03, 2024 “…Gaussian processes (GP)… are an insanely powerful tool that can model an absurd range of data (including continuous and discrete)Continue readingWhat I Read: time series, Gaussian processes

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