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Deep Learning Study Group

Papers, code, etc. for the Deep Learning Study Group.
Meeting time - Tuesdays, 6:30 pm California time on Zoom
Zoom and Discord links are on the meetup page:
https://www.meetup.com/handsonprogrammingevents/


======== 2026 ========

Paper for March 3, 2026:

Weak-Driven Learning: How Weak Agents make Strong Agents Stronger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08222

Paper for February 24, 2026:

Recursive Language Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24601
Blog
https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/
Github
https://github.com/alexzhang13/rlm
Documentation
https://alexzhang13.github.io/rlm/

Paper for February 17, 2026:

ConceptMoE: Adaptive Token-to-Concept Compression for Implicit Compute Allocation 
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.21420

Paper for February 10, 2026:

Reinforcement Learning via Self-Distillation
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20802

Paper for February 3, 2026:

Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup: A New Axis of Sparsity for Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.07372

Paper for January 27, 2026:

mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24880v1
There are multiple YouTubes including:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYn_1PpRzxI
Background material: Hyper-Connections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19606

Paper for January 20, 2026:

Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.03335
Website:
https://pub.sakana.ai/drq
Code:
https://github.com/SakanaAI/drq
There are many YouTubes on this work.

Paper for January 13, 2026:

Hessian structure of neural networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02809
Blog: Loss functions and optimizers – Adam and Muon and the Hessian of the loss function
https://securemachinery.com/2025/12/18/loss-functions-and-optimizers/

Paper (a blog) for January 6, 2026:

When Models Manipulate Manifolds: The Geometry of a Counting Task
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/linebreaks/index.html

======== 2025 ========

Paper for December 30, 2025:

NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-White-Paper.pdf
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-White-Paper.pdf
For addition background, if interested:
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-Technical-Report.pdf

Paper for December 23, 2025:

The Path Not Taken: RLVR Provably Learns Off the Principals
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08567
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpQJK5KLlw
Additional material
https://github.com/davidmacmillan/DeepLearningStudyGroup/blob/master/2025-12-23%20Supervised%20fine-tuning%20vs.%20reinforcement%20learning%20with%20verified%20rewards%20_%20Claude.pdf

Paper for December 16, 2025:

1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL: Scaling Depth Can Enable New Goal-Reaching Capabilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14858
Additional background - Project site:
https://wang-kevin3290.github.io/scaling-crl/
Code:
https://github.com/wang-kevin3290/scaling-crl
Helpful CRL background info by one of the authors:
"Contrastive Learning as Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.07568

Paper for December 9, 2025

PaTH Attention: Position Encoding via Accumulating Householder Transformations
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.16381

December 2, 2025

No meeting December 2 due to NeurIPS

Paper for November 25, 2025:

Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning Architectures
https://abehrouz.github.io/files/NL.pdf
Blog on Nested Learning paper
https://research.google/blog/introducing-nested-learning-a-new-ml-paradigm-for-continual-learning/

Paper for November 18, 2025:

DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18234

Paper for November 11, 2025:

Kimi linear attention
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26692
Slides: https://github.com/davidmacmillan/DeepLearningStudyGroup/blob/master/2025-11-11%20Kimi%20Linear%20%26%20Kimi%20Delta%20Attention.pdf

Paper for November 4, 2025:

In-the-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool Use
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05592

Paper for October 28, 2025:

Attention Sinks and Compression Valleys in LLMs are Two Sides of the Same Coin.
http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06477

Paper for October 21, 2025:

Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871

Paper for October 14, 2025:

Bootstrapping Task Spaces for Self-Improvement
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04575

Paper for October 7, 2025:

Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02153
Many YouTubes on this paper incuding by an author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xgRTznP21E.

Sept. 30, 2025

No paper this week. Instead we did an in-person social event (dinner) on Tuesday Sept. 30 at 6:30 PM in Mountain View, CA.

Paper for Sept. 23, 2025:

Real-Time Detection of Hallucinated Entities in Long-Form Generation
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03531

Paper for September 16, 2025:

Why Language Models Hallucinate
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.04664

Paper for Sept. 9, 2025:

DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17895

Paper for Sept. 2, 2025:

A Survey on Diffusion Language Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10875

Paper for August 26, 2025:

GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19457

Paper for August 19, 2025

Hierarchical Reasoning Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734
There are multiple human YouTubes, including one by Gabriel Mongaras:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUsbk8vPDoM
Github:
https://github.com/sapientinc/HRM

Paper for August 12, 2025:

Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14805

Paper for August 5, 2025:

Reasoning by Superposition: A Theoretical Perspective on Chain of Continuous Thought
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12514

Paper for July 29, 2025:

Mixture-of-Recursions: Learning Dynamic Recursive Depths for Adaptive Token-Level Computation
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.10524

Paper for July 22, 2025:

Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12599
There are also multiple YouTubes.
Additional Kimi info, if interested:
Kimi-VL Technical Report
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.07491

Paper for July 15, 2025:

DARS: Dynamic Action Re-Sampling to Enhance Coding Agent Performance by Adaptive Tree Traversal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14269

Two blogs and a paper for July 8, 2025:

Blog #1 - Gemma 3n model overview
https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/gemma-3n
Blog #2 - Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n-developer-guide/
MatFormer: Nested Transformer for Elastic Inference
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07707
There are multiple YouTubes on Gemma 3n and MatFormer.

Paper for July 1, 2025:

MELODI: Exploring Memory Compression for Long Contexts (DeepMind, Oct. 2024)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03156
Open Review:
https://openreview.net/forum?id=TvGPP8i18S

Paper for June 24, 2025:

Relaxed Recursive Transformers: Effective Parameter Sharing with Layer-wise LoRA
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.20672
OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/forum?id=WwpYSOkkCt

Paper for June 17, 2025:

Concise Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.05185

For June 10, 2025:

Good news - no homework this week!!!
At the meeting, one of our members, Ted, will present MultiDecode,
original work he has done on speeding inference, including for RAG.

Papers for June 3, 2025:

Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06795
Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05084

Paper for May 27, 2025

AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/AlphaEvolve.pdf
Blog:
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/

Paper for May 20, 2023

Qwen3 Technical Report
https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3/blob/main/Qwen3_Technical_Report.pdf
There are many YouTubes.
Also try it out (e.g. Ollama has it) or here:
https://qwen3.app/

Paper for May 13, 2025:

Flow matching for Generative Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02747
YouTube by Yannic Kilcher:
https://youtu.be/7NNxK3CqaDk
YouTube by Jia-Bin Huang (Univ. Maryland):
https://youtu.be/DDq_pIfHqLs
YouTube by Peter Abbeel (UC Berkeley):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkSDCzz41Vs
There are also other YouTubes and blogs such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMzfkWFWhI

Paper for May 6, 2025, from DeepMind:

Round and Round We Go! What makes Rotary Positional Encodings useful?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.06205
There is a YouTube from Gabriel Mongaras:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tS_bXPoriI

Paper for April 29, 2025:

Why do LLMs attend to the first token?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02732
As background, Evan Miller has a blog from 2023 on this issue and identified a simple fix:
add +1 in the transformer softmax denominators (but not to the final LLM output softmax).
https://www.evanmiller.org/attention-is-off-by-one.html
Tracing the heritage, tonight's paper on pg. 3 references Xiao 2024
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17453
and Xiao (pg. 4 & 6) notes his StreamingLLM approach for attention sinks can
(perhaps) be eliminated if one instead uses Miller's +1 softmax recommendation.
Yannic Kilcher has a YouTube on Xaio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=409tNlaByds

For April 22, 2025 we will discuss Anthropic's MCP and Google's Agent2Agent.

Anthropic MCP
https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
MCP Introduction, Tutorials, Concepts:
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
Google agent2agent
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/
A2A Technical Documentation:
https://google.github.io/A2A/#/documentation
A2A and MCP:
https://google.github.io/A2A/#/topics/a2a_and_mcp

Paper (actually a blog) for April 15, 2025:

We are continuing the discussion from last week on the recent Anthropic papers/blogs.
We are doing the second paper/blog this week:
On the Biology of a Large Language Model
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html
Yannic Kilcher has a YouTube (part 1 of 2 parts is out so far):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU3g2YPKlsA
Sabine Hossenfelder has a YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wzOetb-D3w

Paper (actually a blog) for April 8, 2025:

Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html
If you prefer reading a PDF version, try: https://webtopdf.com/
Additional background reading:
Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18654
On Limitations of the Transformer Architecture, Chapter 3 - The Impossibility of Composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08164

Paper for April 1, 2025:

Fractal Generative Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.17437
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxNuUg3aUjA
Github:
https://github.com/LTH14/fractalgen

Paper for March 25, 2025:

From superposition to sparse codes: interpretable representations in neural networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01824
There is at least one YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_i2NRr2eZA

Paper for March 18, 2025:

u-µP: The Unit-Scaled Maximal Update Parametrization
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.17465

Paper for March 11, 2025 is a blog:

The Ultra-Scale Playbook: Training LLMs on GPU Clusters
https://huggingface.co/spaces/nanotron/ultrascale-playbook
There are a number of YouTubes on this.

Paper for March 4, 2025:

MONA: Myopic Optimization with Non-myopic Approval Can Mitigate Multi-step Reward Hacking (Deepmind)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.13011
There is a blog:
https://deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com/mona-a-method-for-addressing-multi-step-reward-hacking-a31ac4b16483
There is at least one YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwqgIF3Ey8k

Paper for February 25, 2025:

Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05171

Paper for February 18, 2025:

s1: Simple test-time scaling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393
Github:
https://github.com/simplescaling/s1
There are many YouTubes, including:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tM3yc9UI84
and that YouTube mentions three similar papers published on almost the same date as the S1 paper:
Think Smarter not Harder: Adaptive Reasoning with Inference Aware Optimization (by Meta)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17974
Large Language Models Think Too Fast To Explore Effectively (Georgia Institute of Tech.)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.18009
Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of o1-Like LLMs (TenCent AI Labs)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.18585

Paper for February 11, 2025:

Large Concept Models: Language Modeling in a Sentence Representation Space
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/large-concept-models-language-modeling-in-a-sentence-representation-space/
A YouTube (many others):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwLiNTYvpPo

Paper for February 4, 2025:

Deepseek R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/DeepSeek_R1.pdf
There are many YouTubes and lots of press coverage

Base tech for R1 / background info / may also discuss if time:
Deepseek-V3 Technical Report
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/DeepSeek_V3.pdf

Other R1-related info:
Berkeley Researchers Replicate Deepseek R1's Core Tech for Just $30
https://xyzlabs.substack.com/p/berkeley-researchers-replicate-deepseek
Jiayi Pan's discussion of what he and his team did:
https://x.com/jiayi_pirate/status/1882839370505621655
Berkeley team's code:
https://github.com/Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero

Paper for January 28, 2025:

READ THIS FIRST:
This is a long paper (68 pages).
They are doing some cool, non-standard stuff with transformers.
That will be the focus of our discussion.
The "assigned reading" is Architecture, pages 21-37 (first part of Appendix), including Algorithms & Figures.
Skim the rest of the paper, as needed, to understand their context / what they are trying to do.
We may also look at their GitHub code, so you may want to take a look at that also.
---
Paper (focus on pages 21-37 - see the READ THIS above):
Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.01.600583v2 <-- note v2 at end of URL
Github for model (open source):
https://github.com/evolutionaryscale/esm
YouTube by paper author:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeqbm8a1-ZA
Project page:
ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
https://www.evolutionaryscale.ai/blog/esm3-release
Huggingface for weights (open source license for non-commercial use; commercial use requires license):
https://huggingface.co/EvolutionaryScale/esm3

Paper for January 21, 2025:

Nash Learning from Human Feedback
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.00886

Paper for January 14, 2025:

TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.23168
There are many YouTubes including by Yannic Kilcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfU5y7qCxF0
and Gabriel Mongaras:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lGgbkD6Z0I

Paper for January 7, 2025

Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02905
There is at least one YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ396Ksiv2s

======== 2024 ========

No paper or meeting for December 31, 2024 - Happy New Year!

No paper or meeting for December 24, 2024 - Happy Holidays!

Paper for Dec. 17, 2024:

Generative Reward Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12832

Paper for Dec. 10, 2024:

Grokked Transformers are Implicit Reasoners: A Mechanistic Journey to the Edge of Generalization
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.15071
Github:
https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/GrokkedTransformer
OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/forum?id=ns8IH5Sn5y

Paper for December 3, 2024:

Enhancing LLM Reasoning with Reward-guided Tree Search
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11694

Paper for November 26, 2024:

Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the Ratios of the Data Distribution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16834
YouTube (shorter):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_9wQ6LZNpI
YouTube (longer, by primary paper author):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1qv_LNjH9U
Github:
https://github.com/louaaron/Score-Entropy-Discrete-Diffusion

Paper for November 19, 2024:

We will continue the discussion of:
The Llama 3 Herd of Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21783
We will start the discussion with a focus on Sections 7 and 8 (which we didn't have time for last week).
If time permits (it likely will) we will discuss (this week's new reading "assignment"):

  • Section 3.3 through end of Section 3.3.4 (~pages 8 - 14)
  • Section 6 (all of it) (~pages 51 - 53)
  • Section 5 (skim for what whatever results catch your interest) (~pages 28 - 51)
  • Any Figures and Tables that are referenced in the above readings.
  • Anything anywhere in the paper that you want to discuss.

There are multiple YouTubes on the paper.

Paper for November 12, 2024:

The Llama 3 Herd of Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21783
This is a long paper (92 pg) so we are skipping the sections on hardware, inference and results (leaves ~30 pg to read).
Our focus is on the software and architecture, including multi-modal aspects (the "assignment").
At the meetup we will discuss the paper, not read through it. Bring your questions, comments, etc.
Anyone is welcome to attend and listen without reading the "assignment".
If nobody reads it, the meeting will be short.
On the other hand, feel free to read more than the "assignment" and to share your wider insights in the meeting!
Here is the "assigned" reading with precise Sections shown:

  • From the start through end of Section 3.2.1 (~pages 1 - 8)
  • Section 3.4 through end of Section 4.3.7 (~pages 14-28)
  • Section 7 through end of Section 7.5.7 (~pages 54-61)
  • Section 8 through end of Section 8.3.2 (~pages 63-66)
  • Any Figures and Tables that are referenced in the above readings.

A copy of the paper with the above sections marked is in this Github here:
https://github.com/davidmacmillan/DeepLearningStudyGroup/blob/master/The%20Llama%203%20Herd%20of%20Models%202407.21783v2.pdf
There are multiple YouTubes on the paper.

Paper for November 5, 2024:

Agent S: An Open Agentic Framework that Uses Computers Like a Human
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.08164v1
Github:
https://github.com/simular-ai/Agent-S
There are a number of YouTubes on this paper.

Paper for October 29, 2024:

nGPT: Normalized Transformer with Representation Learning on the Hypersphere
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.01131
There appear to be multiple YouTubes.

Paper for October 22, 2024:

Open discussion of AI coding assist & AI coding completion tools people have used, and their assessment of them.
Interested in the full range of people's experiences with AI code tools: for code creation, code completion (copiloting), code debugging, and code refactoring.
Examples of code welcome but not required.

Paper for October 15, 2024:

Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.02543
Tweet:
https://x.com/YanboZhang3/status/1843134007892176995
Github:
https://github.com/Zhangyanbo/diffusion-evolution
At least one YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9gtg6N79U

Paper for October 8, 2024

Scaling Scaling Laws with Board Games
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.03113

Paper for October 1, 2024:

Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08921
YouTube (in Mandarin) (but click CC, then the Gear, then subtitles, then English):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OsVlbhMkek

For September 24, 2024:

Writing in the Margins: Better Inference Pattern for Long Context Retrieval
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.14906

Paper for September 17, 2024

Diffusion Models Learn Low-Dimensional Distributions via Subspace Clustering∗
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2409.02426

Paper for September 10, 2024

Paper for September 10, 2024
Unexpected Benefits of Self-Modeling in Neural Systems
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.10188
YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvHZ0nk8O5I

Paper for September 3, 2024

We are continuing the discussion of the paper from August 20, 2024:
The Remarkable Robustness of LLMs: Stages of Inference?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19384

Paper for August 27, 2024:

*** This is a long paper! Focus on pages 1-21 and skim Appendix D.8 as a representative output. ***
The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.06292
Enticing or disturbing tweet:
https://x.com/Simeon_Cps/status/1823207094318735527
Blog:
https://sakana.ai/ai-scientist/
Github:
https://github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scientist

Paper for August 20, 2024:

The Remarkable Robustness of LLMs: Stages of Inference?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19384

Paper for August 13, 2024:

Segment 2 Anything (arXiv version):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00714
Additional resources - Meta's Blog:
https://ai.meta.com/sam2/
Meta's Interactive Demo:
https://sam2.metademolab.com/
Meta's Announcement:
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/sam-2-segment-anything-in-images-and-videos/
Github:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything-2
There are a number of YouTube videos.

Paper for August 6, 2024

TextGrad: Automatic "Differentiation" via Text
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07496
Github:
https://github.com/zou-group/textgrad
Many YouTubes including:
https://youtu.be/Qks4UEsRwl0

Paper for July 30, 2024

The paper for July 30, 2024 is:
DETRs Beat YOLOs on Real-time Object Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08069
Additional Background Materials - Project page:
https://zhao-yian.github.io/RTDETR/
Video (demo only):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbaLWroPYbo
Github:
https://github.com/lyuwenyu/RT-DETR
Background video on normal DETR by Meta (creator also has videos on other object detection models):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2f4w54fSsM

Paper for July 23, 2024

When Can LLMs Actually Correct Their Own Mistakes? A Critical Survey of Self-Correction of LLMs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01297

Paper for July 16, 2024

xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04517
YouTube (Yannic Kilcher)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OaEv1a5jUM
YouTube (Gabriel Mongaras)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ND8lU2aN_k
Medium article
https://medium.com/@AIBites/xlstm-extended-long-short-term-memory-networks-c4ba34fdd98d

For July 9, 2024:

6:30 PM - face-to-face get together & casual sit-down dinner. No paper this week.
At: Agave Mexican Bistro, 194 Castro Street, Mountain View, California 94041.

Paper for July 2, 2024:

Paper: Banishing LLM Hallucinations Requires Rethinking Generalization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17642
Github:
https://github.com/lamini-ai/

Paper for June 25, 2024:

Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16236
YouTube by Yannic Kilcher on paper (may be others):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAooAOFRsYc

Paper for June 18, 2024:

Transformers are SSMs: Generalized Models and Efficient Algorithms Through Structured State Space Duality (Mamba 2)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.21060
This blog:
https://gonzoml.substack.com/p/mamba-2-is-here
and the 4 referenced blogs starting here:
https://goombalab.github.io/blog/2024/mamba2-part1-model/
are more approachable.

For June 11, 2024, will continue with the paper (blog):

"Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet"
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticity/index.html
Tweet thread / overview & highlights:
https://x.com/mlpowered/status/1792948212728524917

Our paper for June 4, 2024 is a blog:

"Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet"
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticity/index.html
Tweet thread / overview & highlights:
https://x.com/mlpowered/status/1792948212728524917
Good video on this week's paper (blog):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ZXFl3rQlQ

Paper for May 28, 2024

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.07987
Github / project page:
https://phillipi.github.io/prh/
Github with their code:
https://github.com/minyoungg/platonic-rep
There are also a number of YouTubes that discuss the paper.

For May 21, 2024:

Instead of a paper, we are going to go through Andrej Karpathy's YouTube video on creating transformer code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
Have the colab or github code loaded on your PC before, ready to go through, so you don't have to type it in during our session.
Colab:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1JMLa53HDuA-i7ZBmqV7ZnA3c_fvtXnx-
Github:
https://github.com/karpathy/ng-video-lecture

Paper for May 14, 2024:

KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19756

Paper for May 7, 2024:

iTransformer: Inverted Transformers Are Effective for Time Series Forecasting
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06625.pdf

Paper for April 30, 2024:

Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07815
There is a YouTube on the paper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKKWCqABspw

Paper for April 23, 2024:

Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07143.pdf

April 16, 2024

From DeepMind, on their generalized AI that can play arbitrary video games, Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent (SIMA AI).
Paper: Scaling Instructable Agents Across Many Simulated Worlds
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/sima-generalist-ai-agent-for-3d-virtual-environments/Scaling%20Instructable%20Agents%20Across%20Many%20Simulated%20Worlds.pdf

Additional resources:
Deepmind blog:
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/sima-generalist-ai-agent-for-3d-virtual-environments/
2 minute paper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U_Q2Lmnq_c
Longer YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKkfRu6dz4

April 9, 2024

Cancelled

April 2, 2024

Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.13187.pdf

March 26, 2024

Solving Olympiad Geometry Without Human Demonstrations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5

There are a number of YouTubes, including:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZobxevIJQ7A
and (Yannic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNK4nfgNQpM

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Interpretability in the Wild: a Circuit for Indirect Object Identification in GPT-2 small
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00593

Additional material - YouTube with the authors (in 2 parts):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzwj0jWbvbo
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9xfYBKIaX4

Still want more? Two more YouTubes by the YouTube channel owner, Neel Nanda, on his research, inspired by this week's paper.
(Neel is head of DeepMind's interoperability team - see https://www.neelnanda.io/about)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tzXelUTLo
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiHRceW-19U

Tuesday March 12, 2024

A Review of Sparse Expert Models in Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.01667.pdf

Background paper:
Twenty Years of Mixture of Experts
https://www.ee.hacettepe.edu.tr/~eyuksel/Publications/2012_TwentyYearsofMixtureofExperts.pdf

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Look Before You Leap: A Universal Emergent Decomposition of Retrieval Tasks in Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10091

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Representation Engineering draws on insights from cognitive neuroscience to engineer neural representations, rather than neurons or circuits. Rep. Eng. can be used to apply a control vector during inference to change or limit a model's behavior.
Paper:
Representation Engineering - a Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.01405.pdf

Additional background info:
Blog:
Representation Engineering Mistral-7B an Acid Trip
https://vgel.me/posts/representation-engineering/
Another blog:
Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5spBue2z2tw4JuDCx/steering-gpt-2-xl-by-adding-an-activation-vector
Third blog:
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-road-to-honest-ai
Github:
https://github.com/andyzoujm/representation-engineering
Github - Python library
https://github.com/vgel/repeng/

Tuesday February 20, 2024:

Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494

Tuesday, February 13, 2024:

Mistral 7B
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06825.pdf
Mixtral of Experts
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04088.pdf

Optional:
There are many YouTubes on each, including by Yannic Kilcher.
There are download-and-run llamafile quantized versions of Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B at:
https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
(Mac and Linux, Windows has a few very minor additional steps.)

Tueday, February 6, 2024

Why think step by step - Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03843.pdf

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.18290.pdf

Optional:
There are lots of YouTubes on DPO to choose from.

A related github by lucidrains:
https://github.com/lucidrains/self-rewarding-lm-pytorch

A couple of more recent related papers:
Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.01335v1.pdf
and
Self-Rewarding Language Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.10020.pdf

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

"Latent Consistency Models: Synthesizing High-Resolution Images with Few-Step Inference
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.04378.pdf
Additional background items:
There is at least one YouTube on this paper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT3JWNz0Il8
Huggingface demos:
https://huggingface.co/collections/latent-consistency/latent-consistency-model-demos-654e90c52adb0688a0acbe6f
LCM-LoRA: A Universal Stable-Diffusion Acceleration Module
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05556

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Consistency Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01469
There are also multiple YouTubes on Consistency Models.

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2312/2312.00752.pdf
A few optional videos (likely are others too):
Video: https://youtu.be/ouF-H35atOY?si=BFQ_PTVfhfNXBLPb
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouF-H35atOY

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

The Clock and the Pizza: Two Stories in Mechanistic Explanation of Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17844.pdf


======== 2023 ========

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

paper: MemGPT -Towards LLMs as an Operating System https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.08560.pdf
Blog w MemBPT - https://memgpt.ai/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQmZmFERmrg

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

paper:
CLUSTERFORMER: Clustering As A Universal Visual Learner
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=S1KGaTSOTS

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

paper:
An Emulator for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models using Small Language Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.12962.pdf

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

paper:
From attribution maps to human-understandable explanations through Concept Relevance Propagation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00711-8

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

paper: Liquid Structural State-Space Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.12951.pdf

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

paper: Liquid Time-Constant Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04439
youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlliqYiRhMU
shorter video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI35E5ewBuI

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

paper
3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04079
youtubes: Superb 2 minute video on paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVv_IQKlafQ
Siggraph 2023 talk on paper - this is 5 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_kXY43VZnk&t=3s
Author's blog, including links to code:
https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/

Tuesday, October 3 , 2023

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04035 Relating transformers to models and neural representations of the hippocampal formation
another paper:
https://amygdala.psychdept.arizona.edu/labspace/JclubLabMeetings/JeanMarc-Build-cognitive-maps.pdf - How to build a cognitive map
YouTubes:
How Your Brain Organizes Information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qOaII_PzGY&t=413s
Can We Build an Artificial Hippocampus?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufOEzoVMVA
The Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine: Unifying Space and Relational Memory through Generalization in the Hippocampal Formation
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31388-X

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

paper:
3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/par/Perfusion/

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

paper:
Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.09276.pdf
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHMjCtuPuo
blog:
https://imagic-editing.github.io/

Tuesday, Sept 12, 2023

LongNet: Scaling Transformers to 1,000,000,000 Tokens
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02486
Blog:
https://syncedreview.com/2023/07/10/microsofts-longnet-scales-transformer-to-one-billion-tokens

Tuesday, Sept 5, 2023

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08708.pdf

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

paper:
A Theory for Emergence of Complex Skills in Language Models and video
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15936.pdf
youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D23NeBjCeQ

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Paper: Neural Laplace: Learning diverse classes of differential equations in the Laplace domain
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.04843.pdf Slides and video from ICML 2022:
https://icml.cc/virtual/2022/oral/16728

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03296 - Studying Large Language Model Generalization with Influence Functions
blog: https://www.anthropic.com/index/influence-functions

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

paper: Music Generations https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05284.pdf
blog: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/08/audiocraft-generative-ai-for-music-and-audio/
blog: https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiocraft-musicgen-audiogen-encodec-generative-ai-audio/

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10343 Towards Understanding Grokking: An Effective Theory of Representation Learning
blog: https://ericjmichaud.com/grokking-squared/
blog: https://www.beren.io/2022-01-11-Grokking-Grokking/
blog: https://www.beren.io/2022-04-17-Understanding_Overparametrized_Generalization/

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

paper: Mixture of experts (similar to chatGPT4): https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14705

blog: Mixture-of-Experts with Expert Choice Routing -
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/mixture-of-experts-with-expert-choice.html

blot: Introducing Pathways: A next-generation AI architecture
https://blog.google/technology/ai/introducing-pathways-next-generation-ai-architecture/

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

We're going to cover Chapter 16 Deep Networks for Classification from the following book:
https://book-wright-ma.github.io/Book-WM-20210422.pdf - High dimensional Data Analysis with Low Dimensional Models blog: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-and-single-pixel-cameras/#more-25

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

We're going to cover the 4th chapter of this book.
https://book-wright-ma.github.io/Book-WM-20210422.pdf - High dimensional Data Analysis with Low Dimensional Models

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

We're going to cover the 1st chapter of this book.
https://book-wright-ma.github.io/Book-WM-20210422.pdf - High dimensional Data Analysis with Low Dimensional Models
Blog: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-and-single-pixel-cameras/#more-25

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17126.pdf - Large Language Models as Tool Makers
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWI1AJ2nSDY
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXlPzMRTfMk
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srDVNbxPgZI

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Consciousness as a Memory System https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36178498/

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08838
Blog: https://www.uber.com/blog/intrinsic-dimension/
more good stuff on intrinsic dimension:
Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11873-y
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_dimension
Application - Yann LeCun at 57:15 on does text fully represent world model?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGzMElJ11Cc
vs. differing view from Ilya Sutskever at 15:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhIlw3Iffs
Applying intrinsic dimension to scaling laws in training / loss:
https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume23/20-1111/20-1111.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06701

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.16291.pdf
Twit: Tweet with nice overview by author https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1662117784023883777
Code: https://github.com/MineDojo/Voyager
website: https://voyager.minedojo.org/

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15556.pdf - Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
blog: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinchilla-s-wild-implications
blog: https://www.harmdevries.com/post/model-size-vs-compute-overhead/
google blog: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/googles-palm-2-uses-nearly-five-times-more-text-data-than-predecessor.html

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09720 - The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.17323.pdf - GPTQ: ACCURATE POST-TRAINING QUANTIZATION FOR GENERATIVE PRE-TRAINED TRANSFORMERS

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685.pdf - LORA: LOW-RANK ADAPTATION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03629.pdf - REACT: SYNERGIZING REASONING AND ACTING IN LANGUAGE MODELS
paper: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/locality-sensitive-hashing/

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.11903.pdf - Chain of thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models.
paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03629.pdf - REACT: SYNERGIZING REASONING AND ACTING IN LANGUAGE MODELS
paper: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/locality-sensitive-hashing/

Wednesday, Apr 26, 2023

https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/agents.html
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03629.pdf - REACT: SYNERGIZING REASONING AND ACTING IN LANGUAGE MODELS
https://www.pinecone.io/learn/locality-sensitive-hashing/

Wednesday, Apr 19, 2023

Blog: https://yoheinakajima.com/task-driven-autonomous-agent-utilizing-gpt-4-pinecone-and-langchain-for-diverse-applications/
Code: https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain

Wednesday, Apr 12, 2023

Paper: Eliciting Latent Predictions from Transformers with the Tuned Lens https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08112

Wednesday, Apr 5, 2023

Paper: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=lMMaNf6oxKM - Recipe for a General, Powerful, Scalable Graph Transformer
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiLSCReBaTg

Wednesday, Mar 29, 2023

Paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/f1c1592588411002af340cbaedd6fc33-Abstract.html - Do Transformers Really Perform Badly for Graph Representation?
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKuQpPIRjLk - review by authors
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ5ltOOxoFg

Wednesday, Mar 22, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07359 - Post-hoc Uncertainty Learning using a Dirichlet Meta-Model
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE8XJ1f0zO0

Wednesday, Mar 15, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05262 - Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT
blog: https://rome.baulab.info/
Yannic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMQyOu2HTo

Wednesday, Mar 8, 2023

Paper: Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.07608.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2hOWShiYoM
https://sites.google.com/view/adaptive-agent/

Wednesday, Mar 1, 2023

Paper: Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

Wednesday, Feb 22, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155.pdf - Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.15664.pdf - OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer

Wednesday, Feb 8, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06175 - A generalist agent - Gato
YouTube: Eden Mayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQJZHfAg18
YouTube - Jay Alamar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT6DYKgWNHg
YouTube - Lex Fridman and Oriol Vinyals on How Gato Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwB9zO2h9j0
Overview - main site on Gato at Deepmind https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent
blog review - https://arshren.medium.com/deep-minds-generalist-agent-gato-209969e12782

Wednesday, Feb 1, 2023

Paper: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=M95oDwJXayG - ADDRESSING PARAMETER CHOICE ISSUES IN UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION BY AGGREGATION

Wednesday, Jan 25, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04104v1.pdf - Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
Blog: https://danijar.com/project/dreamerv3/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpZu0R1s1Y

Wednesday, Jan 18, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04089 - Composable NN: Editing Models With Task Arithmetic

Wednesday, Jan 11, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06690.pdf - DeepPath: A Reinforcement Learning Method for Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04458 - GENERAL-PURPOSE IN-CONTEXT LEARNING BY META-LEARNING TRANSFORMERS


======== 2022 ========

Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.04836.pdf - Git Re-Basin: Merging Models modulo Permutation Symmetries

Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09855 - Infinite Nature: Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from a Single Image
blog: https://infinite-nature.github.io/

Wednesday, Dec 7, 2022

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00364 - Elucidating the Design Space of Diffusion-Based Generative Models
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYiQctx7kDE

Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.10991.pdf - Graph Neural Networks as Gradient Flows: understanding graph convolutions via energy
youtube (author): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgTTtmwOMgE
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmI4C6AodEQ

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022

paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2016239118
video: https://slideslive.com/38942412/biological-structure-and-function-emerge-from-scaling-unsupervised-learning-to-250-million-protein-sequences

Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11178.pdf - Poisson Flow Generative Models

Wednesday, Nov 2, 2022

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.12892.pdf - LEARNING TO LEARN WITH GENERATIVE MODELS OF NEURAL NETWORK CHECKPOINTS
blog: https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/10/21/latest-machine-learning-research-at-uc-berkeley-proposes-a-way-to-design-a-learned-optimizer-using-generative-models-of-neural-network-checkpoints/
author blog: https://www.wpeebles.com/Gpt.html

Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022

paper: Cellular automata as convolutional neural networks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.02942.pdf
survey: Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning: A Survey of Recent Developments https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.14377
demo: Self-classifying MNIST Digits https://distill.pub/2020/selforg/mnist/

Wednesday, Oct 19, 2022

paper: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/zhu22c/zhu22c.pdf - Neural-Symbolic Models for Logical Queries on Knowledge Graphs

Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.02768.pdf - The Neural Covariance SDE: Shaped Infinite Depth-and-Width Networks at Initialization

Wednesday, Oct 5, 2022

paper: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2019/file/952285b9b7e7a1be5aa7849f32ffff05-Paper.pdf - Legendre Memory Units: Continuous-Time

Wednesday, Sept 28, 2022

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.01618.pdf - An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion
githup.io: https://textual-inversion.github.io/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3oXa7_SYek

Wednesday, Sept 21, 2022

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.14415.pdf - Non-stationary Transformers: Rethinking the Stationarity in Time Series Forecasting

Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02402 - Language Modeling using LMUs: 10x Better Data Efficiency or Improved Scaling Compared to Transformers
youtube vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t64QaTdBcU

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Paper: HOW NEURAL NETWORKS EXTRAPOLATE: FROM FEEDFORWARD TO GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.11848.pdf

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Paper: Masked Siamese Networks for Label-Efficient Learning - https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07141

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Paper: Principle of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08558
ReduNet: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.10446.pdf
Github: https://github.com/ryanchankh/mcr2

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Paper: On the Principles of Parsimony and Self-Consistency for the Emergence of Intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04630
Background: On the Principles of Parsimony and Self-Consistency for the Emergence of Intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04630
Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIVcfZeR1CE youtube by author
Background: https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Deep_Networks_from_First_Principles.pdf - slides by author

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Paper: Data Distributional Properties Drive Emergent In-Context Learning in Transformers https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05055.pdf

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Paper: A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html#model-simplifications

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Paper: A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html#model-simplifications

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361 - Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Blog: https://medium.com/nlplanet/two-minutes-nlp-scaling-laws-for-neural-language-models-add6061aece7

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11795 - Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos
https://github.com/openai/Video-Pre-Training
Yannic Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz5yZc9ULAc

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.00966.pdf - Translating Images into Maps

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09665 - Automated Crossword Solving

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.10824.pdf - ReLU Fields: The Little Non-linearity That Could

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06810 - Understanding Self-Supervised Learning Dynamics without Contrastive Pairs

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.06175.pdf - A Generalist Agent
Blog: https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.05780.pdf - A Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=M752z9FKJP - LEARNING STRIDES IN CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=b-ny3x071E5 - BOOTSTRAPPED META-LEARNING

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06991 - Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7mUYocWdG0 - Yannic author interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlB0TPBQ7YY - Yannic on Transformer paper

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06125 - Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents
https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ - OpenAI blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4xgkjWlfL4 - yannic video

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.00020.pdf - Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LUWWAnK_Ks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X3EY2Fgp3g

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.13985.pdf - Combining Recurrent, Convolutional, and Continuous-time Models with Linear State-Space Layers

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.00666.pdf - Typical Decoding for Natural Language Generation

https://youtu.be/_EDr3ryrT_Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvHLJqtmQkE

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.04906.pdf - VICREG: VARIANCE-INVARIANCE-COVARIANCE REGULARIZATION FOR SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKDNmOJ67Q

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

https://openreview.net/forum?id=4orlVaC95Bo - Task-Agnostic Undesirable Feature Deactivation Using Out-of-Distribution Data

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03466 - Tensor Programs V: Tuning Large Neural Networks via Zero-Shot Hyperparameter Transfer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNOJQINH-qw

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12122 - Can Wikipedia Help Offline Reinforcement Learning?
Yannic's talk on this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHGh19Hbx48
and he also has a followon video interview with the authors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNDVy_BR8aA

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03342.pdf - A Survey of Uncertainty in Deep Neural Networks

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.08239v2.pdf - LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 -

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=TrjbxzRcnf- MEMORIZING TRANSFORMERS

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.07644.pdf - A Continuized View on Nesterov Acceleration for Stochastic Gradient Descent and Randomized Gossip

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.08052.pdf - Moser Flow: Divergence-based Generative Modeling on Manifolds

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 -

https://dylandoblar.github.io/noether-networks/ - Noether Networks: meta-learning useful conserved quantities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp3jR-ttMfo

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.15277.pdf - Class-incremental learning: survey and performance evaluation on image classification

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 -

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11287 - Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases

Wednesday, January 5, 2022 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.09252.pdf - Improving Graph Neural Network Expressivity via Subgraph Isomorphism Counting


======== 2021 ========

Wednesday, December 29, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.04426.pdf - Improving Language Models by Retrieving from Trillions of Tokens

https://www.deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/improving-language-models-by-retrieving-from-trillions-of-tokens

Wednesday, December 22, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01798 - Implicit MLE: Backpropagating Through Discrete Exponential Family Distributions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2UT8NjUqrk

Wednesday, December 15, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01073.pdf - Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equations

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 -

https://openreview.net/forum?id=HfpNVDg3ExA OpenReviewOpenReview Probabilistic Transformer For Time Series Analysis

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.03922.pdf - NEURAL TANGENT KERNEL EIGENVALUES ACCURATELY PREDICT GENERALIZATION

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.00681.pdf - NeuralRecon: Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video

https://github.com/zju3dv/NeuralRecon

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.09485.pdf - Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.02355.pdf - A Farewell to the Bias-Variance Tradeoff? An Overview of the Theory of Overparameterized Machine Learning

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.09011.pdf - Improved Techniques for Training Score-Based Generative Models

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05929 - Dataset Condensation with Gradient Matching

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10959 - Dataset distillation

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.13216.pdf - Learning to Learn Single Domain Generalization

Wednesday, September 15, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.11482.pdf - ETA Prediction with Graph Neural Networks in Google Maps

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 -

https://cascaded-diffusion.github.io/assets/cascaded_diffusion.pdf - Cascaded Diffusion Models for High Fidelity Image Generation

Wednesday, September 1, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06277.pdf - Why Generalization in RL is Difficult: Epistemic POMDPs and Implicit Partial Observability

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07732 - Program Synthesis with Large Models

Wednesday, August 18, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13349 - Solving Mixed Integer Programs Using Neural Networks

Wednesday, August 11, 2021 -

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2 - DeepFold

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 -

Alphafold - blog https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2 supplemental info https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-021-03819-2/MediaObjects/41586_2021_3819_MOESM1_ESM.pdf

Wednesday, July 21, 2021 -

https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-supermodel-deepmind-perceiver-is-a-step-on-the-road-to-an-ai-machine-that-could-process-everything/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03206

Wednesday, July 14, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.03585.pdf (Deep Unsupervised Learning using Non equilibrium Thermodynamics) by Surya Ganguli at Stanford

Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.05233.pdf - Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11239.pdf - Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03409 - Learning mesh-based simulation with graph networks

https://sites.google.com/view/learning-to-simulate

https://deepmind.com/research/publications/Learning-to-Simulate-Complex-Physics-with-Graph-Networks

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.01345.pdf - Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-buULmf7dec

https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/decision-transformer

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.07945.pdf - Learning One Representation to Optimize All Rewards

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 -

https://distill.pub/2021/multimodal-neurons/ - Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks

https://openai.com/blog/clip/ - CLIP: Connecting Text and Images

Wednesday, May 26, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.14294.pdf - Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/dino-paws-computer-vision-with-self-supervised-transformers-and-10x-more-efficient-training/

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.10558.pdf - Contingencies from Observations: Tractable ContingencyPlanning with Learned Behavior Models

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.09055.pdf - DARTS: Differentiable Architecture Search (ICLR 2019)

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.06644.pdf - Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis:Order Word Matters Pre-training for Little

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.03717.pdf - Hierarchical message passing graph neural networks

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.03230v1.pdf - Barlow Twins: Self-Supervised Learning via Redundancy Reduction

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.14770.pdf - Categorical representation learning: morphism is all you need

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.12736v1.pdf - Time-Series Imputation with Wasserstein Interpolation for Optimal Look-Ahead-Bias and Variance Tradeoff

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 -

https://awacrl.github.io/ - Accelerating online reinforcement learning with offline datasets

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.12092.pdf - Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation

https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 -

https://giotto-ai.github.io/gtda-docs/latest/notebooks/gravitational_waves_detection.html

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.08602.pdf - Modeling long-range interactions without attention

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.08692.pdf - Characterizing signal propagation to close the performance gap in unnormalized resnets

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.10742.pdf - Learning Invariant Representations forReinforcement Learning without Reconstruction

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.13544.pdf - Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and Search for Imperfect-Information Games

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11929.pdf - An image is worth 16x16 words: transformers for image recognition at scale

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02821 - What went wrong and when? Instance-wise feature importance for time-series black-box models

Wednesday, January 20, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.09363.pdf - Temporal Fusion Transformersfor Interpretable Multi-horizon Time Series Forecasting

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 -

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10403 - Neural Jump Stochastic Differential Equations

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 -

http://implicit-layers-tutorial.org/neural_odes/ - We're continuing this from last week. This week we'll cover Ch 3,4,5.


======== 2020 ========

Wednesday, December 30, 2020 -

http://implicit-layers-tutorial.org/ - NeurIPS tutorial on deep implicit networks

Wednesday, December 23, 2020 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.03907.pdf - Latent ODEs for Irregularly-Sampled Time Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOkH339Wucs

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 -

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2020/file/08425b881bcde94a383cd258cea331be-Paper.pdf - Ridge Rider: Finding Diverse Solutions by FollowingEigenvectors of the Hessian

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 -

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/28e209b61a52482a0ae1cb9f5959c792-Paper.pdf “OOD-MAML: Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection and Classification"

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.02421.pdf - ONE-SHOT CONDITIONAL AUDIO FILTERING OF ARBITRARY SOUNDS

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.14498.pdf - Implicit under-parametrization inhibits data efficient deep reinforcement learning

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.03759.pdf - Energy-based Out-of-distribution Detection

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01643 - offline reinforcement learning - tutorial review and perspectives on open problems

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.12981.pdf - Parametric UMAP: Learning embeddings with deep neural networks for representation and semi-supervised learning

Wednesday, OCtober 7, 2020

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.12981.pdf - Parametric UMAP: Learning embeddings with deep neural networks for representation and semi-supervised learning Some reference material and a cool movie; https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05316 category theory book https://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/teaching/sp18/ the class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6iPZVUxZU

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.02217.pdf - Hopfield Networks is All You Need

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 and Wednesday September 16, 2020

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02762.pdf - Normalizing Flows for Probabilistic Modeling and Inference

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.02168.pdf - Scalable Differentiable Physics for Learning and Control

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.11239v3 Tossingbot

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.05709.pdf - A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.11089.pdf - Rewriting History with Inverse RL: Hindsight Inference for Policy Improvement

Mar 11, 2020 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.11089.pdf - Rewriting History with Inverse RL: Hindsight Inference for Policy Improvement

Mar 4, 2020 - Hacker Dojo

https://www.osapublishing.org/DirectPDFAccess/C6D6B2C3-953C-4461-695B6E5E2F993943_415059/prj-7-8-823.pdf?da=1&id=415059&seq=0&mobile=no --Nanophotonic media for artificial neural inference

Feb 19, 2020 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.02789.pdf - Language is Power: Representing States Using Natural Language in Reinforcement Learning

Feb 12, 2020 - Hacker Dojo

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-scientific-discovery - Protein folding paper.

Feb 5, 2020 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04451 Reformer, the efficient transformer
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/reformer-efficient-transformer.html

Jan 22, 2020 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05717.pdf - Unsupervised Monocular Depth and Ego-motion Learning with Structure and Semantics

Jan 15, 2020 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.09524.pdf - Evolving ab initio trading strategies in heterogeneous environments

Jan 8, 2020 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.05892.pdf - Reinforcement Learning for Market Making in Multi-agent Dealer Market


======== 2019 ========

Dec 18, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1724-z.epdf?author_access_token=lZH3nqPYtWJXfDA10W0CNNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PSZcPzJFGNAZhOlk4deBCKzKm70KfinloafEF1bCCXL6IIHHgKaDkaTkBcTEv7aT-wqDoG1VeO9-wO3GEoAMF9bAOt7mJ0RWQnRVMbyfgH9A%3D%3D
https://www.gwern.net/docs/rl/2019-vinyals.pdf
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaStar-Grandmaster-level-in-StarCraft-II-using-multi-agent-reinforcement-learning

Nov 20, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.04252.pdf - Self-training with Noisy Student improves ImageNet classification

Nov 13, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.12713.pdf - Few-shot video-video synthesis

Nov 6, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11883.pdf - Unsupervised learning of Object Keypoints for Perception and Control

Oct 30, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.03748.pdf - Emergent Complexity via Multi-Agent Competition
https://openai.com/blog/competitive-self-play/

Oct 23, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04908.pdf - Emergence of Grounded Compositional Language in Multi-Agent Populations

Oct 16, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.07528.pdf - Emergent tool use from multi agent autocurricula
https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/

Oct 9, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.00949.pdf - Machine Teaching in Hierarchical Genetic Reinforcement Learning: Curriculum Design of Reward Functions for Swarm Shepherding

Sept 25, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.01729.pdf - Boltzman Generators - Sampling equilibrium states of many body systems with deep learning

Sept 18, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.10599.pdf - Fine Grained Spectral Perspective on Neural Networks

Sept 11, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.08237.pdf - XLNet Generalized autoregressive pretraining for language understanding

Sept 4, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.09272.pdf - Data efficient image recognition with contrastive predictive coding.

August 21, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.10509.pdf - Generating long sequences with sparse transformers

August 14, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.03748.pdf - Representation learning with contrastive predictive coding.

July 31, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.08253.pdf - When to trust your model: model-based policy optimization

July 24, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.09321.pdf - Fixup initialization - residual learning without normalization

July 17, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/mahoney19a/mahoney19a.pdf - Traditional and heavy tailed self regularization in neural net models

July 3, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.08838.pdf - Measuring intrinsic dimension of objective landscapes

June 19, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09536 - Ordered Neurons: Integrating Tree Structures into Recurrent Neural Networks

June 12, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.05159.pdf - An empirical study of example forgetting during neural network training.

June 5, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.00417.pdf - Snorkel Drybell - A case study in weak supervision at industrial scale
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.04981.pdf - Modelling instance level annotator reliability for natural language labelling

May 29, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.09321.pdf - Fixup Initialization: Residual Learning without Normalization

May 22, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/language_models_are_unsupervised_multitask_learners.pdf - Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners.

May 15, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.00995.pdf - Invertible Residual Networks

Apr 29, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01681.pdf - Augmented Neural ODE's

Apr 8, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.00596.pdf - Comprehensive Survey of Graph Neural Nets
https://github.com/rusty1s/pytorch_geometric

Apr 1, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.00596.pdf - Comprehensive Survey of Graph Neural Nets

Mar 25, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7539-optimal-algorithms-for-non-smooth-distributed-optimization-in-networks.pdf - nips award winner

Mar 18, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/8200-non-delusional-q-learning-and-value-iteration.pdf - Non-delusional Q-learning and Value Iteration

Mar 11, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf - attention is all you need - Vaswani https://github.com/jadore801120/attention-is-all-you-need-pytorch - easier to read code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0KakHcj_rs
https://tdls.a-i.science/events/2018-10-22/
https://tdls.a-i.science/events/2019-02-04/
http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/2018/04/03/attention.html

Mar 4, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02643.pdf - Re-evalating Evaluation

Feb 25, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.11951.pdf - Learning to Design RNA

Feb 11, 2019 - Hacker Dojo -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02860.pdf - Transformer XL - Attentive Language Models, Beyond a fixed length context

Feb 4, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06646.pdf - Model Free Adaptive Optimal Control of Sequential Manufacturing Process Using Reinforcement Learning

January 28, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.07366.pdf - Neural Ordinary Differential Equations - Top paper NIPS2019

January 21, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05312.pdf - Successor Features for Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/schaul15.pdf - Universal Value Function Approximators
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/barreto18a/barreto18a.pdf - Transfer in deep reinforcement learning using successor features and generalised policy improvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDCPHekLUI4&t=1053s - Tom Schaul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCHwXxSW70o - Tejas Kulkarni

January 14, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.07626.pdf - Universal Successor Features Approximators

January 7, 2019 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.12715.pdf - On the Effectiveness of Interval Bound Propagation for Training Verifiably Robust Models


======== 2018 ========

December 17, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=S1x4ghC9tQ - Temporal Difference Variational Autoencoder

December 10, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=S1JHhv6TW - Boosting Dilated Convolution with Mixed Tensor Decompositions

December 3, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01208.pdf - The case for learned index structures

November 26, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07402 - Generalization properties of nn - Socher
https://einstein.ai/research/blog/identifying-generalization-properties-in-neural-networks - blog for above paper

November 19, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.05983.pdf - Disentangling by Factorising
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.00104.pdf - Learning Disentangled Joint, Discrete and Continuous Representations
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.05520.pdf - Deep Clustering for Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features
https://github.com/1Konny/FactorVAE
https://github.com/paruby/FactorVAE
https://github.com/nicolasigor/FactorVAE

November 12, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.12894.pdf - Exploration by Random Network Distillation - OpenAI

November 5, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805.pdf - Pre-trainged bi directional transformers for language translation

October 22, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.02613.pdf - Characterizing Adversarial Examples using Local Intrinsic Dimensionality

October 15, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.06670.pdf - Learning Deep Representations by Mutual Estimation Estimation and Maximization - Hjelm, Bengio

October 8, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.04364.pdf - Junction Tree Variational Auto-Encoder for Molecular Graph Generation
http://snap.stanford.edu/proj/embeddings-www/files/nrltutorial-part2-gnns.pdf

October 1, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.06601.pdf - Video to video synthesis https://github.com/NVIDIA/vid2vid - code

September 24, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.03146.pdf - Discovery of 3d keypoints from 2d image

September 17, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02371 - PWC-Net: CNNs for Optical Flow Using Pyramid, Warping, and Cost Volume," by Deqing Sun et al. (CVPR 2018) Phil Ferrier will present the paper and run though his code for us. Phil's code is on his github reop:
https://github.com/philferriere/tfoptflow

September 10, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.03247.pdf - Intriguing failure (and improvement) to CNN for determining rotations.

September 3, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03324.pdf - Learning Deep Generative Models of Graphs

August 27, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10082 - Optimally decentralized multi-robot collision avoidance w reinforcement learning.

https://github.com/TensorSwarm/TensorSwarm - Andreas Pasternak code for above

August 13, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/openai-assets/research-covers/learning-dexterity/learning-dexterity-paper.pdf -Robot doing single hand manipulations.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/30/17621112/openai-robot-dexterity-dactyl-artificial-intelligence

July 30, 2018 - Hacker Dojo -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.03953.pdf - Breaking the softmax bottleneck
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.10829.pdf - SigSoftMax: Reanalyzing the softmax bottleneck
https://severelytheoretical.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/the-softmax-bottleneck-is-a-special-case-of-a-more-general-phenomenon/

July 23, 2018 - Hacker Dojo -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.01281.pdf - Human level performance in first person multiplayer games with population reinforcement learning.
https://deepmind.com/blog/capture-the-flag/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=steioHoiEms
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09846v2
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.05397.pdf

July 16, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.10122.pdf - schmidhuber paper on RL

July 9, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://deepmind.com/research/publications/neural-scene-representation-and-rendering/ - Rendering 3d scene

July 2, 2018 - Hacker Dojo -

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06347.pdf - Proximal Optimization Policies

June 25, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BJOFETxR- - Learning to represent programs with graphs

June 18, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BkisuzWRW - Zero Shot Visual Imitation - Reinforcement Learning

June 11, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://openreview.net/forum?id=HkL7n1-0b - Wasserstein Auto Encoders - one of ICLR top papers.

June 4, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Hy7fDog0b - Ambient GAN - Generative Models from Lossy Measurements - ICLR top paper

May 21, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/ai-trained-to-navigate-develops-brain-like-location-tracking/ - Grid representations in rat brain
https://deepmind.com/documents/200/Banino_at_al_final.pdf --
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0102-6 --

May 14, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.06567.pdf - Deep Neuroevolution: Genetic Algorithms are a Competitive Alternative for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.06560.pdf - Improving Exploration in Evolution Strategies for Deep Reinforcement Learning via a Population of Novelty-Seeking Agents
https://eng.uber.com/deep-neuroevolution/ - Uber engineering blog post

May 7, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.10130.pdf - spherical CNN

Apr 30, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.07313.pdf - Using machine learning to replicate chaotic attractors
http://www.bmp.ds.mpg.de/tl_files/bmp/preprints/Zimmermann_Parlitz_preprint.pdf - paper to be published in "chaos"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learnings-amazing-ability-to-predict-chaos-20180418/ - blog post

Apr 23, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.10925.pdf - Deep Image Prior
https://dmitryulyanov.github.io/deep_image_prior - git hub from authors
https://box.skoltech.ru/index.php/s/ib52BOoV58ztuPM
http://mlexplained.com/2018/01/18/paper-dissected-deep-image-prior-explained/
http://fortune.com/2018/04/24/nvidia-artificial-intelligence-images/ - Article w video showing photo editing use

Apr 16, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

Finish Fractal AI
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.07971.pdf - non-local filtering

Apr 9, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

http://lanl.arxiv.org/pdf/1803.05049v1 - Fractal AI

Apr 2, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.04831.pdf - IndRNN longer deeper RNN's

Mar 26, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.10433.pdf - parallel wavenet
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.04552.pdf - regularizing convnet with cutout (desert paper) http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jmartens/docs/Deep_HessianFree.pdf - will get short presentation on this one.

Mar 19, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.03268.pdf - Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Parameter Sharing
https://github.com/carpedm20/ENAS-pytorch

some related papers and reviews. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.05344.pdf - One shot architecture search
https://openreview.net/forum?id=ByQZjx-0-
and
https://openreview.net/forum?id=rydeCEhs-

Mar 12, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10135 - tacotron - end-to-end speech synthesis
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05884.pdf - tacotron 2
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generating-human-like-speech.html - https://github.com/A-Jacobson/tacotron2 - pytorch code http://research.baidu.com/deep-speech-3%EF%BC%9Aexploring-neural-transducers-end-end-speech-recognition/

Feb 26, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.09792.pdf - Deep Complex Networks

Feb 19, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.10308.pdf - Nested LSTM's
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.10142.pdf - KRU from Fair
https://github.com/hannw/nlstm - tf code for Nested LSTM

Feb 12, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/papers/Khoreva_Simple_Does_It_CVPR_2017_paper.pdf - Weakly Supervised Instance and Semantic Segmentation
https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/computer-vision-and-multimodal-computing/research/weakly-supervised-learning/simple-does-it-weakly-supervised-instance-and-semantic-segmentation/
https://github.com/philferriere/tfwss - Phil Ferriere's code
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wPHMA4PqygawvIxRiy-2ZMKcpUO447cz/view?usp=sharing - mehul's notebook on segmentation

Feb 5, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06939.pdf - using rnn for recommendation system
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/46488.pdf - latest paper on rnn for recommendation

Jan 29, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.04511.pdf - Empirical study of multi-agent RL
https://github.com/geek-ai/1m-agents - code

Jan 22, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00028.pdf - Improvements in Wasserstein GAN training

Jan 15, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.02298.pdf - Combining improvements in deep reinforcement learning

Jan 8, 2018 - Hacker Dojo

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=HJWLfGWRb - follow-on to capsule network paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPN8d0E3900
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kawrd5szHE
https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml/blob/master/extra_capsnets.ipynb
https://github.com/naturomics/CapsNet-Tensorflow
https://medium.com/ai%C2%B3-theory-practice-business/understanding-hintons-capsule-networks-part-ii-how-capsules-work-153b6ade9f66


======== 2017 ========

Dec 11, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09829.pdf - Dynamic routing between capsules - Hinton

Nov 27, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.01724.pdf - DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence in Heads-Up No-Limit Poker

Nov 13, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://deepmind.com/documents/119/agz_unformatted_nature.pdf - alpha zero paper
https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/talks/2016-LeeSedol-AlphaGo.pdf - some slides

Nov 6, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10593.pdf - cycle consistent GANs

Oct 30, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.02406.pdf Naftali Tishby and Noga Zaslavsky. information bottleneck principle.

https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/learning/Papers/allerton.pdf - Naftali Tishby, Fernando C. Pereira, and William Bialek. The information bottleneck method.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/75uua6/r_2_hr_talk_information_theory_of_deep_learning/

Oct 23, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

Mask R-CNN
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06870

And these are prerequisites (read at least Fast R-CNN and Faster R-CNN)

R-CNN
https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2524

Fast R-CNN
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.08083.pdf

Faster R-CNN
https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01497 Feature Pyramid Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03144

Oct 16, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.00810.pdf - Opening the Black Box of Neural Nets via Information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekUWO_pI2M8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqJHjXihK8

Oct 9, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.00092.pdf - super resolution first paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00367 - super resolution second paper

Oct 2, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03901 - Single-Image Depth Perception in the Wild

Sept 25, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.08947.pdf - Exploring generalization in deep networks.

Sept 18, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.02550.pdf - nvidia drone nav
https://github.com/NVIDIA-Jetson/redtail/wiki - code

Sept 11, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.365.5060&rep=rep1&type=pdf - hyperneat ref
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.09106.pdf - Hypernet ref
http://blog.otoro.net/2016/09/28/hyper-networks/ - blog on hypernet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8oyTYViuJ4 - vid on hyperNeat
http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/hyperNEATpage/HyperNEAT.html - blog on hyperNeat

August 28, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.05344.pdf - SMASH: One-Shot Model Architecture Search through HyperNetworks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79tmPL9AL48 - youtube vid on SMASH

August 21, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.02515.pdf - Self Normalizing Neural Networks - Hochreiter

August 14, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.01541.pdf - Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Generation - Jurafsky
https://github.com/liuyuemaicha/Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-for-Dialogue-Generation-in-tensorflow - tensorflow code for same
https://github.com/jiweil/ - some related code
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00563.pdf - self critical training for image captioning - RL for text prob.

Some papers referenced by Jurafsky paper [1506.05869] A Neural Conversational Model - Vinyals and Le
https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04562 - Dialogue generation system - Wen

Aug 7, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.04304.pdf - A Deep Reinforced Model for Abstractive Summarization - socher

July 31, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.01433.pdf - visual interaction networks - deep mind
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.01427.pdf - neural model for relational reasoning - deep mind

July 24, 2017

Guest Speaker - Using FPGA to speed CNN.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03130.pdf - A structured self-attentive sentence embedding - Lin and Bengio
https://github.com/dennybritz/deeplearning-papernotes/blob/master/notes/self_attention_embedding.md (review)
https://github.com/yufengm/SelfAttentive code
https://github.com/Diego999/SelfSent code

July 17, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf - attention is all you need - Vaswani
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor/tree/master/tensor2tensor/models
https://github.com/jadore801120/attention-is-all-you-need-pytorch - easier to read code
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.06450.pdf - layer normalization paper - hinton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR74lBO5M3s - google translate paper - youtube video
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.08144.pdf - google translate paper -

July 10, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf - attention is all you need - Vaswani
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor/tree/master/tensor2tensor/models
https://github.com/jadore801120/attention-is-all-you-need-pytorch - easier to read code
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.06450.pdf - layer normalization paper - hinton

Some added references regarding positional encodings

http://www.machinelearning.org/proceedings/icml2006/047_Connectionist_Tempor.pdf - A. Graves, S. Fernandez, F. Gomez, and J. Schmidhuber
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/6jdi87/r_question_about_positional_encodings_used_in/

June 26, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03122.pdf - convolutional sequence to sequence learning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf - attention is all you need - Vaswani
http://www.machinelearning.org/proceedings/icml2006/047_Connectionist_Tempor.pdf - A. Graves, S. Fernandez, F. Gomez, and J. Schmidhuber

June 19, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.02720.pdf - RNN for end to end voice recognition

June 12, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

New reinforcement learning results -- Too cool for school. Watch the video and you'll be hooked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vnLBb18MuQ&feature=em-subs_digest

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/2017-TOG-deepLoco/index.html - paper

May 22, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/HintonDengYuEtAl-SPM2012.pdf - comparison of RNN and HMM for speech recognition

May 15, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6572.pdf - Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples

May 1, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03453 - The Space of Transferable Adversarial Examples

Apr 24, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://discourse-production.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/original/3X/1/5/15ba4cef726cab390faa180eb30fd82b693469f9.pdf - Using TPU for data center

Apr 17, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

Reservoir Computing by Felix Grezes. http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/Computer-Science/Student%20Presentations/Felix%20Grezes/Second_Exam_Survey_Felix_Grezes_9_04_2014.pdf

Slides by Felix Grezes: Reservoir Computing for Neural Networks
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/Computer-Science/Student%20Presentations/Felix%20Grezes/Second_Exam_Slides_Felix_Grezes_9-14-2014.pdf (more at: http://speech.cs.qc.cuny.edu/~felix/ )

This is a short, very useful backgrounder on randomized projections,
here used for compressed sensing, in a blog post by Terence Tao
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-and-single-pixel-cameras/

and the same story told with illustrations on the Nuit Blanche blog:
http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-does-rice-one-pixel-camera-work.html

(BTW http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com is a tremendous website.)

If we have time, we may discuss this paper:
Information Processing Using a Single Dynamical Node as Complex System.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195233/pdf/ncomms1476.pdf

Apr 10, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.08678.pdf - Instance-sensitive Fully Convolutional Networks

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.07709.pdf - Fully Convolutional Instance-aware Semantic Segmentation

Apr 3, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03864.pdf - Sutskever paper on using evolutionary systems for optimizing RL prob
http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume15/wierstra14a/wierstra14a.pdf - ES paper with algo used in Sutskever paper

Mar 27, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

Aurobindo Tripathy will reprise a talk he's going to give at Embedded Summit this year. His talk will survey recent progress in object detection from RCNN to Single Shot MultiBox Detector and Yolo 9000.

Mar 20, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.05424.pdf - Unsupervised Pixel-level domain adaptation with generative adversarial networks

Mar 13, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06547.pdf - adversarial learning for neural dialog generation

February 27, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.02699.pdf - Deep Supervision with Shape Concepts for Occlusion-Aware 3D Object Parsing
Zeeshan's slides are in the folder with his name on it. Along with his descriptions of his own ground-breaking work, he gives an excellent history of efforts to identify 3d objects from 2d images.

February 20, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.07285.pdf - Ask me anything - Socher
https://github.com/YerevaNN/Dynamic-memory-networks-in-Theano - Code and implementation notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCtpHt6JEI8&t=27s - Socher presentation of material

February 13, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06538v1.pdf - Outrageously large neural networks

February 6, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00387v2.pdf - Highway networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.06228.pdf - Also highway networks - different examples
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.03474v3.pdf - Recurrent Highway Networks

January 30, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.03116v2.pdf - Low-rank pass-through RNN's follow-on to unitary rnn https://github.com/Avmb/lowrank-gru - theano code

January 23, 2017 - HackerDojo

https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03242 - Stack Gan Paper
https://github.com/hanzhanggit/StackGAN - Code

January 16, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06464v4.pdf - Unitary Evolution RNN https://github.com/amarshah/complex_RNN - theano code

January 9, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

Cheuksan Edward Wang Talk
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.04642v1.pdf - rotation invariant cnn
https://github.com/deworrall92/harmonicConvolutions - tf code for harmonic cnn http://visual.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pubs/harmonicNets/index.html - blog post by authors

January 2, 2017 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.02218v2.pdf - using typing to improve RNN behavior
http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v37/jozefowicz15.pdf - exploration of alternative LSTM architectures


======== 2016 ========

December 19, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.01576.pdf - Socher qRnn paper

December 12, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.02135v2.pdf - latest segmentation fair
https://github.com/MarvinTeichmann/tensorflow-fcn - code for segmenter

December 5, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.06204.pdf - Object segmentation https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.08695v2.pdf - refinement of above segmentation paper
https://code.facebook.com/posts/561187904071636/segmenting-and-refining-images-with-sharpmask/ - blog post
https://github.com/facebookresearch/deepmask - torch code for deepmask

November 28, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.01497v3.pdf
people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rbg/slides/rbg-defense-slides.pdf - Girshick thesis slides
Check edge boxes and selective search
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.4729v4.pdf - key part of architecture
https://github.com/smallcorgi/Faster-RCNN_TF - excellent code

November 21, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rbg/papers/r-cnn-cvpr.pdf - RCNN
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.08083v2.pdf - RCNN - first in series
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.01497v3.pdf - Faster R-CNN
http://techtalks.tv/talks/rich-feature-hierarchies-for-accurate-object-detection-and-semantic-segmentation/60254/ - video of Girshick talk

November 14, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02025v3.pdf - Spatial transformer networks
https://github.com/daviddao/spatial-transformer-tensorflow - tf code for above

October 31, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://github.com/jazzsaxmafia/show_attend_and_tell.tensorflow - tf code for attention-captioning http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/densecap/ - karpathy captioning https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.2306v2.pdf - earlier karpathy captioning paper

October 20, 2016 - Galvanize

https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html - Deep dive into reinforcement learning - Sutton and Barto - Chapters 1 and 2.

Oct 17, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06993v1.pdf - DenseNet. New reigning champion image classifier
https://github.com/liuzhuang13/DenseNet - lua code
The DenseNet paper is straight-forward, so we're also going to start on image captioning

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zemel/documents/captionAttn.pdf
http://kelvinxu.github.io/projects/capgen.html
http://people.ee.duke.edu/~lcarin/Yunchen9.25.2015.pdf - slides for caption attention

collections of captioning papers. https://github.com/kjw0612/awesome-deep-vision#image-captioning - images
https://github.com/kjw0612/awesome-deep-vision#video-captioning - video

Oct 13, 2016 - SF

http://www.mit.edu/~dimitrib/NDP_Encycl.pdf - (early) Bersekas paper on RL, policy and value iteration
http://www.nervanasys.com/demystifying-deep-reinforcement-learning/?imm_mid=0e2d7e&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20160420 - blog post on RL. Nice coverage of value iteration

Oct 10, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://github.com/carpedm20/pixel-rnn-tensorflow - tensorflow code for pixel rnn (and cnn)

Sept 19, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05328v2.pdf - Conditional Image Generation with PixelCNN decoders
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.06759v3.pdf - Pixel RNN
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cxcnOkPx9AeWpLVXhkTDJINDQ/view - wavenet Generative Audio
https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/ - wavenet blog

Sept 15, 2016 - Galvanize SF

http://www.gitxiv.com/posts/fepYG4STYaej3KSPZ/densely-connected-convolutional-netowork-densenet

Sept 12, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.3916v11.pdf - original memory networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03126v1.pdf - key/value memory augmented nn http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/icml2016/icml2016-memnn-tutorial.pdf#page=87 - tutorial on memory networks in language understanding

August 29, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401v2.pdf - Neural Turing Machines
https://github.com/carpedm20/NTM-tensorflow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H0i0IhEO2g - Alex Graves presentation at microsoft research
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~tvg/publications/talks/NeuralTuringMachines.pdf - slides for ntm

August 25, 2016 - Galvanize (SF)

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.3916v11.pdf - original memory networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03126v1.pdf - key/value memory augmented nn http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/icml2016/icml2016-memnn-tutorial.pdf#page=87 - tutorial on memory networks in language understanding

August 22, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.07648v1.pdf - fractal net - alternative to resnet for ultra-deep convolution https://github.com/edgelord/FractalNet - tf code
http://www.gitxiv.com/posts/ibA8QEu8bvBJSDxr9/fractalnet-ultra-deep-neural-networks-without-residuals

August 18, 2016 - Galvanize (SF)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.01783v2.pdf - new RL architecture - deep mind

Code: https://github.com/Zeta36/Asynchronous-Methods-for-Deep-Reinforcement-Learning - tf
https://github.com/miyosuda/async_deep_reinforce - tf
https://github.com/coreylynch/async-rl - keras (tf)
https://github.com/muupan/async-rl - chainer (good discussion)

August 15, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02533v1.pdf - Hardening deep networks to adversarial examples.

August 11, 2016 - Galvanize (SF)

http://www.gitxiv.com/posts/HQJ3F9YzsQZ3eJjpZ/model-free-episodic-control - deep mind gitxiv paper and code on github https://github.com/sudeepraja/Model-Free-Episodic-Control - other code https://github.com/ShibiHe/Model-Free-Episodic-Control

August 8, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2661.pdf - originating paper on generative adversarial net (gan) - goodfellow, bengio
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06434v2.pdf - deep cnn gan - radford
https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code - theano code for cnn gan - radford

August 4, 2016 - Galvanize (SF)

http://www.gitxiv.com/posts/HQJ3F9YzsQZ3eJjpZ/model-free-episodic-control - deep mind gitxiv paper and code on github

August 1, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

Papers -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Dg3PBX90KNWG5KQXNQOFlBLU1JWWVONkN1UFpnbUR6Y0cw/view?pref=2&pli=1 - Using Stochastic RNN for temporal anomaly detection
https://home.zhaw.ch/~dueo/bbs/files/vae.pdf - cover math
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4082v3.pdf - Rezende - Other Original VAE paper

Code Review -
https://github.com/oduerr/dl_tutorial/blob/master/tensorflow/vae/vae_demo.ipynb
https://github.com/oduerr/dl_tutorial/blob/master/tensorflow/vae/vae_demo-2D.ipynb

July 28, 2016 - SF

Papers:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401v2.pdf - Neural Turing Machines - Graves et. al.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.06065v1.pdf - One Shot Learning - DeepMind

Code:
http://icml.cc/2016/reviews/839.txt
https://github.com/brendenlake/omniglot
https://github.com/tristandeleu/ntm-one-shot
https://github.com/MLWave/extremely-simple-one-shot-learning

July 25, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

Papers - Using VAE for anomaly detection
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.7610.pdf - Stochastic Recurrent Networks
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Dg3PBX90KNWG5KQXNQOFlBLU1JWWVONkN1UFpnbUR6Y0cw/view?pref=2&pli=1 - Using Stochastic RNN for temporal anomaly detection

July 21, 2016 - SF

Papers to read:
http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/ram/papers/paper_16.pdf
http://snowedin.net/tmp/Hochreiter2001.pdf -

Comments / Code
http://icml.cc/2016/reviews/839.txt
https://github.com/brendenlake/omniglot
https://github.com/tristandeleu/ntm-one-shot
https://github.com/MLWave/extremely-simple-one-shot-learning
https://www.periscope.tv/hugo_larochelle/1ypJdnPRYEoKW

July 18, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

Papers to read:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6114v10.pdf - variational autoencoders - U of Amsterdam - Kingma and Welling
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.8499v2.pdf - deep autoregressive networks - deep mind
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05908 - tutorial on vae

Commentaries/Code
https://jmetzen.github.io/2015-11-27/vae.html - metzen - code and discussion
http://blog.keras.io/building-autoencoders-in-keras.html - chollet - discusses different autoencoders, gives keras code.

June 27, July 11 2016 - Hacker Dojo

Recurrent network for image generation - Deep Mind
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.04623v2.pdf
Background and some references cited
http://blog.evjang.com/2016/06/understanding-and-implementing.html - blog w. code for VAE
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6114v10.pdf - Variational Auto Encoder
https://jmetzen.github.io/2015-11-27/vae.html - tf code for variational auto-encoder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78QYjWh5sM

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4082.pdf - stochastic backpropagation and approx inference - deep mind
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/colt93.html - keep neural simple by minimizing descr length - hinton
https://github.com/vivanov879/draw - code

June 20, 2016 - Peninsula

Recurrent models of visual attention - Deep Mind
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5542-recurrent-models-of-visual-attention.pdf

June 23, 29 2016 - SF

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401v2.pdf - Neural Turing Machines - Graves et. al.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.06065v1.pdf - One Shot Learning - DeepMind
http://www.shortscience.org/paper?bibtexKey=journals/corr/1605.06065 - Larochell comments on One-Shot paper
https://github.com/shawntan/neural-turing-machines - Code
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2xcyrl/i_am_j%C3%BCrgen_schmidhuber_ama/cp4ecce - schmidhuber's comments
http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/ram/papers/paper_16.pdf
http://snowedin.net/tmp/Hochreiter2001.pdf - Reviews:
http://icml.cc/2016/reviews/839.txt
Code https://github.com/brendenlake/omniglot https://github.com/tristandeleu/ntm-one-shot https://github.com/MLWave/extremely-simple-one-shot-learning

June 13, 2016 - TBD, Peninsula

Inception-v4, Inception-ResNet and the Impact of Residual Connections on Learning:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07261v1.pdf

June 9, 2016 - Galvanize

Visualizing and Understanding RNN:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02078v2.pdf

June 6, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

Google inception paper - origin of 1x1 convolution layers
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.4842v1.pdf

June 2, May 26, 2016 - Galvanize

Image segmentation with deep encoder-decoder https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.00561.pdf

May 23, 2016 - Hacker Dojo

Compressed networks, reducing flops by pruning https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.00149.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07360v3.pdf

May 16, 2016

Word2Vec meets LDA: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.02019v1.pdf - Paper

https://twitter.com/chrisemoody - Chris Moody's twitter with links to slides etc.

http://qpleple.com/topic-coherence-to-evaluate-topic-models/ - writeup on topic coherence

May 9, 2016

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.05027v2.pdf - Update on microsoft resnet - identity mapping

http://gitxiv.com/posts/MwSDm6A4wPG7TcuPZ/recurrent-batch-normalization - batch normalization w. RNN

May 2, 2016

Go playing DQN - AlphaGo https://gogameguru.com/i/2016/03/deepmind-mastering-go.pdf https://m.youtube.com/watch?sns=em&v=pgX4JSv4J70 - video of slide presentation on paper https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_games#Lee.27s_Broken_Ladder_Game - Handling "ladders" in alphgo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_(Go) - ladders in go

April 25, 2016

Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.03385v1.pdf

References: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.05027v2.pdf - Identity mapping paper

Code:
https://keunwoochoi.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/residual-networks-implementation-on-keras/ - keras code
https://github.com/ry/tensorflow-resnet/blob/master/resnet.py - tensorflow code
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/examples/skflow/resnet.py

April 18, 2016 - Batch Normalization

Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf
http://gitxiv.com/posts/MwSDm6A4wPG7TcuPZ/recurrent-batch-normalization - Batch Normalization for RNN

April 11, 2016

Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf

Related references: This adds 'soft' and 'hard' attention and the 4 frames are replaced with an LSTM layer:
http://gitxiv.com/posts/NDepNSCBJtngkbAW6/deep-attention-recurrent-q-network
http://home.uchicago.edu/~arij/journalclub/papers/2015_Mnih_et_al.pdf - Nature Paper
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/full/nature14236.html - videos at the bottom of the page
http://llcao.net/cu-deeplearning15/presentation/DeepMindNature-preso-w-David-Silver-RL.pdf - David Silver's slides
http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu/Teaching/Cogs118A_wi09/Class0226/dayan_watkins.pdf
http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html - David Silver

Implementation Examples:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35394446/why-doesnt-my-deep-q-network-master-a-simple-gridworld-tensorflow-how-to-ev?rq=1
http://www.danielslater.net/2016/03/deep-q-learning-pong-with-tensorflow.html

April 4, 2016

March 28, 2016

March 21, 2016

March 14, 2016

Gated Feedback Recurrent Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.02367v4.pdf)

-Background Material http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.00019v4.pdf - Lipton's excellent review of RNN
http://www.nehalemlabs.net/prototype/blog/2013/10/10/implementing-a-recurrent-neural-network-in-python/ - Discussion of RNN and theano code for Elman network - Tiago Ramalho
http://deeplearning.cs.cmu.edu/pdfs/Hochreiter97_lstm.pdf - Hochreiter's original paper on LSTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGl1YSH_JA - Hinton video on LSTM

-Skylar Payne's GF RNN code
https://github.com/skylarbpayne/hdDeepLearningStudy/tree/master/tensorflow

-Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d2keyJxRlDcD1LTl_zjS3i45xDIh2-QvPWU3Te29TuM/edit?usp=sharing
https://github.com/eadsjr/GFRNNs-nest/tree/master/diagrams/diagrams_formula

Reviews

http://www.computervisionblog.com/2016/06/deep-learning-trends-iclr-2016.html
https://indico.io/blog/iclr-2016-takeaways/