Submitted “The Transformer Blueprint” article to HN out of curiosity and it got 90 points and great feedback! Way beyond what I expected!!
@jeande_d
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Kaiming He’s Influential Role in Computer Vision Research
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Kaiming He is the core author of most influential papers in Computer Vision. His future students will be very luck to learn directly from him.
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LLaMA Training and PEFT for Neural Networks Zero to Hero
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LLaMA training & PEFT would be a very appreciated entry in NN Zero to Hero :-). And plays well with recent entries(nanoGPT, State of GPT).
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Pathways Models and PaLM-E Are Not Open-Source
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All Pathways models including PaLM-E are not open-source as far as I know.
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The Transformer Blueprint: A Holistic Guide to Neural Networks
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A NEW ARTICLE The first article of Deep Learning Revision Research Blog(introduced recently) is out: "The Transformer Blueprint: A Holistic Guide to the Transformer Neural Network Architecture". In the article, we discuss the core mechanics of transformer neural
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RT-2 Robotics Transformer: Vision and Language to Action Model
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RT-2 relevant links: Project page: https://
robotics-transformer2.github.io
Paper: https://
robotics-transformer2.github.io/assets/rt2.pdf
Blog: https://
deepmind.com/blog/rt-2-new-
model-translates-vision-and-language-into-action
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RT-1: https://
robotics-transformer1.github.io
PaLI-X(direct scale up of PaLI): https://
arxiv.org/abs/2305.18565
PaLM-E: https://
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RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Control
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RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control RT-2(Robotic Transformer 2) is a new model in family of vision-language action models(VLAs). RT-2 builds up on RT-1 and vision-language models(VLMs). RT-2 makes use of pre-trained VLMs and is
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Visual Foundation Models: Architectures, Training, and Prompting Survey
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Foundational Models Defining a New Era in Vision: A Survey and Outlook A comprehensive survey of visual foundation models. Covers emerging architectures(for vision+other modalities), training objectives, pre-training datasets, fine-tuning mechanisms, and the common prompting
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Stanford MLSys Seminars: Essential Talks on Machine Learning Systems
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Really like this series of talks by Stanford MLSys Seminars on wide range of topics. All talks are great. A few examples: – FlashAttention: https://
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– PaLM: https://
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– Building ML models like open-source software: https://
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Transformers in Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey
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Transformers in Reinforcement Learning: A Survey A survey that explores the applications of transformers in reinforcement learning. The survey provides a brief overview of RL and challenges of classical RL approaches, traits of transformers that make them suitable for
