best masters thesis ever (so far)
@jxmnop
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Experimental Rigor in AI Research Methods Needs Improvement
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very true! I don't think the experiments are particularly thorough here honestly; I would have also liked to see a comparison to random sampling, at the very least; a downstream evaluation of the synthetic data would have been nice too
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Data Augmentation via Embedding Cone Sampling with Vec2Text
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this was a neat little read. the idea is to do data augmentation with embeddings. they randomly sample around an embedding and then decode with vec2text. there is a trick to randomly sampling while not leaving the embedding manifold; they try to sample within an embedding "cone"
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Contrastive Loss with Reconstruction in Two-Step Training
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I think you have to use contrastive loss still on top of the reconstruction, in two steps — r u doing that?
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Diffusion Model Training Optimizations and Telephoning Data Augmentation
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if you want to read the paper it's here; they developed a bunch of cool optimizations for diffusion model training too, and a cool data augmentation technique called 'telephoning'… http://
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Early AI Image Generation Outputs: When Broken Looks Like Progress
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i remember i was on campus working on my own stuff, it was 2am the night before a paper deadline, and he shows me these super cursed pictures of a pixar character and goes "that's elsa from frozen!! it's working!!!!" never seen someone so excited to see outputs that look broken
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CommonCanvas: Copyright-Free Diffusion Model Emerges Amid OpenAI Lawsuit
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the openAI—NYT lawsuit is a big deal for copyright precedent. literally all popular models right now were trained on copyrighted data… except for one my friend from school @SkyLi0n developed a diffusion model that's not trained on any copyrighted data it's called CommonCanvas
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Mystery Orb Technology Product Sparks Consumer Interest
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if this picture didn't come out of an orb than i'm not buying IT
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Ten Years of Deep Learning Research: A Comprehensive Summary
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ten years of deep learning research, a summary
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Lex Fridman Podcast Quality Critique and Alternative Recommendation
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on podcasts: lex fridman brings on a wonderful selection of guests (mostly) but doesn’t research them beforehand and resorts to asking them things like “do u think aliens are real” for people asking for a replacement, I think @dwarkesh_sp is great and has spectacular guests too