Archive - Davis Summarizes Papers

April 2024

2024-4-28 arXiv roundup: data and scaling, backlog highlights part 3

Besides getting to cover unusually interesting work, the upside of having a big backlog is that you can group your coverage thematically.

Apr 29, 2024 •

Research Archetypes: Scientists, Mathematicians, Inventors

What "research" entails day-to-day varies by field, subfield, problem, and individual researcher.

Apr 21, 2024 •

2024-4-14 arXiv roundup: backlog highlights part 2

Bunch of interesting stuff this week. Before we jump in, one quick clarification from last week: I mentioned how it was an interesting marketing lesson…

Apr 15, 2024 •

2024-4-7 arXiv roundup: DBRX, Backlog highlights part 1

It’s good to be back.

Apr 8, 2024 •

December 2023

2023-11-26 arXiv roundup: Big potential wins, 1 bit per parameter, Simplifying transformers

Stella Nera: Achieving 161 TOp/s/W with Multiplier-free DNN Acceleration based on Approximate Matrix Multiplication

Dec 1, 2023 •

November 2023

2023-11-19 arXiv roundup: Inverse-free inverse Hessians, Faster LLMs, Closed-form diffusion

A fundamental result in queueing theory is that, if items enter the queue faster than they’re processed, the length of the queue tends to infinity.

Nov 19, 2023 •

October 2023

September 2023

2023-8 arXiv roundup: Look I gave a talk, SILO-ing language models, lots of MoE + tool use papers

(I’m still planning on doing weekly installments in general—I just got behind and it took a while to catch up).

Sep 1, 2023 •

August 2023

2023-7-30 arXiv roundup: Better image captions, Scaling EMA, Chain of thought empiricism

Heads up that we’ve hit the late summer slump in arXiv submissions, so there’s less content than usual this week.

Aug 1, 2023 •

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