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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. This week’s…
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Research Archetypes: Scientists, Mathematicians, Inventors
What "research" entails day-to-day varies by field, subfield, problem, and individual researcher. However, there are clusters of project types and…
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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…
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2024-4-7 arXiv roundup: DBRX, Backlog highlights part 1
It’s good to be back.
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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
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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. Just…
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October 2023

2023-10-16 arXiv roundup: Cornucopia of easy (claimed) wins for LLMs
Also, I was on the AI Stories podcast! In case anyone assumed I was incredibly handsome, this is the perfect chance to disillusion yourself.
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2023-9 arXiv roundup: A bunch of good ML systems and Empirical science papers
Got behind the curve again and ended up taking me more than a week to catch up. Y’all need to not write so many papers…
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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).
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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.
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July 2023

2023-7-23 arXiv roundup: OpenAI breaking changes, Much better attention and image captions
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2023-7-16 arXiv roundup: Weird step sizes help gradient descent, Better CPU matmuls
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