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Grappling with the ways of neural networks, both biological and artificial 🧠 🤖

London
Joined April 2016
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New blogpost! Current LLMs think in words, but what if they might one day think in opaque vectors? Google DeepMind’s recent DiffusionGemma a priori has the ability to do such “latent reasoning”. Together with @NeelNanda5, we investigated whether it is in fact harder to monitor.
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Finally, we asked whether this overall fairly transparent behavior implies transferability of interpretability techniques. Indeed, we found that probes, steering and the J-lens transfer at about 80% retention.
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Jan Bauer retweeted
Couldn't agree more: we still don't have good solutions for scalable abstraction/concept learning from "raw" data (be it language, vision, or other sensory data). Solving this would likely unlock important new capabilities.
For anyone interested in future LLM development One of the bigger unsolved deep learning problems: learning of hierarchical structure Example: we still use tokenizers to train SOTA LLMs. We should be able to feed in bits/chars/bytes and get SOTA Related: larger context window
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The longer people are in academia, the more they realize that when reading papers it's best to ignore Intro, Discussion etc. and just look at Methods and Results journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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We often discuss if the brain does something like gradient descent. Here is me discussing the issue for @OpenNeuroMorph. I focus on exposing the weaknesses of the hypothesis as well. Should be particularly useful for newly interested people. youtube.com/watch?v=E5hATeCZ…
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Ich bin ⁦@rezomusik⁩ Fanbase. Heute gemeinsames Video gedreht. Die Antwort auf Philip A… Kommt bald.
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never seen a graphic so wrong, but so useful
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Outdated Periodic Table xkcd.com/2723
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Replying to @gdb
💯 reminds me of MAML meta-learning (arxiv.org/abs/1703.03400) where the objective is to find weights of a network such that any new task finetunes fast. In Software 1.0 land, equivalent is writing code such that any new desired functionality is simple and doesn't need a refactor.
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Did you know? Grammar Checker: grammarcheck.net/editor/
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