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Alan Jeffares

@alanjeffares.bsky.social

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Multiplying matrices @Cambridge_Uni & @MSFTResearch | PhD student in Machine Learning | Previously MSc @ucl & BSc @ucddublin alanjeffares.com

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Alan Jeffares @alanjeffares.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

me trying to cut my ICML rebuttal down to <5000 characters

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Alan Jeffares @alanjeffares.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If people knew how much of my PhD has consisted of reading about something new, referencing back to Elements of Statistical Learning, and simply writing down what I learned… It feels like a cheat code!

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Alicia Curth @aliciacurth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Part 2: Why do boosted trees outperform deep learning on tabular data?? @alanjeffares.bsky.social & I suspected that answers to this are obfuscated by the 2 being considered very different algs🤔 Instead we show they are more similar than you’d think — making their diffs smaller but predictive!🧵1/n

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Alan Jeffares @alanjeffares.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

i’m too lazy to make a thinly-veiled self-promotion “starter pack”, so if you could all add me anyway that would be great…

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Alicia Curth @aliciacurth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

From double descent to grokking, deep learning sometimes works in unpredictable ways.. or does it? For NeurIPS(my final PhD paper!), @alanjeffares.bsky.social & I explored if&how smart linearisation can help us better understand&predict numerous odd deep learning phenomena — and learned a lot..🧵1/n

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Alan Jeffares @alanjeffares.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

and all of a sudden, my feed changed from musk and outrage to matrices and optimisers…

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