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Pierre Ablin

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Preetum Nakkiran @preetumnakkiran.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Paper🧵 (cross-posted at X): When does composition of diffusion models "work"? Intuitively, the reason dog+hat works and dog+horse doesn’t has something to do with independence between the concepts being composed. The tricky part is to formalize exactly what this means. 1/
Left Image: A shaggy dog-horse hybrid standing in a rural landscape.
Right Image: A golden dog wearing a red beret against a blurred outdoor background.
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Fabian Schaipp @fschaipp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Learning rate schedules seem mysterious? Why is the loss going down so fast during cooldown? Turns out that this behaviour can be described with a bound from *convex, nonsmooth* optimization. A short thread on our latest paper 🚞 arxiv.org/abs/2501.18965
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The Surprising Agreement Between Convex Optimization Theory and Learning-Rate Scheduling for Large Model Training
We show that learning-rate schedules for large model training behave surprisingly similar to a performance bound from non-smooth convex optimization theory. We provide a bound for the constant schedul...
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Pierre Ablin @pierreablin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Excited to share Soup-of-Experts, a new neural network architecture that, for any given specific task, can instantiate in a flash a small model that is very good on it. Made with ❤️ at Apple Thanks to my co-authors David Grangier, Angelos Katharopoulos, and Skyler Seto! arxiv.org/abs/2502.01804
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Mathieu Blondel @mblondel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Really proud of these two companion papers by our team at GDM: 1) Joint Learning of Energy-based Models and their Partition Function arxiv.org/abs/2501.18528 2) Loss Functions and Operators Generated by f-Divergences arxiv.org/abs/2501.18537 A thread.
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Valérie Castin @vcastin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
How do tokens evolve as they are processed by a deep Transformer? With José A. Carrillo, @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social and @pierreablin.bsky.social, we tackle this in our new preprint: A Unified Perspective on the Dynamics of Deep Transformers arxiv.org/abs/2501.18322 ML and PDE lovers, check it out!
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Samuel Vaiter @samuelvaiter.com · 30/01/2025
Byte Pair Encoding is a tokenization method that starts with all characters as initial tokens. It iteratively merges the most frequent adjacent byte pairs in the text, adding new tokens to the vocabulary until reaching a predefined size. The output is a sequence of tokens. buff.ly/42oG80f
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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🎓 💫 We are opening post-doc positions at the intersection of AI, data science, and medicine: • Large Language Models for French medical texts • Evaluating digital medical devices: statistics and causal inference
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Pierre Ablin @pierreablin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Mixture of experts are all the rage when it comes to shipping low-latency LLMs. Check out this awesome work by Samira et al. about scaling laws for mixture of experts !
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Samira @samiraabnar.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨 One question that has always intrigued me is the role of different ways to increase a model's capacity: parameters, parallelizable compute, or sequential compute? We explored this through the lens of MoEs:
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Pau Rodriguez @paurodriguez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thrilled to share the latest work from our team at @Apple where we achieve interpretable and fine-grained control of LLMs and Diffusion models via Activation Transport 🔥 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2410.23054 🛠️ github.com/apple/ml-act 0/9 🧵
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Pierre Ablin @pierreablin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Excited to see Sigmoid Attention accepted at ICLR 2025 !! Make attention ~18% faster with a drop-in replacement 🚀 Code: github.com/apple/ml-sig... Paper arxiv.org/abs/2409.04431
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Theory, Analysis, and Best Practices for Sigmoid Self-Attention
Attention is a key part of the transformer architecture. It is a sequence-to-sequence mapping that transforms each sequence element into a weighted sum of values. The weights are typically obtained as...
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Marco Cuturi @marcocuturi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The Apple Machine Learning Research (MLR) team in Paris has openings for both FTE roles and a short-term post-doc position to contribute to our team's research agenda. Researchers at Apple's MLR (led by Samy Bengio) target impactful publications in top-tier ML venues and OSS.
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Pierre Ablin @pierreablin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Congratulations for these new models !!
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Alaa El-Nouby @alaaelnouby.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻? 🤔 Delighted to share AIMv2, a family of strong, scalable, and open vision encoders that excel at multimodal understanding, recognition, and grounding 🧵 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.14402 code: github.com/apple/ml-aim HF: huggingface.co/collections/...
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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great video explaining a clever vectorization for learning on strings and dirty categories: the MinHashEncoder is fast, stateless, and excellent with tree-based learners. It's in @skrub-data.bsky.social youtu.be/ZMQrNFef8fg
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Why the MinHashEncoder is great for boosted trees
YouTube video by probabl
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