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

31.03.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

couldn’t agree more!

23.11.2024 17:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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20.11.2024 22:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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!

20.11.2024 21:44 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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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 algsπŸ€”

Instead we show they are more similar than you’d think β€” making their diffs smaller but predictive!🧡1/n

20.11.2024 17:01 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

language is always evolving but if we ever reach a definition of β€œcool” that includes regression smoothers we will know our species has lost its way

20.11.2024 08:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

19.11.2024 16:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i’m starting a meta grumpy list for people that are grumpy about this list

18.11.2024 22:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€” and learned a lot..🧡1/n

18.11.2024 19:25 πŸ‘ 173 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 7

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

17.11.2024 17:27 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0