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The Deep Optimization Cookbook
Get those models to converge with one weird trick.
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No one knows how the brain works.
Is that why we believed it was hard to train neural networks?
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It's not a trick...
It's not an illusion either.
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The maddening nonlinear multiverse
The paths to nonlinear prediction all lead to the same place
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Hidden Foundations
We hide a lot of theory in our representation of data.
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Features of the foundations of machine learning
Which measurements let us predict?
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I don't know what I've been trying to prove.
Yeah, yeah. Why I feel like I do about generalization theory.
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Three paths to generalization
Uniform Convergence, Sequential Prediction, and Stability
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arg min: a substack of minimum value Rants on systems, information, learning, and optimization by Ben Recht. With intermittent ramblings about music.

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