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November 5, 2024
A very good passing comment from Nikita at work. When folks train in eager mode they are generally able to leverage the full set of aten ops, with their attendant implementations in different backends.
November 2, 2024
September 24, 2024
The always prolific Lucidrains has been implementing AlphaFold3 in PyTorch:
July 14, 2024
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June 24, 2024
There have been a few, good, attempts at Transformer based recommendation systems, but this one from Jiaqi Zhai and the folks inside the modern recommendation systems team at Meta is particularly strong.
May 24, 2024
April 22, 2024
Fantastic tip from Alban, particularly useful when you have a giant model and limited VRAM.
April 21, 2024
Interesting to read this breakdown of what was happening with Reader: I recall the discussions internally at Google and knew some folks floating around it (including at least one person who volunteered to take on maintenance) but this was largely new to me. Uncomfortably enough was on stage giving a talk for Google the day the shut down happened. I asked for questions, got a lot of hands, then qualified I was looking for questions about the talk and not Reader, and most of the hands went down.