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Contrastive Representation Learning
The goal of contrastive representation learning is to learn such an embedding space in which similar sample pairs stay close to each other while dissimilar ones…
Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Cellular Automata
Reprogramming Neural CA to exhibit novel behaviour, using adversarial attacks.
Explainable AI Cheat Sheet
Introducing the Explainable AI Cheat Sheet, your high-level guide to the set of tools and methods that helps humans understand AI/ML models and their predictions. I…
Weight Banding
Weights in the final layer of common visual models appear as horizontal bands. We investigate how and why.
Branch Specialization
When a neural network layer is divided into multiple branches, neurons self-organize into coherent groupings.
Reducing Toxicity in Language Models
Large pretrained language models are trained over a sizable collection of online data. They unavoidably acquire certain toxic behavior and biases from the Internet. Pretrained language…
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
We report the existence of multimodal neurons in artificial neural networks, similar to those found in the human brain.
Self-Organising Textures
Neural Cellular Automata learn to generate textures, exhibiting surprising properties.
Visualizing Weights
We present techniques for visualizing, contextualizing, and understanding neural network weights.
Curve Circuits
Reverse engineering the curve detection algorithm from InceptionV1 and reimplementing it from scratch.
High-Low Frequency Detectors
A family of early-vision neurons reacting to directional transitions from high to low spatial frequency.
Finding the Words to Say: Hidden State Visualizations for Language Models
By visualizing the hidden state between a model's layers, we can get some clues as to the model's "thought process". Figure: Finding the words to say…
Controllable Neural Text Generation
[Updated on 2021-02-01: Updated to version 2.0 with several work added and many typos fixed.] [Updated on 2021-05-26: Add P-tuning and Prompt Tuning in the “prompt…
Interfaces for Explaining Transformer Language Models
Interfaces for exploring transformer language models by looking at input saliency and neuron activation. Explorable #1: Input saliency of a list of countries generated by a…
Naturally Occurring Equivariance in Neural Networks
Neural networks naturally learn many transformed copies of the same feature, connected by symmetric weights.
Understanding RL Vision
With diverse environments, we can analyze, diagnose and edit deep reinforcement learning models using attribution.
How to Build an Open-Domain Question Answering System?
[Updated on 2020-11-12: add an example on closed-book factual QA using OpenAI API (beta). A model that can answer any question with regard to factual knowledge…
Communicating with Interactive Articles
Examining the design of interactive articles by synthesizing theory from disciplines such as education, journalism, and visualization.
Thread: Differentiable Self-organizing Systems
A collection of articles and comments with the goal of understanding how to design robust and general purpose self-organizing systems.
Self-classifying MNIST Digits
Training an end-to-end differentiable, self-organising cellular automata for classifying MNIST digits.
Neural Architecture Search
Although most popular and successful model architectures are designed by human experts, it doesn’t mean we have explored the entire network architecture space and settled down…
How GPT3 Works – Visualizations and Animations
Discussions: Hacker News (397 points, 97 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (247 points, 27 comments) Translations: German, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Turkish The tech world is abuzz with…
Curve Detectors
Part one of a three part deep dive into the curve neuron family.