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Research Idea: Intellectually Pleasing Outlier Exposure (with Applications in Active Learning)

Posted on February 7, 2022

This post discusses potential failure cases of outlier exposure—when using “fake” label distributions for outliers—and presents an intellectually pleasing version of outlier exposure in latent space, treating outliers as purely negative samples from a contrastive point-of-view. [Read More]
Tags: Active Learning Uncertainty Quantification Outlier Exposure

Research Idea: Active Learning for NLP Models via Question Asking

Posted on January 10, 2022

During my day-to-day, I read papers and procrastinate from writing my thesis, so I often come up with high-level questions that I cannot research because I don’t have the experience, time, and computing resources. The following is such a research question which—if it has not been answered by someone else... [Read More]
Tags: Active Learning NLP Machine Learning

Reading the Deep Learning Book - Chapter 2

Posted on March 28, 2017

This are my notes and observations from reading the Linear Algebra chapter of the Deep Learning book. [Read More]

Recent Medium Posts

Posted on March 13, 2017

I have published a couple of posts on Medium to see how it works: [Read More]

Imitating PBRT-style literate programming in LaTeX

Posted on March 24, 2013

Today, I want to release another bit of code from my master’s thesis. However, this time it won’t be C++ code, instead I’m going to release some LaTeX code which I used to display source code fragments with. [Read More]
Tags: code fragments LaTeX literate programming Macros PBRT
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