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francoisfleuret

178 karma · joined November 20, 2023

I have a phd in math, and a long past in machine-learning / deep-learning. I hold the chair of AI at the University of Geneva.
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francoisfleuret··on Diffusion for World Modeling
"there is no understanding, only prediction"

I have no idea what this means.

francoisfleuret··on Diffusion for World Modeling
This is 300M parameters model (1/1300th of the big llama-3) trained with 5M frames with 12 days of a GTX4090.

This is what a big tech company was doing in 2015.

The same stuff at industrial scale à la large LLMs would be absolutely mind blowing.

francoisfleuret··on The Little Book of Deep Learning v1.2 (May 19th, 2024)
This is a minor update of the "Little Book of Deep Learning", a phone-formatted free book for people with a STEM background that happened to be quite popular (580k+ download in a year).

This update adds in particular a chapter about methods to run or fine-tune LLMs with limited compute and memory (prompt engineering, quantization, low-rank adapters, and model merging).