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topwalktown··on Laion Big Video Dataset
"Overall, we attempted to download 130M videos and achieved a link success rate of approximately 60%, resulting in 80M successfully retrieved videos with a total duration of 10M hours."

I am astonished that the success rate is so high. How Youtube didn't block them, I don't know. But I think that this URL list won't age well because youtube will very quickly block any researcher trying to download these videos themselves.

topwalktown··on Can AI Exit Vim?
I wrote it myself it python. The model runs in a loop and can either read the terminal or input keys. If it does neither the loop exits.
topwalktown··on Can AI Exit Vim?
Sorry! It should work now.
topwalktown··on Can AI Exit Vim?
I test if qwen3.5-35B-A3B can exit vim when running in a harness that allows it to read the raw terminal buffer and send raw key presses to the terminal. Enjoy!
topwalktown··on The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
Transformers like Llama use rotary embeddings which are applied in every single attention layer

https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/222505c7e4d...

topwalktown··on Image Self Supervised Learning on a Shoestring
I'm trying to train a variable resolution ViT using IJEPA. I'm currently topping out at about 30% on imagenet1k after training for 20 epochs (6 hours)

It'd be cool to have some help and feedback. I'm on the right track to getting really killer setup that is super fast to train it needs more evaluations and more tuning. Anyone interested?

topwalktown··on Generative modelling of compressed image file bits
i experiment with using a (mostly) unmodified llama model to generate images, by training on the bits from a lossy compression algorithm. It turns out the key is having a decoder which can give 'hints' as conditioning information for the autoregressive model, about what the decoder is going to do with the next token in the stream

Thanks!

topwalktown··on The VAE Used for Stable Diffusion Is Flawed
yeah, check out the Emu paper by meta. They basically do all of what is mentioned in the above comment
topwalktown··on MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers
Quantization also works as regularization; it stops the neural network from being able to use arbitrarily complex internal rules.

But really it's only really useful if you absolutely need to have a discrete embedding space for some sort of downstream usage. VQVAEs can be difficult to get to converge, they have problems stemming from the approximation of the gradient like codebook collapse

topwalktown··on Your VAE Sucks
I wrote a short article about jpg and if we could use concepts from how jpg works to make an image autoencoder that has a left-to-right positional bias and variable compression

Basically, existing VAEs are pretty good at compression, but have bad properties like 2D latent position bias and difficulty training on batches of mixed resolutions

So I try something I call DCT-Autoencoder, which takes ideas from JPG to learn compression of patched DCT features of an image

Check it out!