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Feynman summation in finite-dimensional quantum mechanics A summary and enhancement of existing literature regarding finite-dimensional quantum mechanics. In the later parts Feynman’s path summation is discussed.
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Embeddings in Machine Learning Explained Embedding is a task specific lower dimensional vector representation of data like a word, image, document, or an user.
Multimodal Image-text Classification Understand the top deep learning image and text classification models CMA-CLIP, CLIP, CoCa, and MMBT used in e-commerce.
Transformer Positional Embeddings and Encodings How transformers encode information about token positions?
Transformer Embeddings and Tokenization How transformers convert text and other data to vectors and back using tokenization, positional encoding, embedding layers.
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Understand Large Language Models like ChatGPT In 9 slides from TF-IDF, Word2vec, knowledge graphs, and transformers to LLMs and ChatGPT basics explained.
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MassiveText Dataset introduced for pre-training of DeepMind's Gopher Private diverse 10-lingual textual dataset composed of web, Github, news, Wikipedia, Books, C4.
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Wav2vec: Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Speech Recognition Word2vec for audio quantizes phonemes, transforms, GAN trains on text and audio from Facebook AI.
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OpenAI's Glow - Flow-Based Model Teardown Interpretable latent representations by composing non-linear invertible functions and maximizing the exact log-likelihood.
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