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Ethan Smith
2 days ago18 min read
To create something new, you need to make some noise.
One of the most interesting things about the development of AI was the order of achieved milestones. Relatively small models can create...
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Ethan Smith
Jan 261 min read
How I like to think about diffusion
It's a bit hard to see in the diagram but in addition to being convolved with a gaussian, these points are also drifting close to zero....
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Ethan Smith
Jan 261 min read
Classifier free guidance and reinforcement learning
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Classifier-Free-Guidance-to-Approximate-RL-9f78c02801c6434da61f37c8d843c5bf
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Ethan Smith
Jan 139 min read
The Tough Case for Free Will
"Would someone without free will do this?" is one of the most common responses I've heard to the proposition that free will might not...
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Ethan Smith
Jan 129 min read
How absurd it is, that anything is at all.
Art from "In the Aeroplane over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel There are several dimensions by which we may feel small. You may feel...
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Ethan Smith
Oct 18, 202410 min read
AI should help humans understand each other.
Empathy through technology
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Ethan Smith
Oct 6, 20241 min read
Why are Modern Neural Nets the way they are? And Hidden Hypernetworks.
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Why-are-Modern-Neural-Nets-the-way-they-are-And-Hidden-Hypernetworks-6c7195709e7b4abbada921875a951c54
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Ethan Smith
Jul 28, 20241 min read
Do Diffusion Transformers Deserve The Hype?
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Do-Diffusion-Transformers-Deserve-The-Hype-9b9ca7bead374b47aac96558714c203b
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Ethan Smith
May 26, 20241 min read
Automated LoRA Discovery and Teaching Neural Networks to make Neural Networks
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Automated-LoRA-Discovery-and-Teaching-Neural-Networks-to-make-Neural-Networks-22aa3b5ad66e4bc985ff2c93...
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Ethan Smith
May 21, 20241 min read
Diffusion and Autoregressive Models for Learning to Solve Mazes
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Diffusion-and-Autoregressive-Models-for-Learning-to-Solve-Mazes-c3bc4bcdfa304ecd9531ee5445a4da66
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Ethan Smith
May 12, 20241 min read
I Learn to Diffuse, or Data Alchemy 101: a Mnemonic Manifesto
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.03998
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Ethan Smith
May 6, 20241 min read
Traversing through CLIP Space, PCA and Latent Directions
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Traversing-through-CLIP-Space-PCA-and-Latent-Directions-b898932e13684d58957405b4a2747a79
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Ethan Smith
Apr 14, 20241 min read
LoraNorm
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/LoraNorm-91f5927c7c3a48f9beeec7c2910c82ad?pvs=4
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Ethan Smith
Apr 14, 20241 min read
2 UNet Classifier Free Guidance
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/2-UNet-Classifier-Free-Guidance-e2eb8833d01e4e77869a2eff4631ebbc?pvs=4
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Ethan Smith
Apr 14, 20241 min read
SGDImagePrompt and QuickEmbedding
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/SGDImagePrompt-and-QuickEmbedding-502cf95e48ff4a4db44823e117b7f779?pvs=4
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Ethan Smith
Apr 14, 20241 min read
Learning Space Filling Curves with Autoencoders
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Learning-Space-Filling-Curves-with-Autoencoders-e39e41ce75894c3a8fecfee0f3bbfb23?pvs=4
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Ethan Smith
Mar 13, 20241 min read
Mimicking Diffusion Models by Sequencing Frequency Coefficients
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Mimicking-Diffusion-Models-by-Sequencing-Frequency-Coefficients-8e5a60e876d640c390369627d55330b1
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Ethan Smith
Mar 8, 20241 min read
ContrastiveDPO for Diffusion, Generalizing DPO to multiple items
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/ContrastiveDPO-for-Diffusion-Generalizing-DPO-to-multiple-items-PART1-226b3746aa4d4ff9995d1e26b38a9674
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Ethan Smith
Mar 5, 20241 min read
Dipole Attention: Opposites May Be Deep Connections
Image from: https://twitter.com/toshi2fly/status/911306344376012800 Post: https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Dipole-Attention-Opposites-M...
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Ethan Smith
Mar 4, 20241 min read
Speeding up Diffusion: Reviewing DiffusionGANs, Consistency Models, and Flow Models
https://sweet-hall-e72.notion.site/Speeding-up-Diffusion-Reviewing-DiffusionGANs-Consistency-Models-and-Flow-Models-80b985120b8f472094cdc...
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