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A happy author discovering the first hard copies

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

Optimal transport computes an interpolation between two distributions using an optimal coupling. Flow matching, on the other hand, uses a simpler “independent” coupling, which is the product of the marginals.

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

Blast from the past, wrote these equations in this form 6 years ago, I remember it felt quite clarifying at the time ... A bygone era unfortunately

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent. Hannah Fry becomes Cambridge’s first first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

submitted 97 days ago • 5 comments

Tokenization is the process of breaking text into smaller units - tokens - which can be words, subwords, or characters. It's a step in NLP, transforming raw text into token embeddings. The classical algorithm is Byte-Pair Encoding at the subword level. platform.openai.com/tokenizer

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Covering numbers can be thought as way to quantify “compactness” of a set in a complete metric space. It is also closely related to packing numbers. www.math.uci.edu/~rvershyn/pa...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Sinho Chewi, Jonathan Niles-Weed, Philippe Rigollet Statistical optimal transport https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18163

submitted 218 days ago • 0 comments