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Exponential-Min and Gumbel-Max

  5 minute read

Exponential-min and Gumbel-max tricks for sampling from a multinomial distribution by taking the argmin and argmax.

Recent Progress in Language Modeling

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A brief overview of various techniques in recent language model (LM) literatures including AWD LM, the use of cache, dynamic evaluation, other memory-based n...

Quantitative Interview Preparation Guide

  5 minute read

A short list of resources and topics covering the essential quantitative tools for Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers/Scientists, Quant Developers/R...

Brief Survey of Generative Models

  8 minute read

A high-level summary of various generative models including Variational Autoencoders (VAE), Generative Adverserial Networks (GAN), and their notable extentio...

EM Algorithm Recap

  11 minute read

A quick walk-through of Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm.