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Exponential-Min and Gumbel-Max
Exponential-min and Gumbel-max tricks for sampling from a multinomial distribution by taking the argmin and argmax.
Recent Progress in Language Modeling
A brief overview of various techniques in recent language model (LM) literatures including AWD LM, the use of cache, dynamic evaluation, other memory-based non-parametric components to enhance learned parametric LM, and finally, recent progress in high-rank LM.
Quantitative Interview Preparation Guide
A short list of resources and topics covering the essential quantitative tools for Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers/Scientists, Quant Developers/Researchers and those who are preparing to interview for these roles.
Recent Progress in Neural Variational Inference
A literature survey of recent papers on Neural Variational Inference (NVI) and its application in topic modeling.
Brief Survey of Generative Models
A high-level summary of various generative models including Variational Autoencoders (VAE), Generative Adverserial Networks (GAN), and their notable extentions and generalizations, such as f-GAN, Adversarial Variational Bayes (AVB), Wasserstein GAN, Wasserstein Auto-Encoder (WAE), Cramer GAN and etc.
EM Algorithm Recap
A quick walk-through of Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm.