RSSAmplifier

Blog

Noah Golmant

Personal site and blog

noahgolmant.comRSS feed ↗7 posts

Latest posts

The local shape of LLM stable regions

Most of the time at inference, the Fisher pullback through the unembedding tells you exactly how far you can perturb the residual stream before the predictive distribution moves — and it's literally the second-order Taylor expansion of KL.

Revisiting pytorch-hessian-eigenthings, eight years later

A v1.0 rewrite of my old curvature analysis library: new operators, new algorithms, and a lot of numerical validation I should have written the first time.

Dynamical systems and an abstract view of autoregressive transformers

Understanding how attention can express logical propositions about correlations between tokens and other fun tips and tricks

Autoregressive transformers and lessons from enactivism

Understanding how attention can express logical propositions about correlations between tokens and other fun tips and tricks

Fine-tuned noise

Studying the covariance structure of mini-batch noise in stochastic gradient descent

Meta-learning and optimization

MAML Hunting

First-order methods almost always avoid saddle points

An application of dynamical systems theory to optimization