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Graduate Descent
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Latest posts
The Wobbly Table Theorem
Mar 31, 2026 · Tim Vieira
Interactive KL Divergence Fitting
Mar 13, 2026 · Tim Vieira
Fast Rank-One Updates to Matrix Inverse?
Mar 25, 2021 · Tim Vieira
On the Distribution of the Smallest Indices
Mar 20, 2021 · Tim Vieira
On the Distribution Functions of Order Statistics
Mar 18, 2021 · Tim Vieira
Animation of the Inverse Transform Method
Jun 30, 2020 · Tim Vieira
Generating Truncated Random Variates
Jun 30, 2020 · Tim Vieira
Algorithms for Sampling Without Replacement
Sep 16, 2019 · Tim Vieira
The Restart Acceleration Trick: A Cure for the Heavy Tail of Wasted Time
Sep 6, 2019 · Tim Vieira
Faster Reservoir Sampling by Waiting
Jun 11, 2019 · Tim Vieira
The Likelihood-Ratio Gradient
Apr 20, 2019 · Tim Vieira
Steepest Ascent
Apr 19, 2019 · Tim Vieira
Black-Box Optimization
Mar 16, 2018 · Tim Vieira
Backprop Is Not Just the Chain Rule
Aug 18, 2017 · Tim Vieira
Estimating Means in a Finite Universe
Jul 3, 2017 · Tim Vieira
How to Test Gradient Implementations
Apr 21, 2017 · Tim Vieira
Counterfactual Reasoning and Learning from Logged Data
Dec 19, 2016 · Tim Vieira
Heaps for Incremental Computation
Nov 21, 2016 · Tim Vieira
Reversing a Sequence with Sublinear Space
Oct 1, 2016 · Tim Vieira
Evaluating ∇f(x) Is as Fast as f(x)
Sep 25, 2016 · Tim Vieira
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