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📄 Masked Language Flow Models (MLFMs)
We introduce a method to scale flow-based language models to reasoning and instruction-following tasks.
Joint work with @kiaashour @leoeleoleo1 @simonvary @prebeschini
🔗 kiaashour.github.io/blog/mas…
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[Paper alert] "Optimization without Retraction on the Random Generalized Stiefel Manifold"
Introducing a cheap method to optimize functions on a *stochastic* manifold, defined by an expectation constraint.
arxiv.org/abs/2405.01702
See you in ICML :)
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The Learning Theory & Statistics Optimization Reading Group meeting info:
📕Optimization with retraction on the random generalized Stiefel manifold.
🎙️Speaker: Šimon Váry
⌚Time: 4.15pm – 5.15pm
📍Location: Open Research Zone, Dept. of Stats
Open to #oxforduni UG, PGT, + PGR – at Oxford, England

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Replying to @simonvary
@SimonVary is giving an invited talk on exoplanet imaging at #ISCS23
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Preprint alert!! arxiv.org/abs/2303.16510
"Infeasible Deterministic, Stochastic, and Variance-Reduction Algorithms for Optimization under Orthogonality Constraints"
w. P.-A. Absil, S.Vary, and B.Gao.
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