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Oldies but goodies: A.S. Lewis. Active sets, nonsmoothness, and sensitivity, 2002. Partial smoothness is the correct notion of "piecewise smooth functions" in optimization. Useful to relate optimization to differential geometry. hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00987293

Our Google AI team's latest research for ACM SIGGRAPH 2021: Total Relighting! Start with an arbitrary portrait photo, and automatically replace the background and relight the subject to match. Trained on plenty of Light Stage OLAT data and HDRI maps. augmentedperception.github.io/total_relighti…

Instruct-NeRF2NeRF: Editing 3D Scenes with Instructions proj: instruct-nerf2nerf.github.io abs: arxiv.org/abs/2303.12789

I've been seeing lots of takes about the 3D Gaussian Splatting SIGGRAPH paper (repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-ga…) that compare it to NeRF in a way that, in my opinion, undersells how cool the Gaussian Splatting paper is. Here's how I'm thinking about this stuff.

I'd like to start 2024 with some thoughts on the state of optimization theory. To begin with, let me quote Nesterov's 2003 book: "The main fact, which should be known to any person dealing with optimization models, is that, in general, the optimization problems are unsolvable" 🧵

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I borrowed Donald Knuth words to show my stand on the arXiv flagplanting crisis we face now. Or why I'm not really anxious about it.

#DataScience: Biased Algorithms Are Everywhere, and No One Seems to Care - MIT Tec... #AI buff.ly/2uUCclY

Shannon was "a cross between Albert Einstein and the Dos Equis guy." And a chronic procrastinator. medium.com/the-mission/10…

Ummmm, Colab now lets you use GPUs to accelerate your notebooks? In the cloud? For free? 😍🤓😍🤓😍🤓 Step-by-step how to: kaggle.com/getting-starte…

Glad to hear Francis Bach is the new editor-in-chief of #JMLR journal, besides being the general chair of #ICML2018! If you want to learn on large-scale optimization from a great expert, check out his tutorial at #NIPS2017: nips.cc/Conferences/20…

Judea Pearl claims all we do in ML is curve fitting. I wrote this post to explain that claim and introduce the basics of causal inference to ML folks. Machine Learning beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and do-Calculus inference.vc/p/f01e8d56-511…