Weight Agnostic Neural Networks, a virtual presentation by Adam Gaier, Thursday October 15th, LightOn AI meetup #7

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Ever since we started LightOn, we have been putting some emphasis on having great minds think how new algorithms are possible and how they can be enabled with our photonic chips.  We also have a regular meetup where we see how other great minds are devising new algorithms. 

Tomorrow, Thursday (October 15th) we are continuing this journey by having Adam Gaier who will talk to us about Weight Agnostic Neural Networks. The virtual meetup will start at:

• 16:00 (UTC+2) Paris time but also 
• 7AM PST, 
• 10AM CST, 
• 11PM JST. 

To have more information about connecting to the meetup, please register here: https://meetup.com/LightOn-meetup/events/273660363/

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As The World Turns: Implementations now on ArXiv thanks to Paper with Code

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It's the little things. 

In the 2000s, after featuring good work on Nuit Blanche, I was usually following through by asking authors where their codes were. This is how the implementation tag was born. Some of the answers were along the lines of: "I didn't make it available because I thought it was not worthy". But what I usually responded was that, in effect, releasing one's code had a compounding effect on the community: 

"You may not think it's worthy of release, but somehow, someone somewhere needs your code for reasons you cannot fathom"

 As a result, I made a conscious choice of featuring those papers that were actively featuring their implementations. The earliest post with featured implementations was February 28th, 2007 with a blog post featuring three different implementations of reconstruction solver for compressed sensing. Yes, implementations were already available before that, but within the compressive sensing community, it was a point in time with a collective realization that releasing one's code would bring others to reuse one's work and advance the field as a result. At some point, I started making a long list of implementation available but got swamped after a while because it became, most of the time, the default behavior (a good thing).

Five years ago, Samim Winiger started GitXiv around Machine Learning papers. I was ecstatic but the site eventually stopped working. Two years ago, the Paper with code site started around the same issue and flourished. Congratulations to Robert, Ross, Marcin, Viktor, and Ludovic on starting a vibrant community around this need for listing papers with their attendant code. Two days ago, the next logical step occurred with the featuring of codes within ArXiv, a fantastic advance for Science. Woohoo!

Congratulations to Robert, Ross, Marcin, Viktor, and Ludovic on making this happen! 

My next question is: 

When are they going to get a prize for this?

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Paris Machine Learning: Meetup.com||@Archives||LinkedIn||Facebook|| @ParisMLGroup< br/> About LightOn: Newsletter ||@LightOnIO|| on LinkedIn || on CrunchBase || our Blog
About myself: LightOn || Google Scholar || LinkedIn ||@IgorCarron ||Homepage||ArXiv