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'There's a new generation of empirical deep learning researchers, hacking away at whatever seems trendy, blowing with the wind' [D]

This is a discussion thread on r/MachineLearning critiquing a perceived cultural shift in AI research, where a newer wave of empirical deep learning researchers is characterized as prioritizing trendy

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Training an AI to play Resident Evil Requiem using Behavior Cloning + HG-DAgge [P]

This r/MachineLearning post details a project in which a developer trains an AI agent to autonomously play *Resident Evil Requiem* using imitation learning techniques — starting with Behavior Cloning

12 Apr 2026

FlashAttention (FA1–FA4) in PyTorch - educational implementations focused on algorithmic differences [P]

This r/MachineLearning post presents educational PyTorch implementations of FlashAttention versions 1 through 4, designed to highlight the key algorithmic differences across each iteration rather than

Is 'live AI video generation' a meaningful technical category or just a marketing term? [R]

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PhD or Masters for Computational Cognitive Science [R]

This Reddit post on r/MachineLearning discusses the decision between pursuing a PhD versus a Master's degree for those interested in computational cognitive science, an interdisciplinary field combini

Post Rebuttal ICML Average Scores? [D]

This Reddit thread on r/MachineLearning is a community discussion where ICML 2025 authors share and compare their post-rebuttal reviewer scores, seeking to gauge where they stand relative to other sub

TMLR reviews stalled [D]

A Reddit discussion thread in the r/MachineLearning community raised concerns about significant delays in the peer review process at the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), a rolling-...

What if your HNSW index stored 3-bit embeddings instead of float32? [R]

A research paper (arXiv:2601.11557) proposes replacing the dominant 'HNSW + float32 + cosine similarity' vector database stack with an information-theoretic alternative that uses Maximally Informat...

[D] 60% MatMul Performance Bug in cuBLAS on RTX 5090 [D]

A bug was identified in NVIDIA's cuBLAS library where `cublasSgemmStridedBatched` dispatches the same suboptimal `cutlass_80_simt_sgemm_128x32_8x5` kernel for every batched FP32 workload from 256×...

[D] Large scale OCR [D]

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Getting sabotaged by a reviewer at IJCAI [D]

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Is google deepmind known to ghost applicants? [D]

A thread on r/MachineLearning asks whether Google DeepMind is known for 'ghosting' applicants — i.e., failing to provide timely or any rejection responses after interviews or application submission...

[P] ibu-boost: a GBDT library where splits are absolutely rejected, not just relatively ranked[P]

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Started a video series on building an orchestration layer for LLM post-training [P]

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What image/video training data is hardest to find right now? [R]

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AI Systems Performance Engineering by Chris Fregly - is it worth it? [D]

*AI Systems Performance Engineering* by Chris Fregly is a ~1,000-page book (published December 2025) covering GPU/CUDA kernel tuning, PyTorch optimization, distributed training, and high-throughput...

Anyone have an S3-compatible store that actually saturates H100s without the AWS egress tax? [R]

A r/MachineLearning discussion explores the challenge of finding S3-compatible object storage that can both saturate H100 GPU bandwidth and avoid AWS's egress fees during high-throughput AI trainin...

Is the ICML 2026 final justification period still open? [R]

The ICML 2026 'final justification' is a **new requirement this year** where reviewers must submit a written explanation of their final recommendation after reading author rebuttals. New for ICML ...

Looking for Feedback & Improvement Ideas[P]

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[P] PCA before truncation makes non-Matryoshka embeddings compressible: results on BGE-M3 [P]

Applying PCA as a rotation step before naively truncating embeddings from non-Matryoshka models like BGE-M3 can recover much of the retrieval quality that is otherwise lost when simply chopping dim...

Parax: Parametric Modeling in JAX + Equinox [P]

**Paramax** (also referred to as 'Parax' in the Reddit post title) is a small Python library by Daniel Ward that provides parameterizations and parameter constraints for JAX PyTrees, designed to wo...

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Studying Sutton and Barto's RL book and its connections to RL for LLMs (e.g., tool use, math reasoning, agents, and so on)? [D]

A Reddit discussion thread on r/MachineLearning in which practitioners explore how foundational concepts from Sutton and Barto's *Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction* — including MDPs, policy g...

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[D] Dealing with an unprofessional reviewer using fake references and personal attacks in ICML26

A Reddit discussion on r/MachineLearning describes a researcher's experience with an ICML 2026 reviewer who cited fabricated references and made personal attacks in their review. The post reflects ...

[D] How are reviewers able to get away without providing acknowledgement in ICML 2026?

At ICML 2026, reviewers are officially required to acknowledge authors' rebuttals — starting March 31, if authors have posted a response to an official review, the reviewer is required to acknowle...

Free tool I built to score dataset quality (LQS) — feedback welcome [D]

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ICML 2026 am I cooked? [D]

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Looking for help with IEEE PDF eXpress [D]

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[P] Building a LLM from scratch with Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' (on Kaggle)

A beginner-friendly tutorial demonstrating how to build a ~3.2M parameter LLM from scratch using Mary Shelley's *Frankenstein* as the sole training corpus, designed to run on Kaggle's free GPU in u...

[P] citracer: a small CLI tool to trace where a concept comes from in a citation graph

`citracer` is a small Python CLI tool available on PyPI that traces citation chains for any keyword across research papers, helping researchers identify where a concept originates in a citation gra...