Hugging Face's logo
AbstractPhila's picture
Open to Collab
19 6 24

AbstractPhila PRO

AbstractPhil
AbstractPowered
tyro12's profile picture webxos's profile picture Duskfallcrew's profile picture
·
https://civitai.com/user/AbstractPhila

AI & ML interests

datasets, research papers, experimentation, vision, classification, text encoders, tokenization, llms, diffusion, distillation, and more.

Recent Activity

updated a model about 6 hours ago
AbstractPhil/geolip-aleph-void
reacted to OzTianlu's post with 🧠 about 21 hours ago
ResNet is Explicit Euler. GPT is Implicit Euler. What Else is Hiding in Plain Sight? Read online: https://datawhalechina.github.io/learning-terrain/ I wrote an open-source monograph on learning dynamics — The Terrain of Learning. Bilingual (Chinese/English), 4 volumes, 12 chapters, 30+ print-grade figures. Completely free (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The core argument: gradient descent is not optimization. It's terrain motion. The loss function is a landscape. The gradient is the direction of slope. The optimizer is how you choose each step. Once you see it this way, everything clicks: ResNet = explicit Euler integration on a vector field. The residual branch is the vector field. Each layer takes one Euler step. GPT autoregression = implicit-state Euler iteration. Stable where explicit Euler explodes. That's why transformers handle long-range dependencies. DEQ = the Banach fixed-point theorem in production. The forward pass is root-finding. There are no layers to backprop through. KL divergence = a Bregman divergence on the entropy landscape. Your belief space is curved, not flat. Chain-of-thought reasoning = hidden states flowing along a reasoning field toward an attractor basin. Correct answers have wide basins. The number of reasoning steps is determined by the terrain, not by the problem. Diffusion models = systems flowing downhill along a score vector field, from noise to structure, from high energy to low energy. The book traces one idea across 337 years — from F=ma (Newton, 1687) to H=T+V (Hamilton, 1833) to loss landscape + gradient field (2020s). Hamilton replaced a catalog of forces with one geometric object. This book does the same for deep learning. GitHub: https://github.com/datawhalechina/learning-terrain Discussion: https://github.com/datawhalechina/learning-terrain/discussions/2 Convergence is not hope. Convergence is geometry. You see.
repliedto OzTianlu's post about 21 hours ago
ResNet is Explicit Euler. GPT is Implicit Euler. What Else is Hiding in Plain Sight? Read online: https://datawhalechina.github.io/learning-terrain/ I wrote an open-source monograph on learning dynamics — The Terrain of Learning. Bilingual (Chinese/English), 4 volumes, 12 chapters, 30+ print-grade figures. Completely free (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The core argument: gradient descent is not optimization. It's terrain motion. The loss function is a landscape. The gradient is the direction of slope. The optimizer is how you choose each step. Once you see it this way, everything clicks: ResNet = explicit Euler integration on a vector field. The residual branch is the vector field. Each layer takes one Euler step. GPT autoregression = implicit-state Euler iteration. Stable where explicit Euler explodes. That's why transformers handle long-range dependencies. DEQ = the Banach fixed-point theorem in production. The forward pass is root-finding. There are no layers to backprop through. KL divergence = a Bregman divergence on the entropy landscape. Your belief space is curved, not flat. Chain-of-thought reasoning = hidden states flowing along a reasoning field toward an attractor basin. Correct answers have wide basins. The number of reasoning steps is determined by the terrain, not by the problem. Diffusion models = systems flowing downhill along a score vector field, from noise to structure, from high energy to low energy. The book traces one idea across 337 years — from F=ma (Newton, 1687) to H=T+V (Hamilton, 1833) to loss landscape + gradient field (2020s). Hamilton replaced a catalog of forces with one geometric object. This book does the same for deep learning. GitHub: https://github.com/datawhalechina/learning-terrain Discussion: https://github.com/datawhalechina/learning-terrain/discussions/2 Convergence is not hope. Convergence is geometry. You see.
View all activity

Organizations

DeepGHS's profile picture Blog-explorers's profile picture BangumiBase's profile picture Abstract Powered Research's profile picture