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Alex Rutherford

@amacrutherford.bsky.social

PhD in AI at Oxford amacrutherford.com also https://tolkienlecture.org/ πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ

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Introducing πŸ₯šEGGROLL πŸ₯š(Evolution Guided General Optimization via Low-rank Learning)! πŸš€ Scaling backprop-free Evolution Strategies (ES) for billion-parameter models at large population sizes

⚑100x Training Throughput
🎯Fast Convergence
πŸ”’Pure Int8 Pretraining of RNN LLMs

21.11.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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hello πŸ¦‹ ! I'll be at NeurIPS next week presenting our work on using learnability to select levels for RL autocurricula. If you're there, I would love to chat about curricula and RL generalisation more broadly. Please DM if you'd like to grab a coffee :)

06.12.2024 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The good reviewer partyβ„’, a party at conferences for reviewers whose ACs said they did a great job. ML operates on FOMO so I think it'd work

24.11.2024 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
JoΓ£o F. Henriques Research of Joao F. Henriques

Hello BlueSky! Joao Henriques (joao.science) and I are hiring a fully funded PhD student (UK/international) for the FAIR-Oxford program. The student will spend 50% of their time @UniofOxford and 50% @MetaAI (FAIR) in London, while completing a DPhil (Oxford PhD). Deadline: 2nd of Dec AOE!!

23.11.2024 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4