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Iain Murray

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Professor of Machine Learning and Inference, Edinburgh Informatics, Formerly Amazon Scholar. Opinions are my own. Also https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/ and https://mastodon.social/@imurray and https://x.com/driainmurray

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12.01.2026 15:24 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

The 13x13 grid became 14x14. It's really hard to get image models to make a board with the correct number of evenly spaced lines and star points. I'd thought it might copy a reference board into a scene, but it can't even do a simple copy, showing limits to guidance that's possible with this model.

03.05.2025 10:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A screenshot of a virtual 13x13 go board with some go stones on it.

A screenshot of a virtual 13x13 go board with some go stones on it.

ChatGPT's reconstruction of a 13x13 go board is actually 14x14 and it has changed the configuration of the stones.

ChatGPT's reconstruction of a 13x13 go board is actually 14x14 and it has changed the configuration of the stones.

Image models struggle to create Go boards correctly. I thought ChatGPT may be able to copy a correct one into a scene, but conditioning the model is through too small a bottleneck. "Please copy this image exactly to create a new image. Every line and stone should appear in exactly the same places."

02.05.2025 17:23 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Standard normalizing flows are "approximate" too: e.g., standard implementations are often not exactly invertible in practice. But ODE solvers can use adaptive computations to control the errors. So they're not intractable in the same way that (say) a Boltzmann machine is.

29.11.2024 17:00 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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I do ML + Bayesian inference.

18.11.2024 18:15 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Yes please.

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Yes please.

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