Generating sentences by editing prototypes
Slides for the paper Generating Sentences by Editing Prototypes.
Read more →Traversing knowledge graphs in vector space
Slides from the talk I gave at EMNLP 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Read more →Why naive cross-validation fails at feature selection
This past year, I took two courses taught by Profs. Emmanuel Candes and Trevor Hastie. Both of them described a surprising but simple problem you can run into when doing feature selection. It gave me another perspective on why the folks at Stanford Statistics have been so interested in regularization over the past decade. But in this post, I’ll just focus on the problem.
Read more →Non-asymptotic random matrix theory
I prepared these notes for Percy Liang’s reading group, based on a nice tutorial written by Roman Vershynin.
Read more →Feature selection and multiple hypothesis testing
A presentation I prepared for Percy Liang’s reading group based on several great lectures by Emmanuel Candes.
Read more →Tutorial on wavelets
These slides are from a tutorial I gave in Prof. Ron Parr’s group when I was at Duke. They explain the idea of multiscale in a basic and visual way.
Read more →How to debug Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods
These slides are from a talk I gave in Prof. Alex Hartemink’s group when I was at Duke.
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