Kartik GanapathiSome important papers in LLM evolution — Part 1In this multi-part series, I will summarize my key takeaways from some of the classic, seminal, and important papers leading up to…Jul 13, 2023Jul 13, 2023
Kartik GanapathiModel compression in reinforcement learning — Part 2This is the second of the two-part post on review of couple of papers on model compression, specifically distillation in the multi-task…Jun 23, 2023Jun 23, 2023
Kartik GanapathiModel compression in reinforcement learning — Part 1In a two-part post, I would like to review a couple of recent papers on model compression/distillation in reinforcement learning (RL). In…Jun 19, 2023Jun 19, 2023
Kartik GanapathiAI and meaningIn this post, I like to summarize things that caught my attention from the talks at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) workshop on AI and the…Jun 11, 2023Jun 11, 2023
Kartik GanapathiML and brain-computer interfaceIn this post, I want to explore the possibilities made accessible by a high bandwidth brain-computer interface (BCI) in the context of…Jun 7, 2023Jun 7, 2023
Kartik GanapathiAI in electronic design automationIn this post, I’ll present how AI is being used in electronic design automation (EDA) industry and some thoughts on what I see as the…May 30, 2023May 30, 2023
Kartik GanapathiNotes on chip placement using deep reinforcement learningIn this post, I’d like to summarize my takeaways from this paper (eventually published in Nature) from Google on placement of VLSI…May 26, 2023May 26, 2023
Kartik GanapathiSenate hearing on AI oversight: takeawaysAs someone who is interested in how the policy around AI will shape up, I watched the senate hearing on AI oversight that happened earlier…May 21, 2023May 21, 2023
Kartik GanapathiA review of UT Austin online masters in data scienceIn this post, I’ll review the UT Austin online masters program in data science (MSDS) that I recently graduated from in the hope that it…May 19, 20232May 19, 20232
Kartik Ganapathiϵ-greedyThis is the second post in the series of exposition on bandit algorithms (the first one, on explore-then-commit (ETC), is here).May 10, 2023May 10, 2023