This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Sayak Paul and Yannic Kilcher speak with Dr. Simon Kornblith from Google Brain (Ph.D from MIT). Simon is trying to understand how neural nets do what they do. Simon was the second author on the seminal Google AI SimCLR paper. We also cover "Do Wide and Deep Networks learn the same things?", "Whats in a Loss function for Image Classification?",  and "Big Self-supervised models are strong semi-supervised learners". Simon used to be a neuroscientist and also gives us the story of his unique journey into ML.




00:00:00 Show Teaser / or "short version"


00:18:34 Show intro


00:22:11 Relationship between neuroscience and machine learning


00:29:28 Similarity analysis and evolution of representations in Neural Networks


00:39:55 Expressability of NNs


00:42:33 Whats in a loss function for image classification


00:46:52 Loss function implications for transfer learning


00:50:44 SimCLR paper 


01:00:19 Contrast SimCLR to BYOL


01:01:43 Data augmentation


01:06:35 Universality of image representations


01:09:25 Universality of augmentations


01:23:04 GPT-3


01:25:09 GANs for data augmentation??


01:26:50 Julia language




@skornblith


https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-kornblith-54b2033a/




https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15327


Do Wide and Deep Networks Learn the Same Things? Uncovering How Neural Network Representations Vary with Width and Depth




https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16402


What's in a Loss Function for Image Classification?




https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05709


A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations




https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10029


Big Self-Supervised Models are Strong Semi-Supervised Learners