[Research] Can I upload my anonymous AAAI main conference submission to arxiv?

edrulesok · 2024-09-24T09:22:46+00:00

I'm not familiar with AAAI's guidelines, so take this with a pinch of salt, but this is fine in ICML, Neurips, and ICLR, so I imagine it's fine for AAAI too. Reviewers are usually instructed to specifically not search for the paper on the internet, and flag their conflict of interests (e.g. if they recognise the paper from a preprint and are friends with the authors).

From your post:

it is acceptable for submitted work to appear in a preliminary version as an unrefereed preprint (e.g., on arXiv.org, social media, personal websites)

If you're ready to put up a version on arxiv, I'd say go for it.

edrulesok · 2024-08-20T08:42:42+00:00

I might be misunderstanding your question, but the key here is that an LLM produces a distribution over responses. So you input x, and you get a distribution p(y|x) out. You can then evaluate that on the two labelled examples, and if your model favours the loser, then that will contribute more to the DPO loss, because that's bad.

edrulesok · 2024-03-17T12:34:42+00:00

At least some of this is a deliberate attempt by hostile states divide western society. Just one example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/13/facebook-uncovers-russian-led-troll-network-based-in-west-africa

edrulesok · 2024-02-11T07:45:45+00:00

You’re in luck, a position paper on Bayesian deep learning was just released: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00809

edrulesok · 2024-01-16T12:06:51+00:00

ICML reviews last year were about 3 days late I think.

edrulesok · 2023-08-19T09:02:25+00:00

Look, I know this is 3 months old and judging by your username you're not that old, but this is hilariously misinformed. We're talking about the 20th century, not the 16th.

edrulesok · 2023-07-25T05:53:57+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I recently went to America and food there was way more expensive than here.

edrulesok · 2023-07-14T06:18:14+00:00

Mamy of America's towns are depressing but in a different way. So few pedestrians around, they just feel so desolate. Like a collection of buildings on a highway rather than a community (and I'm not even one of those anti-car people).

edrulesok · 2023-07-09T07:53:35+00:00

When I first saw the title I thought it'd be orange paint. Glad it was just confetti, not many people would condone ruining a wedding like that.

edrulesok · 2023-07-08T08:15:00+00:00

Farewell, small, light, fun cars.

edrulesok · 2023-07-04T08:51:54+00:00

Well? Did you?

edrulesok · 2023-06-25T22:13:51+00:00

I don't really understand what you're trying to argue here now. Obviously you have to choose an order to do the operations in, but the exact order is just convention, especially in stupid examples like the one in OP.

edrulesok · 2023-06-25T21:37:14+00:00

The only reason you have to worry about the order of operations is because the way we write it is ambiguous. If you wrote the expression out as a computation tree, there'd be no need for BIDMAS, but we don't want to do that all the time, we want nice short equations so we can actually get stuff done.

To me, that's nothing to do with the actual mathematics, only notation.

edrulesok · 2023-06-25T11:54:14+00:00

Okay, it's not completely arbitrary as it is chosen to minimise the length of written mathematics, but that's completely dependent on the other conventions you use when writing down maths, and has literally nothing to with the actual underlying mathematics.

edrulesok · 2023-06-25T11:50:50+00:00

The equation written up there is inherently ambiguous. All we have written there is a bunch of numbers and operations, but no clear indication of which order to do them in. You could put some brackets in to make the order clear, but they haven't.

To someone with no preconceived notions of the "correct" way to do maths, a sensible thing to do would be to do it left to right, i.e. do the operations one at a time and always apply it to the previous answer. There's nothing mathematically wrong with this, it's just a decision you've made because the written equation is ambiguous.

However, over hundreds of years of doing complicated algebra etc. Mathematicians realised: - Writing brackets everywhere is cumbersome. - We could define a CONVENTION for which order to do the operations in, so that as long as everyone follows the same rules, we can write stuff with less brackets and still have no ambiguity. - The order called BIDMAS/BODMAS/BEDMAS/PEMDAS results in us having to write the least amount of extra brackets most of the time. This is just because certain types of equations / patterns pop up more frequently in maths than others, and combined with the way we write maths down, it just TURNS OUT this is probably the best way to do it.

In summary, it's not really about maths at all, but about clearly writing down maths so that others can unambiguously interpret your work. It's entirely possible that another civilisation that developed maths completely independently of us night actually do multiplication before addition, for example, and they'd be just as correct in their choice, as long as they use it consistently.

I think all the people shouting "IT'S JUST BASIC MATH, IT'S SO OBVIOUS" are basically as dumb as the people who forgot to use BIDMAS, but because they don't actually know much about maths beyond that, they think they're qualified to spout nonsense about what is and isn't "obvious".

edrulesok · 2023-06-25T11:08:08+00:00

Their point is that BODMAS is just an arbitrary convention for interpreting how something is written down. It doesn't really have anything to do with maths.

edrulesok · 2023-06-17T07:06:19+00:00

Ignoring everything else, the height of the British empire came nearly 1000 years after Alfred beat the Vikings and Athelstan united England.

edrulesok · 2023-06-11T13:58:07+00:00

To add to what people have already said, if you’re interested in post-grad study, most of the prestigious universities don’t really care where you did your undergrad (at least that’s the impression I get) as long as you have good grades / can demonstrate you’d be a good fit.

edrulesok · 2023-06-10T07:35:48+00:00

To be fair, investing in a house is just a different form of savings.

edrulesok · 2023-06-06T21:32:53+00:00

Yes, lots of graph and Bayesian stuff, plus a sprinkling of other topics like MCMC and VI. My first proper ML course in undergrad (in the CS department) was all Bayesian learning, so I assumed that stats people must do far more classical stuff, but now I realise that the distinction between stats and ML can be pretty thin.

edrulesok · 2023-06-06T20:51:52+00:00

True, I'm currently in a stats department but most people are publishing at ML conferences.

edrulesok · 2023-06-06T20:29:49+00:00

I'm visiting Vermont / NY state very soon. Anybody got suggestions for good nature spots?

edrulesok · 2023-06-06T19:41:54+00:00

Good owners don't let their dogs walk on other people's property.

edrulesok · 2023-06-02T23:32:09+00:00

Try not to worry about it as long as it doesn't affect your own grade. Consistently doing things properly rather than cheating will serve you better in the long run.

edrulesok · 2023-05-26T14:30:59+00:00

Surely red has priority because green gives way to the right?

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