Blog

Essays and notes on machine learning, representation learning, causality, and occasional reflections.

The New Locus of Representation? A Researcher's Perspective on the Large-Model Era with Limited Compute

A short take on where representation learning lives in the era of large multimodal models and limited compute.

The Shimmering Gap

Reflections on minds, intelligence, and knowing.

When the Internal Map Gets Warped

Why identifiable representations are crucial for responsible AI.

The Generalization-Specialization Dilemma

On the tension between flexibility and precision in biological and artificial systems.

Language and the Art of Modeling the World

Thoughts on the grounding of language, LLMs, and symbolic understanding.

Three Weekly Self-Introspections

Personal routine reflections for better research alignment and weekly growth.

How Information Bottleneck Helps Representation Learning

An overview connecting rate-distortion theory, VIB, and beta-VAE under the information bottleneck lens.

Thoughts on Contrastive Representation Learning

Reflections on disentanglement and causality in contrastive learning frameworks.