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Essays and notes on machine learning, representation learning, and adjacent ideas.

  1. What Does InfoNCE Actually Do to Representation Geometry?

    How InfoNCE shapes representation distributions through alignment potentials, entropic dispersion, and cross-modal coupling.

  2. The Coverage Lock: What Next-Token Prediction Can and Cannot Teach Multimodal LLMs About the Visual World

    On why next-token prediction can make multimodal systems useful without fully aligning language with the visual world.

  3. 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.

  4. The Shimmering Gap

    Reflections on minds, intelligence, and knowing.

  5. When the Internal Map Gets Warped: Why Identifiable Representations Are Crucial for Responsible AI

    Why identifiable representations are crucial for responsible AI.