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Momentum in ML, Explained Visually and Intuitively!
(a popular ML interview question)
Nov 7 • 
Avi Chawla
Top Gradient Boosting Methods
...summarized for ML engineers.
Oct 24 • 
Avi Chawla
KernelPCA vs. PCA for Dimensionality Reduction
...explained with visuals.
Oct 15 • 
Avi Chawla
A Memory-efficient Technique to Train Large Models
...that even LLMs like GPTs and LLaMAs use.
Oct 14 • 
Avi Chawla
Breathing KMeans vs KMeans
Robustify KMeans with centroid addition and removal.
Oct 7 • 
Avi Chawla
Activation Pruning for Model Compression (with implementation)
Removing 74% neurons with 0.5% accuracy drop.
Oct 2 • 
Avi Chawla
What is Contrastive Learning?
A popular ML interview question, explained with a use case.
Sep 25 • 
Avi Chawla
L2 Regularization is NOT Just a Regularization Technique
A lesser-known usage of L2 regularization.
Sep 19 • 
Avi Chawla
The Ideal Loss Function for Class Imbalance
...a popular ML interview question.
Sep 18 • 
Avi Chawla
How Dropout Actually Works
A lesser-known detail of Dropout.
Sep 10 • 
Avi Chawla
6 Graph Feature Engineering Techniques
Must-know for building GNNs.
Jul 31 • 
Avi Chawla
2 Techniques to Synchronize ML Models in Multi-GPU Training
...explained visually.
Jul 10 • 
Avi Chawla
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