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most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

565 citations · 838 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.dis-nn2025

Analog Physical Systems Can Exhibit Double Descent

Sam Dillavou, Jason W Rocks, Jacob F Wycoff +2

An important component of the success of large AI models is double descent, in which networks avoid overfitting as they grow relative to the amount of training data, instead improv…

cond-mat.dis-nn2025

Understanding and Embracing Imperfection in Physical Learning Networks

Sam Dillavou, Marcelo Guzman, Andrea J. Liu +1

Performing machine learning with analog signals offers advantages in speed and energy efficiency, but sensitivity to component and measurement imperfections often foils training wi…

cond-mat.dis-nn2023★ 1 cited

Physical learning of power-efficient solutions

Menachem Stern, Sam Dillavou, Dinesh Jayaraman +2

As the size and ubiquity of artificial intelligence and computational machine learning (ML) models grow, their energy consumption for training and use is rapidly becoming economica…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021

Physical learning beyond the quasistatic limit

Menachem Stern, Sam Dillavou, Marc Z. Miskin +2

Physical networks, such as biological neural networks, can learn desired functions without a central processor, using local learning rules in space and time to learn in a fully dis…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021★ 85 cited

Demonstration of Decentralized, Physics-Driven Learning

Sam Dillavou, Menachem Stern, Andrea J. Liu +1

In typical artificial neural networks, neurons adjust according to global calculations of a central processor, but in the brain neurons and synapses self-adjust based on local info…