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20232026
most citedQuestionable practices in machine learning

3 citations · 3 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning Generation Orders for Masked Discrete Diffusion Models via Variational Inference

David Fox, Sam Bowyer, Song Liu +3

Masked discrete diffusion models (MDMs) are a promising new approach to generative modelling, offering the ability for parallel token generation and therefore greater efficiency th…

cs.LG2025

Controlling changes to attention logits

Ben Anson, Laurence Aitchison

Stability of neural network weights is critical when training transformer models. The query and key weights are particularly problematic, as they tend to grow large without any int…

cs.CL2025

Scale-invariant Attention

Ben Anson, Xi Wang, Laurence Aitchison

One persistent challenge in LLM research is the development of attention mechanisms that are able to generalise from training on shorter contexts to inference on longer contexts. W…

stat.ML2025

Function-Space Learning Rates

Edward Milsom, Ben Anson, Laurence Aitchison

We consider layerwise function-space learning rates, which measure the magnitude of the change in a neural network's output function in response to an update to a parameter tensor.…

stat.ML2024

Stochastic Kernel Regularisation Improves Generalisation in Deep Kernel Machines

Edward Milsom, Ben Anson, Laurence Aitchison

Recent work developed convolutional deep kernel machines, achieving 92.7% test accuracy on CIFAR-10 using a ResNet-inspired architecture, which is SOTA for kernel methods. However,…

physics.ao-ph2024

Machine learning emulation of precipitation from km-scale UK regional climate simulations using a diffusion model

Henry Addison, Elizabeth Kendon, Suman Ravuri +2

High-resolution climate simulations are valuable for understanding climate change impacts. This has motivated use of regional convection-permitting climate models (CPMs), but these…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Questionable practices in machine learning

Gavin Leech, Juan J. Vazquez, Niclas Kupper +2

Evaluating modern ML models is hard. The strong incentive for researchers and companies to report a state-of-the-art result on some metric often leads to questionable research prac…

stat.ML2024

Flexible Infinite-Width Graph Convolutional Neural Networks

Ben Anson, Edward Milsom, Laurence Aitchison

A common theoretical approach to understanding neural networks is to take an infinite-width limit, at which point the outputs become Gaussian process (GP) distributed. This is know…

stat.ML2023

Convolutional Deep Kernel Machines

Edward Milsom, Ben Anson, Laurence Aitchison

Standard infinite-width limits of neural networks sacrifice the ability for intermediate layers to learn representations from data. Recent work (A theory of representation learning…