4 papers
Quality Audio Prototyping: a prototype system for unified sound retrieval and procedural generation
Nelly Garcia, Aditya Bhattacharjee, Gabryel Mason-Williams +3
Sound design workflows frequently oscillate between time-consuming library searches and the complexity of procedural synthesis, with practitioners typically relying on disconnected…
A Function-Centric Perspective on Flat and Sharp Minima
Israel Mason-Williams, Gabryel Mason-Williams, Helen Yannakoudakis
Flat minima are strongly associated with improved generalisation in deep neural networks. However, this connection has proven nuanced in recent studies, with both theoretical count…
A Functional Perspective on Knowledge Distillation in Neural Networks
Israel Mason-Williams, Gabryel Mason-Williams, Helen Yannakoudakis
Knowledge distillation is considered a compression mechanism when judged on the resulting student's accuracy and loss, yet its functional impact is poorly understood. We quantify t…
Reproducibility: The New Frontier in AI Governance
Israel Mason-Williams, Gabryel Mason-Williams
AI policymakers are responsible for delivering effective governance mechanisms that can provide safe, aligned and trustworthy AI development. However, the information environment o…