Laksh Gupta
Databases, Models, and the Space Between
Using automatic differentiation for reverse-mode AD in neural networks (backpropagation).
Implementing automatic differentiation using operator overloading and forward/reverse modes.
Introduction to recurrent neural networks and applying them to POS tagging.
Improving neural network performance with ReLU, softmax, and mini-batch gradient descent.
Word embeddings and vector representations: one-hot vectors, co-occurrence matrices, and SVD.