How ‘It’ Learned to Mean ‘Cat’ — A Journey Through Attention in Transformers
Author(s): Ashwin Biju Alikkal Originally published on Towards AI. When I first started learning how machines understand language, I was honestly a bit amused. How could something as deep and emotional as human language be reduced to just counting words or giving …
Why Mutual Information Deserves More Love Than It Gets
Author(s): Ashwin Biju Alikkal Originally published on Towards AI. Correlation brought a ruler to a curve fight. MI brought the truth. ✨ Introduction A few months into working on ML projects, I was pretty confident in my ability to identify useful features. …
Classification Models as Detectives: Solving Mysteries with LDA, QDA, and Naive Bayes
Author(s): Ashwin Biju Alikkal Originally published on Towards AI. Solving crimes, one assumption at a time (Image generated by ChatGPT) ✒️ Introduction There’s something about ML models that reminds me of detective stories. Instead of jumping straight into, “Who did it?” like …