How to create non-square images with DALL-E 2
The DALL-E API from OpenAI is a very powerful image generation tool. However one limitation is that it only outputs square images. In this tutorial we will learn how to generate images of arbitrary dimension such as portraits and landscapes.
How to generate subtitles with the Whisper API in Python
In this tutorial we will learn how to use the Whisper API to generate subtitles for a video. We will generate subtitles for the opening of A Star Is Born (1937), an early colour movie that has been frequently remade.
Transformer Part 2: Train a Translation Model
In Part 1 of the tutorial we learned how to how build a transformer model. Now it is time to put it into action. There are lots of things we can do with a transformer but we will start off with a machine translation task to translate from Spanish to English.
Transformer Part 1: Build
Since its introduction the Transformer architecture has become very influential and has had successes in many tasks not just in NLP but in other areas like vision. This tutorial is inspired by the approach in The Annotated Transformer and uses text directly quoted from the paper to explain the code.
PixelCNN
The PixelRNN family of auto-regressive architectures consists of models that learn to generate images a pixel at a time. In this post we will focus on the PixelCNN model which is based on the same principles but uses convolutional layers instead of recurrent layers. It is simpler to implement and once we have grasped the core concepts, it is straightforward to understand the recurrent versions.
First Visit Monte Carlo Prediction for Blackjack (RL S&B Example 5.1)
In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to implement Example 5.1: Blackjack from Reinforcement Learning (Sutton and Barto).
Strassen’s algorithm for matrix multiplication
This is the first of a planned series of blogs covering background topics for DeepMind’s AlphaTensor paper. In this post we will cover Strassen’s algorithm for matrix multiplication.
Implementing the Fréchet Inception distance
A popular metric for evaluating image generation models is the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID). Like the Inception score, it is computed on the embeddings from an Inception model. But unlike the Inception score, it makes use of the true images as well as the generated ones. In the post we will learn how to implement it in PyTorch.
REINFORCE on the short-corridor gridworld, Part 2 (RL S&B Chapter 13)
In the previous post we introducted the short-corridor gridworld with switched actions. We found an analytical solution for the probability for moving right. Now we will use the REINFORCE algorithm to solve this problem.
Speeding Up Diffusion Sampling
An important disadvantage with diffusion models is that a large number forward passes - typically 1000 or more - are needed to generate samples, making inference slow and expensive. In this post we will look at a couple of different methods that have been developed to speed up inference.
