Alex Williams

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icon company NYU / Flatiron Institute icon location New York, NY icon location Asst Prof (NYU Center for Neural Science) and Project Leader (Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Neuroscience)

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What is a Transformation?

Thanks for taking a stab at this - I really like what you've done 💯 Adding the contribution of the penalty to the gradient should be taken care of by...

Add SVRG parameter updater

This paper has a maybe slightly better summary of it: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.06160v2.pdf (see Algorithm 2). I think you have the basic idea... It might be slightly more difficult to fit this...

Incompatibility of least_squares and custom_vjp

Amazing, works as intended (at least for the simple example I've tried)!

Notes on GLM an Introduction doc

Thanks Eric, this is very helpful. A quick comment on the "LNP vs GLM" distinction... A GLM is a broad class of models, and an LNP is one example of...

Notes on GLM an Introduction doc

I think this would be a great addition! On Fri, May 24, 2024, 12:13 PM Eric Thomson ***@***.***> wrote: > Thanks Alex that's helpful, and I was a bit confused...

Significance testing for coefficients

I will jump in to add that you should be careful to correct for multiple comparisons if using p-values with multiple independent variables! On Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 10:17 AM...

abstract and poster is missing

As stated in the README, this is no longer maintained. See: https://github.com/ahwillia/affinewarp

Variational Fourier Features

Thanks. I have been playing around with a few different things and developing some prototypes. Eventually I may have something that you'd be interested in merging. I noticed that there...