Machine Learning already relies on a lot of math, and with more and more researchers starting to bring mathematical tools from pure mathematics and physics into the field, many practitioners are starting to feel like they need to level up. Similarly, many people wanting to get started into alignment find themselves wishing they knew more advanced math.
If the previous paragraph sounds just like you, or you just like to learn math in general, consider joining this reading group. We usually meet on Sundays at 1PM Pacific on the EAI Discord server.
On discord, you can reach out to genetyx8 or join the thread.
Recordings of the meetings can be found on the EleutherAI Youtube channel
See the resources folder for the slides and links to the documents we read as part of the reading group.
Since there are many interesting topics, and sticking for months to a single one is difficult, our current plan is to have sessions on long-running topics like Geometric Deep Learning interspersed with some shorter ones.
While we'll generally try to stay close to ML, some topics need a basic introduction, so we'll have some of those as well.
In order to prepare sessions on a topic, it's important to have some source material available online that attendees can read. You can find some here, but there's plenty more out there.
A topic will be considered ready to be covered once it has reading material, people willing to present and an idea of how many sessions it should take, at which point it will be scheduled.