Aidan Gomez

Aidan Gomez

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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  • Cohere
    cofounder + ceo
    Cohere
    Sep 2019 - Current (7 years)
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  • University of Oxford
    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science
    University of Oxford
    Jan 2018 - May 2024 (6 years 5 months)
  • University of Toronto
    Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
    University of Toronto
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2018 (5 years 1 month)
    Bachelor's of Science specialising in Computer Science.
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      Clarendon Scholar
      clarendon.ox.ac.uk - billed as Oxford’s most competitive graduate scholarship, the Clarendon scholarship is awarded exclusively based on academic performance and contribution.
    • A
      AI Grant Fellow
      AI Grant
      aigrant.org - A fellowship sponsored by Google, CRV and others; started by Nat Friedman (Xamarin) and Daniel Gross (Y Combinator).
    • Open Philanthropy
      Open Philanthropy AI Fellow
      Open Philanthropy
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      University College Alumni Scholar
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      Depthwise Separable Convolutions for Neural Machine Translation
      Jun
      Depthwise separable convolutions reduce the number of parameters and computation used in convolutional operations while increasing representational efficiency. They have been shown to be successful in image classification models, both in obtaining better models than previously possible for a given parameter count (the Xception architecture) and considerably reducing the number of parameters required to perform at a given level (the MobileNets family of architectures). Recently, convolutional sequence-to-sequence networks have been applied to machine translation tasks with good results. In this work, we study how depthwise separable convolutions can be applied to neural machine translation. We introduce a new architecture inspired by Xceptio
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      One Model To Learn Them All
      Arxiv Jun
      Deep learning yields great results across many fields, from speech recognition, image classification, to translation. But for each problem, getting a deep model to work well involves research into the architecture and a long period of tuning. We present a single model that yields good results on a number of problems spanning multiple domains. In particular, this single model is trained concurrently on ImageNet, multiple translation tasks, image captioning (COCO dataset), a speech recognition corpus, and an English parsing task. Our model architecture incorporates building blocks from multiple domains. It contains convolutional layers, an attention mechanism, and sparsely-gated layers. Each of these computational blocks is crucial for a subs
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      Blog: Facebook on the creation of Machine Intelligence
      Medium Dec
      An exploration of the technologies and philosophy being used to craft the first generation of artificial intelligence.
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      Attention Is All You Need
      Jun
      The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English-to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles by over 2 BLEU. On the WMT 2014 English-to-F
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      The Reversible Residual Network: Backpropagation Without Storing Activations
      Jul
      Deep residual networks (ResNets) have significantly pushed forward the state-of-the-art on image classification, increasing in performance as networks grow both deeper and wider. However, memory consumption becomes a bottleneck, as one needs to store the activations in order to calculate gradients using backpropagation. We present the Reversible Residual Network (RevNet), a variant of ResNets where each layer's activations can be reconstructed exactly from the next layer's. Therefore, the activations for most layers need not be stored in memory during backpropagation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of RevNets on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and ImageNet, establishing nearly identical classification accuracy to equally-sized ResNets, even though t
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      Blog: The Neural Turing Machine
      May
      A brief outline of the Neural Turing Machine's (NTM) design; a backpropogatable architecture that can (among many possibilities) learn to dynamically execute programs.
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      Blog: Backpropogating an LSTM: A Numerical Example
      Medium Mar
      LSTMs are arguably the most widely-used architecture in recurrent neural networks. This article walks through the mathematics behind these versatile units.
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