Technical Fellow, Graphcore. Love beautiful code, and beautiful hardware to run it on.

Cambridge
Joined July 2009
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A tiny implementation detail in low-precision arithmetic could be biasing your AI training 😲 This interactive deep dive from Graphcore Research's @Awfidius uncovers a subtle failure mode in stochastic rounding that only appears when randomness is limited, and how it can be addressed with one simple fix 🎲 Check it out in the link below! 👇
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Andrew Fitzgibbon retweeted
A tiny implementation detail in low-precision arithmetic could be biasing your AI training 😲 This interactive deep dive from Graphcore Research's @Awfidius uncovers a subtle failure mode in stochastic rounding that only appears when randomness is limited, and how it can be addressed with one simple fix 🎲 Check it out in the link below! 👇
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🚨 Graphcore is hiring AI Research Interns! 🚨 Join us to work at the intersection of hardware and AI and help shape the future of AI systems. Whether you're excited about efficient inference, large-scale training, or advancing frontier-model capabilities, we’ve got cutting-edge projects for you to dive into. Interested? Apply below 👇
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Our Papers of the Month for September is now live! We cover: - LLM self-correction via RL - Trillion-token FP8 training - SOAP (Shampoo + Adam) - Generative models for crystals All framed in terms of "proper conditioning" (🧵) graphcore-research.github.io…
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Graphcore Research internships are now open 🎉 We're looking for PhD students for next summer We're interested in algorithms & tools for hardware-efficient ML, in areas like LLM training/inference, GNNs, knowledge graphs and frameworks Spread the word! graphcore.ai/jobs
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Introducing `tandv` - a library for tracking and visualising the internal stats of your model. We hope this will help with low-precision, debugging and more. (link in 🧵)
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Sure matplotlib is cool, but what if I want to load my loss curves into the 2006 hit Flash game LineRider?
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Update: super helpful customer service got me the brass fixing kit, tap no longer wobbling.
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Our u-µP paper hit arXiv this morning! I'm so proud of this one — and grateful for a wonderful team who put so much into it 🥰 We add lots of good things to µP. Better sweeping, transfer, simple FP8. Already @cloneofsimo has a great thread on it, which I highly recommend
babe wake up, new muP paper dropped arxiv.org/abs/2407.17465 And holy smokes does this look promising!
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babe wake up, new muP paper dropped arxiv.org/abs/2407.17465 And holy smokes does this look promising!
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As further feedback to the team that thought this would be a great innovation that would attract customers: I bought this tap because of Grohe's reputation for quality. The term "quickfix" had zero impact on my choice. However, that term now means "low quality gimmick".
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Same problem, and based on online searches, many others have it too. Terrible wasteful design, saves 10 seconds when it works, costs hours when it doesn't, and a load of extra useless plastic is left in place having saved those 10 seconds.
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Our team's summaries & analysis of our favourite papers from the last month. We give our take on: Mamba-2, sparse-µP, contextual position encoding & matmul-free models 🧵 graphcore-research.github.io…
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Our latest edition of *Papers of the Month* is now available 📚 These are summaries of our team's favourite papers from March, including a new low-rank training procedure GaLore, and the supposed "Era of 1-bit LLMs" (really 1.58 bits) Mini-version in 🧵 graphcore-research.github.io…
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I'm moving from extremely rarely posting interesting content on twitter to doing the same on, wow I'm old, linkedin...
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So pleased to share that our OGB-LSC winning model GPS++ has just been published in TMLR.
GPS++: Reviving the Art of Message Passing for Molecular Property Prediction Dominic Masters, Josef Dean, Kerstin Klaeser et al.. Action editor: Ole Winther. openreview.net/forum?id=moVE… #molecular #pcqm4mv2 #graph
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I love that I'm being offered these - I guess the ad targeting knows I'm going to have a sudden urge to take up jewellery making long before I do...
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I’m biased obvs, but having seen a preview of this talk, I can recommend it highly!
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