More young DL researchers chasing radical ideas than a year ago, observer notes
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-08
A question circulated asking which young deep learning researchers are pursuing the most ambitious ideas — replacing gradient descent, transformers, learning objectives, or building a theory of generalization.
fkasummer notes that a year ago such a list would have seemed ambitious, implying the number of such researchers has grown noticeably since.
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