Machine learner. Building big Bayesian models @microsoft. Views my own. he/him.

Cambridge, England
Joined May 2008
James Hensman retweeted
Excited to share our new work, "TurboAttention", a comprehensive approach for efficient quantized attention in LLMs! We introduce FlashQ, a headwise progressive quantization technique for both KV cache compression and quantized attention execution, and Sparsity-based Softmax Approximation (SAS) to eliminate softmax latency. TurboAttention achieves up to 1.8x speedup in attention, >4.4x KV cache reduction, and up to 2.37x throughput improvement over the FP16 baseline. Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.08585 #LLM #Quantization #FlashAttention #AI #MachineLearning #Inference #DeepLearning
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We're recruiting interns for summer '25. Come and work with me and the team on efficiency in AI systems. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g…
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Ever thought about using matrix-exp's or log-det's in large-scale ML (think PDEs/GGN matrices with >1M rows)? I have, and maybe you have, too—but gradients? That's where it gets tricky. Not anymore! We have a #NeurIPS2024 spotlight: "Gradients of Functions of Large Matrices."🧵
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🔵New paper!🔵 Our latest work on Pyramid Vector Quantization for LLMs achieves state-of-the-art post-training quantization with a Pareto-optimal trade-off between performance, bits per weight, and bits per activation. A thread. 👇 1/15
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Our team is growing. Come and join us as part of the MSR AI Residency program to work on efficiency in deep learning. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g…
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James Hensman retweeted
New preprint out on geographic location encoding using spherical harmonics and sinusoidal representations! 🌐➡️🌏 Work led by @MarcCoru and w/ @rolf_comma_e, Robin Zbinden and @devistuia. 📄Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.06743 💻Code: github.com/marccoru/location… 🧵Thread: 👇 1/11
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One week left to apply for a Health Data Science Post Doc with me as part of the @ai4cihub! bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx… There is lots of flexibility in methodology you could pursue and an unbeatable team of collaborators!
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We are hiring a senior researcher in ML for healthcare at MSR Cambridge (UK)! The position is in my team, so if you get it you will work with me (is this a pro or a con? do not answer). Focus is multimodal (~vision-language) models for radiology! Link: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g…
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James Hensman retweeted
Awesome project. Just did an installation video of QuaRot locally. Thanks for the great project. youtu.be/r7FvhB1WgI8?si=t_4E…
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Come and work with us to make Language Models more efficient. A Research Residency at @MSFTResearch and 365 Research in Cambridge, UK. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g…
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It was such a pleasure to work with @AshkboosSaleh and @max_croci on this method for LLM compression during Saleh's internship last year.
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James Hensman retweeted
The SIAM community mourns the passing of former SIAM President Nick Higham. We extend our condolences to his family, colleagues, and friends. He will be sorely missed.
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Internship opportunity: come and work with me on the future of knowledge bases and efficient language modelling. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g…
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State-of-the-art CIFAR-10 results for kernel methods! Now on arXiv:Convolutional Deep Kernel Machines. Link here: arxiv.org/abs/2309.09814. Read on for the abridged version. (1/10)
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The first "Research Focus" blog post of 2024 from @MSFTResearch highlights papers from couple of internship projects that I co-supervised with Siân Lindley and @jameshensman last summer. Blog post: microsoft.com/en-us/research…
Mixture-of-linear-experts for long-term time series forecasting; Weakly-supervised streaming multilingual speech model with truly zero-shot capability; KBFormer: Diffusion model for structured entity completion; Identifying risks of AI-mediated data access:msft.it/6011imrbT
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James Hensman retweeted
A highlight of the #NeurIPS2023 meetup in Cambridge for me was Carl Rasmussen's keynote on "Halting Climate Change". Spoiler: it has nothing to do with AI. Worth a watch: youtube.com/watch?v=naFaQsFx…
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Lancaster is a super place to study and Stats is a great department. I can't wait to work with you - please apply!
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One more thing:- linkedin tells me I have 6/10 of the skills to apply for this position. Yes, the one I'm co-advising for! So don't be put off applying if you think you're not 100% qualified, we'll help you learn and grow through your PhD career.
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