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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by astrange on Saturday July 03, 2021 @07:26PM (#27725865)
Are they Bayesian? It would be good if ML models were Bayesian (they'd be able to show uncertainty better) but they usually aren't.
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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by robbedpeter on Sunday July 04, 2021 @03:27AM (#27727901)
The model and attention mechanism produces Bayesian properties, but transformers as a whole contain non-Bayesian aspects, depending on how rigorous you want to be in defining Bayesian.
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