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Alex Smola

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Adventures in Data Land: Alex Smola's blog on machine learning, AI, and systems.

AI / MLDistributed systems / cloud

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48 from 15 Jan 2010 to 9 Aug 2026
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monthly (15 in the last year)
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2026 15

  1. AI for humans
  2. Losing the thread
  3. The autopsy: porting MXNet to Blackwell and Apple Silicon
  4. Raising MXNet from the Attic
  5. Efficiency in LLMs
  6. Fast projections require a PHD
  7. Random projections, three ways
  8. Digital humans
  9. The effective sample size
  10. ProactBench
  11. What your assistant didn’t say
  12. Beating \(2^n - 1\) for InfiniBand
  13. Fair representations are pancakes
  14. You don’t need all the benchmarks
  15. The Pokémon Theorem

2019 1

  1. Dive into Deep Learning

2016 1

  1. Leaving CMU

2014 1

  1. May 15, 2014

2013 1

  1. Distributing Data in a Parameter Server

2012 8

  1. 100 Terabytes, 5 Billion Documents, 10 Billion Parameters, 1 Billion Inserts/s
  2. Beware the bandwidth gap - speeding up optimization
  3. The Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm and estimation on graphs
  4. In defense of keeping data private
  5. MLSS Purdue
  6. Random numbers in constant storage
  7. May 15, 2012
  8. The Neal Kernel and Random Kitchen Sinks

2011 18

  1. Big Learning: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale
  2. Introduction to Graphical Models
  3. Distributed synchronization with the distributed star
  4. Speeding up Latent Dirichlet Allocation
  5. Bloom Filters
  6. Jul 25, 2011
  7. Jul 20, 2011
  8. Jul 15, 2011
  9. Jul 10, 2011
  10. Jul 5, 2011
  11. Jul 1, 2011
  12. Jun 30, 2011
  13. Jun 25, 2011
  14. Jun 20, 2011
  15. May 1, 2011
  16. Apr 1, 2011
  17. Mar 1, 2011
  18. Jan 1, 2011

2010 3

  1. Nov 12, 2010
  2. Oct 12, 2010
  3. Jan 15, 2010