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Colin Raffel: Blog

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AI / ML

Posts
27 from 14 Jun 2017 to 13 Aug 2026
Posting
monthly (12 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 11

  1. Academic Research Does Not Exist To Serve Industry
  2. Updates, August 2026
  3. When will language models be good enough?
  4. Three Machine Learning Publication Venues for the Research Agent Era
  5. Updates, June 2026
  6. Estimating public cluster FLOPS vs. GDP
  7. Updates, April 2026
  8. How LLMs Could Be Used to Make Research Better, Rather Than Worse
  9. Throwback Thursday: We Are Over-Indexing on Paper Acceptance
  10. Updates, February 2026
  11. Updates, January 2026

2025 2

  1. The Five Camps of Language Model Development
  2. The Universal Third Person

2024 2

  1. Advising Logistics Circa 2024
  2. On PHATGOOSE: The Challenge of Recycling PEFT Modules for Zero-Shot Generalization

2023 3

  1. A New Alchemy: Language Model Development as a Subfield?
  2. Moving to Toronto
  3. Getting Collective Feedback From Your Advisees

2022 1

  1. Reflecting on Two Years of Professorship

2021 2

  1. A Call to Build Models Like We Build Open-Source Software
  2. Role-Playing Paper-Reading Seminars

2019 2

  1. You Don't Know JAX
  2. Writing a Google AI Residency Cover Letter

2018 2

  1. GANs and Divergence Minimization
  2. Reviewing Criteria

2017 2

  1. My Year at Brain
  2. Online and Linear-Time Attention by Enforcing Monotonic Alignments