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Welcome to Hippocampus's Garden, a Shion Honda's blog. I regularly write about machine learning, statistics, programming, and my hobbies.
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Loss Functions for Ordinal Regression

January 04, 2025  |  9 min read

Ordinal regression has order structure between classes and there are dedicated loss functions to use this information.

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AI時代をどう生き抜くか

December 31, 2024  |  11 min read

今後5年程度の未来を見据え、AI時代を生き抜くための方法について自分の考えをまとめました。

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Year in Review: Deep Learning Papers in 2024

December 29, 2024  |  13 min read

Reflecting on 2024's deep learning breakthroughs! Discover my top 10 favorite research papers that shaped the field this year.

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Evolution of Preference Optimization Techniques

November 13, 2024  |  5 min read

RLHF is not the only method for AI alignment. This article introduces modern algorithms like DPO and KTO that offer simpler and more stable alternatives.

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Kaggle Competition Report: Automated Essay Scoring 2.0

July 07, 2024  |  5 min read

This competition was all about distribution shift. Let's learn how the winners conquered the challenge.

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Aligning LLMs without Reinforcement Learning

April 27, 2024  |  3 min read

DPO reduces the effort required to align LLMs. Here is how I created the Reviewer #2 Bot from TinyLlama using DPO.

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