Augmented reality is one of the things that’s been slowly gaining steam over the years and aims to completely eliminate the boundaries between real and virtual. Both Apple and Google have released their AR SDKs for quite some time(ARKit and ARCore respectively). One of the best real-world examples of this…

From my most recent escapade into the deep learning literature I present to you this paper by Oord et. al. which presents the idea of using discrete latent embeddings for variational auto encoders. The proposed model is called Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoders (VQ-VAE). I really liked the idea and the…

Attention mechanism for sequence modelling was first introduced in the paper: Neural Machine Translation by jointly learning to align and translate, Bengio et. al. ICLR 2015. Even though the paper itself mentions the word “attention” scarcely (3 times total in 2 consecutive lines!!) the term has caught on. …