Bruno Magalhaes

Machine Learning and High Performance Computing

Welcome 👋🏽. I am Bruno, a research engineer for large-scale AI at Synthesia. Previously, I was an ML researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge on Project Silica. And before that, an HPC engineer, PhD and postdoc at EPFL, researching variable-step simulation of spiking neural networks on large supercomputers. In this space, I keep track of publications and resources of interest, and I post about ML and HPC 🚀.  email  github  linkedin  scholar RSS

2024	Distributed GPT model (part 4): sequence parallelism with Ulysses and Ring attention
2024	Distributed training of variable-length samples: curriculum learning, compilation, adaptive batch size and LR
2024	Mixture-of-Experts: a publications timeline, with serial and distributed implementations
2023	Distributed GPT model (part 3): model parallelism with Megatron-LM
2023	Distributed GPT model (part 2): pipeline parallelism with DeepSpeed 1F1B
2023	Distributed GPT model: data parallelism, sharding and CPU offloading
2023	Building a GPT model in C++, and benchmarking LibTorch, PyTorch, TorchScript and torch.compile
2023	Building a GPT model in PyTorch from scratch
2020	Learning from sequences: Encoder-Decoder, Transformers and BERT
2019	Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs)
2019	Variational Inference: ELBO, Mean-Field Approximation, CAVI and Gaussian Mixture Models
2019	Exponential Family of Distributions
2018	Bayesian Linear Regression, Maximum Likelihood and Maximum-A-Priori
2018	Statistics for ML Engineers
2018	Algebra for ML Engineers
2018	Deep Neural Networks, backpropagation, autodiff, dropout, CNNs and embeddings
2017	Unsupervised Learning basics and Principal Component Analysis
2017	Variable Timestep Simulation of the Electrical Activity of Neurons
2017	Closed-form Linear Regression and Matrix Factorization, and loss functions
2016	Numerical Resolution of the Electrical Activity of Detailed Neuron Models
2016	The Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neuron Model and The Brunel Network
2015	Distributed Orthogonal Slicing for Load Balancing of Large Spatial Datasets
2015	Distributed Matrix Transpose Algorithms
2014	Distributed Sorting Algorithms