Kyunghyun Cho

motivation. this past spring, i taught <Fundamentals of Machine Learning> for computer science seniors (with some juniors as well as seniors from other majors, including data science and economics) at NYU. last time i taught this course, the course was ti…

perhaps because my post-graduate training and career afterward has almost entirely focused on optimizing a “loss function” defined as the “average” loss of individual data instances within a large amount “data” set by “mechanistically” adjusting the param…

(i posted it on social media yesterday and am leaving here as is for the future record. i have a lot of thoughts i want to share about my time founding Prescient Design, joining Genentech/Toche and staying there for more than four years, but i will age th…

if you’ve been following me on twitter (X), linkedin, bluesky, etc., over the past few months, you may have seen me doing some random vibe coding here and there. in particular, over the past three weeks, i’ve been spending a few hours each weekend to check

this post expands on this tweet i sent out a month ago. as scientists (yes, i identify as a scientist myself, although i can see how this can be debatable,) we are often trained and encouraged to uncover mechanisms behind mysterious phenomena in the unive…

earlier this year, we officially launched the Global AI Frontier Lab at New York University (NYU), directly under the Office of the President. the Global AI Frontier Lab was created at NYU in collaboration with the Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (spe…

i joined NYU as an assistant professor nearly ten years ago in Fall 2015. during that fall, Glen de Vries, who was the founder and president of Medidata, endowed a professorship in health statistics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU.…

[UPDATE: Feb 8 2025] my amazing colleague Max Shen noticed a sign mistake in my derivation of the partial derivative of the log-harmonic function below. i taught my first full-semester course on <Natural Language Processing with Distributed Representation>

Note: i wrote this on December 9 2024 but could not dare posting it because i did not want to and could not believe what just happened then. my heart still aches so much to even think about it, but i’m posting it on the last day of 2024 to remember Felix.

here’s my final hackathon of the year (2024). there are a few concepts in deep learning that i simply love. they include (but are not limited to) autoregressive sequence modeling, mixture density networks, boltzmann machines, variational autoencoders, sto…