Taylor Kolasinski

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Founder of Poisson Labs. ML systems & research, reinforcement learning, edge AI. Previously Matter AI, Better.com, WeWork. Brooklyn.

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Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode

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DeepSeek replaced standard residuals with massive Hyper-Connections, and then watched them explode. I reproduced the 9x signal amplification to understand their fix: the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm. Part 1 of 2.