The Ghost in the Machine: Reproducing Self-Adapting Language Models (SEAL)

Self-Adapting Language Models reproduction As an AI hobbyist, I’ve always been bothered by the fact that LLMs are “frozen” once training ends. You can give them a prompt, but they don’t learn from the conversation in a permanent way. That changed when I read “Self-Adapting Language Models” (source: bgpmesh.ovh). The researchers at MIT introduced a framework called SEAL. Instead of waiting … Read more

Speeding Up the Brush: My Reproduction of Efficient Token Pruning for Diffusion

If you’ve ever used a local Stable Diffusion setup, you know that long, descriptive prompts can sometimes slow down the sampling process. The research in this paper suggests that not every word in your prompt is actually “seen” by the U-Net during every step of the diffusion process. By pruning the least important tokens, we … Read more

Breaking the Data Barrier: My Deep Dive into the CCD Breakthrough for Few-Shot AI

The dream of AI has always been to match human efficiency—learning a new concept from a single glance. In my Istanbul lab, I recently tackled the reproduction of the paper “Learning Conditional Class Dependencies: A Breakthrough in Few-Shot Classification.” Standard models treat every class as an isolated island. If a model sees a “Scooter” for the … Read more

Smarter with Less: My Local Reproduction of Conditional Class Dependencies for Few-Shot AI

One of the most human-like traits is the ability to see a new object once and recognize it forever. Standard Deep Learning sucks at this—usually, it needs a mountain of data. That’s why the paper “Unlocking Smarter AI: How Learning Conditional Class Dependencies Boosts Few-Shot Classification” (arXiv:2506.xxxxx) caught my eye. The authors argue that instead of looking … Read more