training

09 Aug

Benefits of Training & Development for Employees

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In today's fast-paced business world, the success of a company depends heavily on the skills and knowledge of its employees. Training and development programs are essential tools that companies use to enhance these skills and ensure their workforce is equipped to handle the challenges of their roles effectively. Let's explore why training and development are crucial for both employees and organizations. Improved Skills and KnowledgeTraining programs are designed to teach employees new skills and update their knowledge. This includes technical skills related to their job tasks, like using software or machinery, as well as soft skills such as communication, teamwork,…

25 May

On the Stepwise Nature of Self-Supervised Learning

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Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we find that the loss descends in a stepwise fashion (top left) and the learned embeddings iteratively increase in dimensionality (bottom left). Direct visualization of embeddings (right; top three PCA directions shown) confirms that embeddings are initially collapsed to a point, which then expands to a 1D manifold, a 2D manifold, and beyond concurrently with steps in the loss. It is widely believed that deep learning’s stunning success is due in part to its ability to discover and extract useful representations of complex data. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has…