Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Nov 3

Model Soups: Why Averaging Fine-Tuned Weights Beats Picking the Best One

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Nov 1

Amortised Inference: Why Training a Network to Infer Beats Running Optimisation Every Time

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Nov 1

Proximal Methods: Why Splitting a Nonsmooth Problem Beats Solving It Directly

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Nov 1

Distributional Reinforcement Learning: Why Predicting a Distribution Beats Predicting a Mean

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10 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 31

Causal Representation Learning: Why Observational Data Alone Cannot Identify Latent Causes

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 31

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations: Why Depth Can Be a Continuous Variable

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 31

Sparse Autoencoders: Why Forcing Sparsity Makes Neural Features Interpretable

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 31

Contrastive Learning: Why Pulling Similar Points Together Learns Representations Without Labels

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 31

Kernel Mean Embeddings: Turning Distributions into Points You Can Compute With

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 31

Bilevel Optimisation: Why Meta-Learning Is an Optimisation Problem Inside an Optimisation Problem

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9 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 30

Bayesian Optimization: Why a Surrogate Model Plus an Acquisition Function Beats Grid Search

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10 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 30

Diffusion Models: How Reversing Noise Learns a Data Distribution

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 30

Thompson Sampling: Why Randomised Exploration Beats Greedy Optimisation

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 30

Causal Discovery: Why Conditional Independence Can Recover a Graph - and When It Cannot

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 30

Low-Rank Adaptation: Why Freezing Most Weights Still Fine-Tunes a Large Model

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 30

State Space Models: Why Linear Recurrences Rival Attention for Long Sequences

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 30

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Why End-to-End Accuracy Hides the Real Failures

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9 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 29

Neural Collapse: Why the Last Layer Converges to a Simple Geometric Structure

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 29

Rotary Position Embeddings: How Rotating Queries and Keys Encodes Relative Position

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 29

In-Context Learning: How a Forward Pass Learns Without Updating a Single Weight

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10 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 29

Normalizing Flows: Why Invertible Transformations Make Exact Likelihoods Possible

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 29

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Why Sparse Subnetworks Train as Well as Dense Ones

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 28

Energy-Based Models: Why an Unnormalised Density Can Still Define a Distribution

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10 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 28

Variational Inference: Why the ELBO Trades Accuracy for Tractability

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 28

Gaussian Processes: Why Kernels Are Priors Over Functions, Not Just Similarity Scores

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 28

Direct Preference Optimization: Why You Can Align a Model Without a Reward Model

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 28

Mixture of Experts: Why Sparse Routing Scales Models Without Scaling Compute

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 28

Double Descent: Why Bigger Models Can Generalise Better After Getting Worse

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 28

Sharpness-Aware Minimization: Why Flat Minima Generalise Better Than Sharp Ones

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 27

Grokking: Why Neural Networks Suddenly Generalise Long After Memorising

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9 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 27

Federated Learning: Why Averaging Model Updates Works - and When It Fails

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 27

Graph Neural Networks: Why Message Passing Works - and Where It Breaks

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9 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 26

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo: How Momentum Turns Random Walks into Efficient Sampling

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 26

Score Matching: Why Learning the Gradient of a Log-Density Beats Learning the Density Itself

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 26

Stein Variational Gradient Descent: Particles That Repel Their Way to the Posterior

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9 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 26

Optimal Transport: Why Wasserstein Distance Sees Geometry That KL Divergence Misses

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9 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 26

The Information Bottleneck: Why the Best Representations Forget Most of What They See

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 26

Conformal Prediction: Valid Uncertainty Without Distributional Assumptions

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9 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 25

Spectral Bias: Why Neural Networks Learn Low Frequencies First

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 25

Natural Gradients: Why Steepest Descent Depends on the Geometry You Choose

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Oct 25

Doubly Robust Estimation: When Two Imperfect Models Still Get Causality Right

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8 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Aug 25 '25

Why a simple for loop (brute-force k-NN) becomes computationally impossible for modern AI applications

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4 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Aug 8 '25

Google Genie 3 AI: The Future of Game Development Has Arrived!

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3 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jul 29 '25

Dive Deeper with AI Mode: Circle to Search Now Gives You a Gamer’s Edge

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3 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jul 14 '25

How Do Diffusion Models Work? An Introduction to Generative Image Processing

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2 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jul 8 '25

Windsurf Introduces a Free‑to‑Use SWE‑1 Coding Model Family

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3 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jul 4 '25

Google Cloud’s Next-Gen AI and CJIS 6.0: A New Era for Public Safety

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2 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jun 4 '25

Google Cloud's Open Lakehouse: Powering the Future of AI with Open Data and Unprecedented Performance

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1

5 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jun 4 '25

Deep Dive into Google Agentspace's Core Architecture: Orchestrating the Enterprise AI Revolution

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13

5 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jun 2 '25

Unlocking Deeper Security: TLS Inspection Now Live in Microsoft Entra Internet Access!

#webdev #programming #pnp #ai

6 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

May 24 '25

The AI Architect's Toolkit: Navigating the Core Paradigms of Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning

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9 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

May 24 '25

Revolutionize Your Workflow: Boosting SQL Productivity with Copilot in SSMS 21

#webdev #sql #githubcopilot #beginners

4 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

May 10 '25

Empowering Agentic AI: The Symbiotic Power of Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry

#agentaichallenge #webdev #beginners #azure

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7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Apr 12 '25

Welcome to Firebase Studio: Your Unified Command Center for App Development

#webdev #programming #beginners #ai

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6 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Mar 25 '25

Gemini Just Leveled Up: Personalized Responses Powered by Your Google Activity

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2

3 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jan 28 '25

DeepSeek Under Siege: Cyberattack and the Paradox of Explosive AI Growth

#webdev #deepseek #cybersecurity #ai

5 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jan 19 '25

Google's Willow Chip: Beyond the Hype, a Quantum Leap in Hardware is Here

#webdev #javascript #google #programming

3 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jan 15 '25

The Irrational Consumer: How Behavioral Science is Revolutionizing Brand Strategy

#webdev #beginners #ai #learning

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5 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jan 13 '25

Automating Business Intelligence Dashboards Using Gemini AI: A Deep Dive

#webdev #beginners #ai #devops

2

1

7 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Jan 10 '25

Exploring Azure AI Agent Service: A Leap in Conversational AI

#webdev #beginners #ai #devops

3

4 min read

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