Deep Learning Study Group

Deep learning is evolving quickly. Important new developments are appearing daily. This group attempts to keep up by reading and discussing current deep learning literature. This meetup uses discussion among the participants to speed understanding of current research results. That requires that some participants read the paper before attending. Anyone is welcome to attend and listen without reading the paper. If nobody reads the paper the meeting will be short.

For March 17, 2026 we will walk through the code for Karpathy's autoresearch:
https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch/
He has some discussion of his experiments here and many others have posted on uses for it:
https://x.com/karpathy
A blog by someone on using it:
https://medium.com/modelmind/getting-started-with-andrej-karpathys-autoresearch-full-guide-c2f3a80b9ce6
There are also lots of YouTubes on it.
Karpathy's code only runs on H100's, so I patched it to run on consumer GPUs (tested on a 5090 32GB):
https://github.com/davidmacmillan/autoresearch.git

Papers that we're reading, code that participants generate and other random stuff can be found at github site for the group.
https://github.com/davidmacmillan/DeepLearningStudyGroup