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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Learning to Generate Reviews and Discovering Sentiment · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.01444/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.01444/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Learning to Generate Reviews and Discovering Sentiment — mentioned by cmorez</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40551464</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1704.01444:40551464</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:51:22 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; [...] but they certainly don&amp;#x27;t prove what OP claimed. OP&amp;#x27;s claim was not: &amp;quot;LLMs know whether text is true, false, reliable, or is epistemically calibrated&amp;quot;. But rather: &amp;quot;[LLMs condition] on latents *ABOUT* truth, falsity, reliability, and calibration&amp;quot;. &amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s also very different to ask a model to evaluate the veracity of a nonsense statement, vs. avoiding the generation of a nonsense statement [...] probably could have been done with earlier generations of classifiers Yes. OP&amp;#x27;s point was not about generation, it was about representation (specifically conditioning on the representation of…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.01444/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Learning to Generate Reviews and Discovering Sentiment — mentioned by magoghm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39370091</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1704.01444:39370091</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:24:52 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;I tried to find the where I heard that Radford was inspired by that blog post, but the closest thing I found is that in the &amp;quot;Sentiment Neuron&amp;quot; paper (Learning to Generate Reviews and Discovering Sentiment: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01444.pdf), in the &amp;quot;Discussion and Future Work&amp;quot; section they mention this Karpathy paper from 2015: Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02078&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.01444/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Learning to Generate Reviews and Discovering Sentiment — mentioned by swyx</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37409132</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1704.01444:37409132</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:31:13 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;i highlighted this last night which seems to be making the rounds - https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1699369076529971545 Alec&amp;#x27;s CV (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecradford/) seems to be: - 2011-2016 BSc Eng from Olin College - 2013+ started a data/AI consultancy as a sophomore that turned into a vague startup/product? - 2015 first paper on GANs coauthored with soumith https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06434.pdf%C3 - 2016 first GAN paper under openai email https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2016/file/8... - 2017 the generative reviews paper mentioend in the Wired article, with Ilya…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.01444/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Learning to Generate Reviews and Discovering Sentiment — mentioned by tensor</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14398921</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1704.01444:14398921</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2017 05:05:42 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Sure, in looking at what it would cost to replicate this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01444.pdf They say they used four Titan X cards for a month. I was actually looking at google cloud machine learning since I thought being targeted to tensorflow would be the most cost effective. But it&amp;#x27;s 0.49/hour per ML training unit, or 1.47/hour per GPU. A basic gpu gives 3 training units, so I thought that something approximately similar would require 12 training units, which comes to something like $4000+ a month. Maybe I completely misunderstood the resources being offered though, because you are right…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.01444/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Learning to Generate Reviews and Discovering Sentiment — mentioned by tshadley</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056051</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1704.01444:14056051</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:35:25 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The selected model reaches 1.12 bits per byte.&amp;quot; (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01444.pdf) For context, Claude Shannon found that humans could model English text with an entropy of 0.6 to 1.3 bits per character (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Shannon1950.pdf)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.01444/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item></channel></rss>
