Brian Lester

Measurement-induced entanglement and teleportation on a noisy quantum processor

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Measurement has a special role in quantum theory: by collapsing the wavefunction it can enable phenomena such as teleportation and thereby alter the "arrow of time" that constrains unitary evolution. When integrated in many-body dynamics, …

Git-Theta: A Git Extension for Collaborative Development of Machine Learning Models

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Currently, most machine learning models are trained by centralized teams and are rarely updated. In contrast, open-source software development involves the iterative development of a shared artifact through distributed collaboration using a version control system. …

SPoT: Better Frozen Model Adaptation through Soft Prompt Transfer

2022 · Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

There has been growing interest in parameterefficient methods to apply pre-trained language models to downstream tasks. Building on the PROMPTTUNING approach of Lester et al. ( SPOT first learns a prompt on one or more …