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The speaker says a continuous normalizing flow can use a normal distribution, Student t distribution, or another normalizing flow as its base, provided sample likelihoods are computable.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“The base measure could be a normal distribution,”
“a student T distribution or even another normalizing flow.”
“Anything where you can compute the likelihood of a sample works.”Play from 28:07Report a misattribution
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