Emilio Cantu

Computer Engineering B.S. (ITAM) & Applied Statistics M.S. (UMICH)

ecantuc[at]umich[dot]edu

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posts

I try to write as I learn about CS, stats, and ML. Latest:

Fuzzy matching professors to their reviews

lessons from a simple ML approach

Engression

exploring a lightweight approach to distributional regression

Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network

Revisiting and implementing part of the classical paper

Read more here.

pet projects

Horarios ITAM: A schedule planner for ITAM undergrads with about 3k monthly visitors. [done]
My Wolverine Events: Get event recommendations from U of M (learning about recsys). [in dev]
ML Katas: Share machine learning exercises and make it easy for LLMs to generate custom ones for you.

Some quick hacky ones:

moonwise: Sync and manage book highlights. See some of my favorite highlights.
Awesome Umich Orgs: Explore similar student orgs in embedding space.

preprints

E. Cantu-Cervini. Personalized Federated Learning via Stacking. [arxiv] [code]