Emilio Cantú

I’m interested in computers and machine learning. I did my undergrad in ECE at ITAM and my MS in Applied Stats at UMICH.

I try to write as I learn about CS, ML, and other topics.

Making Moirai Recursive

to improve long horizon time series forecasting

Tiny Recursive Models Pt. 1

a breakdown and some randomization experiments

Fuzzy matching professors to their reviews

lessons from a simple ML approach

pet projects

HorariosITAM (2019): A schedule planner for ITAM undergrads with about 3k monthly users.
MyWolverine.Events (2024): Event recommendations from UMICH (learning about recsys).
ML Katas (2025): Share machine learning exercises and make it easy for LLMs to generate custom ones for you.

Some quick hacky ones:

git-puzzles.com (2026): Practice Git by solving small puzzles in your browser.
moonwise (2025): Sync and manage book highlights. See some of my favorite.
awesome umich orgs (2023): Explore student orgs in embedding space.

preprints

E. Cantu-Cervini (2024). Personalized Federated Learning via Stacking. [arxiv] [code]