Exploring the Controversy Around IBM’s Continued Fraction Patent
As the successor to Papers With Code, LeetArxiv dives deep into the intriguing world of continued fractions and their impact on AI.
- Patent Shenanigans: IBM has secured a patent on a centuries-old mathematical technique, seeking to monetize its application in AI, particularly through PyTorch.
- Rebranding and Reinventing: A recent paper, “CoFrNets” by Puri et al. (2021), repackages continued fractions as “ladders,” while the concept has been around since Gauss, Euler, and Ramanujan.
- Universal Approximators: Continued fractions, much like multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), are universal approximators, but their novelty in AI stirs debate among mathematicians.
Are we witnessing innovation, or merely the rebranding of existing knowledge?
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