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#85 Dr. Petar Veličković (Deepmind) - Categories, Graphs, Reasoning [NEURIPS22 UNPLUGGED]

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Graph Neural Networks - Is Category Theory Necessary?

category theory has been used in an adjacent field I can think of too. The work that was published at New York's two years ago is one of the first papers that really tried to use categorical concepts to build these structures. It allows you a lot more flexibility about how you go about building your functions and you're no longer constrained to have just one function everywhere repeated right so that's maybe one example that at least to me was what first motivated me and made me realize that there's more to this stuff than just to say what group theory will give us yeah amazing.

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