Itai Sfaradi

Itai Sfaradi

Physicist & AI researcher for science
University of California, Berkeley

itai.sfaradi [at] berkeley.edu

Latest Posts

Mechanistic Interpretability via Layer Patching in a Time-Series Analysis

In the previous posts, I looked at the way GPT-oss classifies astronomical light curves, and especially at the tensio...

Bayesian-like Processes In LLMs - Few-Shot Prompting And The Prior Gap

Bayes’ theorem is probably one of my favorite ideas in statistics. The idea that we update our beliefs based on obser...

Benchmarking And Behavioral Study of LLMs For Time-Series Analysis

In my previous post I used an LSTM to classify astronomical transients. The motivation for this project is laid out i...

RNNs, LSTMs, and the classification of astronomical transients

This project focuses on classifying light curves of astronomical transients using recurrent neural networks.

Getting started with ML and AI

As the “About” section of this repo shows, I am an astrophysicist working on high-energy astronomical transients in r...