Field Notes
Machine Learning / Data Engineering / Infra / All around tech stuff
A research-focused account of a 2024 experiment adapting Stable Diffusion 1.5 to generate sheet-music images from composer, instrument, style, and key metadata, covering the data pipeline, latent-diffusion training loop, and experimental and qualitative results.
A research-report-style write-up of a meaning-preserving jailbreak: how I built and trained a small model to reword harmful prompts so a bigger safety-tuned model complies, the reward design, the full training program, the stats showing the attack getting stronger, its transfer to a larger unseen model, and a defense-in-depth design using safety probes that live outside the base model.
An opinion piece on my views of incompatibilism, ethical skepticism, and absurdism.
Started new position at Palo Alto Networks as a Machine Learning Engineer
Recieved my M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Graduate School of Duke University
Life Update
I have started my first postgrad role as a Machine Learning Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, the largest cybersecurity company in the world.
Life Update
I graduated from the Graduate School of Duke University receiving my M.S. in Computer Engineering. I was the youngest person to graduate in my program and the only African-American. I did my final master's exam on my solo research project: "Guided Sheet Music Generation from Text Descriptions using Latent Diffusion"
Austin Phillips