How To Make (Almost) Anything class page at MIT

MIT class: How To Make (Almost) Anything

Learning exactly what the title says.

September 2026 · Alexandre Bismuth
Attention flow with no sink versus a sink concentrating on the first token

Why Don't Graph Transformers Attend to the Same Token? 🚱

Geometric Deep Learning mini-project at the University of Oxford. Extends the multi-layer sensitivity bound of Barbero et al. (2025) to Graph Transformers, revealing that, unlike LLMs, full attention weakens sink pressure as graphs grow, and that edge-conditioned gating suppresses over-mixing.

March 2026 · Alexandre Bismuth
Action potentials showing early afterdepolarisations in female but not male cardiomyocytes

Cardiac Sex Differences and Antidepressant-Induced Arrhythmias

Computational Medicine mini-project at the University of Oxford. Uses the ToR-ORd cardiomyocyte model and a population-of-models approach to show that female hearts are quantifiably more vulnerable to antidepressant-induced arrhythmias, supporting sex-differentiated prescription guidelines.

March 2026 · Alexandre Bismuth
Test accuracy under label noise for BALD versus random acquisition

Bayesian Active Learning under Uncertainty

Uncertainty in Deep Learning mini-project at the University of Oxford. Reproduces Bayesian deep active learning, then extends it with a label-likelihood filter for noisy labels and clustering-based diversity-aware acquisitions to speed up convergence.

January 2026 · Alexandre Bismuth
Free-surface 2D fluid simulation of blue particles

A Free-Surface 2D Fluid Solver from Voronoï Diagrams to Optimal Transport

CSE306 Computer Graphics project at École Polytechnique. A free-surface 2D fluid solver built from the ground up: Voronoï and Power diagrams, semi-discrete optimal transport optimised with L-BFGS, and the de Gallouet-Mérigot incompressible Euler scheme.

June 2025 · Alexandre Bismuth
Galactic N-Body simulation of the Milky Way

N-Body Simulation: From a Sequential Solver to GPU-Accelerated Galaxies

CSE305 concurrent programming project at École Polytechnique. A gravitational N-Body simulator taken from a naive sequential solver to dynamically load-balanced parallel, Barnes-Hut, and CUDA-accelerated implementations, fast enough to run 100 thousand bodies over a month in about 30 seconds.

June 2025 · Alexandre Bismuth