Yes. Distill is free and does not ask you to register or hand over an email address before you can use it.

How long does Distill take?

Clear your evening. We warned you. We file it under "Rabbit hole" — machine learning papers you can actually see working.

Does Distill work on a phone?

Distill really wants a mouse and a wide window. It will load on a phone, but the experience is built for desktop.

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Distill

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What Distill actually is

A research journal that published peer-reviewed machine learning work as interactive articles, with live diagrams in place of static figures. It stopped taking submissions in 2021, but the archive stays online and the pieces on feature visualisation and attention remain the clearest treatments anywhere.

Why it is worth your time

Clicking through what each layer of a network is actually looking at, layer by layer, explains more in ten minutes than the original papers do at all.

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Is Distill free?: Yes. Distill is free and does not ask you to register or hand over an email address before you can use it.
How long does Distill take?: Clear your evening. We warned you. We file it under "Rabbit hole" — machine learning papers you can actually see working.
Does Distill work on a phone?: Distill really wants a mouse and a wide window. It will load on a phone, but the experience is built for desktop.
What kind of site is Distill?: We list it under Explain Everything — hard things, made suddenly obvious. Clicking through what each layer of a network is actually looking at, layer by layer, explains more in ten minutes than the original papers do at all.

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Why it is worth your time

Clicking through what each layer of a network is actually looking at, layer by layer, explains more in ten minutes than the original papers do at all.

Common questions

Is Distill free?: Yes. Distill is free and does not ask you to register or hand over an email address before you can use it.
How long does Distill take?: Clear your evening. We warned you. We file it under "Rabbit hole" — machine learning papers you can actually see working.
Does Distill work on a phone?: Distill really wants a mouse and a wide window. It will load on a phone, but the experience is built for desktop.
What kind of site is Distill?: We list it under Explain Everything — hard things, made suddenly obvious. Clicking through what each layer of a network is actually looking at, layer by layer, explains more in ten minutes than the original papers do at all.