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Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Part 1 Boot Camp
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Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Part 1
Location
Calvin Lab Auditorium
Date
Wednesday, Sept. 4
–
Friday, Sept. 6, 2024
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All talks listed in Pacific Time. Schedule subject to change.
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024
9:30
–
9:50 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:50
–
10 a.m.
Opening Remarks
10
–
11 a.m.
How Do Transformers Work, Part 1
Ankur Moitra (MIT)
Video
11
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11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m.
–
12:30 p.m.
How Do Transformers Work, Part 2
Daniel Hsu (Columbia University)
Video
12:30
–
2:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2:30
–
4 p.m.
Toward Understanding In-context Learning
Tengyu Ma (Stanford University)
Video
4
–
5 p.m.
Reception
Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024
9
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9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:45 a.m.
LLM Safety, Alignment, and Generalization
Roger Grosse (University of Toronto)
Video
10:45
–
11:15 a.m.
Break
11:15 a.m.
–
12:30 p.m.
On large language models and transformers: perspectives from physics, neuroscience, and theory
Surya Ganguli (Stanford University)
Video
12:30
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2 p.m.
Lunch
2
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3:30 p.m.
Training Large Language Models: Practices and Research Questions
Danqi Chen (Princeton University)
Video
3:30
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3:45 p.m.
Break
3:45
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4:45 p.m.
Understanding and Steering Generative AI Systems
Jacob Steinhardt (UC Berkeley)
Video
Friday, Sept. 6, 2024
9
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9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:45 a.m.
Challenges in Making LLMs Safe and Robust
Aditi Raghunathan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Video
10:45
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11:15 a.m.
Break
11:15 a.m.
–
12:30 p.m.
AI Safety: Robustness, memorization, and uncertainty quantification
Tatsu Hashimoto (Stanford University)
12:30
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2 p.m.
Lunch
2
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3:15 p.m.
The Enigma of LLMs: on Creativity, Compositionality, Pluralism, and Paradoxes
Yejin Choi (University of Washington / NVIDIA)
Video
3:15
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3:45 p.m.
Break
3:45
–
4:45 p.m.
Discussion Session (Danqi Chen, Yejin Choi, Daniel Hsu, Aditi Raghunathan; moderated by Umesh Vazirani)
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