TILOS Seminar: Amplifying human performance in combinatorial competitive programming

Virtual

Petar Veličković, Google DeepMind Abstract: Recent years have seen a significant surge in complex AI systems for competitive programming, capable of performing at admirable levels against human competitors. While steady progress has been made, the highest percentiles still remain out of reach for these methods on standard competition platforms such as Codeforces. In this talk, […]

TILOS Seminar: Optimal Quantization for LLMs and Matrix Multiplication

HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Yury Polyanskiy, MIT Abstract: The main building block of large language models is matrix multiplication, which is often bottlenecked by the speed of loading these matrices from memory. A number of recent quantization algorithms (SmoothQuant, GPTQ, QuIP, SpinQuant etc) address this issue by storing matrices in lower precision. We derive optimal asymptotic information-theoretic tradeoff between […]

TILOS Seminar with Adam Klivans

HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Title and abstract coming soon... Adam R. Klivans, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and Director of the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML), is a leading researcher in theoretical computer science whose work has profoundly shaped the foundations of modern machine learning. His research explores the […]

TILOS Seminar with Maarten de Hoop

HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Title and abstract coming soon... Professor Maarten V. de Hoop, Simons Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics and Earth Science at Rice University, is internationally recognized for his contributions to the mathematical foundations of seismology, wave propagation, and inverse problems. His research bridges microlocal and harmonic analysis, scattering theory, and structured numerical methods with applications […]