HDSI-TILOS “LLM Meets Theory” Workshop 2024

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

The UC San Diego HDSI-TILOS “LLM Meets Theory” Workshop aims to bring together students and faculty to discuss the future of mathematical and scientific theory and large language models (LLMs). LLMs are like a miracle—not one that breaks the laws of nature (that would be impossible, of course), but something that defied all expectations and […]

TILOS Industry Day 2024

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

TILOS (The NSF National AI Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale) will hold its 3rd Annual Industry Day on June 18, 2024, at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego, which is the campus hub for Data Science. Our first two Industry Days have attracted more than 100 participants, each featuring (1) talks from invited Industry […]

TILOS Seminar: Unlearnable Facts Cause Hallucinations in Pretrained Language Models

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

Adam Tauman Kalai, OpenAI Abstract: Pretrained language models (LMs) tend to preserve many qualities present in their training data, such as grammaticality, formatting, and politeness. However, for specific types of factuality, even LMs pretrained on factually correct statements tend to produce falsehoods at high rates. We explain these “hallucinations” by drawing a connection to binary […]