The first TILOS Fireside Chat of Fall 2023 will be a conversation about theory in the age of modern AI led by TILOS members Nisheeth Vishnoi, Tara Javidi, Misha Belkin, and Arya Mazumdar (moderator). This will be a great opportunity to discuss implications of AI and roles of theory (especially with the recent development in […]
Michael Galkin, Research Scientist, Intel AI Lab Abstract: Foundation models in graph learning are hard to design due to the lack of common invariances that transfer across different structures and domains. In this talk, I will give an overview of the two main tracks of my research at Intel AI: creating foundation models for knowledge […]
Aadirupa Saha, Research Scientist, Apple Abstract: Customer statistics collected in several real-world systems have reflected that users often prefer eliciting their liking for a given pair of items, say (A,B), in terms of relative queries like: “Do you prefer Item A over B?”, rather than their absolute counterparts: “How much do you score items A […]
TILOS is a sponsor of Boston Symmetry Day, a meeting of symmetry-minded folks in the Boston area. It is the largest event on symmetry and machine learning in the United States. Registration is free for all who would like to attend, subject to space constraints.
Marco Mondelli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Abstract: A recent line of work has analyzed the properties of deep over-parameterized neural networks through the lens of the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK). In this talk, I will show how concentration bounds on the NTK (and, specifically, on its smallest eigenvalue) provide insights on (i) the […]
UC San Diego Professor of Data Science and Philosophy and TILOS affiliate David Danks will present an introduction to the U.S. Government’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for TILOS members. David Danks currently serves on the National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC), which is tasked with advising the President and the National […]
Aldo Pacchiano, Assistant Professor, Boston University Center for Computing and Data Sciences Abstract: The principle of Optimism in the Face of Uncertainty (OFU) is one of the foundational algorithmic design choices in Reinforcement Learning and Bandits. Optimistic algorithms balance exploration and exploitation by deploying data collection strategies that maximize expected rewards in plausible models. This […]
Max Welling, Research Chair in Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam Abstract: Traditionally machine learning has been heavily influenced by neuroscience (hence the name artificial neural networks) and physics (e.g. MCMC, Belief Propagation, and Diffusion based Generative AI). We have recently witnessed that the flow of information has also reversed, with new tools developed in the […]
Please join Dr. Nisheeth Vishnoi from Yale and Dr. David Danks from UC San Diego who will discuss their Research in AI Ethics. Professor Danks develops practical frameworks and methods to incorporate ethical and policy considerations throughout the AI lifecycle, including different ways to include them in optimization steps. Bias and fairness have been a […]
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 […]
