TILOS Seminar: Towards Foundation Models for Graph Reasoning and AI 4 Science

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

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 […]

TILOS Seminar: Building Personalized Decision Models with Federated Human Preferences

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

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 […]

Boston Symmetry Day 2023

MIT

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.

TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Optimization, Robustness and Privacy in Deep Neural Networks: Insights from the Neural Tangent Kernel

Virtual

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 […]

Overview of the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

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

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 […]

TILOS Seminar: The Dissimilarity Dimension: Sharper Bounds for Optimistic Algorithms

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

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 […]

TILOS-HDSI Distinguished Colloquium: The Synergy between Machine Learning and the Natural Sciences

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

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 […]

AI Ethics in Research Webinar

Virtual

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 […]

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 Seminar: How Large Models of Language and Vision Help Agents to Learn to Behave

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

Roy Fox, Assistant Professor and Director of the Intelligent Dynamics Lab, UC Irvine Abstract: If learning from data is valuable, can learning from big data be very valuable? So far, it has been so in vision and language, for which foundation models can be trained on web-scale data to support a plethora of downstream tasks; […]