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Unknown Futures of Generalization
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Modern Paradigms in Generalization
Location
Calvin Lab Auditorium
Date
Monday, Dec. 2
–
Friday, Dec. 6, 2024
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Monday, Dec. 2, 2024
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:15 a.m.
Talk By
Florent Krzakala (EPFL Lausanne)
10:15
–
10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45
–
11:30 a.m.
Strong Generalization from Small Brains and No Training Data
Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley)
11:30
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11:45 a.m.
Break
11:45 a.m.
–
12:30 p.m.
How machine learning is influencing protein engineering
Jennifer Listgarten (UC Berkeley)
12:30
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2:15 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2:15
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3 p.m.
Frame-shifting and Conceptual Blending: What do large language models have to say?
Seana Coulson (UC San Diego)
3
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3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
–
4:30 p.m.
Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture | Po-Ling Loh
Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge)
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024
9
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9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:15 a.m.
Temporal Context in Brains and AI
Terry Sejnowski (UC San Diego)
10:15
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10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45
–
11:30 a.m.
Polymathic AI: Advancing Science through Multidisciplinary AI
Shirley Ho (Flatiron Institute/ NYU)
11:30
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11:45 a.m.
Break
11:45 a.m.
–
12:30 p.m.
Generalization in the representations and computations of frontier language models.
Joshua Batson (Anthropic)
12:30
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2:15 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2:15
–
3:45 p.m.
Panel on the future of scientific research and education
Konrad Kording (University of Pennsylvania)
,
Florent Krzakala (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
,
Shirley Ho (Flatiron Institute/ NYU)
,
Joshua Batson (Anthropic)
,
Adam Klivans (UT Austin)
,
Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich)
,
Russell Impagliazzo (UC San Diego)
4
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4:45 p.m.
Welcome Reception
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024
9
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9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:15 a.m.
First-Person Fairness in Chatbots
Adam Tauman Kalai (Open AI)
10:15
–
10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45
–
11:30 a.m.
Off-the-shelf Algorithmic Stability
Rebecca Willett (University of Chicago)
11:30
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11:45 a.m.
Break
11:45 a.m.
–
12:30 p.m.
Learning Theory of Transformers: Generalization and Optimization of In-Context Learning
Taiji Suzuki (University of Tokyo)
12:30
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2:15 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2:15
–
3 p.m.
The Curious Incident of Developing Artificial General Intelligence
Jimmy Ba (xAI)
3
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3:45 p.m.
Fireside Chat
Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley)
3:45
–
4 p.m.
Break
4
–
4:45 p.m.
On Memorization of Large Language Models in Logical Reasoning
Chiyuan Zhang (Google Research)
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024
8:30
–
9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9
–
10:10 a.m.
Convex Analysis at Infinity: An Introduction to Astral Space and Fireside Chat
Robert Schapire (Microsoft Research)
10:10
–
10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Debate: Sparks versus Embers
Sebastien Bubeck (Open AI)
,
Tom McCoy (Yale University)
,
Anil Ananthaswamy (Simons Institute)
,
Pavel Izmailov (Anthropic)
,
Ankur Moitra (MIT)
12
–
2:15 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2:15
–
3 p.m.
A New Paradigm for Learning with Distribution Shift
Adam Klivans (University of Texas at Austin)
3
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3:45 p.m.
Understanding the abilities of AI systems: Memorization, generalization, and points in between
Tom McCoy (Yale University)
3:45
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4 p.m.
Break
4
–
4:45 p.m.
Weak-to-Strong Generalization
Pavel Izmailov (Anthropic)
Friday, Dec. 6, 2024
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
10:15 a.m.
Generalization insights from actual cognition
Konrad Kording (University of Pennsylvania)
10:15
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10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45
–
11:30 a.m.
Generalization via analogy in young children and Large Models.
Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley)
11:30
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11:45 a.m.
Break
11:45 a.m.
–
12:30 p.m.
The Wisdom of the Body Revisited
Ben Recht (UC Berkeley)
12:30
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2 p.m.
MPG Potluck
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