ASSET Seminar: “Reality Checks”
Despite its success, leaderboard chasing has become something researchers dread and mock. When implemented properly and executed faithfully, leaderboard chasing can lead to both faster and easily reproducible progress in […]
ASSET Seminar: “The coverage principle in language models: From pre-training to test-time scaling”
Test-time compute has emerged as a new axis for scaling language model capabilities, yet we lack a principled understanding of this paradigm. What are the right algorithms and trade-offs for […]
ASSET Seminar: “Robust and Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making under Distribution Shifts”
Abstract TBD Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/92346171614
ASSET Seminar: “Auditing Large Language Model Ecosystems: From Model Outputs to Agentic System Deployment”
Abstract TBD Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97546234895
ASSET Seminar: “How do LLMs generalize on out-of-distribution tasks? insights from model’s internal representations”
A mystery of large language models (LLMs) is their ability to solve novel tasks, notably through a few demonstrations in the prompt (in-context learning). Such tasks often require the model […]
ASSET Seminar: “Symbolic Reasoning in the Age of Large Language Models”
Today, reasoning is commonly interpreted as large language models generating chains of thought. Yet historically, AI reasoning had a very different meaning: executing algorithms that manipulated symbols to perform logical […]
ASSET Seminar: “Rethinking Test-Time Thinking: From Token-Level Rewards to Robust Generative Agents”
We present a unified perspective on test-time thinking as a lens for improving generative AI agents through finer-grained reward modeling, data-centric reasoning, and robust alignment. Beginning with GenARM, we introduce an […]
ASSET Seminar: “Provable vs Impossible Trust: Reasoning, Steering, and Safety”
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss a collection of highlights from our recent work in trustworthy AI. (1) Certifying reasoning explanations with reliability guarantees and aligning with expert knowledge, […]
ASSET Seminar: “AIRFoundry: AI for RNA Discovery and Synthesis”
Virtually everyone today is aware of the mRNA vaccine for COVID, which saved many lives and earned the Nobel Prize for Drs. Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko. The vaccine consisted […]