Events

Time: 30th March. 3pm EST Title: Large scale models for spatiotemporal data. Speaker: Josue Ortega Caro https://josueortc.github.io/ Abstract:  Spatiotemporal and multimodal datasets contain structured variability distributed across space, time, and measurement modality, motivating modeling approaches that can learn representations directly from large-scale data. Inspired by video foundational models, we study how the masked autoencoder training objective can…

Location: ZI L3-079 Time: 1:00pm Title: Metabolic cost of information processing in Poisson variational autoencoders Abstract:Computation in biological systems is fundamentally energy-constrained, yet standard theories of computation treat energy as…

Mengye Ren Mengye will also be giving a talk on continual learning at the Zemel group meeting an hour prior (at 2pm) that working group attendees are welcome to join if…

Continuation of prior meetings. Zoom: Upon request @[email protected]

Title: The inner lives of language models Abstract: In recent years, LLMs have evolved from bad text completion engines, to decent chatbots, to digital genies that work miracles on your…

Continuation from prior meeting. Zoom link: upon request @ [email protected]  

Ellie Pavlick (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Brown University and Director, NSF Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants (ARIA)) Location: ZI Kavli Auditorium 9th Floor Time: 3:00pm Title: (How) Does AI Think? Abstract: The increasingly human-like behavior of AI has led to a fascination with ascribing it human-like internal properties -- notions like…

Title: Decoding Human Emotions: From Psychological Theories to Multimodal NLP Models Abstract: Understanding and modeling human emotions is essential for natural language processing (NLP) applications, from conversational AI to mental health assessment. This talk explores the intersection of emotion theory, dataset development, and multimodal machine learning, highlighting key challenges and innovations in emotion recognition. We discuss the…

We will feature a team of speakers from Blank Slate Technologies, a startup investigating issues related to continual learning and catastrophic forgetting in human operatives on mission-critical tasks. The team will be led by CEO Matt Trevithick. The title of the talk is the following: Quantifying Cognitive Performance in the Wild: Measurement, Modeling, and Operational Outcomes

Hubert Banville, Meta Title: A foundation model of vision, audition, and language for in-silico neuroscience Abstract: Cognitive neuroscience is fragmented into specialized models, each tailored to specific experimental paradigms, hence…

Register Here! How are memories formed, organized, and used to guide behavior? And what can artificial intelligence teach us about how the brain remembers? Join faculty and early-career researchers from…

Continuation from prior meetings. Zoom link: Upon request @ [email protected]