Events

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 interested. Here's the abstract of his talk: Today's AI models primarily acquire knowledge through offline, i.i.d. learning. While in-context learning offers some capacity for online…

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 computer (while making the occasional catastrophic error). The increasing sophistication of AI models’ behavior has been accompanied by a commensurate enrichment of their internal representations…

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…

Alexandre Pouget Title and Abstract: TBD Zoom link: Upon request @ [email protected]

Bence Olveczky Location: ZI Date: June 26, 2026 Time: 11:30am Zoom: Upon Request @ [email protected] Title and Abstract: TBD