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About the Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series

This is the home page for the Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series, sponsored by SambaNova Systems, at the School of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University. The faculty coordinator is Zico Kolter and the student coordinators are Eungyeup Kim and Victor Akinwande. The mailing list for upcoming AI Seminar talk announcements is on the SCS mailman server. Unless otherwise noted, the meetings are on Tuesdays at 12:00 PM Eastern Time (always available virtually, and usually in person in GHC 6115).

This seminar aims to cover a wide variety of AI topics, such as computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), theoretical ML, AI fairness & ethics, cognitive science, AI hardware, etc. See more about CMU AI initiative here. Please contact Victor for arrangements or questions about this page.

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Schedule

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Date & Time	Location	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Video Link
Feb 4, 2025 12:00PM	Zoom	Yuchen Li	Carnegie Mellon University	Towards Mathematical Understanding of Modern Language Models	YouTube
Feb 18, 2025 12:00PM	Zoom	Keegan Harris	Carnegie Mellon University	Should You Use Your Large Language Model to Explore or Exploit?	YouTube
Feb 25, 2025 12:00PM	Zoom	Samy Bengio	Apple	How far can transformers reason? the globality barrier and inductive scratchpad	YouTube
Mar 18, 2025 12:00PM	Zoom	Alexander Goldberg	Carnegie Mellon University	Balancing Transparency and Reviewer Anonymity in Scientific Peer Review	YouTube
Mar 25, 2025 12:00PM	Zoom	Andy Zou	Carnegie Mellon University	Red Teaming AI Agents in-the-wild	YouTube
Apr 1, 2025 12:00PM	Zoom	Anh Nguyen	Carnegie Mellon University	Sample complexity of data-driven tuning of model hyperparameters in neural networks with structured parameter-dependent dual function	YouTube
Apr 22, 2025 12:00PM	Zoom	Ameet Talwalkar	Carnegie Mellon University	Why AI Needs Specialization	YouTube
Apr 29, 2025 12:00PM	Zoom	Victor Akinwande	Carnegie Mellon University	HyperCLIP: Adapting Vision-Language models with Hypernetworks	YouTube

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Links

• Past AI seminars: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, 2010-2015, 2009, 2008, 2006-2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997.
• Other related seminars at CMU:
  • LTI Colloquium
  • RI Seminar Series
• CMU's School of Computer Science (SCS) event calendar