#AcademicRunPlaylist - 4/21/25

I was feeling a bit under the weather today, so while virtually cheering on the Boston Marathon runners I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an interesting talk by David Pisoni on speech recognition outcomes in cochlear implantation at the University Of Michigan Department Of Psychology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YUwP37mXEU

Next was an intriguing talk by Nikolay Malkin on methods for extracting information from large models at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjGGEB1JHrc

Next was an enlightening conversation with Dennis Davis on competition law and enforcement in South Africa and other medium-sized countries at the Digital Markets Research Hub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipKOPCuAx1I

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Gauthier Gidel on adversarial robustness for LLMs at the Simons Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCV5GBY6UZk

Next was a great talk by Tri Dao on model architecture design for modern hardware at the Kempner Institute at Harvard University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQetsW4NFA

Next was an excellent talk by Dhanya Sridhar on steering and interpreting LLMs with causal representation learning at the Simons Institute. After examining how sparse autoencoders work, Sridhar demonstrates a promising new approach to identify interpretable latent features. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fy9XpSoG3o

Next was a nice talk by Santo Fortunato on community detection at the Santa Fe Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnDK49q8-Ko

Last was a compelling talk by Aditi Raghunathan on large model robustness to distribution shift at the Simons Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH4xlVwR4xY