How Far Can Transformers Reason? The Globality Barrier and Inductive Scratchpad

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

https://youtu.be/C6NDdnSaluU New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Aryo Lotfi (EPFL) Title: How Far Can Transformers Reason? The Globality Barrier and Inductive Scratchpad Abstract: Can Transformers predict new syllogisms by composing established ones? […]

Topics in Deep Learning Theory

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Topics in Deep Learning Theory Eli Grigsby

The spin-statistics theorem for TFTs

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar Speaker: Luuk Stehouwer, Dalhousie University Title: The spin-statistics theorem for TFTs Abstract: In quantum field theory (QFT) the spin-statistics theorem says that in […]

Formality Theorem and Webs

CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Member Seminar Speaker: Ahsan Khan Title: Formality Theorem and Webs Abstract: The “formality theorem” of Kontsevich was a key result that implies that every Poisson manifold admits a deformation quantization. […]

Freedman CMSA Seminar

Virtual

Freedman CMSA Seminar *Note: via Zoom only* 2:00-3:30 pm ET Speaker: Matt Hastings, Microsoft Quantum Program Title: Invertible Phases of Matter and Quantum Cellular Automata: Dimensions One to Three Abstract: […]

Formation of Trapped Surfaces in Geodesic Foliation

Virtual

General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Xuantao Chen, Johns Hopkins University Title: Formation of Trapped Surfaces in Geodesic Foliation Abstract: We reprove the formation of trapped surfaces for the Einstein vacuum equation […]

Boundaries and duality for 3d gauge theories

Science Center Hall E 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar Speaker: Ben Gammage, Harvard University Title: Boundaries and duality for 3d gauge theories Abstract: 3d N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory has a pair of topological twists, […]