https://youtu.be/OoimTbnSe7I Speaker: Nikunj Saunshi, Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University Title: A Mathematical Exploration of Why Language Models Help Solve Downstream Tasks Abstract: Autoregressive language models pretrained on large corpora […]
Speaker: Michael P. Kim (UC Berkeley) Title: Outcome Indistinguishability Abstract: Prediction algorithms assign numbers to individuals that are popularly understood as individual “probabilities” — e.g., what is the probability of 5-year survival […]
Speaker: Jaume Gomis (Perimeter PI) Title: Global Anomalies on the Hilbert Space Abstract: We will discuss an elementary way of detecting some global anomalies from the way the symmetry algebra […]
Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen (MIT) Title: A solution to the chiral fermion problem Abstract: Motivated by the relation between anomaly and topological/SPT order in one higher dimension, we propose a solution […]
Speaker: Yu-Shen Lin (Boston University) Title: Full SYZ Conjecture for del Pezzo Surfaces and Rational Elliptic Surfaces Abstract: Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture predicts the existence of special Lagrangian fibrations on Calabi-Yau manifolds. […]
Kenji Fukaya (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) Title: Homological (homotopical) algebra and moduli spaces in Topological Field theories Abstract: Moduli spaces of various gauge theory equations and of various […]
Speaker: Thomas Hales, Univ. of Pittsburgh Dept. of Mathematics Title: A Mathematical Language Abstract: A controlled natural language for mathematics is an artificial language that is designed in an […]