Cambridge Forum of Science and Humanities

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline

User Prof. Sarah Wiegreffe (University of Maryland).

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Machine learning theory

To Intrinsic Dimension and Beyond: Efficient Sampling in Diffusion Models

User Dr. Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Statistics and Data Science Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Subcortical Contributions to Speech and Language

User Prof Kate Watkins, University of Oxford.

Friday 07 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

The manifold hypothesis in science & AI

User Patrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh).

Friday 07 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

A meeting of minds: Modulating mentalizing in autism

User Sarah White (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Thursday 06 November 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

A Tutorial on Algorithmic Information Theory in Modern ML

User Szilvia Ujvary, Arik Reuter, Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Trust in “Moral” Machines

User Prof Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent.

Friday 31 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Adaptation through prior tails and deep neural networks

User Ismael Castillo (Sorbonne Université).

Friday 31 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Diffusion Language Models

User Julianna Piskorz (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Is it even possible to defend AI agents against attacks in practice?

NOTE unusual place (FW11)

User Ilia Shumailov (AI Sequrity Company, Ex DeepMind, Ex Cambridge).

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11 (note change of room).

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

House GR03, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Emergence of Linear Representations in LMs (NYU)

User Dr. Shauli Ravfogel (NYU).

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Revisiting Hebb and the Hippocampal Index in Humans: Toward a Neurotechnology of Memory

User Prof Simon Hanslmayr, University of Glasgow.

Friday 24 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

Universal Copulas

User Gery Geenens (University of New South Wales).

Friday 24 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

House SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn.

Evaluation with LLMs - Theoretical and Practical insights

User Eyal Kolman (Microsoft).

Friday 24 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Reading Between the Lines: Using Language Models to Amplify Human Data in Robot Learning (MIT)

User Andreea Bobu (MIT).

Thursday 23 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Grasping the invisible: Multidimensional meanings for abstract concepts

User Penny Pexman (Western University, Canada) .

Thursday 23 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Introduction to Stochastic Interpolants

User Professor Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato and Fran Castro.

Wednesday 22 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AIReg-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models That Assess AI Regulation Compliance

NOTE unusual place (LT1)

User William Marino (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

House Hybrid: Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6 or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83363886282?pwd=eCJD8vmmxI29vSZMX92lmQjWWUgZgw.1.

Reducing Speaker and Temporal Redundancy in Discrete Speech Tokenization

User Yiwei Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Monday 20 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Mental Navigation and the Default Mode Network: From Spatial Maps to Conceptual Knowledge

User Dr Deniz Vatansever, Fudan University.

Friday 17 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

On uncertainty quantification for nonparametric multivariate Hawkes processes

User Judith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine).

Friday 17 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Sense and Sensibility in Cognition: Unraveling the Neural Basis of Emotional Regulation

User Dr Xiao Xiao, Fudan University.

Friday 17 October 2025, 13:00-14:30

House SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn .

Making and breaking tokenizers

User Sander Land (Writer) .

Friday 17 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Implicit Chain-of-Thought: Internalizing Reasoning in Language Models

User Yuntian Deng (University of Waterloo).

Thursday 16 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Towards realistic and understandable models of human speech processing

User Jim Magnuson (U. of Connecticut and BCBL).

Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Geometric extremal graphical models

User Jennifer Wadsworth (Lancaster).

Friday 10 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

House SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

NLIP 2025 Social: Meet New PhD Students

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 10 October 2025, 12:00-13:00

House GR03, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Explanations as a Catalyst: Leveraging Large Language Models to Embrace Human Label Variation

User Beiduo Chen.

Friday 10 October 2025, 11:00-12:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Neural and computational mechanisms of conscious visual perception in humans

User Biyu He (NYU) .

Thursday 09 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Protocols over Implementations

User Dominik Moritz (Professor at CMU HCII and Researcher at Apple).

Thursday 09 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Interactive Oracle Proofs

User Baocheng Sun Weizman Institute.

House SS03.

Monday 06 October 2025, 10:00-11:00

House Zoom (Meeting ID: 360 910 4394, Passcode: P5F18G), Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03..

Large Language Models and Graph Neural Networks for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

User Fan Mo, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 September 2025, 13:00-14:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Attention under challenge: Addressing the consequences of modern environments

User Anina Rich (Macquarie University, Sydney).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Direct brain stimulation modulate physiology and behaviour in humans.

User Rina Zelmann, PhD, Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School.

Tuesday 26 August 2025, 16:00-17:30

House Zoom (Meeting ID: 873 5011 9733, Passcode: 732177).

GNN-ACLP: Graph Neural Networks Based Analog Circuit Link Prediction

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XK4HTy4aaC4h2E8t8jgzDUrJrl4jBxKH/view?usp=sharing

User Guanyuan Peter Pan.

Thursday 21 August 2025, 12:45-13:45

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House MR14.

Wednesday 06 August 2025, 16:30-18:00

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Hierarchical Protein Structure Representation Learning via Topological Deep Learning

User Zhiyu Wang.

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 17:15-18:30

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Title to be confirmed

User Kaiwen Zuo.

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 16:00-17:00

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

AI-Powered Graph Representation Learning for Robust and Efficient Urban and Social Science

User Qianru Zhang.

Monday 28 July 2025, 17:00-18:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Google DeepMind’s Gemini models and the Rise of Long-Context LLMs

User Dr Nikolay Savinov (Google DeepMind).

Wednesday 23 July 2025, 15:00-16:00

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Title to be confirmed

User qrzhang@hku.hk.

Wednesday 16 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

From Score to Sound: Music Generation in the AI Era

User Francesco Bardozzo (University of Salerno).

Thursday 10 July 2025, 10:50-12:20

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

AI Governance and Regulation: Comparing EU, US, and China’s Models and global initiatives

User Dr. Nicola Palladino, University of Salerno.

Wednesday 09 July 2025, 09:00-10:30

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

title

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 08 July 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Artificial Intelligence in Agrifood and Environment

User Prof. Antonino Staiano.

Tuesday 08 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Performance evaluation for learning systems

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

title

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

title

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

title

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

House Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

title

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 04 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Success, sensitivity and unbelievable quality of LLM code generation

User Andrei Paleyes (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

House ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

LLMs, Implicit Bayesian inference and compositional Generalization

User Szilvia Ujvary (University of Cambridge).

Friday 20 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Value Reasoning and Test-Time Verification for Trustworthy LLMs

User Prof. Lu Wang (University of Michigan).

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Insights into mental health disorders from genetics and immunology

User Mary-Ellen Lynall (U. of Cambridge, Psychiatry Dept.) .

Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

The structure of curvature in neural networks

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research UK).

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Feedback Forensics: A Toolkit to Measure AI Personality

User Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Detecting Changes in Production Frontier and Beyond

User Yining Chen (LSE).

Friday 13 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

House ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

MultiBLiMP: A Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs

User Jaap Jumelet (University of Groningen).

Friday 13 June 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities

User Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun (Google DeepMind).

Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Rethinking the sensory-deprived brain: How sensory deprivation improved our vision on brain function

User Emiliano Ricciardi (U. of Pisa.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning

User Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London).

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning

User Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London).

Thursday 12 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Vision-language models (VLMs)

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Varun Jain (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Vision-language models (VLMs)

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Varun Jain (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

House ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

When is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 350 Languages

User Catherine Arnett and Tyler Chang (EleutherAI and UC San Diego).

Friday 06 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Complexity of sampling truncated log-concave measures, and the role of stochastic localization

User Yuansi Chen (ETH Zurich).

Friday 06 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Interactive and Grounded Learning

User Prof. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu (University of California, San Diego).

Thursday 05 June 2025, 17:00-18:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

From anatomy to systems: Charting the language connectome

User Stephanie Forkel (Donders Institute).

Thursday 05 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

"Animal Consciousness: Evidence, Models, and Clues”

User Peter Godfrey Smith.

Friday 30 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

In-sample calibration yields conformal calibration guarantees

User Johanna Ziegel (ETH Zurich).

Friday 30 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Unveiling the Secret Sauce: A Causal Look at Data Memorisation and Tokenisation in Language Models

User Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Friday 30 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

On Interacting and Writing with LLMs

User Dr. Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research).

Thursday 29 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Davidson Room, Peterhouse.

Ethnolinguistic vitality of the Hemshin language

User Gulay Akin (Cambridge).

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning

User Eugene Wong(UC Berkeley and Clare Hall, Cambridge).

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Computer Vision: Between Forensics and Biomedical Imaging

User Giovanna Maria Dimitri, University of Siena (Italy).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

User Professor Ron Mangun,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA .

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

House ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Robust Alignment of Large Language Models

User Dr. Sangwoong Yoon (UCL).

Friday 23 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry

User Lilian Weber (U. of Oxford).

Thursday 22 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

House GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

AI Interacting with People (through Language)

User Prof Hal Daume III (University of Maryland).

Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Evaluating and Regulating Foundation Models

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Miri Zilka, Neel Alex, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Deep Learning Approaches for Label-Free Tumour Image Segmentation Spectroscopy in Cancer Diagnosis

User Thomas Hartigan.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

User Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. .

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.

User Kosuke Imai (Harvard University).

Friday 16 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models

User Paul Röttger (Bocconi University).

Friday 16 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Balanced and Efficient tokenization across languages

User Prof. Hila Gonen (University of Biritish Columbia).

Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Dissecting the neural control of skilled movements

User Katja Kornysheva (U. of Birmingham) .

Thursday 15 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Sheaf-Based Diffusion for Multimodal Graph Learning

User Mar Gonzàlez i Català (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 16:00-16:45

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Explainable AI in Neuroscience: From Interpretability to Biomarker Discovery

User Mike Mamalakis (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Superposition in GNNs

User Lukas Pertl.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Exploring the interplay between Ricci Flow, the Fisher Information Matrix and Gradient Descent in Neural Networks

User Physics.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The Functions of Episodic Memory

User Ali Boyle.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

User Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Research Progress in Mechanistic Interpretability

User Arthur Conmy (Google DeepMind).

Friday 09 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Human-Centered AI: Addressing the Ecological Fallacy in LLMs

User Prof, H Andrew Schwartz (State University of New York at Stony Brook).

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

The human sense of smell: From hunter-gatherers to wine experts

User Asifa Majid (U. of Oxford) .

Thursday 08 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

How the Built Environment Affects Spatial Behavior, Brain Activity and Aesthetics

User Professor Hugo Spiers.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

User Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California).

Friday 02 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Asymmetry in Supposedly Equivalent Facts: Pre-training Bias in Large Language Models

User Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge).

Friday 02 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

From survival in the wild to music enjoyment - how the human brain discovers structure in sound sequences

User Maria Chait (UCL).

Thursday 01 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Sphere Embedding: The Atom for Explainable and Reliable AI and Machine Reasoning (Part 1). recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfrnwqpKRE

User Tiansi Dong.

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

bla bla

User Tiansi Dong.

Saturday 26 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

bla bla

User Tiansi Dong.

Saturday 26 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

bla bla

User Zeno.

Wednesday 23 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

blabla

User Cassidy.

Sunday 13 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications

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User Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 02 April 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 2) recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCHg-DAnEs

User Tiansi Dong.

Monday 31 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning to See the World in 3D

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User Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1)

User Tiansi Dong.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Surgical data using LLMs

User Hugo Georgenthum.

Friday 21 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Who is this? Forming first impressions from voices

User Nadine Lavan (Queen Mary U. of London).

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

New Advances in Multimodal Reasoning

User Prof. Paul Liang (MIT).

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

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User Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction

User Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1).

User Tiansi Dong.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Modelling microbiome-mediated epigenetic inheritance of disease risk

Hybrid

User Bobby Ranjan.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

User Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

: Scratching Beneath the Surface of Pan Communication: Intentions, Representations and Joint Attention

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

User Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:30

House Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape

User Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña).

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

User Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination and reality in the human brain

User Nadine Dijkstra (UCL).

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multimodal AI in Spatial Biology

Note: unusual date compared to regular AI Seminars

User Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

House GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Discourse models with language models

User Prof. Jessy Li.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

House Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Natural Language meets Control Theory

User Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University).

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

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User Cristiana Diaconu, Aliaksandra Shysheya and Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

User Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

House Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward

User Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University).

Friday 07 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning

hybrid : meet.google.com/bhz-scdk-unp

User Alvaro Arroyo, University of Oxford.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Grammar, reasoning, learning: Three short stories on comparative & rational analysis of language model capabilities

User Dr. Andrew Lampinen (Deepmind).

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Psychiatric disorders, dimensions, hierarchies, states or traits? How can we determine the right ontology for research and practice?

User Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin) .

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RO-FIGS: Efficient and Expressive Tree-Based Ensembles for Tabular Data

NOTE unusual date

User Urška Matjašec (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Influence Functions

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User Adrian Goldwaser, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits from Large Cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

User Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK.

Friday 28 February 2025, 12:00-13:30

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Why do some people remain cognitively able in old age? Investigating Cognitive Reserve in the CamCAN sample

User Rik Henson (MRC CBU U.of Cambridge).

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Incorporating Flexibility in Antibody-Antigen Interaction Prediction

User Sara Joubbi.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 17:30-18:00

House Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Preserving What Was Lost: Endangered Languages of Yazd’s Religious Minorities Zoroastrians and Jews and Their Vernacular Heritage

User Professor Saloumeh Gholami (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Sampling with diffusion models

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User Shreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Beyond Interpolation: Extrapolative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks

User Niccolò Grillo.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:45-19:15

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Network modelling and Graph Neural Networks for emergency healthcare management

User Annamaria Defilippo, PhD Student - Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:00-18:30

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Harnessing Large Language Models for Medical Data Processing: Structured Information Extraction, Disease Classification, and RAG Integration

User Cristian Cosentino (Università della Calabria).

Monday 24 February 2025, 17:30-20:30

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

User Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

House ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09..

Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP

User Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg).

Friday 21 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Compiling a Glossary of Insular Norman: Linguistic Detective Work in the Channel Islands!

Co-hosted with the Cambridge Bibliophiles

User Professor Mari Jones (University of Cambridge).

House Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 20:45-22:00

House Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Compiling a Glossary of Insular Norman: Linguistic Detective Work in the Channel Islands!

Co-hosted with the Cambridge Bibliophiles

User Professor Mari Jones (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 20 February 2025, 20:45-22:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning -- Why Machine Learning Cannot Reach the Rigour of Logical Reasoning? recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x38GySbuGJg

User Tiansi Dong.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-17:45

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

What’s not an Autoregressive LLM?

User Prof. Lingpeng Kong, HKU.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design

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User Zixing Song.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

User Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

Note unusual location

User Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

House ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training

User Jeremy Bernstein (MIT).

Friday 14 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Languages, Values, & Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture in LLMs

User Prof. Anne Lauscher, Hamburg.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight rescue

User Tessa Dekker (UCL).

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

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User Mingtian Zhang, University College London.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

User Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

LLMs as supersloppers and other metaphors

User Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

House Room SS03 .

Friday 07 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Behavioral machine learning

User Dr. Keyon Vafa, Harvard Data Science Initiative.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving

User John Duncan (MRC CBU).

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Sontinuity: Judeo-Spanish Transmission and Cultural Sonicity

User Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality

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User Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Text-and-audio methods

User Cătălina Cangea, ex-Google DeepMind.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

User Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie..

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

User Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Preference Alignment, with Reference Mismatch, and without Reference Models

User James Thorne (KAIST).

Friday 31 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Brain and cognitive impairments in people with a new diagnosis of epilepsy

User Simon Keller (U. of Liverpool).

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

House GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Between the Lines: Contextual Understanding and Bias in LLMs

User Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

SynFlowNet: Design of Synthesisable Molecules with GFlowNets

User Miruna Cretu (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

House Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Analysing Memorisation in Classification and Translation through Localisation and Cartography

User Verna Dankers (University of Edinburgh) .

Friday 24 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Linear Transformers for Efficient Sequence Modeling

User Prof Yoon Kim, MIT.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Cognitive influences on speech perception in noisy environments

User Emma Holmes (UCL).

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Foundation Models in Robotics

User Liyou Zhou (Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Multi-Head Explainer: A General Framework to Improve Explainability in CNNs and Transformers

record: https://youtu.be/iuT_tkVEgA4

User Bohang Sun(Bob) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Friday 17 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Cognitive-Motor Borderlands

User Sam McDougle (Yale University).

Thursday 16 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

User Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:30-18:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex

User Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford) .

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation

User Ziyu Yao, George Mason University.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Andy Lin.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Andy Lin.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Venue to be confirmed.

Constrained Neural Flows

https://meet.google.com/cwu-sumr-qzq

User Chandan Gupta.

Friday 29 November 2024, 17:00-17:45

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

User Professor Peter Ulric Tse, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

User Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

Friday 29 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization

User Benjamin Minixhofer (Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge).

Friday 29 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today

User Akira O’Connor (University of St Andrews) .

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation

User Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

House GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

LLMs and Low-Resource Languages

User Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

User Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Expanding the borders of Multimodal Graph Learning with Sheaf Neural Networks

User Mar Gonzàlez i Català.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 17:20-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Controlling Behavioral Diversity in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

User Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Deconstruction of the social brain

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

User Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany.

Friday 22 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

User Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

Friday 22 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Scansion-based Lyric Generation

User Yiwen Chen (University of Cambridge).

Friday 22 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models

User Heng Ji, UIUC.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 15:30-16:30

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present

User Avital Hahamy (University College London) .

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Scalable Sampling Using Annealed Algorithms

User Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Bias Mitigation in the Wild: Challenges and Opportunities

User Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

User Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House SS03 and Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Linguistics in the Age of Large Language Models.

User Janet B. Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford.

Friday 15 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust

User Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol).

Thursday 14 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Are we making progress in unlearning?

User Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind).

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

User Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Online only: Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89623597387?pwd=PalnRtu2be5cw3aGReM6EyvfcMrcly.1.

Vector Quantization in Deep Neural Networks for Speech and Image Processing

User Mohammad Vali, Aalto University, Finland.

Monday 11 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

User Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway.

Friday 08 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

User Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

Friday 08 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

10 Slides on Human Feedback

User Max Bartolo (Cohere).

Friday 08 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Subtleties about Pre-Training Data: Imbalance and Staleness

User Daniel Khashabi, Johns Hopkins University.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity

User Dr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University).

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 06 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Paying Attention to Efficiency: LLM Deployment on Mobile and Edge Devices

User Stefanos Laskaridis, Brave Software.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The Atomic Human

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

User Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm

User Sam Livingstone (UCL).

Friday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation Models

User Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Edinburgh).

Friday 01 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Pluralistic Alignment through Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

User Natasha Jaques, University of Washington.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 17:00-18:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions

User Tim Denison (U. of Oxford).

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers

User Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights

The host for this talk is Larysa Zasiekina

User Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Friday 25 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

User Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

Friday 25 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Language Modelling with Phonemes

User Zebulon Youra Goriely (University of Cambridge).

Friday 25 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

LLM Generalization in Social Context

User Diyi Yang, Stanford University.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition

User Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87165608116?pwd=llCLiWvBAfOR7RtealbVtVbjXruh3O.1.

SummaryMixing: A Linear-Time Attention Alternative

User Shucong Zhang, Samsung AI Center.

Monday 21 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

User Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Friday 18 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

User Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

Friday 18 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Truth conditions at scale, and beyond

User Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

Friday 18 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events

User Adrian Horner (U. of York) .

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Specializing LLMs for Factuality and Soft Reasoning

User Greg Durrett, UT Austin.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical Remembering

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

User Dr Peggy L. St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Canada.

Friday 11 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

User Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

House SS03 and on Zoom, link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD Students

User Suchir Salhan (University of Cambridge), Matthieu Moulec (University of Cambridge), Paul Siewart (University of Cambridge).

Friday 11 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Integrating approaches to semantic memory and cognitive control

User Tim Rogers (Madison-Wisconsin/ MRC CBU) .

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Ten Years of Universal Dependencies

User Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data

User Luke Braithwaite.

Friday 27 September 2024, 17:00-18:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Enhancing Climate Prediction with Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning Models

User Simone Monaco, Politecnico if Torino.

Thursday 26 September 2024, 17:00-18:00

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

User Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

Monday 23 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data

User Luke Braithwaite (University of Cambridge, Cambridge).

Friday 23 August 2024, 17:00-18:00

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81208506346?pwd=htfSCSr9PDFluWw7fJirGOM6c7EbTK.1.

Controlling and Muting Whisper: Universal Acoustic Adversarial Attacks on Speech Foundation Models

User Vyas Raina.

Monday 19 August 2024, 12:00-13:00

House Hybrid: JDB Seminar Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88498768580?pwd=1zjqKCU8AiRcd7ZR6SXBTjc0ScElsc.1.

Towards Improving End-to-End Neural Diarization

User Dr Federico Landini, Brno University of Technology.

Tuesday 06 August 2024, 12:00-13:00

Robotics Seminar Series

Reinforcement Learning and Learning-guided Search for Generalizability for Multi-agent Mobility Systems

User Cathy Wu, MIT.

House Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26.

Thursday 18 July 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Navigating Privacy Risks in Language Models

User Peter Kairouz -- Google.

House West 2, West Hub (https://www.westcambridgehub.uk/visit).

Tuesday 16 July 2024, 15:00-16:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Task Alignment

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Vihari Piratla, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 26 June 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89860790207?pwd=sbErkKGhMwBJhyJcmlJ1jcQml5oTd4.1.

Towards understanding the performance of individuals within automatic speaker recognition systems

User Vincent Hughes, University of York.

Monday 24 June 2024, 12:00-13:00

House Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

The tradeoff governing efficient language model architectures

User Sabri Eyuboglu, Stanford University.

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Nonparametric classification with missing data

User Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs?

User Shiwei Liu, University of Oxford.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

User Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

User Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

User Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

How deep can LLMs reason? Benchmarking GPT and Llama models on nested mathematical formulas

User Flavio Petruzzellis, Universita' di Padova.

Friday 07 June 2024, 17:00-18:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88532356932?pwd=IVo8GI7wBssnObu7in3aNXBjwufHnJ.1.

Evaluating Large Language Models as Model Systems for Language

User Carina Kauf, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

User Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

Friday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Generative AI for Science

User James Zou, Stanford University.

Thursday 06 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

The role of reward in language learning

User Saloni Krishnan (Royal Holloway).

Thursday 06 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

The evolution of Alzheimer’s disease in the aging brain

User Bill Jagust (UC Berkeley).

Monday 03 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Learning with latent symmetries

User Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

Friday 31 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House SS03, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 31 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

The problem with mental health awareness

User Lucy Foulkes (U. of Oxford).

Thursday 30 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Practical and Specialised NLP Solutions: The Case of Social Media

User Jose Camacho Collados, Cardiff University.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Tim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unveiling Causal Drivers of Non-Communicable Diseases with Interpretable Models

User Sheresh Zahoor.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 24 May 2024, 17:15-18:00

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

User Andre Wibisono, Yale University.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House FW26, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Open-Endedness and General Intelligence

User Tim Rocktäschel, University College London .

Friday 24 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Leveraging AI for Breakthroughs in Genomic Research

Hybrid: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/2554325137?pwd=NGZEbGl1WkJxQVdkV09oc2k1L2pwQT09 Meeting ID: 255 432 5137 Passcode: 360730

User Mike Sikic, Genome Institute of Singapore .

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 24 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

How does the human brain recognize faces?

User Bruno Rossion (U. of Lorraine).

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Incremental Accumulation of Linguistic Context in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks

User Refael Tikochinski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The Cognitive Biology of Language

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

User Professor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University.

Friday 17 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

User Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

Friday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

The intersection of Interpretability and Fairness

User Giuseppe Attanasio, Milan NLP.

Friday 17 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Sleep to forget unwanted memories

User Scott Cairney (U. of York).

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Data Selection for Pre-training and Instruction-tuning of LLMs

User Danqi Chen, Princeton University.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82427061964?pwd=UE15aHJKSlZDQ0tobktJWEV3K25rUT09 .

Effect of room acoustics on speech intelligibility under noise between native and non-native listeners

User Dr Yusuke Hioka, University of Auckland.

Monday 13 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders

User Professor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Friday 10 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

House Room FW11 at CL or William Gates Building or on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models

User Dominik Stammbach, ETH Zurich.

Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Learning and memory in developmental amnesia

User Rachael Elward (London South Bank University).

Thursday 09 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

"What it can create, it may not understand" Studying the Limits of Transformers.

User Nouha Dziri, Allen Institute for AI.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts

User Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 03 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

User Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

Friday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Paranoia: My life understanding and treating extreme mistrust

User Dan Freeman (U. of Oxford).

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

House GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Language modelling for the sake of language modelling

User Nikos Aletras, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Mean Field Theory of NNs

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk

User Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The UK AI Safety Institute

User Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge & UK AI Safety Institute).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

User Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida.

Friday 26 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Face Learning in People with Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super-Recognisers"

User Professor Sarah Bate (Bournemouth University).

Friday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:30

House SS03, William Gates Building. .

Title to be confirmed

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Friday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Large language models for enabling constructive online conversations

User Kristina Gligorić, Stanford University.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Early phase neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation

User Elsa Fouragnan (U. of Plymouth).

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86036389828?pwd=U0dsWis2alp4K0tORHpZa3MrSXZXdz09.

Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning for Audio and Speech Processing

User Umberto Cappellazzo, University of Trento.

Monday 22 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

User George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

Friday 19 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

AI Control

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Neural likelihood-free inference

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86177109545?pwd=TmE1YlgzNWJKdGJQa1NQdk1kNS9zQT09.

Speaker Retrieval in the Wild: Challenges, Effectiveness and Robustness

User Erfan Loweimi, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

User Professor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva.

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it?

User Mevan Babakar, Google .

Friday 15 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Stimulating speech: auditory-motor interactions during perception and production

User Kate Watkins (U. of Oxford) .

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Inverting Language Models

User Alexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Concentration and Free Probability

User Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics

User Zhe Wang (DeepMind).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults.

The host for this talk is Trevor Robbins

User Dr Alex Sel, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

User Alexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

Friday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Restoring communication with intracortical brain-computer interfaces

User Jaimie Henderson (Stanford University).

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges

User Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED

POSTPONED. Sorry for inconvenience.

User Prof. Tom Chittenden (BioAI Health & QMUL).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

User Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

User Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge.

Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:30

LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has Changed

User Emma Strubell, CMU.

Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Consolidation of memory and model-based planning

User Neil Burgess (UCL.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House GR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

What do sentence transformers know, and how can we find out?

User Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cortical interneurons in health and disease.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

User Professor Oscar Marín, King's College London.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

User David Burt, MIT.

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural Models

User Pasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 23 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Towards Machine Learning-enhanced Monitoring

User Andrea Brunello and Nicola Saccomanno, University of Udine.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Mind Hacking – How magicians exploit psychological biases and limitations

User Gustav Kuhn (U. of Plymouth).

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Making Better Use of (Large) Language and Translation Models with Simple Inference Improvements.

User Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85153166972?pwd=bkgzN0lKejBjQ1BFSVVRbDAvbUdmUT09.

End-to-end contextual speech recognition with Tree-constrained pointer generator

User Brian Sun, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Monday 19 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Opinion dynamics inspired sheaf neural networks.

User Ferran Hernandez Caralt.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

User Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

User Priyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

Friday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

House GR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Prosocial Language Models

User Soroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning to Receive Help: Intervention-Aware Concept Embedding Models

User Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

User Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation.

User Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language Generators

User Clara Meister, ETH Zurich.

Friday 09 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings.

User Swabha Swayamdipta, University of Southern California.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Cognitive mechanisms of antidepressant drug action; from established treatments to novel developments

User Cath Harmer (U. of Oxford) .

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Bayesian coresets

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Towards Learning-Powered Networked Systems

User Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

When Art meets Psychology

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

User Prof. Clive Wilkins.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy

User Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09..

This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLP

User Lisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam.

Friday 02 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Towards early identification and prevention of child mental health problems

User Anna Moore (UoC, Dept of Psychiatry) .

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Geographically Grounded Language Models

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Text-and-audio methods

User Catalina Cangea (Google DeepMind).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87012963681?pwd=bXRwNis2SW93aHhxUndScnp2MUVTQT09.

“End-to-end multi-speaker neural TTS with LLM-based prosody prediction”

User Penny Karanasou, Amazon R&D.

Monday 29 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

User Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge).

Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

User Nicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge).

Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:30

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths

User Tiago Pimentel.

Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models.

User Tatsunori Hashimoto.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

The finger of blame in depression and the brain

User Roland Zahn (KCL).

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Personalising Crutch Geometries through Bayesian Optimisation

User Riccardo Conci, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 19:00-20:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Accelerating Generative AI on Custom Hardware Accelerators - Challenges and Opportunities

User Partha Maji (Tenstorrent).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

User Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

Friday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

User Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Friday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

User He He, New York University.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

User He He, New York University.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Developmental brain plasticity: a few insights from stroke and epilepsy in children

User Torsten Baldeweg (UCL).

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Vibe checks and red teaming: why ML researchers are increasingly reverting to manual evaluation

User Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 16 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

The entangled brain: Integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition

User Dr Luiz Pessoa (U. of Maryland).

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

The effort paradox: Why labour is loathed and loved

User Michael Inzlicht (U. of Toronto).

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 12:45-13:45

House In-person for Cambridge University members only: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department.

The applications of discrete speech tokens for robust and context-aware text-to-speech synthesis

User Chenpeng Du.

Monday 11 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Challenges and future directions in cochlear implants

User Ruth Litovsky (U. of Wisconsin – Madison).

Thursday 07 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

User Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

Friday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

User Naomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Friday 01 December 2023, 11:00-12:30

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models

User David Jurgens, University of Michigan.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health research

User Essi Viding (UCL) .

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

User Dr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language

The host for this talk is Kanad Mandke

User Dr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig).

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

User Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Efficiency by Construction

User Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

Friday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapy

User Quentin Huys (UCL).

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

A sanity check on emergent properties

User Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep screening of RNA, XNA and protein interactions

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83721191406?pwd=V0xkY0Vvb3czWUJkR0xIZC9qMnM0QT09

User Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Hybrid Multi-Modal Fusion for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data

User Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

User Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigation

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

User Professor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL).

Friday 17 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedside

User Jessica Eccles (Brighton and Sussex Medical School).

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Language Understanding for the Political Sciences

User Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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User Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges

This talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729

User Arne Schneuing & Ilia Igashov (EPFL).

House Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tfuCvrDgjG9WNY52TL0qsu7PqO484Pad5.

Questioning Ideas in Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning

User Guoxuan Xia (Imperial College London).

Monday 13 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

User Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

User Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge.

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

User Nafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control

User Jan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) .

Thursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone

User Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Multi-Agent Graph Learning-Based Optimization and its Applications to Computer Networks

User Guillermo Bernárdez Gil, UPC Barcelona.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multi-Agent Simulation and Learning in TorchRL

User Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moon

User Sara Hooker (Cohere For AI).

Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views

User Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticity

The host for this talk is Amy Milton

User Dr Liat Levita, University of Sussex.

Friday 03 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortex

User Sanjay Manohar (U. of Oxford).

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI

User Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University in Milan, Italy).

Thursday 02 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Adaptive two-sample testing

User Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Representation and computation in visual working memory

User Professor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:30

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

User Gleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

House GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Revolutionizing Biosensing Technologies: Plug and Play Devices in Medical and Agricultural Diagnostics

User Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky, Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI), Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW 2800.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AbDiffuser: Full-Atom Generation of In Vitro Functioning Antibodies

Notice that this talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729 Pietro Lio and Chaitanya Joshi will introduce the speakers

User Karolis Martinkus & Andreas Loukas (Prescient Design, Genentech, Roche).

House Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cortical gradients of functional integration

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

User Dr Daniel Margulies .

Friday 20 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

User Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09#success.

Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable Tasks

User Leshem Choshen (IBM AI research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Friday 20 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

How does the brain generate movement? A neural population view

User Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College).

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

pf376's list

Learning disentangled representation for interpretable language model. / Interactive Narrative Understanding.

User Lin Gui and Runcong Zhao, King's College London.

House GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Spectral Graph Neural Network: Polynomial Approximation and Optimization

User Keke Huang, National University of Singapore.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-18:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

User Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

User Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

On Learning Latent Models with Multi-Instance Weak Supervision

User Efi Tsamoura (Samsung AI, Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Title to be confirmed

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

User Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amstersdam).

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

User Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

User Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

Friday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fighting Bad Information with AI

User David Corney (Full Fact).

Friday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

When language typology meets dementia

User Boon Lead Tee (UCSF) .

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Decoding the neural processing of speech

The host for this talk is Usha Goswami

User Professor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg).

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

User Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

Friday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Computer Laboratory, room SS03.

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

User Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

Friday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failures

User Lia Kvavilashvili (U. of Hertfordshire) .

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"

User Jay McClelland, Stanford University .

Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

User Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

Friday 08 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Subgraphs

hybrid zoom and presence

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 28 August 2023, 17:00-18:00

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Ethical and legal aspects of AI training in healthcare

join us also with zoom

User Chiara Gallese, University of Turin.

Tuesday 22 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Sediment core analysis using artificial intelligence

User Gianluca Carlini.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 July 2023, 18:00-18:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Scattering Networks and Singular Values Decomposition: different methods to remove background in Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy image

hybrid (zoom link at the end of the abstract)

User Lisa Cuneo, University of Genova and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia .

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 July 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Sphere Neural-Network for Higher-level Cognition

join us also with zoom

User Tiansi Dong.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 July 2023, 17:00-18:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

User Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Is ChatGPT adequate for decision-making?

User Victor O.K. Li, University of Hong Kong.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Recovery from aphasia after stroke – from network to therapy

User Dorothee Saur (Max Planck Institute/ U. of Leipzig) .

Thursday 22 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Protein generation and fitness optimization

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94094286505?pwd=T2V3MFVSQ1ZKTFFyYlFueHlzTE83Zz09

User Jason Yim, EECS, MIT.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

Note this is on zoom only! Note a change of date! Note a new zoom link!

User Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

House zoom only!.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

User James Thorne (KAIST).

Friday 16 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

House Venue to be confirmed.

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Canceled

User Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Friday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Crossing the divide: Promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world

User Rhiannon Turner (Queen's University Belfast).

Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

The LLM Tidal Wave

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

The LLM Tidal Wave

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User Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED: Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

This talk has moved to 20 June 2023.

User Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

House MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

User John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

Friday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Computer Lab, FW26.

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

User Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University).

Friday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Mind the Data

User Noah Smith, University of Washington .

Thursday 08 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Human medial temporal theta oscillations in learned fear and schizophrenia

User Dan Bush (UCL) .

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Untangling genome assembly graphs with graph neural networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93934749405?pwd=M0ZERUZleklON01vZlpXbzhqTld0Zz09. ; ID riunione: 939 3474 9405 Passcode: 374750

User Lovro Vrcek, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR.

House Seminar Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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User Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Information Spreading on Networks

NOTE A CHANGE OF ROOM DUE TO EXAMS. NOW SS03

User Charlotte Out.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

House MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

User Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

Friday 02 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

User Dustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

Friday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions

User Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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User Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Hypergraph Factorisation for Multi-Tissue Gene Expression Imputation

NOTE: Room changed, now Lecture Theatre 1

User Ramon Vinas Torne.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

MaRF: Representing Mars as Neural Radiance Fields

User Lorenzo Giusti, Universita' La Sapienza.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 29 May 2023, 18:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unveiling Bounded Confidence Dynamics in Sheaf Neural Networks

User Olga Zaghen, University of Trento.

House Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 29 May 2023, 16:30-17:30

Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities

User Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

User Zhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Quantity implicature and perspective-taking: insights from a novel task

User Dr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge).

House English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts

User Mike Anderson (MRC CBU).

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment: Towards Building Large Language Models from First Principles

User Yao Fu, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Reward Modelling

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User Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Improving learning with noisy labels in two possibile scenarios.

User Maria Sofia Bucarelli, La Sapienza University.

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 17:30-18:00

Relative Entropy Coding for Learned Data Compression

User Greg Flamich, Engineering Department (Cambridge).

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Integrating Radiomics and Explainable Methods: Paving the Way for Transparent and Interpretable Medical Imaging Analysis

User Francesco Prinzi, University of Palermo.

Friday 19 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

The host for this talk is David Belin

User Dr David Dupret (Oxford University).

Friday 19 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains

User Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

Friday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic

User Seid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg).

House Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Cognitive and neural mechanisms of intentional forgetting

User Lili Sahakyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy

User Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Dimensionality Reduction via Probabilistic Inference

User Aditya Ravuri (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts

User Professor Josep Call, University of St Andrews.

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

User Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

House Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

User Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Friday 12 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Moving up and down parameter hierarchies: markedness, third factors and diachrony

User Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

House English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

The iMAGine study: investigating motivational abnormalities guiding self-harm behaviour

User Martina Di Simplicio (Imperial College London).

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry

User Sam Power, University of Bristol.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

User Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The DNA revolution and psychology

User Professor Robert Plomin (King's College, London).

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

User Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Davidson Room, Peterhouse.

Saving the language of William the Conqueror: The Revitalisation of Sark's Norman tongue

User Martin Neudörfl (Charles University, Prague).

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology

User Dallas Card, University of Michigan.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Our Realms of Existence: An exploration of the biology and psychology of life

User Joseph Ledoux (New York University) .

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

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User Burigede Liu.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

What the science of reading can contribute to the history of writing, and vice versa

User Professor Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, New York.

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

User Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

Friday 28 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Computer Lab, FW26.

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

User Joe Stacey (Imperial College London).

Friday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The interaction of gender marking and perspective-taking

User Prof Stefan Hinterwimmer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

House Lucia Windsor Room (Newnham College).

Thursday 27 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Neural mechanisms and individual differences in the removal of information from working memory

User Marie Banich (U, of Colorado Boulde).

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Neural Tangent Kernel

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User Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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User Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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User Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Hybrid: LT6, First floor Baker building, Engineering Dept or Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89657740934?pwd=d1RUR29PenZXUlFQNVNVeU8zN2xoUT09.

Attention Forcing: Improving attention-based sequence-to-sequence models

User Qingyun Dou, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Physics-informed machine learning

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User Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

Somatosensory participation in human motor learning

User David Ostry (McGill University) .

Thursday 23 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Causal Machine Learning

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User Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Choice under Computational Complexity

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

User Professor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge).

Friday 17 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

House MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

“The role of the human insula in decision and response monitoring during working memory revealed by iEEG” and "Gender bias in academia: time for action”

(Please note later start time)

User Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley) .

Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:30-16:30

Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot.

User Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow.

House SR 24.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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User Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention

The hosts for this talk are Tristan Bekinschtein and Andrés Canales-Johnson

User Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience).

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

User Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages

User Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR).

House Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 10 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk

User Mona Diab, Meta AI.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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User Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations

User Professor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow).

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

User Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).