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  • Jan
    27

    CS Seminar: Pareto-efficient AI systems: Expanding the quality and efficiency frontier of AI (Simran Arora)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    Monday / CS Seminar
    January 27th / 12:00 PM
    Hybrid / Mudd 3514

    Speaker
    Simran Arora

    Talk Title
    Pareto-efficient AI systems: Expanding the quality and efficiency frontier of AI

    Abstract
    Foundation models are helping us build useful systems in hours that five years ago would have taken months. This exciting progress stems from a specific AI recipe: training massive models on massive amounts of data center compute. However, with the growing demand for AI, how can we maximize the capabilities we can achieve under any compute constraint? There are three key challenges: understanding (1) how our workload constraints (e.g., throughput, latency, privacy) impact the AI algorithms we should use, (2) how hardware constraints shapes AI and vice-versa, and (3) the fundamental scaling laws that govern how efficiently different algorithms learn useful capabilities. In this talk, I’ll discuss how I’ve addressed these challenges in my research. I’ll focus on my work to expand the Pareto-frontier between language model quality and throughput, where we’ve developed new methods to empirically and theoretically explain the fundamental tradeoffs between model quality and throughput in language modeling, built a new programming library called ThunderKittens to make it easier to develop fast hardware programs for new AI algorithms, and released the state-of-the-art 8B-405B parameter efficient language models on an academic budget.

    Biography
    Simran Arora is a PhD student at Stanford University advised by Chris Ré. Her research blends machine learning and systems towards expanding the Pareto frontier between AI quality and efficiency. Her machine learning research has appeared as Oral and Spotlight presentations at NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, including an Outstanding Paper award at NeurIPS and Best Paper award at ICML ES-FoMo. Her systems work has appeared at VLDB, SIGMOD, CIDR, and CHI, and her systems artifacts are widely used in open-source and industry. In 2023, Simran created and taught the CS229s Systems for Machine Learning course at Stanford. She has also been supported by a SGF Sequoia Fellowship.

    Research/Interest Areas
    AI systems
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    TIME Monday, January 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Feb
    17

    CS Seminar: Understanding Quantum Systems via the Algorithmic Lens (Ainesh Bakshi)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, February 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Feb
    18

    MS in Information Technology (MSIT) Online Information Session

    MS in Information Technology (MSIT) Program

    12:00 PM

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    TIME Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Feb
    18

    Thought Leader Dialogue: AI and the Future of Work

    Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design (HCI+D)

    1:00 PM

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    TIME Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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    CONTACT Madison Deyo    madison.deyo@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Feb
    19

    CS Seminar: Developing Responsible AI Monitoring Technologies for Chronic Care (Dan Adler)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Feb
    21

    CS Seminar: Deep Learning Theory in the Age of Generative AI (Sadhika Malladi)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Feb
    24

    CS Seminar: Vector-Centric Machine Learning Systems: A Cross-Stack Approach (Wenqi Jiang)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, February 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Feb
    26

    CS Seminar: Enabling Language Models to Process Information at Scale (Tianyu Gao)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Feb
    27

    Bagel Thursday

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    9:00 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  • Feb
    28

    CS Seminar

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    TIME Friday, February 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Mar
    3

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, March 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Mar
    5

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Mar
    7

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Friday, March 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Mar
    10

    CS Seminar

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    TIME Monday, March 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Mar
    12

    CS Seminar

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    TIME Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Mar
    14

    CS Seminar

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    TIME Friday, March 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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