This is the website for the ML Theory reading group organized by Jacob Abernethy and Vidya Muthukumar in the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. We meet every Friday at 11:30AM in the CODA building. Email Tyler LaBonte at tlabonte@gatech.edu if you wish to attend.
If you’re looking for the CS7545: Machine Learning Theory course website, click here.
Meetings Schedule and presenters
Spring 2024 Topics: Optimization in DL/non-convex optimization, Privacy in LLMs, Reinforcement + control theory / learning theory
| Date | Paper | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 02 Feb 2024 | Introduction & self introduction | Vidya Muthukumar |
| 09 Feb 2024 | Self introduction | |
| 16 Feb 2024 | Implicit Regularization in ReLU Networks with the Square Loss | Chiraag Kaushik |
| 23 Feb 2024 | Gradient flow dynamics of shallow ReLU networks for square loss and orthogonal inputs | Guanghui Wang |
| 01 Mar 2024 | Learning a Neuron by a Shallow ReLU Network: Dynamics and Implicit Bias for Correlated Inputs | Kuo-Wei Lai |
| 08 Mar 2024 | Privacy Issues in Large Language Models: A Survey | Rakshit Naidu |
| 15 Mar 2024 | Differentially Private Fine-tuning of Language Models | Video Link |
| 22 Mar 2024 | No meeting due to Spring break | |
| 29 Mar 2024 | No meeting | |
| 05 Apr 2024 | TBD | Krishna Acharya |
| 12 Apr 2024 | TBD | |
| 19 Apr 2024 | TBD | |
| 26 Apr 2024 | TBD | |
| 03 May 2024 | TBD |
Previous semesters: Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017