Welcome to the Machine Learning Seminar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!
- The seminar is part of CS 591 MLR, whose faculty instructors are Arindam Banerjee and Han Zhao. To obtain a passing grade, students are required to participate in at least 75% of the talk. We will specify other logistics through mass mails.
- For general audience, we have a mailing list that you can subscribe to.
Please find below the information of this semester (Spring 2025).
Physical Location: SC 1214
Time: Friday 2:00-3:15 PM CT, Jan 31 – May 2
Mailing List: uiuc-ml-reading-group@lists.illinois.edu (To Subscribe)
Student Organizers: Rohan Deb, Cindy Zeng, and Yuzheng Hu
Dates | Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 01/31/2025 | SC 1214 | Haoxiang Wang | UIUC/Nvidia | Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI [paper] |
| 02/07/2025 | Remote | Bowen Jin | UIUC | Bridging LLMs and Information Retrieval: Advances in RAG and Alignment [slides] |
| 02/14/2025 | Remote | Yuki Takezawa | Kyoto University | Scalable Decentralized Learning with Teleportation [slides] |
| 02/21/2025 | Remote | Kexin Huang | Stanford University | Automated Hypothesis Validation with Agentic Sequential Falsifications |
| 02/28/2025 | Remote | Jihye Choi | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Beyond Black Boxes: Towards Interpretable and Reliable AI with Foundation Models [slides] |
| 03/07/2025 | Remote | Yong Lin | Princeton | Goedel-Prover: A Frontier Model for Open-Source Automated Theorem Proving [slides] |
| 03/14/2025 | SC 1214 | Isha Chaudhary | UIUC | Quantitative Certification of Large Language Models with LLMCert [slides] |
| 03/21/2025 | N/A | N/A | Spring Break | |
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In loving memory of Nathanael Assefa, whose bright spirit was taken from us far too soon. We will forever miss him, both as a brilliant leader and a dear friend.