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 (Fall 2025).
Physical Location: SC 1304
Channel link: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/channel/CS591+UIUC+Machine+Learning+Reading+Group+Fall+2025/389603122
Time: Friday 2:00-3:15 PM CT
Mailing List: uiuc-ml-reading-group@lists.illinois.edu (To Subscribe)
Student Organizers: Cindy Zeng, Rohan Deb, and Yuzheng Hu
Dates | Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 09/12/2025 | SC 1304 | Yifei He | UIUC | The Synthesis of Skills: Methods and Evaluation for Merging LLMs [slides] |
| 09/26/2025 | SC 1304 | Wei Xiong | UIUC | Deconstructing GRPO: the Implicit Power of Data Filtering [slides] |
| 10/03/2025 | Remote | Mateo Dulce Rubio | NYU | Conformal Mixed-Integer Constraint Learning: Probabilistic Feasibility Guarantees for Data-Driven Optimization [slides] |
| 10/10/2025 | Remote | Weiqiu You | UPenn | Explaining and Verifying: Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning [slides] |
| 10/17/2025 | Remote | Jiacheng Lin | UIUC | LLMs, RL, and the Rise of Self-Evolving Agents in Real-World Healthcare [slides] |
| 10/24/2025 | SC 1304 | Tianyu Liu | Yale | Pioneering Biological Discoveries with a Human-Aware Artificial Intelligence System [slides] |
| 10/31/2025 | Remote | Haoxiang Wang | Luma AI | Beyond Diffusion: The Rise of LLM-Native Image Generation |
| 11/07/2025 | SC 1304 | Dylan Zhang | UIUC | Supervision Shall Fit the Model During Supervised Fine-tuning [slides] |
| 11/14/2025 | SC 1304 | Ren Wang | Illinois Tech | Population-Based Methods for Adversarially Resilient Deep Models [slides] |
| 11/21/2025 | Remote | Siddharth Joshi | UCLA | |
| 12/05/2025 | Calvin Xu | UIUC |
Sites of previous semesters:
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.