Roger Grosse - Studying LLM Generalization through Influence Functions

"Studying LLM Generalization through Influence Functions" Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03296 Bio: I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and a founding member of the Vector Institute. I am also a Member of Technical Staff on the Alignment Team at Anthropic through the summer of 2024. My research has focused on better understanding neural net training dynamics, and using this understanding to improve training speed, generalization, uncertainty estimation, and automatic hyperparameter tuning. I’m now focusing on applying our understanding of deep learning to AI alignment. Given how fast AI is progressing, the problem of ensuring AIs are robustly aligned with human values seems like the most important thing we can be working on now. This session is brought to you by the Cohere For AI Open Science Community - a space where ML researchers, engineers, linguists, social scientists, and lifelong learners connect and collaborate with each other. Thank you to our Community Leads for organizing and hosting this event. If you’re interested in sharing your work, we welcome you to join us! Simply fill out the form at https://forms.gle/ALND9i6KouEEpCnz6 to express your interest in becoming a speaker. Join the Cohere For AI Open Science Community to see a full list of upcoming events: https://tinyurl.com/C4AICommunityApp.