Events / New York

ML-NYC Speaker Series and Happy Hour: Andrew Gordon Wilson

NYU professor Andrew Gordon Wilson opens the fall ML-NYC Speaker Series at the Flatiron Institute with a research talk on epiplexity, a way to measure what compute-limited models can actually learn from data, then a reception.

Tue, Sep 29, 4:00 PMFlatiron Institute · 162 5th Avenue · Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium · New York, NY 10010

Why it matters

A free, public research talk on how to value training data. It gives practitioners a framework for choosing, generating, or transforming data instead of guessing which datasets will help a model generalize.

The tokenmaxxing angle

Indirect: the talk is about training data, not inference bills. But its core idea, spend compute only on data that carries learnable structure, is the same discipline as spending tokens only on context that changes the answer.

From the organizers

The talk starts at 4 PM in the Flatiron Institute's Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium, 162 5th Ave. Registration is required and closes September 26. Wilson is also listed as Research Lead at Perplexity.