We mourn the loss of our friend and founding benefactor, Jim Simons. Jim was visionary, brilliant, and generous beyond measure. He has left an indelible mark on our field.
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
1,379 posts
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
@SimonsInstitute
The world's leading venue for collaborative research in theoretical computer science. Follow us at YouTube.com/SimonsInstitute.
- “Pretrained LLMs are ready to reason. All we need is decoding.” Denny Zhou of @GoogleDeepMind at the Simons Institute's workshop on the The Future of Language Models and Transformers. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/futu…
- Deep interest in @srush_nlp's timely talk on "How DeepSeek changes the LLM story" at the Simons Institute's workshop on LLMs, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. Starting now ...simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/llms…
- The Generator-Verifier Gap. When verifying a solution is easier than generating it (think Chess moves, coding, math), scaling up inference time compute gets better results — @OpenAI's Noam Brown speaking at the Simons Institute's workshop on Transformers as a Computational Model.
- Simons Institute Senior Advisor Jelani Nelson has been awarded the 2023 SIGACT Distinguished Service Award "for outstanding contributions to broadening participation in computer science." sigact.org/prizes/service… Congratulations, @minilek!
- Optimization and Algorithm Design (Workshop) Monday, 11/27 – Friday, 12/1 Join us! simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/opti…
- We are heartbroken at the passing of our dear colleague Luca Trevisan, who was a senior scientist at the Simons Institute from 2014 to 2019. We will be sharing some of the remembrances members of our research community have posted. Our own obituary of Luca will follow soon.
- "Computational neuroscientists think that spiking neural networks will bring them closer to understanding the brain than is possible with current deep neural networks." Read our newsletter feature Spiking Neural Networks, from @anilananth. simons.berkeley.edu/news/spiking-n…
- This week at the Simons Institute, a workshop on Optimization and Algorithm Design. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/opti…
- Remembrances of Luca from... Bocconi University: unibocconi.it/en/news/luca-t… Boaz Barak: windowsontheory.org/2024/06/19/luc… Scott Aaronson: scottaaronson.blog/?p=8057 Lance Fortnow: blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2024/06/luca-t… #rememberingLuca
- "The structure of data is the dark matter of theory in deep learning" — @SuryaGanguli during his talk on "Perspectives from Physics, Neuroscience, and Theory" at the Simons Institute's Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Part 1 Boot Camp.
- Catch up on the talks from the Data Structures and Optimization for Fast Algorithms Boot Camp, taking place at the Simons Institute this week. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/data…
