Chris J. Maddison: Scaling Laws - An Opportunity for Statisticians

Welcome to our casual research seminar organized in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Our aim is to explore the diverse research conducted by our faculty, students, and postdocs. Talks usually last 30 to 45 minutes, followed by discussions. We cover current research, overviews of emerging topics, and more. Some pizza and soda will be offered before the seminar around 12:20pm.

On November 25th, join Chris J. Maddison for a talk on Scaling Laws - An Opportunity for Statisticians, where he will present some of the empirical developments in the scaling behaviour of large language model training and propose that this is a rich set of problems for statisticians to consider

Seminar organizers: Christopher Blier-Wong & Biprateep Dey & Dehan Kong & Kathleen Miao & Chao Wang.