The Toronto LLM Meetup Group - Scaling Test-Time Compute
After a long hiatus, the Toronto LLM Meetup Group is back, with the 4th edition happening on Wednesday July 9th at the Cohere office! This time we will be covering a long over-due topic - scaling test-time compute in LLMs.
We have assembled a fascinating set of speakers and will introduce a new discussion format that is more interactive and engaging.
Here is a list of papers that are relevant to this session:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FpUySBR3T3hj-oieIj0RQfZaCGBKIX31Wv_55py2yJg/edit?tab=t.0
It is not necessary to read them all before the session, but browsing through them might help you more actively participate in the discussion session.
Special thanks to Cohere for providing the event space and Hudson Labs for their support and resources.
⏱️ Timetable
17:30 - 18:00 Icebreaker & Networking
18:00 - 18:30 Speaker Session #1
18:30 - 18:50 Discussion
18:50 - 19:20 Speaker Session #2
19:20 - 19:40 Discussion
19:40 - 20:00 Networking
📣 Speaker Bios
Suhas Pai is an NLP researcher and the co-founder/CTO of Hudson Labs, a Toronto-based Y Combinator-backed startup. He authored Designing Large Language Model Applications (O’Reilly Media) and led/contributed to the development of several open-source LLMs. Suhas has chaired the Toronto Machine Learning Summit since 2021 and regularly speaks at AI conferences and seminars on NLP research.
Soumye Singhal is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA, focusing on LLM post-training and alignment for Nemotron models. Recently he has contributed to the development of Llama-Nemotron reasoning models and Nemotron-Hybrid models. His research focuses on enhancing LLM performance through inference-time compute scaling and preference optimization techniques. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he completed his Master's at Mila under Aaron Courville and his undergraduate studies at IT Kanpur.
Abdullah Al-Hayali is a machine learning engineer, independent consultant, and the founder of Pulp Health, an AI powered dental assistant. He developed several LLM powered applications for healthcare's administrative infrastructure and insurance, along with fundamental research in medical imaging and computer vision. Prior to Pulp, Abdullah built and exited Dice Health, an AI startup in the veterinary industry.
👋 About Us
The Toronto LLM Meetup group is founded by Suhas Pai, CTO and Co-founder of Hudson Labs, and Lily Ren, Senior PM, B2B AI at Telus. The aim of this group is to facilitate deep dives into LLM research topics, harnessing the skills of Toronto's vibrant AI ecosystem and promoting intellectual rigor. To this end, for each session we assemble a team of top Toronto AI scientists and practitioners to conduct an in-depth study of an emerging topic that is expected to go mainstream 6 months from now. The team presents their findings along with jumping-off points for future research at a meetup session, held at Toronto's top AI companies. Eventually we aim to spawn off community open-source research projects this way.
📧 Mailing List
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