[CMU AI Seminar] Special! October 26 at 12pm (NSH 4305 & Zoom) -- Sherry Yang (Google DeepMind) -- Foundation Models for Decision Making: Problems, Methods, and Applications -- AI Seminar sponsored by SambaNova Systems

[Asher Trockman]

Reminder that this is happening today (in a different room than usual, NSH
4305).

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 11:10 AM Asher Trockman <ashert at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We look forward to seeing you *this Thursday (10/26)* from *1**2:00-1:00
> PM (U.S. Eastern time)* for a special installment of this semester's
> *CMU AI Seminar*, sponsored by SambaNova Systems <https://sambanova.ai/>.
> The seminar will be held in *NSH 4305* and will be streamed on Zoom. *Note
> the different room! (NSH 4305)*
>
> To learn more about the seminar series or to see the future schedule,
> please visit the seminar website <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
>
> Tomorrow, this Thursday (10/26), *Sherry Yang* (Google DeepMind / UC
> Berkeley) will be giving a talk titled *"**Foundation Models for Decision
> Making: Problems, Methods, and Applications**"*.
>
> *Title*: Foundation Models for Decision Making: Problems, Methods, and
> Applications
>
> *Talk Abstract*: Foundation models pretrained on internet vision and
> language data have greatly advanced artificial intelligence in vision and
> language tasks. However, many tasks ranging from controlling physical
> systems to making scientific discoveries do not operate in image or text
> space while only having limited data available for learning. How to achieve
> behaviors better than the dataset in these broader tasks with limited data
> becomes a pressing challenge to today’s learning systems. In this talk, we
> will provide three foundation model inspired approaches including
> representation learning, conditional generative modeling, and repurposing
> pretrained vision and language models to improve learning for the broader
> set of tasks that involve control and decision making.
>
> *Speaker Bio:* Sherry is a final year PhD student at UC Berkeley advised
> by Pieter Abbeel and a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Her
> research interests include imitation learning, deep reinforcement learning,
> and recently foundation models for decision making. She has worked on
> offline policy evaluation and selection, provably beneficial representation
> learning for imitation, reinforcement learning for natural language
> generation, and generative modeling for control, planning, and decision
> making. Sherry has served as program committee of IJCAI and reviewer for
> ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, and AAAI. She is the lead organizer for the
> Foundation Models for Decision Making workshop at NeurIPS 2022 and 2023,
> bringing together research communities in vision, language, planning, and
> reinforcement learning to solve complex decision making tasks at scale.
> Before her current role, Sherry received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree
> from MIT advised by Patrick Winston and Julian Shun.
>
> *In person: *NSH 4305
> *Zoom Link*:
> https://cmu.zoom.us/j/99510233317?pwd=ZGx4aExNZ1FNaGY4SHI3Qlh0YjNWUT09
>
> Thanks,
> Asher Trockman
>
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