Each episode of The Thesis Review is a conversation centered around a researcher's PhD thesis, and how their research has evolved since. Hosted by @wellecks.
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Thesis Review Throwback (October 2020, Episode 10):
Chelsea Finn (@chelseabfinn) discusses her incredibly impactful research on robotics, including her PhD work on meta-learning (e.g., MAML arxiv.org/abs/1703.03400) and the future of robotics
youtu.be/XAg3yvNvsUI?feature…
Leading up to the 50th (!) Thesis Review, we're adding previous episodes to our new Youtube channel:
youtube.com/@ThesisReview
Episodes 1 - 10 are now available!
Thesis Review Throwback (July 2020, Episode 2):
Colin Raffel (@colinraffel) discusses how he got started in research, his PhD work on audio-to-midi alignment, the path to the influential T5 paper, and simplicity in machine learning
youtu.be/Bq-cTWbuPl0
Although the intros for both the interviewer and interviewee are now out of date 😄, the stories and insights are timeless!
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By popular demand, Thesis Review episodes will now be available on Youtube!
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To prepare for the 50th Thesis Review, we'll gradually upload the previous episodes in the coming weeks
The Thesis Review Podcast retweeted
Fun conversation with @wellecks on the thesis poscast
As an early PhD student, I worked a tiny bit on MinPy, built on the MXNet deep learning framework. It was fun to hear the backstory behind MXNet (and XGBoost and TVM) directly from @tqchenml, and discuss machine learning compilation, LLM systems, and more.
Episode 48 of The Thesis Review:
Tianqi Chen (@tqchenml), "Scalable and Intelligent Learning Systems"
We discuss machine learning + systems, including Tianqi's pioneering work on XGBoost, MXNet, and TVM, and connect these ideas to modern generative AI.
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Episode notes:
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Apple Podcasts:
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Spotify:
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The Thesis Review Podcast retweeted
Recently found the @thesisreview podcast, hosted by Sean Welleck. Really nice format to learn more about a researcher’s PhD thesis.
For people interested in privacy in LLMs, definitely check out this episode w/ Niloofar!
Episode 47 of The Thesis Review:
Niloofar Mireshghallah (@niloofar_mire), "Auditing and Mitigating Safety Risks in Large Language Models"
We discuss her journey into research, PhD work on privacy in LLMs, and memorization vs generalization.
soundcloud.com/thesis-review…
Thesis Review Throwback (2020, Episode 7):
@OpenAI co-founder John Schulman (@johnschulman2) discusses his PhD research that led to proximal policy optimization (PPO), a widely-used algorithm for reinforcement learning, including for LLM alignment.
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Episode page: wellecks.com/thesisreview/ep…
Spotify:
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Apple podcasts:
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Episode 47 of The Thesis Review:
Niloofar Mireshghallah (@niloofar_mire), "Auditing and Mitigating Safety Risks in Large Language Models"
We discuss her journey into research, PhD work on privacy in LLMs, and memorization vs generalization.
soundcloud.com/thesis-review…
Episode notes:
wellecks.com/thesisreview/ep…
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/0iWtGU…
Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Thesis Review throwback (May 2021):
Tomas Mikolov on word2vec, RNN-LMs, and more
Episode 25 of The Thesis Review:
Tomas Mikolov, "Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks"
We discuss his thesis work on language modeling with recurrent networks, the path to word2vec, and recent work on complexity.
cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/episode2…
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Episode 46 of The Thesis Review:
Yulia Tsvetkov (@tsvetshop), "Linguistic Knowledge in Data-Driven NLP"
We discuss Yulia's PhD work that combined ideas from linguistics and NLP, low-resource and multilingual NLP, and a lot of great advice!
soundcloud.com/thesis-review…
Episode notes:
wellecks.com/thesisreview/ep…
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/0iWtGU…
Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Episode 45 of The Thesis Review:
Luke Zettlemoyer (@LukeZettlemoyer), "Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form"
We discuss his PhD thesis on semantic parsing, the evolution of NLP, foundational work on pretraining LLMs, and a lot more!
soundcloud.com/thesis-review…
Episode notes:
wellecks.com/thesisreview/ep…
Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0iWtGU…
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Episode 44 of The Thesis Review:
Hady Elsahar (@hadyelsahar), "NLG from Structured Knowledge Bases"
We discuss his PhD work and how it led to interests in controlling language models, multilingual & low-resource NLP, and energy-based models.
overcast.fm/+c_0hHK5_c
Episode notes: wellecks.com/thesisreview/ep…
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/thesis-review…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6c2…
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