Seminars

This talk gives an introduction to Large Language Models for non-specialists, especially those who might be considering applying them to nature or climate projects. We will cover the recent history of language models and then deep dive on a modern transformer-based language model.

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Blockchains have motivated a surge of research and development into succinct probabilistic proofs. As proof constructions have gotten dramatically more efficient, entirely new applications have become feasible in other areas as well. This talk will discuss two proposed applications in the area of network security.

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In the seminar, Dr Collier will introduce the new book, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (MIT Press, 2024).

Additional speakers TBC.
5:00pm 26th April 2024
LT2 - William Gates Building
15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FD

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A randomized algorithm for a search problem is pseudodeterministic if it
produces a fixed canonical solution to the search problem with high
probability. In their seminal work on the topic, Gat and Goldwasser posed
as their main open problem whether prime numbers can be pseudodeterministically