MIT Scale ML seminar returns: talks from Jane Street, Anthropic, TML and more
a1zhang · x · 2026-09-29
MIT's cross-lab grad collective Scale ML is resuming fall seminars, funded by Pulkit Agrawal, Yoon Kim and BVP. Upcoming talks include scaled data-mixture experiments (Jane Street), Self-Flow multimodal flow matching (Black Forest Labs), test-time exploration scaling (CMU), ML compiler challenges (Thinking Machines), GPU programming (Anthropic), plus sessions on quantization, long-context modeling, FlexOlmo, Boltz-1 and more. Open to anyone with an academic email.
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