READING GROUP

At the heart of research lies a mountain of papers. It is hard to keep up with the field individually, since breakthroughs are made and published every single day.

The reading group’s objective is to work together to make keeping up a manageable task. Every week, a person or a group of people present a research paper or book chapter they find interesting. If you participate, you will have studied ~15 new papers through the semester!

If you'd like to present, please check out our Discord server. We recommend checking out HuggingFace's trending papers to find interesting papers to present.

ARCHIVE

Every week, usually on Thursdays from 8pm-9pm. Location in the table.

February 5, 2026

WALC 2127

completed
Modern Vision Transformers
CV

Manav Gagvani

January 29, 2026

WALC 2127

completed
Modern Attention Architectures
Theory NLP

Alexandre Sauquet

December 4, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
Efficient Reasoning via Reward Model
Applied AI LLM RL

Elijah D.

November 20, 2025

WALC 3132

completed
Inference Optimization Techniques
Applied AI Optimization

Shay Manor

November 13, 2025

WALC 3132

completed
DeepSeek OCR
Applied AI LLM

Oskar Jonientz

October 23, 2025

WALC 3132

completed
Optimizers
Theory Optimizers

Alexandre Sauquet

October 9, 2025

WALC 3132

completed
BFGS
Theory Optimizers

Alexandre Sauquet

October 2, 2025

WALC 3132

completed
Large Language Diffusion Models
Theory CV

Oskar Jonientz

September 22, 2025

WALC 3132

completed
Byte Latent Transformers
NLP

Arnav Grover

September 9, 2025

WALC 3132

completed
3D Gaussian Splitting
Rendering

Alexandre Sauquet

April 24, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
Recurrent Depth LLMs
Theory Intrepretability

Alexandre Sauquet

April 17, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
Optimal Transport [2/2]
Theory Generative Models

Jinen Setpal

April 10, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
Optimal Transport [1/2]
Theory Generative Models

Jinen Setpal

April 3, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
Cube: A Roblox View of 3D Intelligence
Applied AI 3D Generative Models

Nicholas Wade

March 27, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
Robot Foundation Models (RT1, RT2, OpenVLA)
Robotics

Alexiy Buynitsky

March 6, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
Neural Tangent Kernel
Theory

Jinen Setpal

February 27, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
ZeRO: Memory Optimizations Toward Training Trillion Parameter Models
Applied AI Engineering

Saad Sharief

February 20, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
Titans
NLP Theory

Alexandre Sauquet

February 13, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
Sparse AutoEncoders
NLP Interpretability

Jinen Setpal

February 6, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
NVIDIA Cosmos
Robotics Applied AI Generative Models

Alexiy Buynitsky

January 30, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
SoTA Approaches to Reasoning in LLMs — DeepSeek R1
Reinforcement Learning Applied AI Generative Models

Jinen Setpal

January 23, 2025

LWSN B151

completed
RoPE
Theory Generative Models

Alexiy Buynitsky

November 21, 2024

WALC 2088

completed
Lumos : Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Scene Text Recognition
Applied AI Vision NLP Generative Models

Adrien Qi

November 14, 2024

WALC 2088

completed
An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks
Safety

Nathan Reed

November 7, 2024

WALC 2088

completed
Diffusion Policy for MPC
Applied AI Robotics Generative Models

Alexiy Buynitsky

October 24, 2024

WALC 2088

completed
AGOP for Deep Neural Collapse
Interpretability Theory

Jinen Setpal

October 10, 2024

WALC 2088

completed
Deep Neural Collapse
Interpretability Theory

Jinen Setpal

October 3, 2024

WALC 2088

completed
Graph Neural Network Explainer
Graph Learning

Aaron

September 26, 2024

WALC 2088

completed
Group Transformation Invariance
Robustness Theory OOD Generalization

Jinen Setpal

September 19, 2024

WALC 2088

completed
Physics Informed Machine Learning
Robustness Theory

Rohan Dekate

September 11, 2024

WALC 2088

completed
Intro to Reinforcement Learning
Robotics Reinforcement Learning

Alexiy Buynitsky

September 3, 2024

LWSN B155

completed
Transformers (Rerun)
Theory NLP

Jinen Setpal

August 29, 2024

LWSN B134

completed
GNN, Graphformer, Body Transformer
Graph Learning

Alexiy Buynitsky

April 18, 2024

completed
Omnipredictors
Theory Robustness

Jinen Setpal

March 28, 2024

completed
DPO
Theory NLP Generative Models

Jinen Setpal

March 21, 2024

completed
LoRA
Theory NLP

Ref

March 7, 2024

completed
DDPM & DDIM
Theory Vision Generative Models

Jeremy Lu

February 29, 2024

completed
Version-Space Algebra Program Synthesis
Theory PL

Mikail K

February 22, 2024

completed
A Software-defined Tensor Streaming Multiprocessor for Large-scale Machine Learning
Hardware

Saad Sharief

February 15, 2024

completed
AI Inference in Production
Deployment Applied AI

Saad Sharief

February 8, 2024

completed
Monosemanticity
Interpretability

Jinen Setpal

February 1, 2024

completed
Transformer Circuits
Interpretability Theory

Jinen Setpal

January 25, 2024

completed
Transformers
Theory NLP

Alexiy Buynitsky