The Thesis Review

By Sean Welleck

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Episodes: 49

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Each episode of The Thesis Review is a conversation centered around a researcher's PhD thesis, giving insight into their history, revisiting older ideas, and providing a valuable perspective on how their research has evolved (or stayed the same) since.

Episode Date
[48] Tianqi Chen - Scalable and Intelligent Learning Systems
Oct 28, 2024
[47] Niloofar Mireshghallah - Auditing and Mitigating Safety Risks in Large Language Models
Oct 15, 2024
[46] Yulia Tsvetkov - Linguistic Knowledge in Data-Driven NLP
Aug 12, 2023
[45] Luke Zettlemoyer - Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form
Jul 25, 2023
[44] Hady Elsahar - NLG from Structured Knowledge Bases (& Controlling LMs)
Aug 23, 2022
[43] Swarat Chaudhuri - Logics and Algorithms for Software Model Checking
Jun 28, 2022
[42] Charles Sutton - Efficient Training Methods for Conditional Random Fields
Apr 19, 2022
[41] Talia Ringer - Proof Repair
Mar 30, 2022
[40] Lisa Lee - Learning Embodied Agents with Scalably-Supervised RL
Mar 09, 2022
[39] Burr Settles - Curious Machines: Active Learning with Structured Instances
Feb 02, 2022
[38] Andrew Lampinen - A Computational Framework for Learning and Transforming Task Representations
Jan 08, 2022
[37] Joonkoo Park - Neural Substrates of Visual Word and Number Processing
Dec 21, 2021
[36] Dieuwke Hupkes - Hierarchy and Interpretability in Neural Models of Language Processing
Nov 30, 2021
[35] Armando Solar-Lezama - Program Synthesis by Sketching
Nov 06, 2021
[34] Sasha Rush - Lagrangian Relaxation for Natural Language Decoding
Oct 20, 2021
[33] Michael R. Douglas - G/H Conformal Field Theory
Oct 01, 2021
[32] Andre Martins - The Geometry of Constrained Structured Prediction
Sep 16, 2021
[31] Jay McClelland - Preliminary Letter Identification in the Perception of Words and Nonwords
Aug 29, 2021
[30] Dustin Tran - Probabilistic Programming for Deep Learning
Aug 14, 2021
[29] Tengyu Ma - Non-convex Optimization for Machine Learning
Aug 01, 2021
[28] Karen Ullrich - A Coding Perspective on Deep Latent Variable Models
Jul 16, 2021
[27] Danqi Chen - Neural Reading Comprehension and Beyond
Jul 02, 2021
[26] Kevin Ellis - Algorithms for Learning to Induce Programs
May 29, 2021
[25] Tomas Mikolov - Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks
May 14, 2021
[24] Martin Arjovsky - Out of Distribution Generalization in Machine Learning
Apr 30, 2021
[23] Simon Du - Gradient Descent for Non-convex Problems in Modern Machine Learning
Apr 16, 2021
[22] Graham Neubig - Unsupervised Learning of Lexical Information
Apr 02, 2021
[21] Michela Paganini - Machine Learning Solutions for High Energy Physics
Mar 19, 2021
[20] Josef Urban - Deductive and Inductive Reasoning in Large Libraries of Formalized Mathematics
Mar 05, 2021
[19] Dumitru Erhan - Understanding Deep Architectures and the Effect of Unsupervised Pretraining
Feb 19, 2021
[18] Eero Simoncelli - Distributed Representation and Analysis of Visual Motion
Feb 05, 2021
[17] Paul Middlebrooks - Neuronal Correlates of Meta-Cognition in Primate Frontal Cortex
Jan 22, 2021
[16] Aaron Courville - A Latent Cause Theory of Classical Conditioning
Jan 08, 2021
[15] Christian Szegedy - Some Applications of the Weighted Combinatorial Laplacian
Dec 22, 2020
[14] Been Kim - Interactive and Interpretable Machine Learning Models
Dec 10, 2020
[13] Adji Bousso Dieng - Deep Probabilistic Graphical Modeling
Nov 26, 2020
[12] Martha White - Regularized Factor Models
Nov 12, 2020
[11] Jacob Andreas - Learning from Language
Oct 29, 2020
[10] Chelsea Finn - Learning to Learn with Gradients
Oct 15, 2020
[09] Kenneth Stanley - Efficient Evolution of Neural Networks through Complexification
Oct 01, 2020
[08] He He - Sequential Decisions and Predictions in NLP
Sep 25, 2020
[07] John Schulman - Optimizing Expectations: From Deep RL to Stochastic Computation Graphs
Sep 11, 2020
[06] Yoon Kim - Deep Latent Variable Models of Natural Language
Aug 28, 2020
[05] Julian Togelius - Computational Intelligence and Games
Aug 14, 2020
[04] Sebastian Nowozin - Learning with Structured Data: Applications to Computer Vision
Jul 31, 2020
[03] Sebastian Ruder - Neural Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing
Jul 17, 2020
[02] Colin Raffel - Learning-Based Methods for Comparing Sequences
Jul 03, 2020
[01] Gus Xia - Expressive Collaborative Music Performance via Machine Learning
Jun 18, 2020
[00] The Thesis Review Podcast - Introduction
Jun 13, 2020