<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b style="">This talk has been cancelled!</b></font></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b style=""><br></b></font></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">    Wednesday, April 2nd at <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11:30AM CT</b><b> </b></font></font></strike></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif" style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><strike><br></strike></span></b></font></font></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><b>Where:       </b>Talk will be given <font style="font-weight:bold">live, in-person</font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</strike></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike>                       TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</strike></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><strike>                       5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></strike></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><br></strike></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">  via Panopto </span>(<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7191df18-f3a7-47d0-b403-b29e0106fa67" target="_blank">livestream</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">)</span><br></strike></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><br></strike></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>         </font></font>Sadhika Malladi, Princeton</strike></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></p><div><p style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><b>Title:</b>          </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal"> Deep Learning Theory in the Age of Generative AI</span></strike></font></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><b>Abstract:  </b>Modern deep learning has achieved remarkable results, but the design of training methodologies largely relies on guess-and-check approaches. Thorough empirical studies of recent massive language models (LMs) is prohibitively expensive, underscoring the need for theoretical insights, but classical ML theory struggles to describe modern training paradigms. I present a novel approach to developing prescriptive theoretical results that can directly translate to improved training methodologies for LMs. My research has yielded actionable improvements in model training across the LM development pipeline — for example, my theory motivates the design of MeZO, a fine-tuning algorithm that reduces memory usage by up to 12x and halves the number of GPU-hours required. Throughout the talk, to underscore the prescriptiveness of my theoretical insights, I will demonstrate the success of these theory-motivated algorithms on novel empirical settings published after the theory.</strike></font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><br></strike></font><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><b>Short Bio</b>:  Sadhika Malladi is a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at Princeton University advised by Sanjeev Arora. Her research advances deep learning theory to capture modern-day training settings, yielding practical training improvements and meaningful insights into model behavior. She has co-organized multiple workshops, including Mathematical and Empirical Understanding of Foundation Models at ICLR 2024 and Mathematics for Modern Machine Learning (M3L) at NeurIPS 2024. She was named a 2025 Siebel Scholar.</strike></font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><strike><br><br><b>Host: <a href="mailto:zhiyuanli@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Zhiyuan Li</a></b></strike></font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif">--</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif"><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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