Past Talks Archive

A record of previous LangLunches presentations.

Date Speaker Topic
April 23, 2025 Sasha Bakalova Contextualize-then-Aggregate: Circuits for In-Context Learning in Gemma-2 2B
April 23, 2025 Zena AL Khalili Evaluating Intermediate Programs of Code-assisted LLMs for Mathematics
May 6, 2025 Sarubi Thillainathan Controllable Text Adaptation Using In-context Learning with Linguistic Features
May 6, 2025 Alex Duchnowski EHOP: A Dataset of Everday NP-Hard Optimization Problems
May 21, 2025 Damiana Porcellato A semantic map of negation in Indo-European
May 21, 2025 Aravind Krishnan Not all data are unlearned equally
June 3, 2025 Maja Stegenwallner Design of the MultiplEYE multilingual eye-tracking study on natural reading
June 3, 2025 Soyoung Oh Idiom Processing in LLMs
June 18, 2025 Arianna Bienati An 'intuitive' notion of complexity? Fluctuation complexity in the making
June 18, 2025 Xin Tong Informal title: Dot by Dot - Neuroscientific approach to studying Human Perception
July 1, 2025 Mayank Jobanaputra Understanding Logic Proofs in the Age of LLMs: A Benchmark and Analysis
July 1, 2025 Yuekun Yao language models can learn implicit multi-hop reasoning, but only if they have lots of training data
July 16, 2025 Benedict Krieger On the limits of LLM surprisal as a functional explanation of the N400 and P600
July 16, 2025 Yash Sarrof Theory of Transformers