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Events for January 27, 2025
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EiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. StudentsMon, Jan 27, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi Ph.D. students are invited to drop by the Hub for instruction on their writing and speaking tasks! All tutoring is one-on-one and conducted by Viterbi faculty.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A
Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students
Contact: Helen Choi
Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home
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CS Colloquium: Ben Fielding (Gensyn) - The future of machine learning is decentralized
Mon, Jan 27, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ben Fielding, Gensyn
Talk Title: The future of machine learning is decentralized
Abstract: It is now likely indisputable that machine learning is the next technical evolution.As we move from a world dominated by deterministic and imperative human-machine interactions into a world of probabilities and agentic decisions, the lower layers of our collective software stack must be re-architected to more appropriately cater to these methods. Electricity and compute must scale, raw data must be translated and compressed, human knowledge must be harnessed, and decision making must become much, much faster. In this talk, I’ll describe the progression of machine learning, the problems it faces both technically and philosophically as it rapidly scales throughout the world, and the state-of-the-art solutions that make this possible.Attendees will leave with a clear view on why, how, and when humanity will transcend deterministic machine relationships and become cybernetically diverse. Keywords: AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cryptography, Compilers, Game Theory, Blockchain. This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Ben is a co-founder of Gensyn, the decentralized machine learning compute protocol. Gensyn allows developers to use any GPU, CPU, TPU, etc. in the world to train their machine learning models at any scale and for a fair market price, with the work verified automatically and trustlessly. Ben has a PhD in computer science, where his research focused on evolutionary optimization of deep neural architectures for computer vision applications. He also previously co-founded a data privacy / sovereignty startup.
Host: Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Everyone (USC) is invited
Contact: CS Faculty Affairs
