MEETUP · SAN FRANCISCO
AI Journal Club ft. Google + NVIDIA
Join Workato's AI Journal Club series—we're bringing together the best AI researchers to share papers and exchange perspectives on how AI research is shaping real world systems.
- When
- Thu, Sep 17
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM PT - Where
- Dogpatch, San Francisco, CA
- Host
- Workato Community
- Entry
- Free to attend
About this event
Join Workato's AI Journal Club series—we're bringing together the best AI researchers to share papers and exchange perspectives on how AI research is shaping real world systems.
Schedule
5:30–6:00 PM: Check-in and registration 6:00–6:15 PM: Welcome to Workato 6:15–6:45 PM: Talk by Allen Chuang (Google) 6:45–7:00 PM: Q&A 7:00–7:30 PM: Talk by Ray Liu (NVIDIA) 7:30–7:45 PM: Q&A 7:45-8:30 PM: Networking
Please arrive by 6:00 PM. We politely ask that attendees arrive by this time out of respect for our speaker.
Sessions
Allen Chuang — Taming the Dynamics of LLM Reasoning: Test-Time Exploration, Data Scheduling, and On-Policy Distillation
Scaling reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) requires navigating complex optimization and search dynamics across both inference and post-training. However, modern reasoning pipelines suffer from critical inefficiencies throughout the model lifecycle: test-time decoding wastes compute on redundant search trajectories, reinforcement learning (RL) struggles with uniform data pacing, and on-policy distillation frequently undergoes catastrophic truncation collapse driven by length inflation. In this talk, I will present a unified perspective on understanding and taming reasoning dynamics. First, we examine inference-time search, demonstrating how Decoding Tree Sketching (DTS) enables structured exploration and early termination...
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