MEETUP · SAN FRANCISCO
Bay Area Frontier Research Club #24 | The Inference Stack (dinner + paper discussion @ SignalFire)
The Inference Stack: Steering Models and Scaling Compute The Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous, technical discussion at the frontier of AI.
- When
- Wed, Sep 23
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM PT - Where
- South Beach, San Francisco, CA
- Host
- The Frontier Syndicate
- Entry
- Free to attend
About this event
The Inference Stack: Steering Models and Scaling Compute
The Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous, technical discussion at the frontier of AI. This session focuses on AI infrastructure and inference — the systems, methods, and hardware that determine how frontier models are trained, served, and steered. We convene researchers from the frontier labs, Stanford, Berkeley, and the teams building in production to examine concrete work — papers, methods, and results — with a bias toward assumptions, evaluation methodology, failure modes, and what would count as convincing evidence.
Each session features 2 talks selected for rigor and discussion value. Presentations are intentionally brief so the majority of time is reserved for questions and critique. Papers and supporting materials are shared in advance to ensure a high-baseline conversation.
Agenda
5:30pm: Doors open 5:30pm – 6:30pm: Networking + light dinner 6:30pm – 8:00pm: Research presentations + discussion 8:00pm – 8:30pm: Networking
Presenters & topics
Talk 1: Inference-Time Steering in Diffusion Models
Steering what a model generates at sampling time, without touching the weights — and why that changes what's possible in control, safety, and reliability.
Anubhav Jain is an Applied Researcher at Apple and a 2025 NYU PhD (advised by Nasir Memon and Julian Togelius), previously at Amazon and Sony AI....
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