23 November 2023
Hybrid Workshop
by SAIL
on Fundamental Limits of
Large Language Models
at Universität Bielefeld
From popular media to scientific discourse, examples of large language models (short: LLMs; like ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) exhibiting both impressive capabilities and stunning failure cases are abound. These inconsistent results beg the question: What are the fundamental limits of LLMs? In this workshop, we try to spotlight theoretical work from machine learning, linguistics, and cognitive science and thus wish to provide insight into the underlying principles behind the capabilities and limits of LLMs. The program will contain a series of invited talks by esteemed researchers around the world, featuring each topic.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Leonie Weissweiler,
LMU Munich
William Merrill,
New York University
Iris van Rooij
(Donders Institute / Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Iris van Rooij is a Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at Radboud University, the Netherlands and Guest Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research interests lie at the interface of psychology, philosophy and theoretical computer science, with a focus on the theoretical foundations of computational explanations of cognition.
The work she will be presenting at the workshop is joint work with Olivia Guest, Federico Adolfi, Ronald de Haan, Antonina Kolokolova, and Patricia Rich.