Presentations

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Distributed Training via Local Updates and Infrequent Communication

Protocol Learning Workshop, ICLR 2026

Talk on communication-efficient training approaches for foundation models using federated learning. Watch talk →

Communication-efficient training for foundation models through federated learning

Cohere Labs Open Science Community

Covers the historical context of why federated learning methods can be effective for large-scale foundation model training — introducing the promise of federated learning from seminal works to state-of-the-art systems competitive with centralised training. Watch talk →

Rumour detection in the wild: a browser extension for twitter

NLP-OSS Workshop, EMNLP 2023

A lightning talk on a browser extension for real-time rumour detection on Twitter. Watch talk →

Why greatness cannot be planned

UCT AI Society

Guest seminar on the limitations of planning in complex systems.