Presentations
view markdownWorking Group Session @ SOFAIR Lab Launch
I participated a working-group session at the London launch of the SOFAIR Lab, a national initiative bringing together researchers from UCL, Cambridge, Oxford, and Edinburgh to advance open and sovereign AI in the UK. I presented our research on optimisation design for distributed training.
Internal Research Talk at Pluralis Research
I presented an internal research talk on designing optimisation algorithms for distributed training. View talk →
Distributed Training via Local Updates and Infrequent Communication
Talk on communication-efficient training approaches for foundation models using federated learning. Watch talk →
Communication-efficient training for foundation models through federated learning
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
A lightning talk on a browser extension for real-time rumour detection on Twitter. Watch talk →
Why greatness cannot be planned
Guest seminar on the limitations of planning in complex systems.