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Charles Yang

University of Pennsylvania
Participates in 3 items

Charles Yang is Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science and director of the cognitive science program at University of Pennsylvania. His research concerns language and cognitive development from a computational perspective. The Price of Linguistic Productivity (2016) won the Leonard Bloomfield Award from the LSA.
 

Talk

Learning, Satisficing, and Decision Making | June 5

Sessions in which Charles Yang participates

Wednesday 5 June, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT | 8 hours
9:00 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes
Large Language Models & Learning

In machine learning, the learner is assumed to be rational, seeking the highest probability, lowest cost, account of the data. This may not be achievable without a tremendous amount of data. Meanwhile, the problem of overfitting remains a formidable challenge: the best hypothesis from one set of data may not generalize well to another. Herbert Simon observed that human learning and decision-making often do not strive for optimal solutions but merely solutions that are good enough ("satisficin...

3:30 PM
3:30 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes
Large Language Models & UnderstandingLarge Language Models & Learning