SLT & Alignment Summit 2023

Event Details

Location:
Virtual & Berkeley, CA
Dates:
June 19-24, 2023 (Virtual)
June 26 - July 1, 2023 (In-person)

Schedule

The summit comprises two parts: a virtual primer (available to everyone) and an in-person conference (with limited accommodation available).

All times are displayed in PDT.

The Primer

Virtual, June 19th—June 24th

Open to everyone. The aim of the Primer is to give a general introduction to Singular Learning Theory (SLT) and related areas of mathematics and physics, with the aim of providing a foundation for theoretical and experimental work on AI alignment. More concretely, we aim to explain the Free Energy Formula derived by Watanabe, what its terms mean, how to apply it to understand the phase structure of a learning machine, and how to derive intuition for the resulting picture from physics.

This will build on existing lectures at metauni as well as introduce novel content.

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00-10:30 Welcome SLT High 1 Physics 3
11:00-12:30 SLT Low 1 SLT Low 2 SLT Low 3 SLT Low 4
1:30-3:00 Physics 1 Physics 2 SLT High 2 Physics 4
3:30-5:00 Alignment 1 Alignment 2 Mech interp 1 Mech interp 2 SLT High 4
18:00-18:30 Watanabe The Plan

SLT High Road

The SLT "high road" explains the conceptual toolkit and how to use it to reason about learning machines, leaving the proofs and details for later ("just tell me why it's useful to know this").

The Conference

In Person in Berkeley, June 26th—July 1st

The second week of the workshop is for discussing open problems, collaboration, and more mathematical details beyond the introductions in the first week. Add the schedule to your Google calendar .