Randall Balestriero: Podcast Interviews

Randall Balestriero, PhD

randallbalestr

Computer scientist

rb42.web.rice.edu

2 Interviews

Randall Balestriero's Interviews

Randall Balestriero • 23 Apr 2025 • EN

Prof. Randall Balestriero - LLMs without pretraining and SSL

Randall Balestriero joins the show to discuss some counterintuitive findings in AI. He shares research showing that huge language models, even when started from scratch (randomly initialized) without massive pre-training, can learn specific tasks like sentiment analysis surprisingly well, train stably, and avoid severe

Keith Duggar + Tim Scarfe + Yannic Kilcher & Yann LeCun + Randall Balestriero • 04 Jan 2022 • EN

061: Interpolation, Extrapolation and Linearisation (Prof. Yann LeCun, Dr. Randall Balestriero)

We are now sponsored by Weights and Biases! Please visit our sponsor link: http://wandb.me/MLST Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Yann LeCun thinks that it's specious to say neural network models are interpolating because in high dimensions, everything is extrapolation. Recently Dr. Randall Balestriero, Dr. Jerome