Continual Learning Is the Next Bottleneck | Rohan Anil (Core Automation )
Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning podcast with Rohan Anil
The Information Bottleneck, Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush
Thursday 1 h 11 min
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Rohan Anil of Core Automation discusses the relationship between pretraining, reinforcement learning and learning after deployment. Drawing on his optimization work at Google and Anthropic, he examines why additional post-training, distillation and longer contexts may not solve continual learning. Other topics include second-order optimizers, distributed training, low-level coding agents and the difficulty of coordinating very large GPU clusters. Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Watch the full conversation on the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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