Event Schedule

Venue

BayLearn 2025 will be hosted at Santa Clara University and co-organized in partnership with the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Key Dates

Agenda of the Symposium


Time Session Speakers



8:00am - 9:00am PDT Check-in @ Santa Clara University, CA -



9:00am - 9:10am PDT Welcome to BayLearn 2025 Jerremy Holland and Other BayLearn Organizers



9:10am - 9:30am PDT Opening remarks by hosting organizations: Santa Clara University and UCSC Julie Sullivan (President, Santa Clara University), Kendra Sharp (Dean, SCU), and Alexander Wolf (Dean, UCSC)



9:30am - 10:15 am PDT Keynote # 1 - The Surprising Victory of NLP: From History and Philosophy to Universal Transformers and Web Agents Chris Manning



10:15am - 10:30 am PDT Submitted Talk - Context, Models and Prompt Optimization for Automated Hallucination Detection in LLM Output Author(s)



10:30am - 11:00am PDT Break -



11:00am - 11:45am PDT Keynote # 2 - Nemotron: Building an Open and Accelerated Future Bryan Catanzaro



11:45 am - 12:00 noon PDT Submitted Talk - Empowering Microgrid Autonomy through Intelligent Agents Author(s)



12:00pm - 12:15pm PDT Submitted Talk - Knowing You Don’t Know: Learning When to Continue Search in Multi-round RAG through Self-Practicing Author(s)



12:15pm - 1:30pm PDT Lunch -



12:45pm - 1:30pm PDT Lab Tour -



1:30pm - 2:15pm PDT Panel Discussion: Agentic AI Niloufar Salehi (moderator)



2:15pm - 3:00pm PDT Keynote # 3 - MLX: ML on Apple Silicon Ronan Collobert



3:00pm - 3:30pm PDT Break -



3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT Invited Talk - Voice Agent in AGI Era: From Contextual Speech Synthesis to Native Audio Dialog Mingqiu Wang



4:00pm PDT - 4:15pm PDT Submitted Talk - Emerging Aspects in ResNet Quantization with Adaptive Codebook Sizes Author(s)



4:15pm PDT - 4:30pm PDT Submitted Talk - Dementor: Stealing the Soul of a Language Model Author(s)



4:35pm - 6:00 pm PDT Poster Session + Reception -