The Statistics and Data Science Center is an MIT-wide focal point for advancing research and education programs related to statistics and data science. The Center was created in 2015 with the goal of formalizing and consolidating efforts in statistics at MIT. The Center’s academic mission is to host and develop new academic programs, from a minor to a PhD in statistics and data science.

Oct
10

Do Large Language Models (Really) Need Statistical Foundations?

On October 10, 2025 at 11:00 am till 12:00 pm

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Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania

Oct
17

TBD

On October 17, 2025 at 11:00 am till 12:00 pm

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Navid Azizan, MIT

Oct
24

TBD

On October 24, 2025 at 11:00 am till 12:00 pm

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Stefan Wager, Stanford University

Oct
31

Attention Sinks: A ‘Catch, Tag, Release’ Mechanism for Embeddings

On October 31, 2025 at 11:00 am till 12:00 pm

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Vardan Papyan, University of Toronto

Nov
07

Back to the future – data efficient language modeling

On November 7, 2025 at 11:00 am till 12:00 pm

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Tatsunori Hashimoto, Stanford University