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SUMMARY:CS Student Seminar: Softmax1 Is All You Need (Robin Luo)
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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday / Student Seminar April 1 / 12:00 PM Mudd 3514  Speaker: Robin Luo  Title: Softmax1 Is All You Need  Abstract: Foundation models have achieved strong performance across a wide range of domains\, but their growing scale also raises important challenges in efficiency\, robustness\, and safety. In this talk\, I will present recent work centered on Softmax1\, a simple yet effective modification that improves foundation models by enabling more efficient reasoning\, reducing outlier behavior\, and enhancing robustness under quantization and safety alignment settings. I will discuss both the core intuition behind this approach and its broader implications for building trustworthy and efficient foundation models.  Bio: Robin (Haozheng) Luo is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Northwestern University and a DAAD AINeT Research Fellow and Adobe Research Fellow. His research focuses on trustworthy and efficient foundation models\, including reasoning efficiency\, quantization-robust architectures\, and safety alignment\, with publications at top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS\, ICML\, ICLR\, and USENIX Security.
LOCATION:Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)\, 3514\, 2233 Tech Drive\, Evanston\, IL 60208
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