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Spring 2025 reading list:

• Rai et al. (2024)
• Rauker et al. (2023)
• Olah et al. (2020)
• Elhage et al. (2021)
• Cunningham et al. (2023)
• Bricken et al. (2023)
• Klindt et al. (2023)
• h/t Patrick Mineault's Substack for these last two
• Mueller et al. (2024)

Lab meeting schedule spring 2025

Date	Presenter	Authors & Paper	Blurb
1/6	Lab	Lab	Organizational
1/13	Miles	Dao and Gu (2024)	Mamba 2
1/20	Nobody	No one	MLK Jr Day
1/27	Caitlin	Olah et al. (2020)	Distill article on mech interp
2/3	TBD	TBD	TBD
2/10	TBD	TBD	TBD
2/17	TBD	TBD	TBD
2/24	TBD	TBD	TBD
3/3	TBD	TBD	TBD
3/10	Daniela	Me	Thesis Defense Prep!
3/17	TBD	TBD	TBD
3/24	TBD	TBD	TBD
3/31	TBD	TBD	TBD
4/7	TBD	TBD	TBD
4/14	TBD	TBD	TBD ( I hope you remembered to do your taxes)
4/21	TBD	TBD	TBD
4/28	TBD	TBD	TBD
5/5	TBD	TBD	TBD
5/12	TBD	TBD	TBD

Fall 2024 Reading list

• Ye & Pandarinath (2021)
• Ye et al. (2023)
• Azabou et al. (2023)
  • POYO website
• Candelori et al. (2024)
• Zhang et al. (2024)
• Sun et al. (2024)
• Wang et al. (2024)
• Patrick Mineault’s list

Lab Meeting Schedule Fall 2024

Date	Presenter	Authors	Paper & Blurb
08/26	John	Vaswani et al. 2017 and this blog post	Basic intro to transformers
09/02	Labor day	The hard working people of America
09/09	More John
09/16	Daniela	Ye & Pandarinath (2021)	Intro to Neural Data Transformers
09/23	Miles	Ye et al. (2023)	Neural Transformers 2: Electric Boogaloo
09/30	Seth	Azabou et al. (2023)	POYO
10/21	Liz	Candelori et al. (2024)
10/28	Ziyi	Zhang et al. (2024)
11/4	Shiyang	Sun et al. (2024)
11/11	David	Wang et al. (2024)	System identification of cortical visual neurons using transformers and natural movies
11/18	John	Gu et al. (2020), Gu, Goel, and Ré (2022)	State-space models for doing what transformers do
11/25	John	Gu, Goel, and Ré (2022)	S4 cont.
12/2	Seth	Smith et al. (2023)	S5 models
12/9	Miles	Gu and Dao (2023/2024)	Mamba
12/16	???	Dao and Gu (2024)	Mamba 2