ECE Seminar: ML Engineering in the Giant Model Age

Departments: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Time: Monday, October 7, 2024 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Type: Seminar Series
Presenter: Cliff Young, Google DeepMind
Room/Office: ML RM 107 or Zoom
Location:

Abstract:

Machine Learning has reached mainstream news and family dinner-table conversations--the possibility and potential of Artificial General Intelligence seems near.

Google was one of the first companies to build its own chips and systems to accelerate machine learning.

In this talk I'll describe our Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), some of the issues in constructing them efficiently, the primitives out of which models are built, and I'll reflect a little on how this current scientific revolution is going.

 

Bio:

Cliff Young is a Software Engineer in Google DeepMind, where he works on codesign for deep learning accelerators. He is one of the designers of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and one of the founders of the MLPerf benchmark. Previously, Cliff built special-purpose supercomputers for molecular dynamics at D. E. Shaw Research and was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs. Cliff holds AB, MS, and PhD degrees in computer science from Harvard University. Cliff is a member of ACM and IEEE.