KDD 2024 - Keynote: From Word Prediction to Complex Skills: Compositional Thinking and Metacognit...

Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Title: From Word Prediction to Complex Skills: Compositional Thinking and Metacognition in LLMs
Bio: Sanjeev Arora is the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, as well as the founding Director of Princeton Language and Intelligence. He works on developing mathematical and conceptual understanding of today’s AI models, as well as better ways to design them. He has received the Packard Fellowship (1997), Simons Investigator Award (2012), Gödel Prize (2001 and 2010), ACM Prize in Computing (formerly the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences) (2011), and the Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Math (2012). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the National Academy of Science.