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“Announcement: Learning Theory Online Course” by Yegreg, Alex Flint


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Hey everyone! Gergely and Kōshin here from ALTER and Monastic Academy, respectively. We are excited to announce a 6-week, 4-hours-per-week mathematics course designed to introduce a few early topics in what we are calling mathematical AI alignment (roughly, classical learning theory up to embedded agency and infra-Bayesianism, though this course will cover just an initial portion of this) aimed at folks with the math proficiency level of a university math major (formal university degree not required). What this means is that if you have some mathematical dexterity, and wish that you could answer difficult questions on MDPs, POMDPs, learnability, sample complexity, bandits, VC dimension, and PAC learning, then this course may be for you.

Lectures will be given over video call by Gergely, who has a math PhD from Stanford and has been working with Vanessa Kosoy over the past two years on the Learning Theoretic Agenda. Kōshin [...]

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Outline:

(02:15) Pitch for the course

(03:15) Entry criteria

(04:59) Topics

(05:18) Dates

(05:35) Video call

(05:51) Cost

(06:21) Next steps

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First published:

January 20th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sPAA9X6basAXsWhau/announcement-learning-theory-online-course

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