Columbia University · School of Engineering and Applied Science

The hub for core AI research at Columbia

CAIL brings together faculty and students across the engineering school working on machine learning, vision, language, robotics, and the foundations of AI.

Coming up · Tue, Oct 20 · 5:30 PM

AI in the Ballot Box (2026 Edition)

ML Seminar · Mon, Oct 26 · 10:00 AM

Less is More: Bypassing Some Empirical Overhead in Language Modeling Hanlin Zhang, Harvard

ML Seminar · Fri, Nov 20 · 8:30 AM

Columbia Workshop on Continual Learning
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64 Faculty
207 Students & postdocs
20 Departments

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01Agents 02Bioinformatics 03Causality 04Deep Learning 05Explainable AI 06Graphics 07ML Theory 08Natural Language 09Optimization 10Probabilistic ML 11Reinforcement Learning 12Robotics 13Statistical ML 14Vision
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Oct 26 Mon
ML Seminar

Hanlin Zhang · Harvard

Less is More: Bypassing Some Empirical Overhead in Language Modeling

Monday, October 26, 2026 10:00 AM

Mudd 417 conference room

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The Core AI Lab advances the foundations of artificial intelligence and puts them to work in science and society.