learning with yacine

How VPO Trains LLMs to Excel at Test-Time Search with Ryan Bahlous-Boldi from MIT

amazing session at the heart of search and discovery for LLMs

Oct 15 • Yacine Mahdid

2:04:43

What Continual Learning Actually Means feat. Ilija Lichkovski from Prime Intellect

tune in for a wonderful talk about continual learning filled with distilled paper insight and straight enthusiasm

Oct 12 • Yacine Mahdid

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1:35:44

RLMs are Compositional Generalizers with Alex Zhang from MIT

amazing discussion with the one and only Alex L. Zhang from MIT CSAIL

Oct 9 • Yacine Mahdid

1

1:35:20

Inside a Frontier Open Model: Nemotron 3 Ultra Explained ft. NVIDIA's Chris Alexiuk

today we are taking a deeper look at how you actually build a frontier open AI model with Chris Alexiuk, senior product research engineer at NVIDIA

Oct 5 • Yacine Mahdid

3

1:31:53

September 2026

How to Generate Synthetic Pretraining Data? with Joël Niklaus from Hugginface

amazing interview with a generous research from hugginface

Sep 9 • Yacine Mahdid

2

1:30:40

August 2026

Pretrained LLMs Are Surrounded by Task Experts feat Yulu Gan from MIT

discussion with the great Yulu Gan about the shape of pre-training weights distribution

Aug 12 • Yacine Mahdid

5

1:12:18

July 2026

How to Measure Frontier LLM? with Florian Brand from Prime Intellect

all around great presentation by florian of the subject and very pragmatic

Jul 29 • Yacine Mahdid

4

1:54:36

How to Learn in the AI Age? with Ludwig & Lazarz

this interview was 50% optimism and 50% nihilism absolutely fantastic pragmatic balance from those lads.

Jul 21 • Yacine Mahdid

5

1

2:07:21

How to Learn AI in 2026? (from a Stanford AI Researcher)

we've interviewed mandy lu a stanford AI researcher who've worked in every corner of the industry (google, apple, nvidia, academic research etc.).

Jul 13 • Yacine Mahdid

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2

May 2026

Why DAGs Are Taking Over Auto-Research (w/ the Founders of Paradigma)

DAG + auto-research just work

May 25 • Yacine Mahdid

8

1

1:37:23

April 2026

Why Self-Distillation Is Taking Over LLM Post-Training (w/ the Researchers Behind It)

very pumped for this one shout out to Jonas Hübotter (ETH Zurich) and Idan Shenfeld (MIT) for blessing us with their knowledge

Apr 28 • Yacine Mahdid

7

1:31:19

The Science of Learning Math (and Anything Else) with Justin Skycak

you gonna have to take a whole day off for this one guys it's 3h wide with knowledge

Apr 15 • Yacine Mahdid

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