BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos

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The Banff International Research Station (BIRS) is a joint Canada-US-Mexico initiative that seeks to bring together people from a wide range of mathematical, scientific and industry backgrounds and to create a forum for the exchange of knowledge and methods between these specialists. The BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos are primary research data in the disciplines of mathematics, statistics and theoretical computer science.

Latest Videos

Understanding the mechanisms of fast hyperparameter transfer

Wu, Denny – Feb 5, 2026
55.0 minutes

Approximation of flows near target sets and two-layers neural networks training dynamics

Gerbelot, Cedric – Feb 5, 2026
41.0 minutes

Multi-layer cross-attention is optimal for multi-modal in-context learning

Sur, Pragya – Feb 5, 2026
43.0 minutes

Two fables on anisotropic data

Loureiro, Bruno – Feb 4, 2026
48.0 minutes

Universal and non-universal behavior in Empirical Risk Minimization

Misiakiewicz, Theodor – Feb 4, 2026
45.0 minutes