The Information Bottleneck
Episodes
Why Healthcare Is AI's Hardest and Most Important Problem with Kyunghyun Cho (NYU)
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Kyunghyun Cho, who is a Professor of Health Statistics and a Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University, and a...
Diffusion LLM & Why the Future of AI Won't Be Autoregressive with Stefano Ermon (Stanford Inception)
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Stefano Ermon, Stanford professor, co-founder & CEO of Inception AI, and co-inventor of DDIM, FlashAttention, DPO,...
Training Is Nothing Like Learning with Naomi Saphra (Harvard)
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Naomi Saphra, Kempner Research Fellow at Harvard and incoming Assistant Professor at Boston University, joins us to explain why you can't do interpret...
EP28: How to Control a Stochastic Agent with Stefano Soatto (VP AWS/ Pro. UCLA)
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Stefano Soatto, VP for AI at AWS and Professor at UCLA, joins us to explore how the agentic era fundamentally redefines machine learning, from static ...
EP27: Medical Foundation Models - with Tanishq Abraham (Sophont.AI)
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tanishq Abraham, CEO and co-founder of Sophont.ai, joins us to talk about building foundation models specifically for medicine.Sophont is trying to be...
EP26: Measuring Intelligence in the Wild - Arena and the Future of AI Evaluation
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Anastasios Angelopoulos, Co-Founder and CEO of Arena AI (formerly LMArena), joins us to talk about why static benchmarks are failing, how human prefer...
EP25: Personalization, Data, and the Chaos of Fine-Tuning with Fred Sala (UW-Madison / Snorkel AI)
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fred Sala, Assistant Professor at UW-Madison and Chief Scientist at Snorkel AI, joins us to talk about why personalization might be the next frontier ...
EP24: Can AI Learn to Think About Money?" - with Bayan Bruss (Capital One)
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bayan Bruss, VP of Applied AI at Capital One, joins us to talk about building AI systems that can make autonomous financial decisions, and why money m...
EP23: Building Open Source AI Frameworks: David Mezzetti on TextAI and Local-First AI
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Mezzetti, creator of TextAI, joins us to talk about building open source AI frameworks as a solo developer - and why local-first AI still matter...
EP22: Data Curation for LLMs with Cody Blakeney (Datology AI)
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cody Blakeney from Datology AI joins us to talk about data curation - the unglamorous but critical work of figuring out what to actually train models ...
EP21: Privacy in the Age of Agents with Niloofar Mireshghallah
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Niloofar Mireshghallah (Incoming Assistant Professor at CMU, Member of Technical Staff at Humans and AI)In this episode, we dive into AI privac...
EP20: Yann LeCun
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yann LeCun – Why LLMs Will Never Get Us to AGI"The path to superintelligence - just train up the LLMs, train on more synthetic data, hire thousands ...
EP19: Al in Finance and Symbolic Al with Atlas Wang
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Atlas Wang (UT Austin faculty, XTX Research Director) joins us to explore two fascinating frontiers: the foundations of symbolic AI and the practical ...
EP18: AI Robotics
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hosted Judah Goldfeder, a PhD candidate at Columbia University and student researcher at Google, to discuss robotics, reproducibil...
EP17: RL with Will Brown
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Will Brown, a research lead at Prime Intellect, about his journey into reinforcement learning (RL) and multi-agent ...
EP16: AI News and Papers
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss various topics in AI, including the challenges of the conference review process, the capabilities of Kimi K2 thinking, the...
EP15: The Information Bottleneck and Scaling Laws with Alex Alemi
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Alex Alemi, an AI researcher at Anthropic (previously at Google Brain and Disney), to explore the powerful framework...
EP14: AI News and Papers
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talked about AI news and recent papers. We explored the complexities of using AI models in healthcare (the Nature Medicine paper o...
EP13: Recurrent-Depth Models and Latent Reasoning with Jonas Geiping
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we host Jonas Geiping from ELLIS Institute & Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen AI Center, Germany. We talke...
EP12: Adversarial attacks and compression with Jack Morris
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Information Bottleneck Podcast, we host Jack Morris, a PhD student at Cornell, to discuss adversarial examples (Jack created&nb...
EP11: JEPA with Randall Balestriero
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with Randall Balestriero, an assistant professor at Brown University. We discuss the potential and challenges of Joint Embeddi...
EP10: Geometric Deep Learning with Michael Bronstein
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talked with Michael Bronstein, a professor of AI at the University of Oxford and a scientific director at AITHYRA, about the fasci...
EP9: AI in Natural Sciences with Tal Kachman
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we host Tal Kachman, an assistant professor at Radboud University, to explore the fascinating intersection of artificial intelligence ...
EP8: RL with Ahmad Beirami
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talked with Ahmad Beirami, an ex-researcher at Google, to discuss various topics. We explored the complexities of reinforcement le...
EP7: AI and Neuroscience with Aran Nayebi
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the "Information Bottleneck" podcast, we hosted Aran Nayeb, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss the in...
EP6: Urban Design Meets AI: With Ariel Noyman
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We talked with Ariel Noyman, an urban scientist, working in the intersection of cities and technology. Ariel is a research scientist at the MIT Media ...
EP5: Speculative Decoding with Nadav Timor
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We discussed the inference optimization technique known as Speculative Decoding with a world class researcher, expert, and ex-coworker of the podcast ...
EP4: AI Coding
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ravid and Allen discuss the evolving landscape of AI coding. They explore the rise of AI-assisted development tools, the challenges f...
EP3: GPU Cloud
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Allen and Ravid discuss the dynamics associated with the extreme need for GPUs that AI researchers utilize. They also discuss the latest advancements ...
EP2: PeFT
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Allen and Ravid sit down and talk about Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning (PeFT) along with the latest updated in AI/ML news.
EP1: Sampling
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Allen and Ravid discuss a topic near and dear to their hearts, LLM Sampling!In this episode of the Information Bottleneck Podcast, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv a...