Public repo for The Alan Turing Institute's reading group on LLMs and related things.
If you're based at the Turing, follow #robots-in-disguise on the Turing Slack for the most recent updates.
To consult reading materials for previous sessions, see the archive.
The group meets every week on Thursday at 11-12. Everyone is welcome to join! If you have any questions email Fede Nanni and remember to go through our Code of Conduct before joining.
Please get in touch if you would like to give a talk (either about your research or a topic you think is relevant to the reading group).
The reading group originated from the Research Engineering Team's reading group on Transformers. Between 2023 and 2025, it was co-organised by Ryan Chan and Fede Nanni, with the help of Giulia Occhini.
| Date | Topic | Room | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/11/25 | Continual Learning via Sparse Memory Finetuning | Margaret Hamilton | Fede |
| 13/11/25 | DeepSeek OCR | David Blackwell | Fede & Rosie |
| 20/11/25 | Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks | Mary Shelley | Fede |