NY-MLR · NEW YORK CITY
New York Machine Learning Research Group
An informal machine-learning research community in New York. Monthly colloquia, a Discord for trading ideas, and working on research together. Open to anyone with a sincere interest with the will to do Great Work.
What this is
Activities, functions and scope of the Group
- Discord
- A shared space to trade knowledge, papers, and questions. Open to every member.
- Monthly colloquia
- Researchers from local institutions and labs present their work; members meet, network, and exchange ideas. Open to attend, limited only by room capacity.
- Industry & events
- Sharing sessions with industry, hackathons, group trips to conferences, and joint workshops. On the roadmap, not yet running.
- Working groups
- Small teams that form around one research project and carry it through to a published result. This is what the group is really for. More details below.
Culture & values
Our core guiding principles
Sincere interest is enough to belong.
Anyone genuinely curious about the field and its ideas has a place here.
Collaboration comes first.
Courtesy and respect are the baseline. Treat others as you'd want to be treated.
We aim high.
Welcoming as it is, the group means to do work that matters.
The bar is there to lift, not to shut people out.
Standards exist to push everyone toward better work, not to gatekeep for its own sake.
Give back what you were given.
Help others grow, and yield when it's called for. That's what keeps a community alive.
“If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.”— Richard Hamming
Colloquia & events
Talks from researchers across the city. Past and upcoming in one view.
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Party & guild system
The heart of the group is simple, and if you've ever played an RPG you already know how it works. People post on a board. Some are looking for a party to join; others have started one and are looking for members. They find each other around a concrete research project, agree on a goal and a deadline, and get to work. A loose interest becomes a committed team with something to finish, a true seasoned Team.
Every project sets its own finish line at the start: a public preprint or shared code or whatever your team decides, by an agreed date. Membership to a party is vetted, lightly, so the people who join are serious. That’s all you need to know to start.
LOOKING FOR PARTY
- Interested in
- mechanistic interpretability, small transformers
- Bringing
- training infra, PyTorch, some evals experience
- Looking for
- a party working on interpretability or evals
- Commitment
- ~8 hrs/week
- Note
- Second-year student, one workshop paper. Want to go deeper on a real project with people who care.
PARTY FORMING — LOOKING FOR MEMBERS
- Project
- Evaluating long-context retrieval failures
- Led by
- a member with a prior accepted paper
- Seeking
- 2 members — one for data/eval harness, one for analysis and writing
- Commitment
- ~8 hrs/week · 12 weeks
- Finish line
- preprint + public repo by the deadline
- Note
- Serious, friendly, and we intend to publish.
PARTIES IN PROGRESS
Several parties run in parallel at any time, each at its own stage. A snapshot of what is active right now: