Mathematics for and by Large Language Models – 2026 Edition

On May 28, IHES will host a one-day conference on mathematics and large language models, entitled “Mathematics for and by Large Language Models (LLM)”.

Organized by Michael Douglas, Harvard University & IHES, Amaury Hayat, CERMICS, Julio Parra-Martinez, IHES et Yiannis Vlassopoulos, Athena Research Center & IHES, the goal of this conference is to advance the dialogue and interactions between the LLM community and the larger world of mathematics.

Invited speakers will deepen the mathematical understanding of LLMs and contribute to solving some of the outstanding problems in the new field of LLMs. In particular, they intend to investigate mathematical structures that can be used to understand LLMs in terms of what they implicitly learn and how.

At the same time, in the opposite direction, the use of LLMs in order to do mathematics will be investigated.

Invited speakers:

• Quentin Berthet, Google DeepMind
• Edward Lockhart, Google DeepMind
• Gabriel Peyré, CNRS, DMA, École Normale Supérieure
• Yiannis Vlassopoulos, Athena Research Center & IHES

Registration on the conference webpage until May 20, 2026.