Mathematics for and by Large Language Models – 2025 Edition

On May 22, IHES will host a one-day conference on mathematics and large language models, entitled “Mathematics for and by Large Language Models (LLM)”.

Organized by François Charton, Meta AI Research, Michael Douglas, Harvard University & IHES, Amaury Hayat, CERMICS and 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:

• Katie Collins, Cambridge University
• Yann Fleureau, Numina
• Frieder Simon, Oxford University
• Fabian Glöckle, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées & FAIR at Meta, Paris
• Javier Gómez-Serrano, Brown University
• Timothy Gowers, Collège de France
• Yann Olivier, FAIR at Meta, Paris

Registration on the conference webpage until May 15, 2025.