Y Combinator launches Paper Club reading group for AI researchers, releasing talks on speculative decoding and Diffusion-MPC
The inaugural presentations are now online as a 67-minute video.
#437Xiao Ma@INFOXIAO@anmol01gulati performative?
Anmol Gulati@anmol01gulatiIt's oddly funny and satisfying that YC is doing paper reading groups now, while the big labs have basically stopped.
@anmol01gulati What if anything have they been replaced with. Tell me mooore
Anmol Gulati@anmol01gulatiIt's oddly funny and satisfying that YC is doing paper reading groups now, while the big labs have basically stopped.
#1525Anmol Gulati@ANMOL01GULATIIt's oddly funny and satisfying that YC is doing paper reading groups now, while the big labs have basically stopped.
Y Combinator@ycombinatorLast week we hosted the first ever YC Paper Club in Mountain View. We brought together great AI researchers and founders to discuss both the state of the art and what it actually takes to get it into production. Thanks to the following presenters: 0:12 - Intro from YC Visiting Partner @FrancoisChauba1 3:49 - Tanishq Kumar (@tanishqkumar07) — Speculative Speculative Decoding (https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03251) 18:33 - Guangyao (Stannis) Zhou (@zhouguangyao) — Diffusion-MPC (https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05364) 30:26 - Isaac Ward — LeWorldModeling (https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19312) 43:54 - Akshay Vegesna (@akshayvegesna) — Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113) 51:24 - Konwoo Kim (@konwookim) — Pretraining Under Infinite Compute (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14786)