Name: Episode 10: Open Science and LLMs
Uploaded: 2025-09-17
Duration: 1 h 11 min 38 s
Description: Can open-source large language models really outperform closed ones like Claude 3.5? In this episode of the Women in AI Research podcast, Jekaterina Novikova and Malikeh Ehghaghi engage with Valentina Pyatkin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI. We dive deep into the future of open science, LLM research, and extending model capabilities.

The Vanguard Research Lab at the University of Toronto is now live. I’m leading two of its projects — small language models for agentic systems and causal inference in unstructured text — in this joint initiative between Vanguard and UofT’s Department of Computer Science, established in 2025