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According to a recent survey, over two-thirds (66.9%) of developers and machine learning teams are planning production deployments of LLM apps in the next 12 months or “as fast as possible” – and 14.1% are already in production! Given the rapid rate of progress and constant drumbeat of new foundation models, orchestration frameworks and open source libraries – as well as the workaday challenges of getting an app into production – it can be difficult to find the time to digest and read the dizzying array of cutting-edge AI research papers hitting arXiv.

That task has never been more critical, however, as the time between academic discovery and industry application moves from years to weeks. How can teams discover and read AI research papers quickly without losing nuance, with an eye toward pragmatic application, while balancing real-world challenges?

In this session, Aparna Dhinakaran – who blends a background in academia with experience overseeing AI in production and troubleshooting real-world AI systems as co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Arize AI – will be joined by data scientist and machine learning engineer Amber Roberts to talk through strategies for understanding and applying the latest research, reducing mean time to application. The session will include an exercise of digesting 1-2 to be announced papers (will be a recent release!) in real-time.

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About Arize:

Arize AI is an AI observability and LLM evaluation platform. The company’s LLM observability tools – including its popular task-based LLM evaluation libraries and tools for troubleshooting LLM traces and spans, RAG, and prompt iteration – are counted on every day by top enterprises. Learn more about the company’s platform and open source libraries at Arize.com and phoenix.arize.com.

Aparna Dhinakaran Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnadhinakaran/

Aparna Dhinakaran is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Arize AI, a pioneer and early leader in AI observability and LLM evaluation. A frequent speaker at top conferences and thought leader in the space, Dhinakaran is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. Before Arize, Dhinakaran was an ML engineer and leader at Uber, Apple, and TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe). During her time at Uber, she built several core ML Infrastructure platforms, including Michelangelo. She has a bachelor’s from Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program, where she published research with Berkeley's AI Research group. She is on a leave of absence from the Computer Vision Ph.D. program at Cornell University.

Amber Roberts Machine Learning Engineer

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-roberts42/

Amber Roberts is a community-oriented Machine Learning Engineer at Arize AI, an AI observability and LLM evaluation platform. Previously, Amber was a product manager of AI at Splunk and the Head of Artificial Intelligence at Insight Data Science. A Carnegie Fellow, Amber has an MS in Astrophysics from the Universidad de Chile. When Amber isn’t expertly teaching LLM observability best practices, you can find her playing with her two puppies, Rusty and Sully, on Florida's warm beaches.

How To Read AI Research Papers Effectively