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October 09, 2026
•Jesse LandryJesse Landry

NVIDIA and Red Hat Bring Two AI Papers Into a Room Built for Argument

A research paper becomes more useful when the room is willing to interrupt the clean arc of the result. Assumptions surface. Deployment conditions appear. Somebody asks whether the technique survives the system it was supposed to improve.

The AI Paper Reading Club will take two recent papers into a ninety-minute Friday discussion in San Francisco's Civic Center. Each receives fifteen minutes from the presenter before the room takes over. Roy Nissim will lead the conversation around attention-FFN disaggregation for mixture-of-experts serving, with Shraddha Sridhar of NVIDIA moderating. The second paper, Finetuning with Sampling: SFT Learns Better Than You Think, examines how sampling changes what supervised fine-tuning can learn.

The event title names NVIDIA and Red Hat, while Leverage is the host listed by the official Tech Week calendar. No larger conference program is promised. The value is the compression between research claim, systems reality, and the people in the room who know which implementation detail can change the conclusion.

Fifteen minutes is enough to introduce the paper. The rest of the session belongs to the questions that determine whether the result remains interesting after somebody tries to build around it.

Event details

  • Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
  • Time: 10:30-12:00 PT
  • Location: Civic Center, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  • Format: Experiential, Panel / Fireside Chat
  • Host: Leverage
  • Registration: Official SF Tech Week event page

Registration status, capacity, meeting details, and program information can change. Use the official event page for the latest organizer updates.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is hosting the AI Paper Reading Club?

Leverage is the listed calendar host, and the event title names NVIDIA and Red Hat.

Who is leading the first discussion?

Roy Nissim is listed as discussion lead, with Shraddha Sridhar of NVIDIA moderating.

How is the session structured?

Each of two papers receives a fifteen-minute presentation before the room continues the discussion.

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