2024 Sky Camp

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 – Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

Sky Camp is where you can get exposure to specific Sky Computing research projects through talks and demos, as well as hands-on experience with systems and technologies for emerging applications.

Tentative Agenda

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Breakfast

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Opening Talk: Overview of Sky Camp

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM: Session 1 – SkyPilot, Chatbot Arena, & DSPy

SkyPilot

Run LLMs, AI, and Batch Jobs Anywhere SkyPilot is a framework for running LLMs, AI, and batch jobs on any …

Chatbot Arena

An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference Large Language Models (LLMs) have unlocked new capabilities and applications; however, …

DSPy

Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines Building an affordable and reliable benchmark for LLM chatbots has become a …

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Session 2 – R2E & LOTUS

R2E

Turning any GitHub Repository into a Programming Agent Environment While Large Language Models’ coding capabilities have advanced rapidly, corresponding evaluation …

LOTUS

An Engine For Querying Data with LLMs The semantic capabilities of language models (LMs) have the potential to enable rich …

2:45 PM – 3:45 PM: Session 3 – vLLM & MemGPT

vLLM

A High-Throughput and Memory-Efficient Inference and Serving Engine for LLMs High throughput serving of large language models (LLMs) requires batching …

MemGPT

Building Persistent LLM Agents with Long-Term Memory Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized AI, but are constrained by limited context …

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Session 4 – Gorilla

Gorilla

Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs Large Language Models (LLMs) have seen an impressive wave of advances recently, with …

FAQ

Is there parking?

We strongly encourage public transportation or ride-sharing. However, we can provide parking passes for the nearby garage, Upper Hearst Parking Structure. The garages tend to fill up by around 10:00 AM, so please arrive early. If you will need a parking pass, please email us.

How do I register?

Registration is by invitation only. Invites will be sent beginning in mid-September.

Prerequisites / Technical Requirements
The ideal participant would be a practitioner and/or engineer who would like to gain experience using our software, preferably with some project management background.

Laptop
“Modern” browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc.)
Experience programming in Python in notebook environment
Basic understanding of AI/ML concepts (e.g., training, validation, linear models)

Lodging

Some local hotel options are listed on our contact page.

Contact

For questions, email skycamp [at] berkeley.edu