Stanford CS25: V5 I Large Language Model Reasoning, Denny Zhou of Google Deepmind

April 29, 2025 High-level overview of reasoning in large language models, focusing on motivations, core ideas, and current limitations. No prior background is required. Speaker: Denny Zhou founded the Reasoning Team at Google Brain, now part of Google DeepMind. His group is renowned for pioneering chain‑of‑thought prompting and self‑consistency, and for developing the mathematical foundations of in‑context learning and chain‑of‑thought reasoning. The team also created core techniques that power Gemini's reasoning capabilities. Denny co-founded the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) and served as General Chair for COLM 2024. More about the course can be found here: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs25/ View the entire CS25 Transformers United playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNiJRchCzutFw5ItR_Z27CM