Talks - Robert Frenken

Conference talks, invited lectures, and class presentations. Slide decks are built with Slidev and deployed as standalone static sites. Each entry below links to the live deck and to a landing page with context, references, and recording (where available).

Upcoming¶

No upcoming talks scheduled.

2026¶

Do I Know This Entity? Knowledge Awareness and Hallucinations in Language Models (Feb 11, 2026) Paper presentation for CSE 5469 on Ferrando et al. (ICLR 2025) — SAE steering reveals causal directions for entity recognition in language models.

Talk-entry convention

Each talk lives at talks/<slug>.md with the structure below. Slidev decks live in a single presentations/ monorepo — each deck is a subdirectory, shared styling and Vue components live in shared/ as a Slidev addon, and each deck deploys to its own sub-path on GitHub Pages under robertfrenken.github.io/presentations/<deck>/.

---
title: <Full talk title>
subtitle: <Optional subtitle>
date: YYYY-MM-DD
---

**Venue:** <Course / conference / seminar>
**Duration:** <N minutes>
**Slides:** [Live deck](https://robertfrenken.github.io/<repo-name>/<deck-slug>/) · [Source](https://github.com/RobertFrenken/<repo-name>/tree/main/<deck-slug>) · [PDF](./<slug>.pdf)
**Recording:** <YouTube / Zoom link if public>

## Abstract

<1–2 paragraphs summarizing the talk>

## Embedded Deck

<iframe src="https://robertfrenken.github.io/<repo-name>/<deck-slug>/"
        width="100%" height="500" frameborder="0"
        allowfullscreen></iframe>

## References

- <Paper or repo links cited in the talk>

Thumbnails: save a 16:9 screenshot of the title slide as talks/<slug>-thumb.png and reference it in the talk entry’s frontmatter (thumbnail: talks/<slug>-thumb.png).

Why a separate monorepo (not this repo)? Slidev’s Vite build doesn’t play well inside MyST’s build pipeline. Keeping decks in a separate repo isolates tooling and keeps the main site’s build fast. Bundling all talks into one monorepo (instead of per-talk repos) lets shared styling, layouts, and reusable Vue components (e.g. an attention visualizer that gets reused across multiple talks) live in shared/ as a Slidev addon and be pulled into every deck via addons: [../shared] in the deck’s frontmatter.

New-deck checklist: mkdir <deck-slug>/ in the presentations repo, create slides.md with addons: [../shared] + theme: academic, add build/dev/export scripts to the root package.json, register the deck in scripts/write-index.mjs, then add a talks/<slug>.md entry here pointing at the deployed URL.