Dr Yiwei Easton
Yiwei teaches language-model training at the intersection of machine learning, empirical evaluation, and resource-aware systems.
- Role
- Course Convenor and Lecturer
- Affiliation
- Slop University School of Invented Disciplines
- llm-training@slopu.edu.au
- Contact
- General questions through the course forum or llm-training@slopu.edu.au; personal or confidential matters to yiwei.easton@slopu.edu.au.
Yiwei teaches language-model training at the intersection of machine learning, empirical evaluation, and resource-aware systems. Their interests include how architecture, data quality, optimisation, post-training, and evaluation interact when the apparent best method cannot simply be scaled without limit.
- Responsibilities: lectures, assessment design, Project 3 alternative-task approvals, policy interpretation, and the weekly Frontier Note where relevant.
- General contact:
llm-training@slopu.edu.auor the course forum. - Personal/confidential contact:
yiwei.easton@slopu.edu.au. - Consultation: Tuesdays, 14:00–15:00 AET, Room 4.21, Model Systems Building, with simultaneous Zoom access from the course site. No booking is required. Email for a private appointment outside this hour.