Keynote: Beyond Brute Force: The Era of Adaptive Intelligence.

PyTorch Conference North America 2026

Oct 20, 2026 · 09:40–09:48 · Timezone not confirmed

The next generation of truly intelligent systems won't be defined by scale. The next unlock is architectural: systems that keep learning after deployment, closing the gap between a model's frozen training distribution and the evolving world it operates in. In this talk, Sara Hooker, Co-founder of Adaption, discusses moving past static AI toward systems that are malleable by design. She'll dig into the technical foundations of continual, gradient-free learning: how models can update behavior without full retraining, without catastrophic forgetting, and without the compute cost of repeated fine-tuning cycles. Built so that AI adapts to people rather than the reverse.

Session status: scheduled

Room: Grand Ballroom

Track: Keynote Session

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