BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//128.220.36.25//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.clsp.jhu.edu X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-20120@www.clsp.jhu.edu DTSTAMP:20240329T130344Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Seminars CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nRobotics@Google’s mission is to make robots useful in the real world through machine learning. We are excited about a new model for robotics\, designed for generalization across diverse environments an d instructions. This model is focused on scalable data-driven learning\, w hich is task-agnostic\, leverages simulation\, learns from past experience \, and can be quickly adapted to work in the real-world through limited in teractions. In this talk\, we’ll share some of our recent work in this dir ection in both manipulation and locomotion applications.\nBiography\nCarol ina Parada is a Senior Engineering Manager at Google Robotics. She leads t he robot-mobility group\, which focuses on improving robot motion planning \, navigation\, and locomotion\, using reinforcement learning. Prior to th at\, she led the camera perception team for self-driving cars at Nvidia fo r 2 years. She was also a lead with Speech @ Google for 7 years\, where sh e drove multiple research and engineering efforts that enabled Ok Google\, the Google Assistant\, and Voice-Search. Carolina grew up in Venezuela an d moved to the US to pursue a B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineeri ng at University of Washington and her Phd at Johns Hopkins University at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T131500 LOCATION:via Zoom SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Carolina Parada (Google AI) “State of Robotics @ Google” URL:https://www.clsp.jhu.edu/events/carolina-parada-google-ai/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
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\nRobotics@Google’s mission is to make robots useful i n the real world through machine learning. We are excited about a new mode l for robotics\, designed for generalization across diverse environments a nd instructions. This model is focused on scalable data-driven learning\, which is task-agnostic\, leverages simulation\, learns from past experienc e\, and can be quickly adapted to work in the real-world through limited i nteractions. In this talk\, we’ll share some of our recent work in this di rection in both manipulation and locomotion applications.
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\nCarolina Parad a is a Senior Engineering Manager at Google Robotics. She leads the robot-mobility group\, which focuses on improving robot motion planning\, navigation\, and locomotion\, using reinforcement learning. Prior to that \, she led the camera perception team for self-driving cars at Nvidia for 2 years. She was also a lead with Speech @ Google for 7 years\, where she drove multiple research and engineering efforts that enabled Ok Google\, t he Google Assistant\, and Voice-Search. Carolina< /span> grew up in Venezuela and moved to the US to pursue a B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Washington and her Phd a t Johns Hopkins University at the Center for Language and Speech Processin g (CLSP).
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:2021\,April\,Parada END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-22394@www.clsp.jhu.edu DTSTAMP:20240329T130344Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Seminars CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nModel robustness and spurious correlations have rec eived increasing attention in the NLP community\, both in methods and eval uation. The term “spurious correlation” is overloaded though and can refer to any undesirable shortcuts learned by the model\, as judged by domain e xperts.\n\n\nWhen designing mitigation algorithms\, we often (implicitly) assume that a spurious feature is irrelevant for prediction. However\, man y features in NLP (e.g. word overlap and negation) are not spurious in the sense that the background is spurious for classifying objects in an image . In contrast\, they carry important information that’s needed to make pre dictions by humans. In this talk\, we argue that it is more productive to characterize features in terms of their necessity and sufficiency for pred iction. We then discuss the implications of this categorization in represe ntation\, learning\, and evaluation.\nBiography\nHe He is an Assistant Pro fessor in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Data Scien ce at New York University. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland\, College Park. Before joining NYU\, she spent a y ear at AWS AI and was a post-doc at Stanford University before that. She i s interested in building robust and trustworthy NLP systems in human-cente red settings. Her recent research focus includes robust language understan ding\, collaborative text generation\, and understanding capabilities and issues of large language models. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T131500 LOCATION:Hackerman Hall B17 @ 3400 N. Charles Street\, Baltimore\, MD 21218 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:He He (New York University) “What We Talk about When We Talk about Spurious Correlations in NLP” URL:https://www.clsp.jhu.edu/events/he-he-new-york-university/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nAbstr act
\nModel robustness and spuri ous correlations have received increasing attention in the NLP community\, both in methods and evaluation. The term “spurious correlation” is overlo aded though and can refer to any undesirable shortcuts learned by the mode l\, as judged by domain experts.
\nWhen designing mitigation algorithms\, we often (implicitly) assume that a spurious feature is irrelevant for prediction. However\, many features in NLP (e.g. word overlap and negation) are not spurious in the sense that the background is spurious for classifying objects in an image. In contra st\, they carry important information that’s needed to make predictions by humans. In this talk\, we argue that it is more productive to characteriz e features in terms of their necessity and sufficiency for prediction. We then discuss the implications of this categorization in representation\, l earning\, and evaluation.
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\nHe He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the C enter for Data Science at New York University. She obtained her PhD in Com puter Science at the University of Maryland\, College Park. Before joining NYU\, she spent a year at AWS AI and was a post-doc at Stanford Universit y before that. She is interested in building robust and trustworthy NLP sy stems in human-centered settings. Her recent research focus includes robus t language understanding\, collaborative text generation\, and understandi ng capabilities and issues of large language models.
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