Spring Break – No CLSP Seminar
March 11, 2024
Events
Eunsol Choi (University of Texas at Austin) “Knowledge-Rich Language Systems in a Dynamic World”
March 11, 2024
When:
March 15, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21209
Abstract Natural language provides an intuitive and powerful interface to access knowledge at scale. Modern language systems draw information from two rich knowledge sources: (1) information stored in their parameters during massive pretraining and (2)[…]
Zili Huang (JHU) “Unix-Encoder: A Universal X-Channel Speech Encoder for Ad-Hoc Microphone Array Speech Processing”
March 11, 2024
When:
March 11, 2024 @ 8:05 pm – 9:05 pm
Abstract The speech field is evolving to solve more challenging scenarios, such as multi-channel recordings with multiple simultaneous talkers. Given the many types of microphone setups out there, we present the UniX-Encoder. It’s a universal[…]
Cindy Wang (Google DeepMind) “Building Data-Efficient and Reliable Applications with Large Language Models”
February 29, 2024
When:
March 8, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains. However, it is still very challenging to build highly-reliable applications with LLMs that support specialized use cases. LLMs trained on web data often[…]
Rachel Wicks (JHU) “To Sentences and Beyond: Paving the Way for Context-Aware Machine Translation”
February 26, 2024
When:
March 4, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Abstract Most machine translation systems operate on the sentence-level while humans write and translate within a given context. Operating on individual sentences forces error-prone sentence segmentation into the machine translation pipeline. This limits the upper-bound[…]
Mohit Iyyer “Improving, Evaluating and Detecting Long-Form LLM-Generated Text”
February 26, 2024
When:
March 1, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Keith Harrigian (JHU) “Fighting Bias From Bias: Robust Natural Language Processing Techniques to Promote Health Equity”
February 26, 2024
When:
February 26, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rapidly expand into existing healthcare infrastructure – e.g., clinical decision support, administrative tasks, and public health surveillance – it is perhaps more important than ever to reflect on[…]
Ioana Ciuca (Australian National University)”A Universe To Be Decided: Towards Specialized Foundation Models for Advancing Astronomy”
February 20, 2024
When:
February 23, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Abstract I discuss the application of Foundation Models in Astronomy through the collaborative efforts of the UniverseTBD consortium with a mission to democratize Science for everyone. One of our key objectives is to overcome the[…]
Steven Tan “Streaming Sequence Transduction through Dynamic Compression”
February 20, 2024
When:
February 19, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Abstract We introduce STAR (Stream Transduction with Anchor Representations), a novel Transformer-based model designed for efficient sequence-to-sequence transduction over streams. STAR dynamically segments input streams to create compressed anchor representations, achieving nearly lossless compression (12x)[…]
