Events

Igor Molybog (University of Hawaii at Manoa) – Development and deployment of large-scale AI systems and the tasks they still struggle with

February 17, 2025
When: February 21, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N CHARLES ST

Abstract In this talk, Igor will share the latest findings from his research group on the development, evaluation, and deployment of large language models (LLMs) and their multi-modal extensions. We will outline the end-to-end pipeline,[…]

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Kenton Murray (JHU) – “Improving Preference Optimization and Pre-Training Algorithms: Insights from focusing on Multilingual NLP and Machine Translation”

February 6, 2025
When: February 10, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N CHARLES ST

Abstract Current Natural Language Processing systems rely heavily on Large Language Models (LLMs) which are trained rather naively on large amounts of text using autoregressive next token prediction. Often, they are fine-tuned to mimic human[…]

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Mental Programs in Humans and Machines

January 16, 2025
When: January 24, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Abstract How do humans efficiently learn new rules, causal laws, and mental algorithms, and how could AI systems do the same? From the perspective of human behavior, I will present results suggesting that representing knowledge[…]

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Nanyun Peng (UCLA) “Controllable and Creative Natural Language Generation”

November 25, 2024
When: December 6, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N CHARLES ST, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable results across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) applications, including text classification, summarization, machine translation, and dialogue systems. As LLMs grow increasingly[…]

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