Events

Jaemin Cho (UNC Chapel Hill) – “Faithful Reasoning and Fine-grained Evaluation for Multimodal Generation”

February 27, 2025
When: March 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N CHARLES ST

Abstract The paradigm of training large-scale foundation models has driven significant advancements in multimodal AI. However, pursuing further performance gains solely through model scaling is becoming impractical due to rising computational costs and resource limitations.[…]

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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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