Welcome to a new semester and a new seminar! We’ll do quick introductions this week.
Recent Meetings
- Dec 9: Jason Wei, Emergence and reasoning in large language models
- Oct 21, Jeff Wu, Training models to critique themselves
- Oct 14, Alex Tamkin, Self-Supervised Learning for the Real World
- Sept 30, Arya McCarthy, Kilolanguage Learning, Projection, and Translation
- Fall 2022 Speaker Schedule
- April 29, Ethan Perez, Aligning Language Models with Human Preferences
- May 6, Katie Stasaski, Diversity in Dialogue Generation
- April 8, Divyansh Kaushik, Robustifying NLP with Humans in the Loop
- April 1, Gašper Beguš, Cognitive modeling, neural network interpretability, and GANs
- March 4, Nasrin Mostafazadeh, “How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?”
- Dec 14: Dora Demszky, Using Natural Language Processing to Support Equitable and Student-Centered Education
- Dec 3: Maria Antoniak, Modeling Personal Experiences Shared in Online Communities
- Aug 20: Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Novel Frameworks for Quantifying Political Polarization and Mitigating Hate Speech
- July 14: Clara Meister, Evidence for the uniform information density hypothesis in modern NLP models
- June 22: Yanai Elazar, Causal Attributions in Language Models