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Oct 6
Efficient Inference
Narges Ghasemi Ghaleh Bahmani - LLMs know their vulnerabilities: Uncover Safety Gaps through Natural Distribution Shifts
Questions by: Tianming Guo
Saeed Hedayatian - TreeRL: LLM Reinforcement Learning with On-Policy Tree Search
Questions by: Zhiyuan Gao
Oct 8
MEGA (Guest Lecture by Xuezhe Ma)
Mega Paper Megalodon
Daniel Ruiz - TokAlign: Efficient Vocabulary Adaptation via Token Alignment
Questions by: Abhinav Vadhera
Ardysatrio Haroen - Turning Trash into Treasure: Accelerating Inference of Large Language Models with Token Recycling
Questions by: Chufan Shi
Oct 10
Mid Drop (No W, No refund)

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Oct 20
Information Retrieval (IR) and Question Answering (QA)
JM 11
Faith Baca - Large Language Models Are Biased Because They Are Large Language Models
Questions by: Sajjad Shahabi
Ruth-Ann Armstrong - Biased LLMs can Influence Political Decision-Making
Questions by: Saba Hashemi Safaei
Oct 22
Machine Translation (MT)/Multilinguality slides1 slides2
JM12 Weaver, Translation (1952)
Tianwen Fu - Improving Factuality with Explicit Working Memory
Questions by: Kaicheng Wang
Nikunj Gupta - Reinforced IR: A Self-Boosting Framework For Domain-Adapted Information Retrieval
Questions by: Faith Baca

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Nov 3
Multimodal NLP (Guest Lecture by Xuezhe Ma)
Anzhe Cheng - SHuBERT: Self-Supervised Sign Language Representation Learning via Multi-Stream Cluster Prediction
Questions by: Feiyu Zhu
Gonglin Chen - SpaRE: Enhancing Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Synthetic Data
Questions by: Wenbin Teng
Nov 5
Spoken Language Processing (SLP) (Guest Lecture by Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri)
JM 15
Wenbin Teng - Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning
Questions by: Kiarash Vaziri Goodarzi
Chufan Shi - ChartCoder: Advancing Multimodal Large Language Model for Chart-to-Code Generation
Questions by: Tianwen Fu
Nov 7
Project Report Version 1 due

Week 12

Nov 10
Mind Reading (Guest Lecture by Sam Nastase)
Lydia Ignatova - Dehumanizing Machines: Mitigating Anthropomorphic Behaviors in Text Generation Systems
Questions by: Gonglin Chen
Sichang (Stephen) He - Learning to Rewrite: Generalized LLM-Generated Text Detection
Questions by: Anzhe Cheng
Nov 12
TBD (Guest Lecture by Robin Jia)
Abhinav Vadhera - JailbreakRadar: Comprehensive Assessment of Jailbreak Attacks Against LLMs
Questions by: Ruth-Ann Armstrong
Yuxin Yang - A Troublemaker with Contagious Jailbreak Makes Chaos in Honest Towns
Questions by: Sadra Sabouri Halestani
Nov 14
Late Drop (W, No refund)

Week 13

Nov 17
TBD
Danny Deng - LocAgent: Graph-Guided LLM Agents for Code Localization
Questions by: Saeed Hedayatian
Matthew Finlayson - Geometric Signatures of Compositionality Across a Language Model’s Lifetime
Questions by: Lydia Ignatova
Nov 19
Discourse Slides
Nov 21
HW 3 due

Week 14

Nov 24
TBD Guest Lecture
Nov 26
THANKSGIVING BREAK; NO CLASS

Week 15

Dec 1
Project Presentations
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Dec 4
Project presentations
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