pf376's list


2016-10-06 11:00: Multiword Expressions and Compositionality Detection: Giving Word Embeddings a Hard Time (Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul))

2016-10-13 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-10-20 11:00: Building and using the Finnish Internet Parsebank (Filip Ginter (University of Turku))

2016-10-24 15:30: Nursing Turing's Child: How to Grow Communication-based Intelligent Machines (Marco Baroni (University of Trento/Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research))

2016-10-27 11:00: User-generated content mining: From collective disease rates to individual demographics (Vasileios Lampos (UCL))

2016-11-03 11:00: Biomedical Text Mining: Structuring the Unstructured (David Milward (Linguamatics))

2016-11-10 11:00: Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning (Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome))

2016-11-17 11:00: Industrial NLP Applications of Machine Learning in Different Domains (Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters))

2016-11-24 11:00: Sensing well-being using heterogeneous smartphone data and stance identification in social media conversations (Maria Liakata (Warwick University))

2017-01-12 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-01-19 11:00: Reflections on Universal Dependencies (Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University))

2017-01-26 11:00: Learning to Generate Textual Data (Pontus Stenetorp (UCL))

2017-02-09 11:00: Challenges and opportunities in the use of Internet data for insights on medicine (Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research))

2017-02-16 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Ekaterina Shutova)

2017-02-23 11:00: Computational approaches for deciphering the regulation of cancer genomes  (Shamith Samarajiwa)

2017-03-09 11:00: Knowledge Base Population from Text and Graphs (Lucas Sterckx (University of  Ghent))

2017-03-16 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-03-28 11:00: Scientific Paper Analysis: JST CREST Project of Big Data Application (Prof. Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology))

2017-04-13 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-04-20 11:00: Semantic (Vector) Representations  of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities  and their Applications (Jose Camacho-Collados (Sapienza University of Rome))

2017-04-27 11:00: Cross-lingual Learning 2.0 (Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen))

2017-05-11 11:00: Building a True Semantic World: Generalizing set-theoretic semantics in vector spaces (Eva Maria Vecchi)

2017-05-18 11:00: Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations (Sebastian Riedel (UCL))

2017-05-25 11:00: Location Resolution in Language Processing (Milan Gritta (University of Cambridge))

2017-06-01 11:00: Statistical Properties and Applications of Word Tensors (Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London))

2017-06-12 11:00: Vanishing laws of semantic change - studying semantic change using distributional word representations and proper control condition (Haim Dubossarsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem))

2017-06-15 11:00: Linguists-defined and Machine-induced Natural Language Structures to Executable Logical Forms (Siva Reddy (Stanford University))

2017-08-31 11:00: Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations (Naoya Inoue (Tohoku University, Japan))

2017-09-19 14:00: Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data (Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan))

2017-10-03 11:00: Detecting Text Reuse in Large Historical Corpora and Authorship Attribution of Premodern Documents (Aleksi Vesanto (University of Turku))

2017-10-10 13:00: Detecting Semantic Change Using LDA in Historical Texts: a Case Study on Dutch  (Simon Hengchen (Université libre de Bruxelles))

2017-10-12 11:00: Internal LTL Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-10-19 11:00: Internal LTL Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-11-02 11:00: Corpus-Based Analysis of the Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions (Ryohei Sasano (Nagoya University))

2017-11-09 11:00: What can online collaborative dictionaries tell us about language and social dynamics? (Barbara McGillivray (The Alan Turing Institute/University of Cambridge))

2017-11-23 11:00:  Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Language Modeling (Kazuya Kawakami (DeepMind))

2017-11-30 11:00: Sentence Generation using a Dynamic Canvas (David Barber (University College London))

2018-01-11 11:00: Senses can help vector space models of lexical substitution (Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI))

2018-01-18 11:00: Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics (Stephen McGregor (TCIDA, Goldsmiths))

2018-01-25 11:00: Interdisciplinarity: The art of unsettling multiple disciplines (Petar Milin (Sheffield))

2018-02-08 11:00: Graph Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing and Relational Modeling (Ivan Titov (Edinburgh))

2018-02-15 11:00: Predicting Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (Nikos Aletras (Sheffield))

2018-03-01 11:00: NLP in the clinical domain - data, approaches and considerations (Sumithra Velupillai (King's College))

2018-03-22 11:00: Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora and the Wisdom of Crowds (Daisuke Kawahara (Kyoto University))

2018-05-03 11:00: Scalable Non-Markovian Language Modelling (Ehsan Shareghi)

2018-05-31 11:00: Imitation learning for language generation (Gerasimos Lampouras (Sheffield))

2018-06-07 11:00: Methods and Interactive Tools for Exploring the Semantics of Essentially Contested Concepts (Paul Nulty (CRASSH-Cambridge))

2018-06-14 11:00: Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages (Serge Sharoff (Leeds))

2018-10-11 11:00:  LION-LBD: Literature-Based Discovery for Cancer Biology (Simon Baker, LTL)

2018-10-18 11:00: Practical Approaches to Conversational AI (Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su, PolyAI)

2018-10-25 11:00: Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language (Pasquale Minervini, University College London)

2018-11-01 11:00: On KL divergence and beyond (Yingzhen Li, Microsoft Research Cambridge)

2018-11-08 11:00: Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes (Ivan Vulić, LTL, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-15 11:00: Learning with Explanations (Tim Rocktäschel, Facebook AI Research)

2018-11-22 11:00: Emergence of (linguistic) communication through multi-agent interactions (Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind)

2018-11-29 11:00: Linguistic Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions (Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Essex))

2019-01-24 11:00: Learning and testing compositionality (Elia Bruni, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain))

2019-02-07 11:00: Probabilistic Typology (Ryan Cotterell ( University of Cambridge))

2019-02-14 11:00: Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know? (Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-21 11:00: Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward (Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research)

2019-03-07 11:00: Improving Literature-based Discovery with Neural Networks (Gamal Crichton, Language Technology Lab)

2019-03-14 11:00: Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation (Massimo Poesio ( University of Essex))

2019-04-04 11:00: Finding translations in unordered text using multilingual sentence representations (Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku)

2019-05-09 11:00: How to Pay Attention: Learning to Transfer Knowledge between Sentences and Tokens (Marek Rei ( University of Cambridge))

2019-05-23 11:00: Predicting and Analysing Online User Behaviour with Natural Language Processing (Nikolaos Aletras (University of Sheffield))

2019-05-30 11:00: Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge))

2019-06-06 11:00: Relational knowledge in vector spaces (Luis Espinosa-Anke (University of Cardiff))

2019-10-10 11:00: Latent Variable Models for Text Generation (Xiaoyu Shen, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute)

2019-10-17 11:00: Tensor product representations for RNNs / Revisiting post-processing for word embeddings (Shuai Tang, University of California, San Diego)

2019-10-24 11:00: Unsupervised Question Answering (Patrick Lewis, UCL)

2019-10-31 11:00: Learning region based representations of categories (Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University)

2019-11-14 11:00: BioNLP Research at Google (Ryan McDonald, Google)

2019-11-21 11:00: Natural Language Understanding and Generation with Abstract Meaning Representation (Marco Damonte, the University of Edinburgh)

2020-01-16 11:00: Correlations Between Word Vector Sets (Aleksandar Savkov, Babylon)

2020-01-23 11:00: Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them (Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy)

2020-01-30 11:00: Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications (Dr Barbara McGillivray (University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute))

2020-02-06 11:00: Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability (Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg)

2020-02-13 11:00: Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing (Rafael A. Calvo, Imperial College London)

2020-02-27 11:00: Variational Smoothing in Recurrent Neural Network Language Models (Dr. Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind))

2020-11-12 14:00: Semiparametric Language Models (Dani Yogatama)

2020-11-19 16:00: Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language (Muhao Chen)

2020-11-26 11:00: From Sparse Modeling to Sparse Communication (André F. T. Martins)

2020-12-03 11:00: Pitfalls in Evaluation of Multilingual Text Representations (Goran Glavaš)

2021-01-21 11:00: Towards Perfect Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation (Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser, CIS, LMU Munich)

2021-01-28 11:00: Towards explainable fact checking (Prof. Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen)

2021-02-04 11:00: From Translation Divergences to Structure-aware Neural Machine Translation (Omri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2021-02-11 11:00: Adapters in Transformers. A New Paradigm for Transfer Learning…? (Jonas Pfeiffer, Technical University of Darmstadt)

2021-02-18 11:00: Efficient sentence encoders for Conversational AI in the industry (Inigo Casanueva, PolyAI)

2021-02-25 11:00: Scalable Structural Inductive Biases in Neural Language Models (Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind)

2021-03-04 17:00: Rethinking Benchmarking in AI (Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research)

2021-03-11 11:00: Achieving Universality in Machine Translation: M4 - Massively Multilingual, Massive MT Models for the Next 1000 Languages (Orhan Firat, Google Research)

2021-03-18 11:00: Learning language by observing the world and learning about the world from language (Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind)

2021-04-22 17:00: Transcending Dependencies (Martha Palmer, University of Colorado)

2021-04-29 11:00: Domain Adaptation in NLP - Towards Adaptation to Any Domain (Eyal Ben-David, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

2021-05-06 11:00: CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models (Amir Feder, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

2021-05-13 15:00: NLP beyond English and mBERT's 100 languages (Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University)

2021-05-20 15:00: Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP (Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech)

2021-05-27 11:00: Learning across Adverse Conditions in Natural Language Processing (Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen)

2021-06-10 17:00: Towards Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP (Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill)

2021-10-14 14:00: Unlikelihood-training and Back-training for robust natural language understanding (Siva Reddy, McGill University)

2021-10-21 15:00: Causal analysis of the syntactic representations of Transformers (Tal Linzen, New York University)

2021-10-28 11:00: Measuring Factuality in Text Generation: When Language Models Are Twisting the Facts (Roee Aharoni, Google Research)

2021-11-11 11:00: Document Summarisation: Modelling, Datasets and Verification of Content (Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh)

2021-11-18 15:00: Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web (Suraj Nair, Stanford University)

2021-11-25 15:00: Clinical De-Identification and Semantic Relatedness (Mohamed Abdalla, University of Toronto)

2021-12-02 11:00: Zero-shot learning and out-of-distribution generalization: two sides of the same coin (Jonathan Berant, Tel Aviv University)

2022-02-03 11:00: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Search (Nils Reimers, HuggingFace)

2022-02-10 15:00: Learning the Difference that Makes a Difference with Counterfactually Augmented Data (Zachary Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University)

2022-02-17 11:00: Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages (Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University)

2022-02-24 11:00: Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification (Prof. Yulan He, University of Warwick)

2022-03-03 15:00: Spoken Language Understanding, with and without Pre-training (Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago)

2022-03-10 11:00: IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages (Emanuele Bugliarello, University of Copenhagen)

2022-03-17 11:00: Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU (Milan Gritta, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab)

2022-05-05 15:00: The acquisition and processing of grammatical structure: insights from deep learning (Roger Levy, MIT)

2022-05-19 11:00: Can we automatically anonymize text documents? (Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center)

2022-06-02 11:00: A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation (Yixuan Su, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-09 15:00: Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation (Junjie Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2022-06-16 11:00: Gold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information (Yftah Ziser, University of Edinburgh)

2022-09-29 11:00: Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP (Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt)

2022-10-13 11:00: Quantifying Linguistic Variation (Max Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen)

2022-10-20 15:00: Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics (Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin)

2022-11-03 11:00: Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning (Antoine Miech, DeepMind)

2022-11-10 11:00: Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models (Ignacio Iacobacci, Huawei )

2022-11-17 11:00: End-to-End Fine-grained Multi-modal Understanding (Aishwarya Kamath, New York University)

2022-12-01 11:00: Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning (Mikel Artetxe, Meta)

2023-01-26 11:00: SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems (Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University)

2023-02-02 11:00: Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views (Pinelopi (Nelly) Papalampidi, DeepMind)

2023-02-09 11:00: Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages (Sebastian Ruder, Google)

2023-02-23 11:00: One-shot visual language understanding with cross-modal translation and LLMs (Fangyu LIU (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-02 11:00: Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling (Piotr Nawrot, University of Edinburgh)

2023-03-09 16:00: Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk (Mona Diab, Meta AI)

2023-03-16 11:00: Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot. (Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow)

2023-03-16 11:00: Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot. (Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow)

2023-05-04 15:00: Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology (Dallas Card, University of Michigan)

2023-05-18 11:00: Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy (Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki)

2023-05-25 11:00: Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment: Towards Building Large Language Models from First Principles (Yao Fu, University of Edinburgh)

2023-06-01 16:00: Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions (Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago)

2023-06-08 16:00: Mind the Data (Noah Smith, University of Washington )

2023-10-19 11:00: Learning disentangled representation for interpretable language model. / Interactive Narrative Understanding. (Lin Gui and Runcong Zhao, King's College London)

2023-10-26 11:00: ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-11-02 11:00: Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI (Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University in Milan, Italy))

2023-11-09 11:00: One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone (Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan)

2023-11-16 11:00: Language Understanding for the Political Sciences (Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim)

2023-11-23 11:00: A sanity check on emergent properties (Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen)

2023-11-30 15:00: Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models (David Jurgens, University of Michigan)

2024-01-18 15:00: Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness? (He He, New York University)

2024-01-18 15:00: Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness? (He He, New York University)

2024-01-25 16:00: Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models. (Tatsunori Hashimoto)

2024-02-01 11:00: Geographically Grounded Language Models (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-02-08 16:00: Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings. (Swabha Swayamdipta, University of Southern California)

2024-02-15 11:00: Prosocial Language Models (Soroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College)

2024-02-22 11:00: Making Better Use of (Large) Language and Translation Models with Simple Inference Improvements. (Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich)

2024-02-29 11:00: What do sentence transformers know, and how can we find out? (Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University)

2024-03-07 14:00: Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges (Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University)

2024-03-14 14:00: Inverting Language Models (Alexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face)

2024-04-25 16:00: Large language models for enabling constructive online conversations (Kristina Gligorić, Stanford University)

2024-05-02 11:00: Language modelling for the sake of language modelling (Nikos Aletras, University of Sheffield)

2024-05-09 11:00: "What it can create, it may not understand" Studying the Limits of Transformers. (Nouha Dziri, Allen Institute for AI)

2024-05-16 14:00: Data Selection for Pre-training and Instruction-tuning of LLMs (Danqi Chen, Princeton University)

2024-05-23 11:00: Incremental Accumulation of Linguistic Context in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks (Refael Tikochinski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2024-05-30 11:00: Practical and Specialised NLP Solutions: The Case of Social Media (Jose Camacho Collados, Cardiff University)

2024-06-06 15:00: Generative AI for Science (James Zou, Stanford University)

2024-06-13 11:00: Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs? (Shiwei Liu, University of Oxford)

2024-10-10 11:00: Ten Years of Universal Dependencies (Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE)

2024-10-17 14:00: Specializing LLMs for Factuality and Soft Reasoning (Greg Durrett, UT Austin)

2024-10-24 16:00: LLM Generalization in Social Context (Diyi Yang, Stanford University)

2024-10-31 17:00: Pluralistic Alignment through Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (Natasha Jaques, University of Washington)

2024-11-07 16:00: Subtleties about Pre-Training Data: Imbalance and Staleness (Daniel Khashabi, Johns Hopkins University)

2024-11-21 15:30: Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (Heng Ji, UIUC)

2024-11-27 16:00: LLMs and Low-Resource Languages (Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU))

2024-11-28 11:00: Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation (Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich)

2024-12-05 14:00: Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation (Ziyu Yao, George Mason University)

2025-01-23 15:00: Linear Transformers for Efficient Sequence Modeling (Prof Yoon Kim, MIT)

2025-01-30 11:00: Between the Lines: Contextual Understanding and Bias in LLMs (Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield)

2025-02-06 16:00: Behavioral machine learning (Dr. Keyon Vafa, Harvard Data Science Initiative)

2025-02-13 15:00: Languages, Values, & Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture in LLMs (Prof. Anne Lauscher, Hamburg)

2025-02-20 11:00: What’s not an Autoregressive LLM? (Prof. Lingpeng Kong, HKU)

2025-03-06 16:00: Grammar, reasoning, learning: Three short stories on comparative & rational analysis of language model capabilities (Dr. Andrew Lampinen (Deepmind))

2025-03-13 11:00: Discourse models with language models (Prof. Jessy Li)

2025-03-20 14:00: New Advances in Multimodal Reasoning (Prof. Paul Liang (MIT))

2025-05-08 15:00: Human-Centered AI: Addressing the Ecological Fallacy in LLMs (Prof, H Andrew Schwartz (State University of New York at Stony Brook))

2025-05-15 16:00: Balanced and Efficient tokenization across languages (Prof. Hila Gonen (University of Biritish Columbia))

2025-05-22 11:00: AI Interacting with People (through Language) (Prof Hal Daume III (University of Maryland))

2025-05-29 14:00: On Interacting and Writing with LLMs (Dr. Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research))

2025-06-05 17:00: Interactive and Grounded Learning (Prof. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu (University of California, San Diego))

2025-06-12 14:00: Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities (Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun (Google DeepMind))

2025-06-19 14:00: Value Reasoning and Test-Time Verification for Trustworthy LLMs (Prof. Lu Wang (University of Michigan))

2025-10-09 13:00: Protocols over Implementations (Dominik Moritz (Professor at CMU HCII and Researcher at Apple))

2025-10-10 11:00: Explanations as a Catalyst: Leveraging Large Language Models to Embrace Human Label Variation (Beiduo Chen)

2025-10-16 16:00: Implicit Chain-of-Thought: Internalizing Reasoning in Language Models  (Yuntian Deng (University of Waterloo))

2025-10-23 15:00: Reading Between the Lines: Using Language Models to Amplify Human Data in Robot Learning (MIT) (Andreea Bobu (MIT))

2025-10-28 11:00: Emergence of Linear Representations in LMs (NYU) (Dr. Shauli Ravfogel (NYU))

2025-11-12 15:00: Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline (Prof. Sarah Wiegreffe (University of Maryland))

2025-11-13 14:00: Retrieving and Sampling Diverse Outputs (Prof. Eunsol Choi (NYU))

2025-11-20 14:00: Just asking questions (MIT) (Jacob Andreas (MIT))

2025-11-21 11:00: Model Merging — A Tale of Two Settings (Donato Crisostomi)

2025-11-27 16:00: Mapping the (Jagged) Landscape of LLM Capabilities (Prof. Peter West (University of British Columbia))

2025-12-04 14:00: Why don't models generalize? (Prof. Yonatan Bisk (CMU))

2026-01-23 11:00: Cultural Biases in LLMs: From Behavioural analysis to Internal Representations (Siddhesh Pawar (University of Copenhagen))

2026-01-27 11:00: Talk by Uri Berger: Multimodality and Human Alignment in Vision-Language Models (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (Uri Berger (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem))

2026-02-12 16:30: You Know It or You Don’t: Categorical Differences in Language Model Behavior (Naomi Saphra (Harvard University & Boston University))

2026-02-26 11:00: Actionable Interpretability for AI Safety (Prof. Mor Geva (Tel Aviv University))

2026-03-12 15:00: Formal symbolic models for LLMs: pretraining, evaluation and post-training (Prof. Tal Linzen (NYU & Google))

2026-03-19 11:00: Beyond Surface Matching: Reasoning, Grounding, and Retrieval in Vision-Language Models (Prof. Vicente Ordóñez-Román (Rice University))

2026-04-30 15:00: A Data-Centric Approach to AI Adaptation and Alignment (Prof. Stephen Bach (Brown University))

2026-05-07 15:00: Talk by Aaron Mueller (Boston University) (Aaron Mueller (Boston University))

2026-05-14 16:00: Talk by Fazl Barez (Oxford) (Fazl Barez (Oxford))

2026-05-28 14:00: Talk by Aditi Raghunathan (CMU) (Aditi Raghunathan (CMU))

2026-06-04 16:00: Talk by Prof. Kilian Weinberger (Cornell) (Prof. Kilian Weinberger (Cornell))

2026-06-11 14:00: Talk by Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University) (Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University))

2026-06-18 16:00: Talk by Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) (Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago))

2026-06-25 10:00: Talk by Robert West (EPFL) (Robert West (EPFL))

2026-06-25 10:00: Talk by Robert West (EPFL) (Robert West (EPFL))