Fall 2024
For the Fall 2024 semester, the reading group will meet on Fridays at 11:30AM (with some exceptions to be expected). Meetings will be held in a hybrid fashion. More information including room locations, Zoom link and Google calendar link will be found in the emails we will send announcing speakers/discussion topics both to the Mila-wide email and the CompLing mailing list. Below is a tentative schedule of speakers/topics for the semester. It is actively updated. All times are in ET.
| Date @ Time | Speaker(s) | Topic | More Information | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 13th @ 11:30 AM | Priyank Jaini | Intriguing properties of generative classifiers: generative models align with human visual perception for object recognition | click here | |
| September 20th @ 11:30 AM | Fabian David Schmidt, Ada Tur | Intern Presentations | click here | |
| September 27th @ 11:30 AM | Steven Koniaev, Nathan Zeweniuk | Intern Presentations | click here | |
| October 1st to 3rd | Mila NLP Workshop | Register here | ||
| October 11th @ 11:00 AM | Tu Vu | Efficient Model Development in the Era of Large Language Models | click here | |
| October 18th @ 11:30 AM | Eva Portelance | Reframing linguistic bootstrapping as joint inference using visually-grounded grammar induction models | click here | |
| November 1st @ 11:45 AM | Bang Liu | Applications and Enhancements of LLM Agents Across Diverse Environments | click here | |
| November 8th @ 11:30 AM | Boyuan Zheng | Towards a Generalist Web Agent | click here | |
| November 12th to 16th | EMNLP 2024 | |||
| November 22nd @ 11:30 AM | William Held | Distilling an End-to-End Voice Assistant Without Instruction Training Data | click here | |
| November 29th @ 11:30 AM | Luke Guerdan | Towards Principled Model Evaluation Under Imperfect “Ground Truth” Labels | click here | |
| December 6th @ 11:30 AM | Poster presentations for Comp 767 | Various LLM-related topics - To be hosted at the Mila Agora |