Summer 2024

For the Summer 2024 semester, the reading group will meet every other Monday starting April 22nd at 11AM (with some exceptions to be expected). Meetings will be held in a hybrid fashion. All times are in ET.

Date @ Time	Speaker(s)	Topic	More Information
April 18 @ 11:00	Lili Mou	Multi-Teacher Distillation	click here
April 22 @ 11:00	Piotr Nawrot	Dynamic Memory Compression	click here
May 6 @ 11:00	Ori Ernst and Xing Han Lù	From Summarization Evaluation to Digital Agents	click here
Tuesday May 14 @ 10:00	Ehud Reiter	High-Quality Human Evaluation of Generated Texts	click here
May 27 @ 11:00	Tianbao Xie	An Overview of Digital Agents	click here
June 3rd @ 11:00	Vaibhav Adlakha	LLMs as Text Encoders	click here
June 10th @ 11:00	Matthias Lindemann and Fanny Jourdan	Inductive Biases and Concept-based Explainability	click here
Thursday June 13th @ 14:00	Marius Mosbach	The Role of Analysis Work in NLP	click here
June 17th @ 11:00	Yu Bai	Representation-level information aggregation in LLMs	click here
Wednesday June 26th @ 11:00	Nathan Schneider	Squirrel or Skunk? NLP Models Face the Long Tail of Language	click here
Friday June 28th @ 10:30	Vagrant Gautam	Are LLMs Reasoning, Repeating or Just Biased?	click here
Tuesday July 2nd @ 11:00	Jason Weston	Self-Alignment of Large Language Models	click here
July 15th @ 11:00	Wenyu Du	Stacking your transformers: A closer look at model growth for efficient LLM pre-training	click here
July 22nd @ 11:00	Erfan Shayegani	Cross-Modality Safety Alignment in Multi-Modal LLMs	click here
July 29th @ 11:00	Ivan Vulić	Balancing between Efficiencies, Modularity, and Performance of (L)LMs	click here
Talks for the 5th, 12th and 19th will be rescheduled due to ACL 2024
August 26th @ 11:00	Nelson Filipe Costa	Implicit Discourse Relations	click here