Winter 2025

For the Winter 2025 semester, the reading group will meet every other week on Fridays at 1PM (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
January 31st @ 3PM	Group Discussion	NLP Roundtable: Where have we been and where are we going?	click here
February 21st @ 1PM	Group Discussion	NLP Roundtable: The Reviewing Process	click here
February 28th @ 1PM	Amal Zouaq	LLMs/VLMs and Nonparametric Memory	click here
March 14th @ 1PM	Muhammad Umair	AI Conversationalists know what to say but not when to speak	click here
March 21st @ 1PM	Group Discussion Led by Sara Vera Marjanovic	NLP Roundtable: DeepSeek	click here
April 4th @ 1PM	Yifan Wang	RSA-Control: A Pragmatics-Grounded Lightweight Controllable Text Generation Framework	click here
April 11th @ 1PM	Jean-Philippe Corbeil	A Modular Approach for Clinical SLMs Driven by Synthetic Data with Pre-Instruction Tuning, Model Merging, and Clinical Alignment	click here
April 25th @ 1PM	Catarina Belem	Perceptions of Linguistic Uncertainty by Language Models and Humans	click here
May 9th @ 1PM	Reto Gubelmann and Stevan Harnad	LLMs and Language Grounding	click here
May 23rd @ 1PM	Angelie Kraft	Epistemic Injustice in the Age of Language Models	click here
May 30th @ 1PM	Ayla Rigouts Terryn	Large language models, large culture models? The role of language in the cultural values exhibited by LLMs	click here