November 2023 - nlp_reading_group

Invitation to Reading Discussion on Friday, December 1st
by Mohammad Beigi 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

Dear All, I hope this message finds you well, and that you've enjoyed a refreshing break. I am pleased to announce our next reading discussion scheduled for Friday, December 1st. We'll delve into recent papers that explore the intersection of language models and reasoning. The details of the papers are as follows: 1) "Counterfactual Reasoning: Testing Language Models’ Understanding of Hypothetical Scenarios," published on ACL 2023. [link <https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.70.pdf>] 2) "A Systematic Comparison of Syllogistic Reasoning in Humans and Language Models," upcoming in ICLR 2024. [link <https://openreview.net/pdf/e5ecc2d2b8e4c8ca3cc91710eaaff6f6614ec785.pdf>] 3) "Reasoning or Reciting? Exploring the Capabilities and Limitations of Language Models Through Counterfactual Tasks," published on Arxiv. [link <https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02477>] Best regards, Mo

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NLP reading group discussion on Friday, Nov 17
by Mian Zhang 13 Nov '23

13 Nov '23

Hi all, We'll hold the reading discussion this week on Friday, Nov 17. The papers to be discussed are: 1. Theory of Mind Might Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models 2. Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks 3. Clever Hans or Neural Theory of Mind? Stress Testing Social Reasoning in Large Language Models You could attend the meeting in the Data & Decision Building, Room 339 or on Zoom (https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863). Best, Mian

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NLP reading group discussion
by Lifu Huang 09 Nov '23

09 Nov '23

Hello everyone, We will resume our reading group discussion from next week. It will be held at 4-5pm every Friday, with both Zoom option (https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863) and in-person (Data & Decision Building, Room #377). For each meeting, there will be a PhD student to lead the discussion for 1 or 2 papers related to LLMs. Detailed information for presenters and papers to be discussed can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k3XNIYXMA31oNvqD_f-pKPtovmSXRB9-auM… For each presenter, please announce the papers you want to discuss at least 3 days before the meeting so that others can read it beforehand. Thanks and we look forward to your participation! Best wishes, --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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