February 2023 - nlplab - mailman.cs.vt.edu

next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 26 Feb '23

26 Feb '23

Monday: 2-3pm: Prritika, Sijia. Meeting with Intuit (Pls prepare a few slides for the progress) 4-5pm: Reading discussion Tuesday: 1:30-2pm: Zoe 2-3pm: SimBot/SocialBot 3-3:30pm: Pritika, Sijia Wednesday (on Zoom): 11-12pm: Ying 1:30-2:30pm: Barry 3-3:30pm: Zhiyang 3:30-4pm: Minqian 4-4:45pm: Jingyuan, Ying, Minqian, Zhiyang 4:45-5:15pm: Sijia 5:15-5:45pm: Jeet Thursday: 10:30-11:30am: Group meeting, Sijia pls talk about your progress --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Reading Discussion on Monday Feb. 27th
by Barry Yao 25 Feb '23

25 Feb '23

Hi everyone, In next week's reading discussion, we will talk about: Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index <https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06991> We will hold the discussion on Monday 4-5 pm in Torgersen 3160A. You may also join via Zoom https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Happy reading! Best regards, Barry Menglong Yao Ph.D. student in Computer Science Virginia Tech Homepage <https://barry-yao.netlify.app/>

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 19 Feb '23

19 Feb '23

I will be traveling from Wednesday to Friday next week, so I will cancel most of the 1:1 meetings. Everyone please summarize your progress and updates into slides and send them to me by Wednesday. Monday: 4-5pm: Reading discussion Tuesday: 2-3pm: SicialBot/Simbot. Minqian and Ying pls organize a meeting to discuss the problems of SimBot and SocialBot and send me the slides. I will skip it due to a medical appointment. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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[nlp_reading_group] Reading Discussion on Monday Feb 20
by Jingyuan Qi 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Hi everyone, In next week's reading discussion, we will discuss the paper Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04761.pdf>. The meeting will be held in Torg 3160A, and you can also use Zoom for online participation. The Zoom link for the meeting is https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Thank you for your time! Best regards, ======================================== Jingyuan Qi Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science Natural Language Processing Lab Virginia Tech (0710) Blacksburg, VA 24061

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Monday: 2-3pm: Sijia, Pritika with Intuit (Pls prepare a few slides to discuss our progress) 4-5pm: Reading discussion Tuesday: 1:30-2pm: Zoe 2-3pm: SimBot/SocialBot 3-3:30pm: Pritika, Sijia Wednesday (on Zoom): 11-12pm: Ying 1:30-2:30pm: Barry 2:30-3:15pm: Zhiyang 3:15-4pm: Minqian 4-4:45pm: Jingyuan, Ying, Minqian, Zhiyang 4:45-5:15pm: Sijia 5:15-5:45pm: Jeet Thursday: 10:30-11:30am: Group meeting, Zhiyang talk about your new research ideas Friday: 5-6pm: meeting with UCSB --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Reading Discussion on Monday Feb 13
by Ying Shen 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Hello everyone, In next week's reading discussion, we will talk about: Uni-Perceiver-MoE: Learning Sparse Generalist Models with Conditional MoEs <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.04674.pdf> We will hold the discussion on Monday 4-5 pm in Torgersen 3160A. You may also join via Zoom https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Happy reading! Best, Ying

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 05 Feb '23

05 Feb '23

Monday: 4-5pm: Reading discussion Tuesday: 2-3pm: SimBot/SocialBot 3-3:30pm: Pritika, Sijia Wednesday (on Zoom): 11-12pm: Ying 1:30-2:30pm: Barry with Meta (Pls send me your slides before 9pm Tuesday) 2:30-3:15pm: Zhiyang 3:15-4pm: Minqian 4-4:45pm: Jingyuan, Ying, Minqian, Zhiyang 4:45-5:15pm: Sijia 5:15-5:45pm: Jeet Thursday: 10:30-11:30am: Group meeting, Minqian pls talk about the feature separation idea for continual learning Friday: 5-6pm: meeting with UCSB --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Reading Discussion on Monday Feb 6
by Zhiyang Xu 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hi guys, Next week I will discuss an interesting paper about the application of reinforcement learning in selecting the best discrete prompt: RLPROMPT: Optimizing Discrete Text Prompts with Reinforcement Learning <https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12548> Plz read the paper beforehand. We will hold the discussion meeting in Torgersen 3160A, 4-5 pm on Jan 30. Zoom discussion is also accessible through the link https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Best, Zhiyang Xu

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