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

Congrats to Barry
by Lifu Huang 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Barry's submission on multimodal fact-checking has been accepted by SIGIR’23 Resource Track. Congrats! --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Reading Discussion on Monday April 3
by Ying Shen 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Hello everyone, In next week's reading discussion, we will talk about: WikiWhy: Answering and explaining cause-and-effect questions. <https://openreview.net/pdf?id=vaxnu-Utr4l> 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 26 Mar '23

26 Mar '23

Monday: 2-3pm: Pritika, Sijia, with Intuit, pls prepare slides for the updates 3:30-4pm: Zhiyang, Minqian, Ying, Sijia, Jingyuan, Barry, discussion about IARPA REASON, everyone please think about some ideas relevant to REASON 4-5pm: Reading discussion Tuesday: 9:30-10:30am: Zihao 1:30-2pm: Zoe, Sijia 2-3pm: SimBot/SocialBot 3-3:30pm: Pritika, Sijia Wednesday (on Zoom): 11-12pm: Ying, Sijia 1:30-2:30pm: Barry, Zhiyang, Minqian, Sijia 2:30-3:15pm: Zhiyang, Jingyuan 3:15-4pm: Minqian, Ying, Zhiyang 4-4:45pm: Jingyuan, Ying, Minqian, Zhiyang 4:45-5:15pm: Sijia 5:15-5:45pm: Jeet Thursday: 10:30-11:30am: Group meeting, Ying pls present your progress on the script language model pre-training and MoE instruction learning Friday: 5-6pm: meeting with UCSB --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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[nlp_reading_group] Reading Discussion on Monday Mar 27
by Minqian Liu 25 Mar '23

25 Mar '23

Hi everyone, In next week's reading discussion, we will discuss the paper Chain of Hindsight Aligns Language Models with Feedback <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.02676.pdf> We will hold the discussion on Monday 4-5 pm Mar 6th in Torgersen 3160A. You can also join via Zoom https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Enjoy reading! Best, Minqian

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

ACL authors pls send me the response draft by the end of today. Monday: 10-10:30am: Zhiyang, Ying, ACL response discussion 10:30-11am: Minqian, ACL response discussion 11-11:30am: Sijia, ACL response discussion 4-5pm: Reading discussion Tuesday: 9:30-10:30am: Zihao 1:30-2pm: Zoe, Sijia 2-3pm: SimBot/SocialBot 3-3:30pm: Pritika, Sijia Wednesday (on Zoom): 11-12pm: Ying, Sijia 1:30-2:30pm: Barry, Zhiyang, Minqian, Sijia, with Meta 2:30-3:15pm: Zhiyang, Jingyuan 3:15-4pm: Minqian, Ying, Zhiyang 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 present your progress on data augmentation for improving event extraction Friday: 5-6pm: meeting with UCSB --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Reading Discussion on Monday Mar 20
by Sijia Wang 18 Mar '23

18 Mar '23

Hi everyone, In next week's reading discussion, we will discuss the paper Diffusion Models and Semi-Supervised Learners Benefit Mutually with Few Labels <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.10586.pdf>. We will hold the discussion on Monday 4-5 pm Mar 20th in Torgersen 3160A. You may also join via Zoom https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Enjoy reading! -- Sijia Wang Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: +1 (314) 665 8146

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 12 Mar '23

12 Mar '23

Monday: 2-3pm: Pritika, Sijia, with Intuit (Please prepare a few slides to talk about our progress) 4-5pm: Reading discussion Tuesday: 1:30-2pm: Zoe, Sijia 2-3pm: SimBot/SocialBot 3-3:30pm: Pritika, Sijia Wednesday (on Zoom): 11-12pm: Ying, Sijia 1:30-2:30pm: Barry, Zhiyang, Minqian, Sijia 2:30-3:15pm: Zhiyang, Jingyuan 3:15-4pm: Minqian, Ying, Zhiyang 4-4:45pm: Jingyuan, Ying, Minqian, Zhiyang 4:45-5:15pm: Sijia 5:15-5:45pm: Jeet Thursday: 10:30-11:30am: Group meeting (everyone please prepare a few slides to talk about the limitations of ChatGPT, how to leverage ChatGPT for our research, how to further improve ChatGPT, and future research directions related to ChatGPT) Friday: 5-6pm: meeting with UCSB --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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[nlp_reading_group] Reading Discussion on Monday Mar 13
by Jingyuan Qi 12 Mar '23

12 Mar '23

Hi everyone, In next week's reading discussion, we will discuss the paper PromptCap: Prompt-Guided Task-Aware Image Captioning <https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09699> 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 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

Monday: 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, with Meta 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, Jingyuan pls talk about your project Friday: 5-6pm: meeting with UCSB --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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[nlp_reading_group] Reading Discussion on Monday Mar 6
by Minqian Liu 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Hi everyone, In next week's reading discussion, we will discuss the paper GPTScore: Evaluate as You Desire <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04166.pdf> We will hold the discussion on Monday 4-5 pm Mar 6th in Torgersen 3160A. You can also join via Zoom https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Enjoy reading! Best, Minqian

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