January 2024 - nlplab - mailman.cs.vt.edu

Next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 28 Jan '24

28 Jan '24

Monday: 9:30-10AM: Zhiyang 10-10:30AM: Ying 10:30-11AM: Minqian 11-11:30PM: Jingyuan, Zhiyang 11:30-12AM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang 2-2:30PM: Zoe, Sijia 2:30-3PM: Tong, Sijia 3-4:30PM: Sijia preliminary exam Tuesday: 9:30-10AM: Barry 10-10:30AM: Mohammad, , Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian, Ying 3-4PM: Trevor, Jingyuan, Minqian, meet with Amazon 4-4:30PM: Jeet Friday: 10-11AM: Zihao and Jingyuan, meet with Washington Post 5-6pm: reading discussion, Zihao lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Consider to submit your work to SouthNLP and COLM
by Lifu Huang 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Everyone please try your best to make a submission to the following two venues: https://southnlp.github.io/southnlp2024/cfp.html https://colmweb.org/cfp.html --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Meetings next week
by Lifu Huang 20 Jan '24

20 Jan '24

I will be traveling from tomorrow to next Tuesday and attend the DARPA PI meeting on Wednesday, so I won’t have time to meet everyone. I will mainly work on the paper submissions from Zhiyang, Ying and Zihao and meet some of you on Thursday/Friday. We will still have the reading discussion next Friday, led by Mo. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

Monday: 9:30-10AM: Zhiyang 10-10:30AM: Ying 10:30-11AM: Zihao 11-11:30AM: Minqian 11:30-12PM: Jingyuan, Zhiyang 3-3:30PM: Zoe, Sijia 3:30-4PM: Tong, Sijia 4-4:30PM: Sijia Tuesday: 9:30-10AM: Barry 10-10:30AM: Mohammad, , Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian, Ying 3-4PM: Trevor, Jingyuan, Minqian, meet with Amazon 4-4:40PM: Jeet Friday: 10-12AM: Jingyuan, meet with Washington Post 4-5pm: reading discussion --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Fwd: Reminder and correction: ARC Winter Maintenance next week
by Lifu Huang 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

--------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Advanced Research Computing <arc(a)vt.edu> Date: Jan 10, 2024 at 4:40 PM -0500 To: arc.users <arc.users(a)groups.vt.edu> Subject: Reminder and correction: ARC Winter Maintenance next week > As a reminder, all ARC systems including the clusters Tinkercliffs and Infer, their attached storage systems, and the OnDemand web interface will be offline Tuesday through Thursday next week for regular maintenance. > > Please note that the previous notification had provided dates that were overlapping, but incorrect. The message should have read: > > Winter Maintenance: > > ARC systems will be offline for maintenance Tuesday - Thursday January 16-18, 2024. A major focus during this maintenance will be the recurring Tinkercliffs issue noted above and also regular maintenance activities for ARC storage, clusters, and services. > > > If you submit a job and find that it is queued with a message like "(ReqNodeNotAvail, Reserved for maintenance)", this means that the job's time limit extends into the maintenance period. Since the job cannot be started, it will be held in queue until the cluster is released from maintenance. Jobs whose time limits allow them to complete prior to the 8:00am on Tuesday will still run, subject to resource availability. > > Please terminate any running processes on login nodes and disconnect any connections prior to the start of maintenance at 8:00am on Tuesday. > > Thank you for your understanding. > > Best regards, > > Advanced Research Computing > Virginia Tech

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[nlp_reading_group] Reading Discussion on Friday Jan 12
by Ying Shen 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Hi Everyone, In the reading discussion this week, we will discuss: In-Context Learning Unlocked for Diffusion Models <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.01115.pdf> This paper investigates an intriguing problem setting involving visual prompting conditioned on both images and text, unlocking in-context learning within diffusion-based generative models. The reading discussion is at *4-5 pm on Jan 12 *this Friday. You may attend the reading discussion in Room 366 in the Data & Decision Building, or on Zoom *(*https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863*)*. Enjoy reading! Best wishes, Ying _______________________________________________ nlp_reading_group mailing list nlp_reading_group(a)cs.vt.edu https://mailman.cs.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/nlp_reading_group _______________________________________________ nlplab mailing list nlplab(a)cs.vt.edu https://mailman.cs.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/nlplab

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Next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 07 Jan '24

07 Jan '24

I will be very busy next week so will keep the meetings short. Monday: 9-9:40AM: Zhiyang, Ying, Zihao 9:40-10:10AM: Jingyuan, Zhiyang 10:10-10:30AM: Minqian 10:30-10:50AM: Barry 10:50-11:10AM: Mohammad, , Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian, Ying 11:10-11:39: Trevor, Jingyuan 11:30-11:50AM: Sijia 11:50-12PM: Tong, Sijia 12-12:20PM: Zoe, Sijia Tuesday: 2:30-3:30PM: Jingyuan, meet with STR 4-5pm: Zhiyang, Jingyuan, Ying, Zihao, meet with Intuit Thursday: 1-1:30pm: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR Friday: 10-10:30am: Zhiyang, Ying, Jingyuan 10:30-10:45am: Zihao 10:45-11am: Barry 11-11:15am: Sijia 11:15-11:30am: Mohammad 4-5pm: reading discussion, Ying lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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[nlp_reading_group] Reading Discussion on Friday Jan 5
by Jingyuan Qi 03 Jan '24

03 Jan '24

Hi Everyone, In the reading discussion this week, we will discuss: Unified Language-Vision Pretraining in LLM with Dynamic Discrete Visual Tokenization <https://openreview.net/forum?id=FlvtjAB0gl> This paper proposed to unify the pre-training objectives for visual and textual tokens while adapting the LLM for vision-language tasks. The reading discussion is at *4-5 pm on Jan 5 *this Friday. You may attend the reading discussion in Room 366 in the Data & Decision Building, or on Zoom <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863>. Enjoy reading! Thank you for your time! Best, ======================================== Jingyuan Qi Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science Natural Language Processing Lab Virginia Tech (0710) Blacksburg, VA 24061

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