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

[nlp_reading_group] Reading Discussion on Mar 28
by Liu, Minqian 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hi Everyone, In the reading discussion this week, we will discuss: Evaluating Large Language Models at Evaluating Instruction Following (ICLR 2024) (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07641) The reading discussion is at 4-5 pm on Mar 28 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<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fvirginiatech.zoom.us%2Fj%2F59618…>). Enjoy reading! Best, Minqian Liu

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Next week meeting schedule
by Huang, Lifu 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

Monday: 9:30-10AM: Zhiyang, Minqian 10-10:30AM: Minqian, Zhiyang 10:30-11AM: Jingyuan, Zhiyang 11-11:30AM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang 2-2:30PM: Ying 2:30-3:15PM: Sijia, Tong, meeting with Mayfair (Sijia, please prepare a few slides for the literature review) 3:30-4:30PM: Zhiyang, Ying, meet with Yue 4:30-5PM: Sijia 5-5:30PM: Tong, Sijia 5:30-6PM: Zoe, Sijia 6-6:30PM: Jeet Tuesday: 9:30-10AM: Barry 10-11AM: Mohammad, Ying, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian 3-4PM: Trevor, Jingyuan, Minqian, meet with Amazon 4-5PM: Zhiyang, Minqian, Zihao, Ying, meet with Intuit Thursday: 2-2:30PM: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR Friday: 10-11AM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, WaPost meeting 12-1PM: Minqian, Jingyuan, meet for FoundSci 4-5pm: reading discussion, Minqian lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Fwd: [Sanghani-faculty] Welcome to attend the invited talks at CS 6804: Trustworthy LLMs
by Huang, Lifu 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Please try to attend it as much as possible. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wang, Xuan <xuanw(a)vt.edu> Date: Mar 22, 2024 at 10:21 AM -0400 To: sanghani-faculty(a)cs.vt.edu <sanghani-faculty(a)cs.vt.edu>, faculty(a)cs.vt.edu <faculty(a)cs.vt.edu> Subject: [Sanghani-faculty] Welcome to attend the invited talks at CS 6804: Trustworthy LLMs Dear colleagues, I hope your semester is going well. I have launched a seminar course on "Trustworthiness of Large Language Models". If you are interested, please feel free to check out our course materials on this website<https://xuanwang91.github.io/2024-1-16-seminar>. We have arranged five invited talks from 4/10 - 4/24. You and your students are warmly welcome to attend these talks and engage with the speakers if you find them intriguing. The classes are on Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm. All the talks will take place on my Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/8682759193. Below is a brief overview of our invited speakers and topics: 1. Yu Meng (4/10, Wed): Assistant Professor, University of Virginia. Yu will talk about general training algorithms/applications of LLMs. 2. Jessica Newman (4/15, Mon): Founder and Director of the AI Security Initiative, UC Berkeley. Jessica is the author of the popular report "A Taxonomy of Trustworthiness for Artificial Intelligence<https://cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/a-taxonomy-of-trustworthiness-for-art…>”. Jessica will first introduce the US National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) and then talk about AI Trustworthiness and Risk Management. 3. Haohan Wang (4/15, Wed): Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Haohan will talk about their recent work on jailbreaks in large language models. 4. Ziang Xiao (4/22, Mon): Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University. Ziang will talk about human-centered AI with LLMs and their recent work on AI chatbots for information seeking. 5. Boxin Wang (4/24, Wed): Research Scientist, Nvidia. Boxin will talk about their recent work, DecodingTrust, providing a comprehensive assessment of trustworthiness in GPT models (NeurIPS 2023 Outstanding Paper Award). I hope to see you and your students at these sessions. Best regards, Xuan -------- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics Virginia Tech

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Fwd: [Bburg-fac] Inventory Audit
by Huang, Lifu 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

For all the monitors/laptops purchased with our grants, please make sure to bring them to the lab next week. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charles, Rich via Bburg-fac <bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu> Date: Mar 18, 2024 at 12:57 PM -0400 To: CS Faculty <faculty(a)cs.vt.edu> Subject: [Bburg-fac] Inventory Audit Hello everyone! We will be starting our Fixed Inventory audit on Monday, Mar 25th. Next week, Michael and the auditors will be coming around to all the offices and labs looking for equipment to scan. The initial scanning process is expected to take 3 days. If you have grad students who have laptops, please aske them to keep the laptops in the labs until the scanning process is complete. After the initial scanning is done, they will provide us with a missing report. We will need to find the missing items as soon as possible. Our ability to accurately and quickly account for all our inventory items directly impacts our ability to receive funds to purchase additional equipment. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. rich _______________________________________________ Bburg-fac mailing list Bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu

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next week meeting schedule
by Huang, Lifu 17 Mar '24

17 Mar '24

Monday: 9:30-10AM: Zhiyang, Minqian 10-10:30AM: Minqian, Zhiyang 10:30-11AM: Jingyuan, Zhiyang 11-11:30AM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang 11:30-12PM: Ying 3-4PM: Mohammad, Ying, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian 4-4:30PM: Sijia 4:30-5PM: Tong, Sijia 5-5:30PM: Zoe, Sijia Tuesday: 3-4PM: Trevor, Jingyuan, Minqian 4-5PM: Zhiyang, Minqian, Zihao, Ying, meet with Intuit Thursday: 2-2:30PM: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR Friday: 10-11AM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, WaPost internal meeting 12-1PM: Minqian, Jingyuan, meet for FoundSci 4-5pm: reading discussion, Jingyuan lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Huang, Lifu 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

I will be traveling from Monday to Wednesday to attend a DARPA Kickoff meeting. Tuesday: 4-5PM: Zhiyang, Minqian, Zihao, Ying, meet with Intuit (I will also join remotely) Wednesday: 1:30-2PM: Zhiyang 2-2:30PM: Ying 2:30-3PM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang 3-3:30PM: Minqian, Zhiyang 3:30-4PM: Barry 4-4:30PM: Sijia 4:30-5PM: Tong, Sijia 5-5:30PM: Jeet 5:30-6PM: Zoe, Sijia Thursday: 2-2:30PM: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR 3-4PM: Mohammad, Ying, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian Friday: 10-11AM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, meet with WaPost 4-5pm: reading discussion, Jeet lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Huang, Lifu 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

Tuesday: 4-5PM: Zhiyang, Minqian, Zihao, Ying, meet with Intuit Thursday: 9:00-9:20AM: Zhiyang 9:20-9:40AM: Minqian, Zhiyang 9:40-10AM: Jingyuan, Zhiyang 10-10:20AM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang 10:20-10:40AM: Ying 2-2:30PM: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR 4-4:20PM: Sijia 4:20-4:40PM: Barry 4:40-5PM: Mohammad, Ying, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian Friday: 10-11AM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, internal meeting for WaPost --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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