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

next week meeting schedule
by Huang, Lifu 28 Apr '24

28 Apr '24

Monday: 10:30-11AM: Zhiyang, Minqian 11-11:30AM: Minqian, Zhiyang 1:30-2PM: Jingyuan, Zhiyang 2-2:30PM: Zihao, Jingyuan, Zhiyang 2:30-3:15PM: Sijia, Tong, meeting with Mayfair 3:15-4:15PM: Zhiyang, Ying, meet with Yue 4:15-4:30PM: Ying 4:30-5PM: Sijia 5-5:30PM: Tong, Sijia 5:30-6PM: Zoe, Sijia Tuesday: 9:30-10AM: Barry 11-11:45AM: Mohammad, Ying, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian 3-4PM: Trevor, Jingyuan, Minqian 4-5PM: Zhiyang, Minqian, Zihao, Ying, meet with Intuit Wednesday: 10-11AM: Zhiyang, Jingyuan, meet with Yiming 3-4PM: Jingyuan, Barry, meet with STR for LLM meeting (I will attend a student's thesis defense so I won’t join it. Pls report the progress by yourselves and make notes for me) 5:30-6PM: Jeet Thursday: 2-2:45PM: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR 4-5PM: Mohammad, meet with Prof. Lu’s group for uncertainty estimation in LLMs 5:15-6PM: Minqian, meet with MSR 10-11PM: Zhiyang, Minqian, meet with Youran Friday: 10-11AM: Zihao, WaPost internal meeting 12-1PM: Minqian, Jingyuan, meet for DARPA FoundSci 4-5pm: reading discussion, Barry lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Next week meeting schedule
by Huang, Lifu 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '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 2:30-3:15PM: Sijia, Tong, meeting with Mayfair 3:15-4:15PM: 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 11-11:45AM: Mohammad, Ying, Jingyuan, Zhiyang, Minqian 3-4PM: Trevor, Jingyuan, Minqian, meet with Amazon 4-5PM: Zhiyang, Minqian, Zihao, Ying, meet with Intuit Thursday: 2-2:45PM: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR Friday: 10-11AM: Zihao, WaPost meeting (I will host a workshop this Friday so pls join without me) 12-1PM: Minqian, Jingyuan, meet for DARPA FoundSci 4-5pm: reading discussion, Barry lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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[nlp_reading_group] Reading Discussion on Apr 19
by Xu, Zhiyang 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Hi everyone, In the reading discussion this week, we will discuss: MA-LMM: Memory-Augmented Large Multimodal Model for Long-Term Video Understanding (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05726.pdf) The reading discussion is at 4-5 pm on Apr 19th 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, Zhiyang Xu

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next week meeting schedule
by Huang, Lifu 14 Apr '24

14 Apr '24

I will be traveling until Wednesday, so will meet some of you after I come back. Monday: 11-12PM: Sijia, meet with Ziyu’s group Tuesday: 4-5PM: Zhiyang, Minqian, Zihao, Ying, meet with Intuit without me Wednesday: 3-3:45PM: Jingyuan, Barry, meet with STR (I will be on flight so will have to skip it next week) Thursday: 2-2:45PM: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR Friday: 10-11AM: Zihao, WaPost meeting 12-1PM: Jingyuan, Minqian, meet for DARPA MetaScientist 1-2PM: Jingyuan, Barry,STR interim demo 4-5pm: reading discussion, Zhiyang lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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[nlp_reading_group] Reading Discussion on April12
by Shen, Ying 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

Hi Everyone, In the reading discussion this week, we will discuss: Eliciting Latent Predictions from Transformers with the Tuned Lens<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08112.pdf> The reading discussion is at 4-5 pm on April 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). Happy reading! Best, Ying

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Fwd: Re: [Bburg-fac] Student activity reports and annual evaluation: SAR due April 8
by Huang, Lifu 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Pls submit your Activity Report within today if you haven’t. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shaffer, Cliff via Bburg-fac <bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu> Date: Apr 8, 2024 at 4:16 PM -0400 To: gradstudents(a)cs.vt.edu <gradstudents(a)cs.vt.edu> Cc: CS Faculty <faculty(a)cs.vt.edu>, Stein, Ben <bbradner(a)vt.edu> Subject: Re: [Bburg-fac] Student activity reports and annual evaluation: SAR due April 8 Reminder that Student Activity Reports are due today for MS/PhD students. Thank you for you participation in the annual evaluation process! -- Dr. Cliff Shaffer Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies Department of Computer Science Phone: (540) 231-4354 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 WWW: www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer<http://www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer> ________________________________ From: Shaffer, Cliff <shaffer(a)vt.edu> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2024 1:46 PM To: gradstudents(a)cs.vt.edu <gradstudents(a)cs.vt.edu> Cc: Shaffer, Cliff <shaffer(a)vt.edu>; Stein, Ben <bbradner(a)vt.edu>; CS Faculty <faculty(a)cs.vt.edu> Subject: Student activity reports and annual evaluation: SAR due April 8 The following information is mostly for MS/PhD students. MEng students use a different end-of-year evaluation process. Welcome to the beginning of the annual evaluation process for CS Graduate Students for 2024. Every year, ALL graduate students in the MS and PhD programs in Computer Science are obligated to submit a Student Activity Report. As part of this process, faculty advisers are then required to submit written evaluations for their students (that the students will see). A review process with GPC takes place on Reading Day (known as the "Green Thursday" process), after which students will receive additional feedback from GPC. This process somewhat mirrors the evaluation process that faculty in the CS Department undergo. The first phase of the process is for graduate students to complete and submit their Student Activity Report. This is done by going to https://gpc.cs.vt.edu<https://gpc.cs.vt.edu/> and signing in. You should then see on the menu bar at the top a pulldown menu labeled "SAR". Click on either "Submit SAR" or "Edit Current SAR" to go to the form. SARs are due from students by April 8, 2024. Faculty will then have until April 15 to complete the evaluations for all of their students. (Faculty will get more information about this prior to April 8.) All enrolled MS and PhD CS students must complete the SAR regardless of whether this is their first semester, last semester, or anything in between. Students who are scheduling a final exam this Spring must submit their SAR before I will approve scheduling their exam, so a few of you actually need to complete your form prior to April 8. If you already completed a SAR this semester due to this requirement, then you do not need to re-submit for the April 8 deadline. Students in the accelerated UG/G MS program who have not yet received their undergraduate degree should complete the SAR. Most UG/G students are on a rather tight schedule, and the SAR feedback is an important part of staying on track. Students who are somewhere in the process of switching between the MS and MEng programs should complete the evaluation process for the degree that they are going to, regardless of where they are officially located in April. If you are considering a switch, it would be ideal to complete that paperwork prior to April 8. For those of you who have done this before, this year's form is pretty much identical to last year's. You should be able to upload last year's report into the form, so that all you should need to do is update. A few key points: * Every milestone requires a positive indication for whether it has completed or been planned. (We have found in the past that the semester listed is not always a clear indicator.) * Some indication of funding source is required for every term in the program. If you are a full-time employee of a company (or of VT), this is always a bit confusing. If someone else paid the tuition, then mark it as "Government", "Company", "Fellowship", etc. as appropriate. If you (or your family) paid the tuition, then mark as "Self-funded", but indicate in the comments if you were working full time. If you were a GRA, indicate in the comments who with. If you were a GTA, indicate in the comments what course. If you are having trouble with the form letting you submit, missing data is often the cause. Before completing your SAR form, you should read the instructions at https://hosting.cs.vt.edu/gpc/#/sarinstructions. -- Dr. Cliff Shaffer Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies Department of Computer Science Phone: (540) 231-4354 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 WWW: www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer<http://www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer> _______________________________________________ Bburg-fac mailing list Bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu

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next week meeting schedule
by Huang, Lifu 07 Apr '24

07 Apr '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 2:30-3:15PM: Sijia, Tong, meeting with Mayfair 3:15-4:15PM: 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 11-11:45AM: 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, WaPost meeting (I will host a workshop this Friday so pls join without me) 4-5pm: reading discussion, Ying lead --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Huang, Lifu 31 Mar '24

31 Mar '24

I have several due tasks this coming week, so I won’t have time for the 1-on-1 meetings on Monday/Tuesday. I will see if I can find time to meet with you on Wednesday. Monday: 2:30-3:15PM: Sijia, Tong, meet with Mayfair (Sijia, please prepare a few slides for any progress or to talk about your multi-agent work) 3:15-4:15PM: Zhiyang, Ying, meet with Yue Tuesday: 10-11AM: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR 4-5PM: Zhiyang, Minqian, Zihao, Ying, meet with Intuit Wednesday: 1-2PM: Minqian, Jingyuan, meet for FoundSci Thursday: 2-2:30PM: Barry, Jingyuan, meet with STR (I will travel to SouthNLP, so I will either join remotely or skip it) --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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